Novichok poison pub reopens today, year after Skripal attack

THE Salisbury pub at the centre of the Novichok attack will reopen today – more than a year after it was closed.

The Mill has been refurbished and rebranded as The Bishop’s Mill following the attempted assassination of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal last March. Mr Skripal, 67, and his daughter Yulia, 34, were poisoned with the deadly nerve agent before visiting the pub, which was quickly closed and decontaminated after they collapsed on a bench just outside.

The attack killed mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, and left her partner Charlie Rowley, 45, seriously injured after he found the perfume bottle which contained the nerve agent.