Campaigners from Scotland have been proposing to UK chancellor Alistair Darling an alternative budget which does not include spending on nuclear weapons - arguing that that there are massive savings to be made.

The Methodist Church has welcomed news that Gordon Brown has pledged to consider cutting Britain’s nuclear arsenal. The UK will begin to scale back its stockpile of nuclear warheads if Russia and the US agree to new reductions, the prime minister said yesterday.

A group of retired generals have come out against replacement of Britain's Trident nuclear system, backing calls from churches and others for the weapons of mass destruction to be scrapped.

The Ministry of Defence is accused by MPs today of massaging figures, casting doubt on its ability to plan for the new £19bn successor to the UK's Trident nuclear system.

A group of trainee priests and ministers, supported by their theological colleges, will risk arrest next weekend as they protest against Britain’s Trident weapons nuclear programme.

Protestant and Catholic church leaders in Scotland have renewed their criticism on Britain’s post-Trident nuclear weapons plans and have called for a major non-proliferation effort.

World Vision chief executive Charles Badenoch has delivered an embarrassing public rebuke to MPs, including the chair of Christians in Parliament, and said that MPs could have taken moral leadership when it made its decision on Trident.

Following a large Commons rebellion, churches and other campaigners against Trident renewal have continued to express their opposition to the government's nuclear policy

Greenpeace activists have scaled a crane next to the House of Parliament and hung a huge banner from it declaring 'TONY loves WMD'.