Four people from Oxfordshire, including a clergyman and a Euro MP, were arrested as hundreds of protesters tried to blockade a nuclear submarine base in Scotland.

The Rev David Platt, 70, an assistant curate at St Andrew's Church, East Hagbourne, near Didcot, staged a sit-down with other clergy outside the Faslane naval base near Glasgow.

Arrested: Green MEP Caroline Lucas Mr Platt said: "I am here because I think Trident is immoral, illegal, irresponsible and irrelevant."

Green MEP Caroline Lucas, who lives in Stonesfield, near Woodstock, and two women in their 20s from Oxford were also arrested.

Mr Platt and the two unnamed women were among 50 members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament who left St Giles, Oxford, on Sunday night to protest at nuclear submarine bases. More than 200 people were arrested for public order offences.

Graduate Alison Mathias, 22, of Cowley Road, Oxford, was among 25 Oxford students at the blockade.

She said: "Our objective was to stop the base functioning today and we have been pretty successful."

Rene Gill, Oxford CND secretary, said: "It was a long overnight journey. The Oxford protesters joined the blockade at about 7am.

"This country should not have nuclear submarines prowling around in the sea. There is no justification for them. Nothing but evil comes from them.