SO, Cumbria have voted against having high and intermediate level radioactive waste buried under the beautiful Lake District. Good for them.

But surely we should also have the right to decide if we want the huge new Nuclear power station that the government is planning to build on our doorstep?

According to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority the old Berkeley and Oldbury Nuclear Power Stations will be housing waste from their operations for the next 100 years – waste that is too toxic to move.

We surely don't want another Nuclear Power Station at Oldbury, producing even more radioactive waste with no where to put it? The people of the Forest of Dean should be asked if they want it, just as Cumbria were asked if they wanted the waste. Then we, like Cumbria, can say a resounding NO.

Barbara French,

Sherwood, Brockweir