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The spirit of Greenham rises again
Lynne Walsh chats to ‘Greenham woman’ SUE LENT about the 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking anti-nuclear action, and women’s recreation today of the legendary march from Cardiff to the Berkshire missile base
Sue Lent with the late Mary Crofton at the end of the 1983 Star March to Greenham

A HAPPY band of formidable women are going for a walk together over the next week: the 120 miles from Cardiff city centre to Greenham Common.

They’re aiming to follow the route set 40 years ago by trailblazers, anti-nuclear campaigners who resolved to take on the might of the US and British governments. 

The US government wanted to site its cruise missiles on British soil, and in 1980 the British defence secretary Francis Pym told the Commons that RAF Greenham Common would be the main operating base. 

RAF Greenham Common air base
Crossing the Severn Bridge. Sue is with long hair pushing Chris in the buggy
On the march in 1981
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