St Albans: Nuclear campaigners take to St Peter's Street

The event took place between 11am and 1pm on Saturday (April 22), on St Peter's Street.

One banner featured the £205 billion sum that the group believe the government has spent on 'Trident'. (Image: Eve Cuthbert / St Albans Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)

Banners were hung from railings and leaflets were handed out at the time.

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

Banners were hung and leaflets were handed out. (Image: Eve Cuthbert / St Albans Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)

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

"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 (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) exists to oppose these threats to peace."