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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Peace campers board nuclear submarine at Faslane, arrested

HMS AmbushTwo campaigners from Faslane Peace Camp were arrested on Wednesday morning aboard the Royal Navy submarine HMS Ambush at its berth in Faslane.

Security at the site - home to Britain's Trident nuclear weapons and headquarters of the Royal Navy – was again called into question by the protestors' actions.

Speaking today following her release from custody, boarding party member Heather Stewart (29) expressed surprise at the success of the action. 'I am amazed and disturbed by the accessibility of the UK's top defence site. Up to eighty nuclear warheads are often stationed here, along with several nuclear reactors. We thought we could get in, but not that we would be arrested within meters of nuclear materials.'

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