The UK city where nuclear air raid sirens and machine gun fire are always heard

Devonport dockyard on the River Tamar, Plymouth, UK (Image: Getty) The wail of air raid sirens and the crackle of machine gunfire are, thankfully, noises we don't expect to hear in the UK. However, there's one city in the UK where these sounds of warfare are heard so regularly that residents don't even bat an eyelid. Indeed, the people of Plymouth can pretty much set their clocks by the sound of a siren which warns of a nuclear 'incident' at the biggest naval base in Western Europe.

This alert is blasted out every Monday morning at what is Royal Navy 's only nuclear repair and refuelling facility - an area that is surrounded by residential streets and homes. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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