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AS A Welshman, St Patrick would have approved

AS A Welshman, St Patrick would have approved. So said the small but colourful band of demonstrators outside the British embassy early yesterday. What better way to mark the day, they argued, than to rally against that blight on the land of his birth - Sellafield. Green Party MEP Ms Nuala Ahern said there was now "incontrovertible evidence" that the nuclear plant should be closed.

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