Around 50 people of all ages assembled in Riverside Park on Sunday evening (August 4) to light candles and remember the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Estimates of total deaths in Hiroshima have generally ranged between 100,000 and 180,000, out of a population of 350,000, and casualties from Nagasaki are thought to be between 50,000 and 100,000, according to CND. You can read more about it on their site here.

Chaired by Dr Frank Boulton, there was a short speech from Cllr Steven Barnes-Andrews, previous mayor of Southampton, followed by a talk by Kate Hudson, national secretary of CND, who stressed the current risks from the build up of nuclear weapons that are much more powerful than those used in 1945 - the only occasions nuclear weapons have been used in war.