County of Wiltshire
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Koalas arrive in UK in bid to protect species from extinction
- Offbeat
- October 12, 2018, 11:08
Five southern koalas have arrived at their new home in England after flying 16,000 km (10,000 miles) from Australia. The iconic marsupials travelled (...)

Suspects’ presence in Salisbury ‘a fantastic, fatal coincidence’
- Europe
- September 13, 2018
Two men identified by the UK as prime suspects in the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Salisbury came forward on Russian television on Thursday in(...)

Skripal poisoning suspects’ explanation does not add up
- Europe
- September 13, 2018, 19:04
The explanation offered on Russian television on Thursday by the men known as Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov for their trip to London and Salisb(...)

Russia asks Britain for help in identifying Novichok suspects
- UK
- September 7, 2018, 16:18
Moscow has claimed it wants to ascertain as soon as possible the identities of the two men named by Britain as suspects in the nerve agent attack on (...)

Britain charges two Russian men in novichok poisoning case
- UK
- September 5, 2018, 11:26
Two Russian nationals have been named and charged over the novichok poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, Wiltshire in March. British po(...)

Dyson plans test track to develop its new electric vehicles
- Transport & Tourism
- August 30, 2018, 12:16
Dyson has unveiled plans for a 10-mile test track where its new electric cars will be put through their paces. The track and other facilities at Hull(...)

VS Naipaul, who chronicled unravelling of British Empire, dies aged 85
- Books
- August 12, 2018, 17:52
VS Naipaul, the Nobel laureate who documented the migrations of peoples, the unravelling of the British Empire, the ironies of exile and the clash bet(...)

Polynesia’s Easter Island, Wiltshire’s Stonehenge and southern Peru’s Nazca desert lines crop up regularly in the “top 10” world’s greatest “archaeolo(...)

UK woman dies after being exposed to Novichok
- UK
- July 8, 2018, 22:01
A mother-of-three has died after she and her partner were exposed to Novichok in Amesbury, southern England. Dawn Sturgess (44) died on Sunday evenin(...)

Nerve agent poisoning in Wiltshire: The key questions
- UK
- July 5, 2018
What triggered concern over the incident in Amesbury, Wiltshire? A couple living in Amesbury, Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley, were taken to hospita(...)