SCHEWS IN BRIEF

* Following high turn outs at demos in Preston and Nuneaton (see SchNEWS 750), the EDL are heading to Peterborough on Saturday. A counter-protest is being organised by the TUC, less organised anti-fascists are also encouraged to attend.

* The trial of the Disarm Now Ploughshares activists who broke into a Trident nuclear sub base to symbolically disarm nuclear weapons got underway on Tuesday (7th). The seven campaigners face charges of Conspiracy, Trespass, Destruction of Property for last year’s action.