Javid: UK will not be a poison dump

Court today, Police Scotland said.

Alesha, six, was on a summer break on the island, west of Glasgow, when she was reported missing in the early hours of Monday. Her body was found in woodland AN earthquake has hit Surrey, less than a week after two tremors were felt in the area.

Tremors were felt by passengers at Gatwick Airport as well as residents across Surrey and West Sussex.

The region has been struck by a series of quakes in recent months for the first time in 50 years.

The earthquake of magnitude 3.1 was recorded at 10.53am yesterday at a depth of three miles, the British Geological Survey (BGS) said. THE Duke of Cambridge hailed the “impressive” Queensferry Crossing after presenting a medal to the famed engineer behind the bridge.

David Climie was one of three pioneers recognised by Prince William at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

The duke, who said the £1.35 billion bridge spanning the Firth of Forth was ‘very impressive’, was formally admitted as an honorary fellow of the educational charity before handing out awards to Mr Climie, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Professor Richard Henderson and composer and conductor Dr Thea Musgrave. THE Home Secretary has accused the Russian state of using Britain as a “dumping ground for poison” after a second nerve agent emergency in four months.

In a blistering attack, Sajid Javid demanded that the Kremlin provide an explanation for the two episodes, which investigators believe may be linked.

His remarks come as Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley fight for their lives in hospital after they were exposed to the chemical weapon Novichok.

The couple were taken ill on Saturday in Amesbury, around eight miles from where former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with the same agent in Salisbury in March.

One theory understood to be under investigation is that the pair who were poisoned in the latest incident may have inadvertently found a container – such as a phial or syringe – used to transport the nerve agent for the initial attack on the Skripals and discarded in a public place.

Novichok remains highly toxic for a considerable period of time, so even the tiniest trace remaining in a container picked up by the victims could account for their illness.

The duke then tried his hand at the Soundbop musical educational tool before meeting entrepreneurs from the Royal Society fellowship programme.

The Duke of Cambridge later attended a commemorative service at the Scottish National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle, before an

In a statement to the House of Commons, Mr Javid said: “The eyes of the world are currently on Russia, not least because of the World Cup.

“It is now time that the Russian state comes forward and explains exactly what has gone on.”

Making it clear the UK will ‘stand up to the actions that threaten our security,’ he said: “It is completely unacceptable for our people to be either deliberate or accidental targets, or for our streets, our parks, our towns, to be dumping grounds for poison.”

Officers were called to a home in Muggleton Road, Amesbury, on Saturday morning when 44-year-old woman Ms Sturgess collapsed. evening reception marking 70 years of the NHS.

Meanwhile, the Queen presented a new standard to the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards at Leuchars Station in Fife yesterday.

Following a parade, the Queen viewed equipment and vehicles and met families at the base.

They were called back later that day when Mr Rowley, 45, also fell ill.

It was initially believed that the two patients had possibly been using drugs from a contaminated batch, police said.

After further tests, authorities declared a major incident and on Wednesday night counter-terror police assumed responsibility for the investigation after the Government’s Porton Down laboratory concluded the pair had been exposed to Novichok.

Mr Javid told MPs that he “cannot rule out” the possibility that the Novichok found in Amesbury was from the same batch used in the Salisbury attack.

Amid questions about the post-Salisbury clean-up operation, the Home Secretary said the risk to the public remained low.

He added: “We have taken a very robust approach to decontamination and there is no evidence that either the man or the woman in hospital visited any of the places that were visited by the Skripals.

“Our strong working assumption is that the couple came into contact with the nerve agent in a different location to the sites which have been part of the original clean-up operation.”