Theresa May is in Salisbury today, exactly a year on from the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter which stunned Britain.
The Prime Minister is in Salisbury this morning in a show of support for the city where the Skripals were attacked on March 4.
Mrs May visited two shops close to Salisbury Cathedral and met members of the public on the High Street. She visited local businesses Smith England hairdressers and gift shop Casa Fina in an attempt to reassure owners.
Intelligence services now believe an eight-strong assassination squad was behind the failed attempt to kill the former spy and his daughter with a deadly nerve agent, it has been revealed.
The Kremlin has been accused of being behind the botched hit by Theresa May after the pair were found poisoned, slumped on a park bench.
Three Russian men, believed to be agents have been named, but today it has been revealed MI5, MI6 and GCHQ are hunting another five people.
It is also claimed one line of inquiry includes 'frantic comings and goings' at the Russian embassy in London in the days before and after the Salisbury Novichok poisoning.
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May (L) walks with local Conservative Party MP John Glen (R) in Salisbury on March 4, 2019 to visit a local business
Prime Minister Theresa May waves at Scarlett Ward (2) as she walks through Salisbury with local MP John Glen (right) on the first anniversary of the Skripal poisoning
Officers were investigating 'increased' and 'unusual' activity at the building in Kensington, London, at the time of the attack of March 4, 2018, sources claim.
Both the Skripals survived the attack, although Sergei has not been seen since. A police officer who came into contact with the substance also lived, but Dawn Sturgess who found remnants in a perfume bottle in July, died.
A security source told the Press Association: 'The intelligence agencies have been investigating unusual and increased activity at the Russian embassy in Kensington in the days leading up to and after the attack on the Skripals.'
'As would be expected, the UK security services have eyes on known and undeclared foreign intelligence operatives.'
So far, three people have been named in the investigation, with the country refusing to return two men. They are accused of being members of the Russian military intelligence service the GRU.
Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are pictured in the Zizzi restaurant in Salisbury in 2016, the same place where they dined before they were attacked with the nerve agent
Moscow has refused to hand over alleged hitmen Dr Alexander Mishkin and Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga – who are in Russian intelligence outfit the GRU and were caught on CCTV in the area at the time of the poisoning.
President Vladimir Putin's country denies any involvement in the attack, despite blame being placed with the Kremlin by British Prime Minister Theresa May.
In September, Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service said there was sufficient evidence to charge Chepiga and Mishkin- known by their aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - with offences including conspiracy to murder after they were caught on CCTV in Salisbury the day before the attack.
In February, high-ranking Russian military intelligence service officer Denis Sergeev was reported to have been in Britain during the attack.
The 45-year-old member of the GRU, who uses the alias Sergei Fedotov, arrived 48 hours before the poisoning but it is unclear what role, if any, he played in the attack, the investigative website Bellingcat said.
It is believed there are a further five people who formed a hit squad.
It is also claimed the Novichok was brought over in a diplomatic bag, the Mirror reports.
Dr Alexander Mishkin (left) and Ruslan Boshirov (right) are wanted for questioning in Britain
Dr Alexander Yevgenyevich Mishkin has denied being a part of the Novichok hit squad
Scotland Yard said there was sufficient evidence to charge Chepiga and Mishkin. The pair (pictured in Salisbury) claimed to be tourists
The PA source also did not rule out the possibility of there being more suspects than those already named and said inquiries were 'not limited to the suspects already publicly declared.'
Denis Sergeev, Russian intelligence, was in Britain at the time of the attack, according to reports
Britain has accused Russia of being behind the attack - something which the state has fiercely denied.
Some two weeks after the attack, Prime Minister Theresa May kicked out 23 suspected Russian spies from the London embassy in the largest mass expulsion of diplomats since the Cold War.
Both Mrs May and Home Secretary Sajid Javid claimed the Russian government had been involved, saying approval came from a senior level in Moscow.
It is understood several Russians are being investigated over the attack on the Skripals.
Detectives believe they first came into contact with the nerve agent when it was sprayed on the door handle of their home in Christie Miller Road, Salisbury.
People dressed in British Army fatigues walk away from the Skripals' house in Salisbury
Mr Skripal, then 66, and his daughter, then 33, survived the attack, as did Wiltshire Police Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, who came into contact with the poison when he searched their home.
But Dawn Sturgess, 44, fell ill in Amesbury months after the incident and died in hospital in July after coming into contact with a perfume bottle believed to have been used in the attack on the Skripals and then discarded.
The specially adapted counterfeit Nina Ricci bottle - which Ms Sturgess handled - is thought to have contained the substance.
Her partner Charlie Rowley was also exposed to the same nerve agent but was treated and discharged.
The 45-year-old demanded justice on Friday as the city was declared 'safe' from Novichok after the decontamination process was completed.
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves Smith England hairdresser salon after a visit in Salisbury a year after the Novichok scandal
Mr Rowley said the case was still an 'open book' after counter-terrorism police re-issued an appeal for information about the perfume bottle, admitting they still do not know what happened to it between March 4 and when he said he found it on June 27.
On Sunday, the 20-year-old son of Ms Sturgess, Ewan Hope, urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to hand over the men suspected of being responsible for her death.
His grandparents previously called on the UK Government for answers.
Russia has repeatedly denied any involvement with Mr Putin claiming the two suspects were civilians.
A heavy police presence around Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury. The area has undergone mass decontamination work, including a deep clean of the Skripal house
A heavy police presence around Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury, Wiltshire, ahead of a visit from Prime Minister Theresa May on the first anniversary of the Skripal Salisbury poisoning
During an interview the pair said they were tourists visiting Salisbury - particularly its famous cathedral.
A fortnight after the attack, the Russian embassy in the UK's official Twitter account posted a comment which said: 'In absence of evidence, we definitely need Poirot in Salisbury!' with an accompanying picture of actor David Suchet in costume as his famed character.
A week later, Russia's ambassador in London was ridiculed for claiming Britain was behind the attack.
Following a press conference at the embassy, Alexander Yakovenko was said to have been called a Russian 'Comical Ali' by Conservative MPs, after Saddam Hussein's spokesman Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf - who earned the nickname over his claims.
The Home Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office both declined to comment.
Neither the Russian Embassy nor GCHQ responded when contacted.
Military teams have spent 13,000 hours on the clean-up since Sergei, now 67, and Yulia, now 34, were found unconscious on a park bench last year.
They took 5,000 test samples from Salisbury and nearby Amesbury – where Dawn Sturgess, 44, was fatally poisoned in July – in the 355-day operation.
A year on from the attack a Downing Street employee used the wrong picture on social media
A timeline of the key developments in the Salisbury poisoning case
2010 - Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence officer jailed for spying for Britain, is released and flown to the UK as part of a swap with Russian agents caught in the United States. He settles in Salisbury.
March 3, 2018 - Yulia Skripal arrives at Heathrow Airport from Russia to visit her father in England.
March 4, 9.15am - Sergei Skripal's burgundy BMW is seen in suburban Salisbury, near a cemetery, where his wife and son are commemorated.
March 4, 1.30pm - The BMW is seen driving toward central Salisbury.
March 4, 1.40pm - The BMW is parked at a lot in central Salisbury.
A police officer stands guard outside the Zizzi restaurant where Sergei and Yulia had lunch before they collapsed in a nearby park
March 4, afternoon - Sergei and Yulia Skripal visit the Bishops Mill pub.
March 4, 2.20pm to 3.35pm - Sergei and Yulia Skripal have lunch at the Zizzi restaurant.
March 4, 4.15pm - Emergency services are called by a passer-by concerned about a man and a woman in Salisbury city centre.
Officers find the Skripals unconscious on a bench. They are taken to Salisbury District Hospital, where they remain in critical condition.
March 5, morning - Police say two people in Salisbury are being treated for suspected exposure to an unknown substance.
March 5, afternoon - Wiltshire Police, along with Public Health England, declare a 'major incident'
March 7 - Police announce that the Skripals were likely poisoned with a nerve agent in a targeted murder attempt.
They disclose that a police officer who responded to the incident is in serious condition in a hospital.
March 8 - Home Secretary Amber Rudd describes the use of a nerve agent on UK soil was a 'brazen and reckless act' of attempted murder
March 9 - About 180 troops trained in chemical warfare and decontamination are deployed to Salisbury to help with the police investigation.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow might be willing to assist with the investigation but expresses resentment at suggestions the Kremlin was behind the attack.
March 11 - Public health officials tell people who visited the Zizzi restaurant or Bishops Mill pub in Salisbury on the day of the attack or the next day to wash their clothes as a precaution.
March 12, morning- Prime Minister Theresa May tells the House of Commons that the Skripals were poisoned with Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
March 12, afternoon - Public Health England ask everyone who visited Salisbury town centre on the day of the attack to wash all of their clothes and belongings.
Officers wearing chemical protection suits secure the forensic tent over the bench where Sergei and Yulia fell ill
March 14 - The PM announces the expulsion of 23 suspected Russian spies from the country's UK Embassy.
March 22 - Nick Bailey, the police officer injured in the attack, is released from hospital.
March 26 - The United States and 22 other countries join Britain in expelling scores of Russian spies from capitals across the globe.
March 29 - Doctors say Yulia Skripal is 'improving rapidly' in hospital.
'Unknown time in the spring' - Dutch authorities expelled two suspected Russian spies who tried to hack into a Swiss laboratory
April 3 - The chief of the Porton Down defence laboratory said it could not verify the 'precise source' of the nerve agent.
April 5, morning - Yulia Skripal's cousin Viktoria says she has received a call from Yulia saying she plans to leave hospital soon.
Dawn Sturgess died in hospital on July 8
April 5, afternoon - A statement on behalf of Yulia is released by Metropolitan Police, in which she says her strength is 'growing daily' and that 'daddy is fine'.
April 9 - Ms Skripal is released from hospital and moved to a secure location.
May 18 - Sergei Skripal is released from hospital 11 weeks after he was poisoned.
June 30 - Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley fall ill at a property in Amesbury, which is eight miles from Salisbury, and are rushed to hospital.
July 4 - Police declare a major incident after Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley are exposed to an 'unknown substance', later revealed to be Novichok.
July 5 - Sajid Javid demands an explanation over the two poisonings as he accuses the Russian state of using Britain as a 'dumping ground for poison'.
July 8 - Mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, dies in hospital due to coming into contact with Novichok.
July 10 - Mr Rowley regains consciousness at hospital, and later tells his brother that Dawn had sprayed the Novichok onto her wrists.
July 19 - Police are believed to have identified the perpetrators of the attack.
August 20 - Charlie Rowley is rushed to hospital as he starts to lose his sight, but doctors can't confirm whether it has anything to do with the poisoning.
August 26 - Charlie Rowley admitted to intensive care unit with meningitis
August 28 - Police call in the 'super recognisers' in bid to track down the poisoners
September 4 - Charlie Rowley's brother says he has 'lost all hope' and doesn't have long to live.
Independent investigators, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, confirm the toxic chemical that killed Ms Sturgess was the same nerve agent as that which poisoned the Skripals.
September 5 - Scotland Yard and CPS announce enough evidence to charge Russian nationals Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov for conspiracy to murder over Salisbury nerve agent attack.
September 13 - Britain's most wanted men speak to RT and claim to be humble tourists
September 26 - The real identity of one of the two assassins, named by police as Ruslan Boshirov, is reported to be Colonel Anatoliy Vladimirovich Chepiga.
October 3: New photo emerges that appears to show Col Chepiga on the Wall of Heroes at the Far-Eastern Military Academy, providing more evidence against the Kremlin's denials.
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Main photo article Theresa May is in Salisbury today, exactly a year on from the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter which stunned Britain.
The Prime Minister is in Salisbury this morning in a show of support for the city where the Skripals were attacked on March 4.
Mrs May visited two...
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