Don't Make Us Nuclear Scrapyard ; City Leader Vows to Fight N-Sub Plans Meeting Will Debaten-Sub Disposal Plans

Plymouth Evening Herald, The (October 21, 2009)

Author: Tristan Nichols

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A DEFIANT message has been delivered to defence chiefs over plans to scrap nuclear submarines in Plymouth: 'the fight starts now'.

Council leader Vivien Pengelly was speaking as the Ministry of Defence announced it will host a meeting in Plymouth on Friday over the controversial Submarine Dismantling Project. The project could see 27 de-fuelled nuclear submarines stored and cut up at Devonport Naval Base over the next 60 years.

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Don't Make Us Nuclear Scrapyard ; City Leader Vows to Fight N-Sub Plans Meeting Will Debaten-Sub Disposal Plans

Key city figures, MPs and MoD officials have been invited to the behind-closed-doors meeting.

"I will be doing everything I can in my power to stop this in Plymouth," Cllr Pengelly sa...

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