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NFLA publishes report on UK plutonium policy amid new concerns over plutonium remobilisation in the Irish Sea https://www.nuclearpolicy.info/news/nfla-report-uk-plutonium-policy-concerns-plutonium-remobilisation-irish-sea/ The UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) publishes today on its website an expert overview of national plutonium policy and recent concerns over the potential for plutonium remobilisation in the Irish…
The National 5th June 2021, Secret papers reveal the UK spied on anti-nuclear campaigners. SCOTTISHnanti-nuclear groups were spied upon by the British state in the 1970s and 1980s, according to documents released by police to the spycops inquiry.
Previously secret papers reveal that undercover police officers, known as spycops, claimed to have “penetrated” the Scottish Campaign to Resist the Atomic Menace (SCRAM), Friends of the Earth and the Torness Alliance during protests against the building of a nuclear power station at Torness in East Lothian.
Activists involved with the protests told The Ferret that spycop units had been a “threat to democracy” and “outrageous”. Anti-nuclear campaigners had been wrongly branded as a terror threat “second only to the IRA”, they said. The Metropolitan Police said that undercover policing is “vital” to fight terrorism and “serious crime” in order to keep the public safe. Undercover officers infiltrated campaign gro
Tempers flare as Tuam councillors fail to resolve funding row
VEXED exchanges in the council chamber last Thursday saw members of Tuam Municipal District Council fail to resolve a bitter row over how €180,000 allocated to the region should be spent.
Tempers flared at the meeting, where Fine Gael councillors Andrew Reddington and Pete Roche and Independent Karey McHugh refused to discuss items added to the agenda until the funding matter was debated.
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