A book has been found "laced with a deadly poison" in Leeds Central Library.
The book, 'My Own Garden: The Young Gardener’s Yearbook', is Victorian and dates back to 1855. It has now been hidden safely away from visitors. An inscription inside the front cover of the book shows it was a gift given to a Caroline Gott, a member of one of Leeds' industrialists, by her father.
It was discovered when senior librarian Rhian Isaac began to cross-reference the library's collection against the database of The Poison Book Project. She then found a book on the list which was known to have been coloured with arsenic, and the library had one of these exact copies.
