Advice warning people not to pick up discarded containers after a woman was poisoned by a nerve agent was not issued until more than a week after she died, an inquiry into her death has heard.

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Follow the public inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess. She was killed by the Russian nerve agent Novichok; one of the most dangerous substances in the world. How was an innocent British mum killed ...

The unnamed 69-year-old woman is said to have twice sought help from a detective agency where she suggested poison or a car ...

There was the radioactive Polonium slipped into a defector’s tea in 2006 and the deadly Novichok nerve agent sprayed on a Salisbury door handle in 2018. Friends suggest, in moments of dark ...

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A ban on litter-picking in Salisbury has been lifted - seven years after the Novichok poisonings. The UK Health Security Agency said there is now "negligible to low risk" for those who pick up ...

After Dawn Sturgess' death, officials urged Salisbury residents not to pick up other people's litter A ban on litter-picking in Salisbury has been lifted - seven years after the Novichok poisonings.