Welsh nuclear power plants to be secured - next year

icwales: Armed police will provide round-the-clock protection at Wales' nuclear power station from next year to protect it from terrorists.

Full-time firearms officers will patrol the reactors at Wylfa on Anglesey and Hinkley Point on the Severn Estuary, facing the South Wales coast, to counter an al-Qaeda-style threat.

Although a handful of temporary armed guards arrived at the plants earlier this year, it will be the first time the stations will benefit from 24-hour protection. Previously, the plants relied on unarmed civilian officers. Read more

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