Faslane 365 days on: 1,110 arrests and £5m bill for policing protest (Scotland)

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CRAIG BROWN ([email protected])

IT HAS lasted a year, cost police and taxpayers £5 million and has resulted in 1,110 arrests. But the wider impact of the Faslane 365 protests on Britain's commitment to the Trident nuclear weapons system and its successor is far from clear.

The high-profile anti-nuclear protest was brought to an end in an emphatic manner yesterday when campaigners clashed with police one last time.

An estimated 500 campaigners converged at dawn on the gates of HM Naval Base Clyde, overlooking the Gare Loch, and tried to blockade the gates.

Dozens of police were drafted in to tackle the protesters, many of whom glued themselves to the road or chained themselves to the gates, while others linked themselves together with concrete tubes ...

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