Peace group calls for an end to 'dangerous nuclear convoys on local motorways'

Peace group calls for an end to dangerous nuclear convoys on local motorways

Campaigners from throughout Greater Manchester joined Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group on Saturday (28 January) in calling for an end to convoys transporting Trident nuclear warheads along public roads like the M6 and M62 motorways.

In a resolution agreed unanimously at the annual general meeting of Greater Manchester and District Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament they agreed to raise awareness of nuclear convoys traveling through our local area and to, “campaign for all relevant local authorities and all councillors elected to those authorities to acknowledge, and respond to, the concerns of local residents about the risks to safety and security that result from the movement of nuclear weapons through and near our local area”.     

On behalf of the peace group, Philip Gilligan said: “This is an issue of crucial importance to our safety and security and to the safety and security of our children and grandchildren. Only last weekend we heard from the Sunday Times that Downing Street had covered-up last summer’s very serious malfunction in Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons system and now we learn that convoys carrying missiles between the south of England and central Scotland are stopping off at motorway service stations also open to the general public without even the local authority being forewarned. This dangerous madness needs to stop.”