GLASGOW schoolchildren are celebrating the UN's ban on nuclear bombs with a homemade banner in the West End.
The intergovernmental group passed a ban on the weapons of mass destruction which comes into force today.
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Glasgow campaigners, including school pupils and families, have joined to create a banner which will hang on railings in Kelvin Way.
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The treaty comes into force today and commits signatories to not keeping or developing nuclear weapons.
Britain did not sign it and maintains its Trident nuclear weapons programme at the Clyde Naval Base in Faslane, near Helensburgh.
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Campaigners believe that nuclear weapons should be scrapped and that Trident's annual budget of £40 billion should be spent on tackling child poverty.
Florence Bartlett, 11, a primary seven pupil at Hillhead Primary School, said: "Spending billions of pounds on bombs is stupid when there are people starving."
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