ANTI-NUCLEAR campaigners took their message to the streets of Bury helped by a giant inflatable missile!

Members of Prestwich and Whitefield CND say local people were keen to support their petition calling on ministers to scrap Trident.

The Trafficking Trident mobile exhibition came to Kay Gardens in Bury on Saturday and is going on tour to towns around the country.

CND leaders point out that there are still 36,000 nuclear weapons in the world despite the ending of the Cold War. The potential for catastrophe can still be seen, they say, with the stand-off between Russia and the West in Kosovo and the tensions between India and Pakistan.

Betty Tebbs, secretary of Prestwich and Whitefield CND, was pleased with the public's response.

"We had no problems getting people to sign," she said. "They can see the connection between what's being spent on Trident and what could be spent on useful things like health or pensions. Young people who are having to pay tuition fees to go to college are keen to sign."

She added: "The Government spends £1.5 billion every year on Trident. If we want to get the Government to abandon its attachment to nuclear weapons, we have to get out on the streets and take the message to the people."

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