Russian officers accused of attack
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Pubs brewing their own beer are cheaper, selling a pint for £3.26, the research found. A WIND TURBINE painted to look like a giant daffodil is being unveiled in the Welsh countryside.
The revolving yellow and green installation has been erected on the hills behind the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, South Wales.
The UK’s coin manufacturer says the turbine will generate up to 850kW of electricity to help power its 38-acre site.
The 214ft high fixture was officially unveiled yesterday and will help power a factory and visitor attraction.
Pictures of the towering “daffodil”, which is the national flower of Wales, were widely shared on social media by bemused onlookers when it TWO Russian military intelligence officers are accused of carrying out the Salisbury nerve agent attack.
Police and prosecutors announced they had enough evidence to charge the men named as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov over the poisoning in March.
Theresa May told MPs investigations have concluded that the two suspects are members of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service.
In a statement that will deepen the diplomatic crisis between the two countries, the Prime Minister said: “The GRU is a highly disciplined organisation with a well-established chain of command. So this was not a rogue operation.
“It was almost certainly also approved outside the GRU at a senior level of the Russian state.”
Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were left critically ill after being exposed to the military grade nerve agent Novichok.
Exactly six months after news of the poisoning broke, two alleged perpetrators were identified in a joint police and Crown Prosecution Service press conference. was erected last month. It has been fully refurbished and painted after previously being used in the Netherlands.
Royal Mint chief executive Anne Jessopp said: “The hilly nature of our location gave us the perfect opportunity to install a wind turbine behind the Royal Mint site to help our energy consumption.”
Detectives believe it is likely the pair, thought to be aged around 40, travelled under aliases and that Petrov and Boshirov are not their real names.
Prosecutors will not be applying to Russia for their extradition, but a European Arrest Warrant has been obtained.
Detectives believe the front door of Mr Skripal’s Salisbury home was contaminated with Novichok on Sunday, March 4.
Police said CCTV shows the two suspects in the vicinity of the property on that date.
Hours later, the men left the UK on a flight from Heathrow to Moscow – two days after they had arrived at Gatwick.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said: “We have no evidence that they re-entered the UK after that date.”
He also confirmed that officers have now linked the attack on the Skripals to events in Amesbury four months later.
In the second incident, Dawn Sturgess, 44, and her partner Charlie Rowley, 48, were exposed to the same nerve agent used in Salisbury.
Ms Sturgess died in hospital in July, just over a week after the pair fell ill.
Mr Basu said: “We do not believe Dawn and Charlie were deliberately targeted, but became victims as a result of the recklessness with which such a toxic nerve agent was disposed of.”
Moscow has repeatedly denied claims that Russia was behind the attempted assassination in March.
A senior adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin said he does not know the people named as suspects by the UK security services.
President Putin’s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters in Moscow that the names of the two Russian men suspected in the poisoning “do not mean anything to me”.