Bruce Kent was there at St Nicolas Church last night at the invitation of the Abingdon Peace Group.

Bruce introduced Tim Wallis, who has written a book on the arguments for and against keeping Trident, called ‘The Truth about Trident’. Tim said that none of the arguments for keeping Trident, even that of deterrence, stand up to scrutiny. His presentation was made on the day after parliament voted overwhelmingly to renew Trident.

I suspect that this could be another topic where MPs do not accurately reflect public opinion. Trident allows Britain to punch above its weight on the world stage, even though the United States provides nuclear missiles for our submarines, and has to replace them regularly.

The 1200+ paper cranes that were made in the Abingdon at the community shop during the peace week in August have arrived in Hiroshima. They were sent by surface mail in two cardboard boxes.

The Hiroshima Peace museum have sent back photographs of the our cranes being put up at the childrens Peace Memorial in Hiroshima. Can you see yours?

(Thanks to Anne and Peter for the report)