VETERAN CND campaigners blockaded Scotland's nuclear submarine base yesterday in protest at the country's No vote on independence.
Six activists, all aged over 50, brought traffic to a standstill after creating a human barricade outside the base's north gate at around 7am.
The men and women tied themselves together with plastic tubing and climbing equipment and lay in the middle of the road.
All traffic was brought to a standstill and no-one could enter or leave the base on Gare Loch, Argyll and Bute.
Police officers, who later arrested five people, were forced to use an angle grinder to separate and break the protesters free.
But the veterans refused to go silently, they held hands and burst into song as officers attempted to guide them away from the base.
The demonstration was aimed to show Westminster that despite a No vote there are still serious concerns over nuclear weapons in Scotland.
Five members of Trident Ploughshares, who campaign for the disarmament of the UK's nuclear weapons, were arrested for breach of the peace.
Lifelong campaigner and grandmother of nine Janet Fenton, 67, said: "We reject nuclear weapons here and everywhere else in the world.
"We had hoped a Yes vote would get rid of them for good in Scotland."
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