Trident protesters defiant

Trident protesters defiant

ANTI-nuclear campaigners were last night digging in to resist moves to evict them after 14 years in a make-shift camp outside a top-secret Royal Navy nuclear base. Officials from Argyll and Bute are set to go to court tomorrow for permission to evict Faslane Peace Camp forcibly from outside Clyde Submarine Base, home of Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent.

But after weeks of building elaborate defences, including tunnels and tree houses, the campaigners remain defiant. "This really is our last defence," said a spokesman for the camp, which has occupied the site for more than 14 years. "We have been here for a long time and all of a sudden, just because of a change in council, we are being threatened with eviction. We have put other defences in place ... any moves to force us off this site will not be easy."