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Suspects visited Salisbury day before poisonings for ‘reconnaissance purposes’

Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia and former police officer Nick Bailey were all poisoned by Novichok in Salisbury in March 2018.

Evening Standard · Nov 19, 2024

Counter-terror police ‘left Salisbury officers feeling they were overreacting’

An email from Inspector Gill Hughes in April 2021 said special branch had been ‘very dismissive’.

Evening Standard · Nov 7, 2024

Salisbury poisoning: Counter-terror police ‘left officers feeling they were overreacting’

The inquiry was told officers had searched on Google for information on the Skripals

The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2024

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Police insisted second Salisbury novichok attack was drug overdose, inquiry told

Inspector dismissed emergency services’ concerns that incident was similar to Skripal poisonings, KC says

The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2024

UK believes Putin personally authorised Salisbury novichok attack, inquiry told

Dawn Sturgess inquiry hears from Foreign Office and from Sergei Skripal, who said Russia thought he was still working for the west

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2024

Matt Hancock’s bizarre cricket response to being offered help during the pandemic

It is the latest damning piece of evidence about Mr Hancock’s stewardship of the Department for Health during the pandemic given to the official Covid probe

The Independent UK · Nov 2, 2023

Matt Hancock’s bizarre ‘batsman’ response to being offered help during the pandemic

It is the latest damning piece of evidence about Mr Hancock’s stewardship of the Department for Health during the pandemic given to the official Covid probe

The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2023

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Ministers ‘felt up to care homes to look after themselves early in pandemic’

Age UK felt ‘quite cut off’ from the Government in the first few months of the pandemic and had to do most of its communications through the media.

The Independent UK · Oct 5, 2023

Inquiry into novichok death of Dawn Sturgess to begin in autumn 2024

Exclusive: Date set for start of long-awaited hearing into Wiltshire woman’s 2018 poisoning

The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2023

Government defends ‘exceptional’ delays in Salisbury poisonings inquiry

Dawn Sturgess died after being exposed to the nerve agent Novichok left in a discarded perfume bottle in July 2018.

The Independent UK · Mar 24, 2023

Family of novichok victim raise concerns at lack of inquiry start date

Lawyers for relatives of Dawn Sturgess, who was killed in Wiltshire in 2018, call for process to be speeded up

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2022

Priti Patel restricted disclosure of documents to Novichok death inquiry

The former Home Secretary signed the restriction notice in July this year.

The Independent UK · Nov 11, 2022

Salisbury attack inquiry will establish whether British government was right to name Russia responsible

Family of victim Dawn Sturgess express concern as no date yet set for public inquiry to start

The Independent UK · Nov 11, 2022

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