Campaigners are calling on the government to stop using unmanned aerial vehicles or 'drones', as Britain prepares to start controlling them from a domestic base.

Thousands of protestors have gathered at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, calling on the government to scrap Trident and cancel its replacement.

CND has welcomed a parliamentary debate on Trident and Scottish independence, but says it is an economic and strategic issue for the entire UK.

CND has rejected Lord West's call for Labour to back like-for-like replacement of the Trident nuclear weapons system as "ill-founded and out-of-touch."