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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

Bibby Stockholm gets ‘satisfactory’ test results for legionella

Bibby Stockholm barge
The Bibby Stockholm barge is moored in Portland harbour in Dorset. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images

The Bibby Stockholm barge has had “satisfactory” test results for legionella, after tests initially found the presence of the potentially deadly bacteria, the Guardian has learned.

The Home Office, which hopes to hold hundreds of people seeking asylum on the barge in Portland, received the most recent legionella results on 4 September and government sources said they were not planning to make the results public. The Guardian obtained the results in freedom of information data from Dorset council.

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