This Saturday, the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, many Oxfordshire people helped in rolling out a continuous line of pink home-knitted scarves that extended the whole seven miles between the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) sites at Aldermaston and Burghfield in Berkshire.

When we arrived we found our allotted section already covered by scarves knitted by people in Yorkshire so we had to walk some way to find gaps and fill them in with the scarves people in Oxford and Abingdon have been busy knitting since April. In the end we had to start lining the opposite side of the lanes with the hundreds of metres of scarf left over. At 1pm a two minute silence was observed in memory of all the victims of nuclear bombs.

Attending the event, Kate Hudson, chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, commented: “It is a disgrace that this government is prepared to squander over £100bn on a monstrous Cold War weapons system, while it slashes funding for health, education and other public services.”

Prue Drew, Kingston Road, Oxford

 

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