Salisbury is UK’s best place to live

THE city where a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned in a nerve agent attack has been named the best place to live in the UK. Salisbury took the title in The Sunday Times 2019 list.

One of the judges said the Wiltshire city had shown a “real collective spirit” after the poisonings that brought it to global attention a little over a year ago.

Ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived the Novichok attack, which has been blamed on the Russian GRU intelligence agency. The incident later claimed the life of Dawn Sturgess, who died after coming into contact with a perfume bottle believed to have been used in the attack on the Skripals and then discarded.