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Novichok poisonings, Russia’s role and UK response: key questions of inquiry ⊖⊖

Innocent people were caught up in an assassination attempt on a former Russian spy in Salisbury in March 2018. How did this happen?

The novichok attack on Salisbury in south-west England in March 2018…

Minute-by-minute, how two Russian hitmen tried assassinating an ex-Kremlin spy by spraying his four-bedroom Salisbury home's front door handle with a terrifying Cold War-era chemical weapon... all on direct orders from Putin

At 3pm on March 2, 2018, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov passed through immigration at London's Gatwick airport having flown straight from Moscow.

Vladimir Putin authorised Salisbury Novichok poisonings 'as a public demonstration of Russian power', inquiry into the death of British victim finds

Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, pictured here with daughter Yulia, was poisoned by Novichok at his home in Salisbury. A report today found Putin authorised the hit as a show of Russian strength.

21 days ago

Jaysley Beck case prosecutors mull new charges against others after sergeant major who sexually assaulted her before she killed herself was jailed

Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck, 19, (pictured) was found hanging in her room at Larkhill Camp, near Salisbury in Wiltshire, on December 15, 2021.

Our Novichok nightmare: Former Russian spy and his daughter targeted by Putin in Salisbury poisonings relive hell of hallucinations 'like LSD' that left them close to death ⊖⊖

Sergei Skripal, a double agent who had passed intelligence to MI6 , and his then 33-year-old daughter Yulia nearly lost their lives in the attack by Russian assassins in Salisbury in 2018

36 days ago

42 days ago

Scientists at secret military base at centre of Novichok murder probe fear their details may have been stolen by cyber criminals

Workers at the Defence Scientific Technical Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, Salisbury, were alerted to the security breach this month by union officials.

43 days ago

Blue Lights is more than great TV. It might be the best chance Britons have of reckoning with the Troubles | Jonathan Freedland ⊕⊕

The reaction to the Bloody Sunday trial makes it clear: those of us outside Northern Ireland just don’t understand the painful legacy of this brutal conflict

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