The National:

SCOTTISH anti-nuke campaigners were met with an unusual warning on a recent trip to Suffolk, the Jouker hears.

Normally, activists with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) can expect to be told off for getting in the way of missile shipments to bases – some have even been so daring to kayak up the Gareloch, much to the chagrin of the Ministry of Defence.

But this week a band of CND members were told that some sweeties they had brought along to RAF Lakenheath, in East Anglia, would be “destroyed”.

Worried about the stomachs of the poor Trident submariners – who were recently forced to share rations on a gruelling six-month patrol – the campaigners offered boxes of sweeties for the guards to hand out at the Suffolk base, where US nukes were being stored.

One campaigner said: “Given the reports about the last patrol running short on supplies, we brought some nice boxes of sweets as tongue-in-cheek emergency rations to hand in for the submariners.

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“We were told to take them away and that if left, they would be destroyed.”

Now that’s a forceful rejection.

The campaigners were noising up staff after it was reported that crew on a Trident submarine were left ravenous after plans to restock the vessel with food during their half-a-year deployment were scrapped for unknown reasons.

Sailors were ordered to hand in their sweets and chocolate – known as “nutty” in Navy slang– and an onboard tuckshop was closed for fear the crew might start hoarding grub, The Sun reported.

They were also ordered to sleep and their movements limited if they were not on watch to burn fewer calories.