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MSP demands action on Glasgow's secret nuclear convoys
Anger at late-night warhead shipments snaking through Scottish city's streets

Glasgow MSP Bill Kidd demanded action yesterday following reports police and soldiers ferried a secret shipment of nuclear warheads through the city's darkened streets.

Mr Kidd condemned the "absolutely chilling" Ministry of Defence policy in the Scottish Parliament as he described an unmarked 19-vehicle convoy snaking up the M74 in the early hours of Wednesday morning en route to the navy's arms depot on Loch Long.

Glasgow Anniesland MSP Mr Kidd, who also presides over the international network Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, said the convoys amounted to a reckless endangerment of his constituents.

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