Novichok

A classical music concert featuring the work of famous Russian composers wouldn’t normally cause controversy ..... except when it’s in the English city of Salisbury and is titled 'From Russia With Love’

Investigative webste Bellingcat has claimed that the second suspect in the Salisbury poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal is a Russian doctor who received a top military honour from President Vladimir Putin

Alexander Mishkin, the second man accused of poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, was decorated as a hero by Putin in 2014, said investigative group Bellingcat.

"We will expose the Russian intelligence service" - the message from British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt as Britain takes aim at Russia. The UK foreign office is blaming Russian intelligence services for six cyber-attacks in an aggressive statement that directly implicates Vladimir Putin.

One of the suspects in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury has been named as a highly-decorated officer in Russia’s military special forces by investigative website Bellingcat. The man previously named as Ruslan Boshirov is said to be in fact Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga.

Wiltshire police have scaled down investigations after two people fell ill at a restaurant at Salisbury in England on Sunday, saying there is 'nothing to suggest' Novichok caused it.

We assess four key claims made by the Russian men charged with poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal about their time in southern England.

UK government says interview contains 'blatant fabrications' and is 'offensive'.

Russia says there are inconsistencies in the UK’s claim that Moscow was behind Novichok poisonings on English soil. Who's right?

Two Russian nationals have been named and charged in the attempted murder of Yulia and Sergei Skripal, who were poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok in Salisbury earlier this year. British PM Theresa May says the men's actions were not 'a rogue operation.'

The British man poisoned with the nerve agent claims the substance which killed Dawn Sturgess and left him ill was found in a sealed perfume box.

Charlie Rowley, one of two Britons poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok last month, has been released from hospital

Dawn Sturgess died in hospital on Sunday and her partner remains critically ill after ingesting novichok.

“The substance is very stable. It can be washed away by rain, it can evaporate under the sun. But it won’t decompose,” said Vladimir Uglev.

After the death of Dawn Sturgess, UK anti-terrorist police say she and her critically-ill partner had been exposed to a high dose of the lethal nerve agent Novichok