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BRITISH AUTHORITIES HAVE rejected a visa application by the niece of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal, who was poisoned with a nerve agent along with his daughter Yulia in an English city last month.
“We have refused a visitor visa application from Viktoria Skripal on the grounds that her application did not comply with the immigration rules,” the Home Office, Britain’s interior ministry, said in a statement.
Sergei Skripal is no longer in critical condition and is “improving rapidly,” the hospital treating him.
It was the first official news on the condition of Sergei Skripal, 66, since he and his daughter Yulia were found poisoned on a bench on 4 March in Salisbury.
The affair has sparked a bitter diplomatic crisis between London and Moscow and prompted a wave of tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats between Russia and the West.
Skripal ”is responding well to treatment, improving rapidly and is no longer in a critical condition,” said Salisbury District Hospital director Christine Blanshard.
As for his daughter, “her strength is growing daily and she can look forward to the day when she is well enough to leave the hospital”, Blanshard added.
Britain blames Russia for the poisoning of the Skripals — a charge the Kremlin furiously denies.
The first public comments by Yulia Skripal since the poisoning emerged on Thursday.
“My strength is growing daily,” she was quoted as saying in comments released by the police.
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It’s an incredible event year on year, great credit has to go to Anna May for building the ploughing into the success it is.
Does the pic of Anna May with 2 men really have to point out that she’s the one on the right???
In these gender neutral days, they have PC down to fine art.
Great for most local businesses. But some self employed can’t work for the week. Tough shit for our loss yeah?
What?
I’m no fan of the IFA, but this is brilliantly organised year on year. If you have the opportunity to go, take it.
If ms mchugh is worried about the we at her she should sacrifice to Zeus – l believe two cocks is the acceptable offering – but then where would she source two cocks????
It’s a big shakedown of old farmers and their imbecile sons. Let them in to kick tractor tyres and then raid their pockets. They come back every year for more of it. Gas craic altogether.
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