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Monday 22 July 1996 23:02 BST

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The Ministry of Defence is investigating how two women peace protesters managed to board a nuclear-powered submarine while it was berthed in a top-secret Royal Navy base. The women used scuba gear and the cover of darkness to enter the Clyde submarine base, home of Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent, early yesterday.

Once inside, the pair crept up the gangplank of HMS Sceptre, a Swiftsure Class hunter-killer submarine. Friends of the women claimed they even had time to make a phone call from the submarine before they were arrested by naval personnel and handed over to MoD police. They were charged under local by-laws and with committing a breach of the peace.

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