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Who is Gavin Williamson? MP's pet tarantula, knighthood and telling Russia to 'go away'

Former defence and education secretary Gavin Williamson has left the cabinet for a third time after accusations about his past behaviour hit the press. His political career has rarely been far from controversy

Daily Mirror

Lord Lucan breakthrough as mystery man's face is 'exact match' for missing killer

Lord Lucan is 'identical' to a resident in Australia who 'has many aliases', according to experts.

Daily Record

Lord Lucan breakthrough as mystery man's face is EXACT match for missing killer

Lord Lucan disappeared the day after he murdered his family nanny Sandra Rivett, with friends having claimed he jumped off a cross-channel ferry

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Novichok police force chief to retire

Kier Pritchard will leave Wiltshire Police in June 2023 having spent his entire career with the force after joining as a 19-year-old.

The Independent UK

Russian spies luring unsuspecting men into honeytraps still at large in the West

A total of 18 Kremlin spies are on the loose in western Europe with two already captured and the search for the rest of them ongoing, it has been claimed by a Russia expert

Daily Mirror

Russian TV news head hints at country’s role in Skripal poisoning

Editor of state-owned RT network Margarita Simonyan appears to contradict Kremlin position in post about Darya Dugina killing

The Guardian - UK

Woman accused of killing daughter of Putin's 'Rasputin' is a mum with 12-year-old kid

Natalia Shaban-Vovk, 43, is the part-time mum turned explosives expert who is claimed to have detonated the 400g TNT car bomb that burned alive Darya Dugina, 30, the daughter of Vladimir Putin's crony and spiritual guide, Alexander Dugin

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From Bridge of Spies to Anna Chapman and Viktor Bout: A history of US-Russian prisoner swaps

The former Cold War adversaries have pulled off yet another notable exchange

The Independent UK

From Bridge of Spies to Anna Chapman and Viktor Bout: A history of US-Russian prisoner swaps

The former Cold War adversaries are in talks to off pull off yet another historic exchange

The Independent UK

Family of woman killed by Novichok say ‘patience wearing thin’ as probe delayed

A lawyer for Dawn Sturgess’s family said there was ‘no hope’ of the public inquiry beginning early next year.

The Independent UK

Government accused of delaying Novichok inquiry with ‘unnecessary’ security checks on evidence

The Government has been accused of delaying the inquiry into the Novichok poisonings by carrying out “necessary” security checks before handing over evidence.

Evening Standard

Terror expert claims Scotland at risk of chemical attacks by Vladimir Putin

Graham Yuill, a writer from Glasgow, says he understands from a "reliable source" that bases in Fife, Scotstoun and Govan could be targeted.

Daily Record

Why does Russia keep poisoning people? The wild history of Moscow's chemical assassination plots

Billionaire Roman Abramovich is just the latest in a long line of people who suspect they may be the target of a Kremlin poison plot. Russia is well-practised in the art of chemical assassinations, but carrying out a murder using poison is inherently risky.

ABC News

'Full-scale' World War Three has now BEGUN, Russian state TV declares

Russians have been told that full-scale World War 3 has already started as declared by state controlled TV as one presenter insists "that's entirely for sure"

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The Independent UK

Former officer poisoned by Novichok in Salisbury settles claim against Wiltshire Police

Lawyers say details of settlement are confidential

The Guardian - UK

Novichok poisonings: Nick Bailey reaches settlement with police force

Bailey says he has continued to suffer from trauma of nerve agent attack in Salisbury in March 2018

Reuters

What are chemical weapons and are they illegal?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has expressed concern that Russia could deploy chemical weapons in the war and there has been an unconfirmed report of their use in the besieged southern port of Mariupol.

The Independent UK

Top private school hosted UK head of Kremlin cultural agency linked to Russian intelligence

Exclusive: UK head of Rossotrudnichestvo spoke at Oxford High School ‘Russian Conference’ in 2019 attended by more than 150 pupils

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The Guardian - UK

Britain, Canada and Australia decline so far to expel Russian diplomats

UK foreign secretary Liz Truss said cooperation with Moscow is over but has not yet acted in line with EU nations

ABC News

Before war in Ukraine, London was a glitzy playground for Russia's richest families

Nearly three decades ago, the UK started offering a "golden visa" to the world's ultra-rich. Thousands of Russians bought lavish homes and sent their children to the best boarding schools. But critics say it turned London into a haven for their riches.

Daily Mirror

Putin's hit list of poisoning victims as Roman Abramovich left with skin peeling

Vladimir Putin has been accused of poisoning his political enemies, with high-profile incidents in the UK including the Salisbury attack and the death of Alexander Litvinenko

The Conversation

Vladimir Putin: risk-taker who is gambling his country's future

In the early 1990s, when he was deputy mayor of St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin was known to a member of the city’s legislature, Viktor Talanov. A psychologist by profession, Talanov prepared a study of Putin in which he concluded that one of his subject’s fundamental psychological characteristics was a very…

The Guardian - UK

A familiar plot but truth may never be known about latest ‘Russian poisoning’

Analysis: There is a murky history behind the apparent targeting of Roman Abramovich and two Ukrainian negotiators

The Guardian - UK

Wiltshire novichok victim’s family concerned at public inquiry delay

Preliminary hearing in Dawn Sturgess case is told Ukraine crisis has contributed to delays

The Independent UK

Claims against ‘cathedral-visit’ Novichok suspects to be tested at inquiry

The inquiry into the death of civilian Dawn Sturgess in 2018 will likely begin properly in 2023.

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