SCOTTISH councils should “take any action within their powers” to stop nuclear weapons being transported across their territories, a motion passed at SNP conference today stated.

After a lively debate, delegates overwhelmingly endorsed a call to beef up councils’ powers so they can “outlaw transportation of nuclear warheads and related waste.”

Moving the motion, East Kilbride delegate George MacDonald said: “Nato is incompatible with our support for CND. The world would not survive a nuclear exchange. All would perish.”