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CND to blockade RAF Lakenheath after US exemption to British nuclear safety rules revealed
Protesters hold a CND flag in Parliament Square in London, in 2015

PROTESTERS will set up a two-week peace camp outside RAF Lakenheath tomorrow after it emerged that all United States forces in Britain are exempt from meeting nuclear safety regulations.

And CND said that activists will block the Suffolk base on April 26, the last day of their vigil.

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