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The Financial Times reports that the UK has drawn up secret contingency plans to move its Trident nuclear submarine bases from Scotland to the US or France in the event of Scottish independence. Another option is creating an independent British territory within Scotland that would contain the Faslane and Coulport nuclear bases, according to the paper. It says the prospect of a break-up of the UK is worrying Whitehall, after the SNP returned to power in May on a pledge to push for independence and ban all nuclear weapons in Scotland.