NEARLY 100 people gathered at Lydney Harbour on Friday to mark the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

The event was organised by STAND (Severnside Together Against Nuclear Development).

The newly-formed community singing group, Forest Rebels, led the gathering in singing and a lantern procession to the harbour wall, where flowers were thrown into the river in memory of the victims of Fukushima in Japan. 

Cheryl Mayo of STAND said: “A serious accident on this part of the Severn Estuary would mean the evacuation of the whole of Bristol, Stroud, Chepstow and the Forest of Dean, and most of Gloucester and Newport, some of it forever.”