The St Albans Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament will take to the streets of the city centre this weekend, in a bid to raise awareness of the cost of Britain's nuclear weapons.

The group will make their presence known on St Peter's Street between 11am and 1pm, on Saturday (April 22).

A banner will be held, featuring the £205 billion sum that the group believe will be needed to replace the UK's 'Trident' nuclear weapons system.

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The chair of the St Albans Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament told The Herts Advertiser "We are making a point, certainly".

The campaign group's website adds: "In 1945, two nuclear weapons destroyed - in seconds - the Japanese towns of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

                                                                                            

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"Since then, the capacity for nuclear destruction has increased dramatically.

"Between them, Britain, the US, France, Russia and China now possess 36,000 nuclear weapons – enough to destroy the world many times over.

"Other states, such as Israel, India and Pakistan, now possess nuclear weapons...

"...CND exists to oppose these threats to peace."