PEACE campaigners are set to target US-controlled RAF Lakenheath airbase in Suffolk tomorrow in protest against the return of US nuclear warheads to Britain.

Among the protesters will be women who took part in the 19-year blockade of RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire from 1981, demanding — and achieving — the removal of US cruise missiles from the base.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament says the nominally. named RAF Lakenheath is being prepared for storing a US nuclear arsenal.

CND general secretary Kate Hudson will address a rally outside the base, where a 24/7 vigil and peace camp was established on Monday after a three-day march from Norwich by campaigners.

The camp will remain until Thursday July 25 and Saturday’s rally runs from 12 noon to 2.30pm.

Last Monday, Ms Hudson gave evidence at a public inquiry into police infiltration of CND and other peace groups in the 1980s.

The inquiry has heard evidence that exposed “a clear and deeply alarming use of political undercover policing by the then Conservative government” and the “most explicit example of subverting parliamentary democracy,” said CND.

More than 30 organisations have united to form Lakenheath Alliance for Peace.

They include peace groups from Spain and Italy, trade union councils and branches of the Communist Party of Britain and Young Communist League.

Ms Hudson said: “Having taken decisive action to stop the outbreak of nuclear war in the 1980s, Greenham Common women are among those protesting against the return of US nuclear weapons to Britain.

“Peace camps and non-violent direct action are important parts of the anti-nuclear movement and have long been effective in raising awareness of nuclear dangers.”

She urged supporters to attend the camp and rally, and said: “CND calls on the new British government to stop hiding behind the tired excuse of neither confirming nor denying the presence of Nato nuclear weapons in this country.

“It’s time for a new agenda for peace, which starts with publicly refusing the US permission to host their weapons of mass destruction in Britain.”

On Monday, campaigners in Yorkshire are due to establish a peace camp at RAF Menwith Hill, the US military’s intelligence-gathering and surveillance base outside Harrogate.