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UPDATE: BASF have now cancelled this trial, though have not ruled out other sites.

Around 200 protestors in Hull marched, picnicked and planted GM-free potatoes at a site marked for the BASF trial crop. The picnic saw Hedon Against GM joined by people from all over the country and was widely viewed as a success. Protestors entered the field and planted organic potatoes as the police generally stood by and watched.

Indymedia feature about the trials and the protests | More information about the issues surrounding these trials on Mutatoes.org
Reports on the day: [1], [2], [3], [4] and pictures

This month a controversial experimental genetically modified potato crop is due to be planted in the UK by the German based multinational BASF. One of the two trial sites is in the East Riding.

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Vikings go berserk over Trident A twelve strong group from York dressed as Vikings has successfully blockaded both entrances to the Faslane nuclear submarine base.

The base is subject to a year long campaign rejecting nuclear weapons and the replacement of Trident in particular. This has attracted international support. Spanish protesters sang, danced and shouted encouragement to York's Vikings as four men and eight women were arrested in the peaceful protest. The co-ordinated action completely closed the base for half an hour.

One of the protesters Richard Lane said "The Vikings slaughtered tens of thousands of people but they did so over half a millennium. Trident could do the same in a minute."

Dave Taylor of York Green Party added "Whatever happened to the ethical foreign policy that New Labour once promised? There is nothing ethical about spending billions of pounds on weapons that the human race cannot afford to use."

With the Government making a decision on replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system, Yorkshire activists have been busy having their say.