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Peace campaigners blockade nuclear bomb factory in Berkshire
Trident Ploughshares activists' courage sign of opposition to Trident renewal, says CND
Activists block site access
CAMPAIGNERS from all over Britain united today in their blockade of the government's nuclear bomb factory in Berkshire, preventing the staff from entering the site.
The Trident Ploughshares activists locked themselves together across the site’s gates before work began at the Burghfield site.
A private road leading to Burghfield was also barricaded at each end by cars with protesters fastened to them.
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