9 people who have chained themselves together using a model of a Trident Missile and concrete blocks, blocking the roads around Parliament Square just hours before MPs are to decide on the replacement of the Trident nuclear missile system.

One of the protesters, Mell Harrison from Bungay said “we were told that there would be a full and open debate but this has not happened. Even some people who are currently in favour of Trident are not happy about the way the debate has been conducted. This is an issue of international importance and will not just affect us but leaves the spectre of nuclear holocaust over generations to come.”
She went on to say: "what we need for our security is not a so called 'independent' deterrent but an independent foreign policy".

This action comes during an upsurge of anti-nuclear protests with nearly 580 people arrested since last October, including 30 from the eastern region, in a year long blockade of the Faslane base where the nuclear submarines are kept and regular actions at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston.