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The Guardian
April 15, 2018
Boris Johnson has for the first time defended his apparent claim that Porton Down scientists had told him Russia was responsible for deploying a military grade nerve agent to poison Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury last month. Making the first defence of this claim since Porton DownÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 8, 2018
According to the results of an internal civil service staff survey, the employees of the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, the oldest chemical warfare research facility in the world, complain about low pay and have little confidence in their leadership. “Even this world-leadingÃâà...
The Independent
April 7, 2018
Employees at the government's secretive laboratory Porton Down suffer from low morale, have worries about pay and lack confidence in its leadership, according to a Labour analysis of a staff survey. It comes as British scientists working at the world-renowned Defence Science and Technology LaboratoryÃâà...
The Times
April 5, 2018
Also included was information suggesting that Shikhany, Russia's equivalent of the defence laboratory at Porton Down, was used during the past decade to test whether novichok could be effective for assassinations abroad. The weapons-grade nerve agent was used to poison the former double agentÃâà...
TASS
April 5, 2018
"We have taken note of a statement made by Porton Down's director that the laboratory had drawn no conclusions on where this substance (allegedly used to poison the Skripals) had been made and could not do so, they (just) determined the chemical composition of that substance," Lavrov stated. "The question of whetherÃâà...
The Independent
April 4, 2018
Boris Johnson has refused to back down after wrongly claiming Porton Down experts had identified Russia as the source of the Salisbury nerve agent – instead accusing Jeremy Corbyn of siding with Moscow. The Foreign Secretary came out fighting after Labour said he had “misled the public”, turning onÃâà...
Sky News
April 4, 2018
'Porton Down said it was Russia'. 15:14, UK, Wednesday 04 April 2018. Boris Johnson. Video: Boris Johnson said on 20 March that he was told by Porton Down that the source of the Salisbury nerve agent was Russia.
Telegraph.co.uk
April 4, 2018
The chemical weapons establishment at Porton Down has identified the substance as being from the Novichok family of nerve agents. These were developed by the old Soviet Union, and a Russian whistle-blower who fled to America in the 1990s disclosed that stockpiles had never been destroyed.
The National
April 4, 2018
We know thanks to the boss of Porton Down, who told Sky News on Tuesday the poison was indeed military-grade Novichok probably deployed by a nation-state, but who went on to explain; “We have not verified the precise source, but provided the scientific information to the government, who have thenÃâà...
Sky News
April 3, 2018
Porton Down chief: 'Production of nerve agent required state actor'. 08:00, UK, Wednesday 04 April 2018. Gary Aitkenhead is the head of the Porton Down lab. Video: The boss of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down says they "haven't yet" been able to identify the source of the nerve agent usedÃâà...
CNN
April 3, 2018
Speaking to Sky News on Tuesday, Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of Porton Down laboratory, said the poisonous substance used to carry out the attack was the military-grade nerve agent Novichok but said scientists did not identify where it was manufactured. "We have not identified the precise source,Ãâà...
Sky News
April 3, 2018
'Porton Down said it was Russia'. 21:02, UK, Tuesday 03 April 2018. Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talks to the media as he arrives. Video: Boris Johnson said on 20 March that he was told by Porton Down that the source of the Salisbury nerve agent was Russia.
The Independent
April 3, 2018
Accusations and recriminations between Britain and Russia are set to escalate with the news that scientists at the Porton Down military research facility have been unable to establish exactly where the novichok nerve agent used to carry out the Skripal attack was manufactured. The admission comes theÃâà...
Scottish Daily Record
April 3, 2018
Porton Down lab admits it has not been able to prove Russia made nerve agent used in Salisbury spy attack. It was identified as weapons grade novichok, but they couldn't tell where it came from. Share; Comments. By. Mikey Smith. 16:12, 3 APR 2018; Updated 19:36, 3 APR 2018. News. (Image: AFP). Share; Comments.
The Guardian
April 3, 2018
British scientists at the Porton Down defence research laboratory have not established that the nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal was made in Russia, it has emerged. Gary Aitkenhead, the chief executive of the government's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), said theÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 3, 2018
Scientists at the UK's Porton Down defence laboratory have not been able to determine where the nerve agent used in the Salisbury spy attack was made, the boss of the facility has revealed. Gary Aitkenhead, the chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down,Ãâà...
Spire FM
April 3, 2018
A Porton Down based biotechnology company is joining forces with two others to help make new medicines for a potentially debilitating illness affecting millions of people across Europe. Porton Biopharma, along with CHAIN Biotechnology and Scitech, has been given grant funding to develop treatmentsÃâà...
HeraldScotland
April 3, 2018
SCIENTISTS at the Porton Down military research facility are not able to say that the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning came from Russia. Gary Aitkenhead, Chief Executive of the UK Government's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, said the poison had been identified as military-grade Novichok, whichÃâà...
Somerset Live
March 30, 2018
Scientists at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), based at Porton Down, have shown that there's more to them than investigating chemical weapons, though. Gavin Williamson, the defence secretary, has revealed research at the facility has discovered a way of cutting the costs ofÃâà...
BBC News
March 24, 2018
Russia's suggestion that poison used in the Salisbury incident came from a UK facility, is "just not true", according to the director of the military research centre at Porton Down, Gary Aitkenhead. Scientists at the chemical defence unit have been analysing samples of the nerve agent taken after the attack,Ãâà...
BBC News
March 23, 2018
The UK's military research base at Porton Down has been at the heart of the investigation into what happened to Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. The BBC has been granted exclusive access to the Wiltshire lab. The headquarters of the Defence Science and TechnologyÃâà...
Mirror.co.uk
March 15, 2018
Porton Down opened in 1916 as the War Department Experimental Station for testing chemical weapons during WW1. Scientists at the lab researched and developed weapons agents used by the British military during the war such as chlorine, mustard gas and phosgene. After the war the governmentÃâà...
NEWS.com.au
March 13, 2018
Given international conventions that prohibit the use of chemical weapons, research conducted at Porton Down is defensive in nature, according to Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD). The state-of-the-art facility aims only to improve equipment and testing to protect troops and the population, it says.
Telegraph.co.uk
March 10, 2018
When Leading Aircraftman Ronald Maddison walked into the sealed gas chamber at Porton Down, his family believe he thought he was taking part in an experiment to cure the common cold. It was 1953, and the 20-year-old had been tempted by an advert promising volunteers for tests at the government'sÃâà...
Times LIVE
March 8, 2018
Located near Salisbury, the southwestern English city where Sergei Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter were targeted, Porton Down is Britain's most controversial military facility. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory - its official name - employs 3,000 scientists across a sprawling rural siteÃâà...
Salisbury Journal
December 31, 1999
File photo dated 15/03/18 of a general view of Porton Down Science Campus in Wiltshire. ... Scientists at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) in Porton Down have reduced the 40-stage process of creating the metal down to just two, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. The Wiltshire baseÃâà...
Channel 4 News
December 31, 1999
None of the experts we contacted were able to speak definitively about Porton Down's work in this field, but many believe it is likely the substance has indeed be investigated in the past. They suggested it's very possible that Porton Down has held samples of Novichoks – or at least has details about theirÃâà...
