A SURVIVOR of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki has taken part in a peace protest at RAF Menwith Hill.

Tanaka Terumi, the Secretary General of the Japan Confederation of A and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations, lost five members of his family when the bomb was dropped on the Japanese city on August 9, 1945.

Mr Terumi joined demonstrators outside Menwith Hill - which gathers intelligence for the US's National Security Agency - on Tuesday, October 4, at a protest that was part of Keep Space for Peace week.

Using an interpreter, he told those who had gathered of the struggle the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have faced to highlight the danger of all kinds of nuclear weapons throughout the world.

Other speakers included Dave Webb of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Konni Schmidt from the Stop Ramstein campaign, in Germany.

Catherine Warr and Joan West, meanwhile, entertained the crowd, who enjoyed warm soup and rolls to keep warm, with protest songs.

Those who attended signed a global petition against nuclear proliferation while Mr Schmidt invited them to join a demonstration at Ramstein, a US military base in Germany, next autumn.

The Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases, which organised the protest, said it was grateful to everyone who supported it.