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Licensed to kill: the landowners who shoot thousands of brown hares
Landowners, farmers and foresters are licensed to kill more than 1,300 brown hares every year during the breeding season,
UK nuclear weapons facing ‘perfect storm’ of problems, says report
The UK government’s nuclear weapons programme is facing 21 technical and logistical risks and could end up costing taxpayers
Call to scrap ‘horrifying’ 50 years of British nuclear weapons celebration
Plans by the Royal Navy to celebrate 50 years of British nuclear weapons at sea are “horrifying” and should be
Anger at MoD plan to rethink nuclear submarine waste disposal
Plans by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to rethink the disposal of radioactive waste from 27 defunct nuclear submarines have
Nuclear submariners snub the Clyde due to ‘Scottish independence’
UK nuclear submarine crews do not want to live around the Faslane naval base on the Clyde because of the
Revealed: UK’s secret plan to dump 22 nuclear submarines in Scotland
The UK government secretly planned to dump the radioactive hulks of 22 nuclear submarines in the sea off north west
Yemen: hundreds of alleged war crimes but only 79 investigations
There have been 366 alleged war crimes in Yemen but only 79 investigations by the Saudi-led coalition and the Ministry
Revealed: 505 nuclear safety incidents at Faslane
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has recorded more than 500 safety mishaps with nuclear submarines on the Clyde since 2006
Ministry of Defence rapped for five nuclear safety breaches
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been formally reprimanded by its internal safety regulator for five nuclear safety breaches, according
MoD keeps Trident’s official safety assessments secret
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has come under fierce fire after refusing to reveal the official safety ratings given by
MoD took seven years to conduct ‘urgent’ review of nuclear convoy dangers
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has taken seven years to conduct a review of the risks of nuclear bomb convoys
We need to scrap Trident, says former nuclear submarine commander
The UK government should cancel plans to replace Trident nuclear weapons to help prevent humanity toppling “over the edge into