Salisbury, scene of Novichok poison drama, named Britain’s best place to live
Newspaper lauds 'divinely attractive' southern England cathedral city
London — The English cathedral city of Salisbury, the location of a deadly nerve agent poisoning blamed on Russia, has been named as Britain’s best place to live by the Sunday Times newspaper. The award comes a little over a year after a former Russian double agent and his daughter were found slumped on a bench, triggering a sequence of events which ended with one person dead and the West's relations with Russia in the diplomatic deep-freeze. The Sunday Times praised the “divinely attractive” city in southern England, previously best known for its medieval cathedral, citing its friendly atmosphere, good rail links and the high-speed broadband connections. ‘Victorious city’ “Whatever foes this beautiful medieval city has faced, from the Celts to the Vikings the recent Novichok poisonings, it has emerged victorious,” the newspaper wrote. In the weeks and months after Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found, police uncovered a trail of evidence that they said lead back to two agents from R...
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