It is a year ago this week when the Salisbury attack took place. At the time, inhabitants of the idyllic English city saw their neighbourhoods - and livelihoods – thrown into an international spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Blog by mitchefi
On 4 March last year the Wiltshire city went from a peaceful tourist destination to the site of the first chemical attack on British soil. Salisbury poisoning saga: How it unfolded The inhabitants of Salisbury saw their neighbourhoods - and livelihoods - thrown into an international spotlight for all the wrong reasons.
It began a process of investigation and decontamination which saw a dozen sites around Salisbury cordoned off. As it seemed Salisbury might be getting on its feet again, four months after the attack on the Skripals, two people picked up a perfume bottle in a park in the city, and returned to their home in nearby Amesbury.Both were rushed to Salisbury District Hospital, which by then had the dubious distinction of understanding immediately the symptoms they were seeing.
It has stretched emergency services to the limit and one year on it gives, as Chief Constable Pritchard points out, "the opportunity to briefly pause and reflect on the enormity of the task" faced over the last 12 months.A quaint tourist town - often visited as people head too see nearby Stonehenge - saw its visitor numbers halve in the wake of the attack.
It was a worry for both locals and visitors as the realisation dawned that they could not be sure everywhere was safe yet.
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