Members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) from Cumbria and Lancashire travelled to Suffolk over the weekend for a protest.

The local CND branch joined hundreds of fellow anti-nuclear campaigners from around the country outside the Lakenheath airbase in Suffolk on Saturday, May 20.

They were protesting against any return of US nuclear bombs to UK soil, after the group said evidence emerged that the US airforce plans to store nuclear bombs at the Lakenheath base for the first time since 2008 when persistent protests in East Anglia led to their removal.

War has returned to Europe for the first time in a generation following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year.

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Tensions between the West and Moscow have been raised after many major western nations have provided support to Ukraine since the invasion.

At the G7 summit in Japan this week, US President, Joe Biden gave the greenlight to countries giving Ukraine top of the range F16 fighter jets after he promised to train Ukrainian pilots to fly the planes.

Cumbria and Lancashire CND spokesperson, Philip Gilligan, who travelled to the protest on Saturday said: "The last thing the world needs at the moment is an escalation in nuclear sabre rattling. We need to be de-escalating the nuclear rhetoric, not importing more nuclear weapons of mass destruction to our shores.

“Doing so would not only add further instability to an already very dangerous international situation, but would also increase the risks of a nuclear accident on British soil."