Trident

Instructors join appeal after fatality

Driving Instructors across Devon are using social media to help with a police appeal for information following the death of a 12-year-old in an accident with a lorry.

Exeter Advanced Driving Instructors reported the incident on their Facebook page and asked for witnesses to come forward.

One of them, Martyn Morris, who runs Trident Driver Training, said: "We are trying to find out if anyone was in the area or if anyone saw anything. We realise in situations like this any snippets of information can help."

Mr Morris (above) said there had been a massive amount of...

Scrap Trident Meeting with Bruce Kent

Authored by Exeter CND
Posted: Wed, 04/03/2013 - 10:44am

When Exeter CND arranged this public meeting, at which Bruce Kent will speak, we invited Devon's MPs to come and debate with him. Unfortunately none could make it so we asked the main local political parties to send representatives to the debate. After all, the three main parties all officially support Britain's nuclear weapons programme, i.e Trident or some variant.

Unlike the MPs none of the parties has responded, not even to refuse to debate with us. As suuport for Trident is now a minority viewpoint in the UK one might expect that those who consider the system to be...

Scrap Trident - Public Meeting with Bruce Kent

Event Date: 
03/04/2013 - 7:15pm
Venue: 
Exeter Community Centre, St Davids Hill, Exeter

Bruce Kent's Scrap Trident tour comes to Exeter on Wednesday 3 April, determined to highlight the waste and immorality of Britain's Trident Nuclear Missile programme, which the Government is pursuing recklessly although it no longer has majority public support.

Bruce, Vice-President of CND and a long-term humanitarian campaigner, will speak at a public meeting organised by Exeter CND. It will be chaired by the Deputy Lord Mayor of Exeter, Councillor Percy Prowse.

The three main local political parties, who officially support Trident renewal, have been invited to...

Bruce Kent's Scrap Trident Tour comes to Exeter

Authored by Exeter CND
Posted: Mon, 03/25/2013 - 12:34pm

Bruce Kent's Scrap Trident Tour reaches Exeter on Wednesday 3 April. He will speak at a public meeting, chaired by the Deputy Lord Mayor of Exeter, Councillor Percy Prowse, at Exeter Community Centre, St Davids Hill at 7.15pm.

A majority of the British public is opposed to replacement of the Trident nuclear missile system. Yet the leaders of the 3 main political parties continue to support the programme. So it falls to CND and other disarmament groups to articulate majority opinion and keep reminding the powerful of their minority status. Bruce Kent's tour aims to point...