Mr Justice Wyn Williams has delivered his High Court ruling on the case brought against the Ministry of Defence (MOD) by Prospect, representing professional defence industry workers. The union had argued for a judicial review, on the basis that the…
A High Court ruling from Mr Justice Wyn Williams is expected today in the trade union Prospect’s case against the Ministry Of Defence (MOD) over the legality of its proposed five thousand job cuts. Prospect represents around sixteen thousand professional…
In an earlier news item, we wrote that the nuclear warhead base in Argyll, at Coulport, faces privatisation. Chris Hockley, Commodore of the MOD Clyde establishment in Argyll which includes the Faslane nuclear submarine base, began a review earlier this…
We have been drawing attention to the serious safety situation at Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Burghfield in Berkshire which is responsible for servicing nuclear warheads stored at Coulport on Argyll’s Rosneath peninsula. This ’servicing’ involves taking the warheads apart and…
The Herald has published an authoritative article on the Ministry of Defence plan to privatise the Royal Navy Armament Depot Coulport. This is the base where nuclear warheads are stored, loaded to and unloaded from British nuclear submarines as they…
BAE Systems Submarine Solutions at Barrow-in-Furness is due to deliver HMS Astute, the first submarine of its class, to the Royal Navy at the end of August 2008. Launched by the Duchess of Cornwall on 8th June 2007, Astute is…
HMS Superb, the Swiftsure class nuclear submarine operating out of Argyll’s Faslane Naval Base and which grounded recently on a rock in the Red Sea is now at Nato’s naval facility at Souda Bay in Crete. The grounding damaged its…
Pressure from Members of Parliament has forced the UK Government to reveal that £12.7 bn has been spent on nuclear weapons in the last ten years and £5.8bn is committed over the next three. Faslane on Argyll’s Clyde shores is…
In an update to our earlier news piece on the nuclear submarine Superb’s grounding in the Red Sea, a Royal Navy spokesman confirmed that a survey is under way to assess the damage to the vessel’s sonar. The damage to…
HMS Superb, a Swiftsure-class attack submarine, with a crew of one hundred and twelve, is lying surfaced and disabled in the international waters of the Red Sea. The Royal Navy is now exploring how to return the vessel to port…
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