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To prevent contamination of the sample locations, personnel undertaking the survey will be fully suited in protective clothing. The sampling techniques used are non-invasive, non-toxic and leave no residue.
The collected samples will be analysed at the Dstl Forensic Explosives Laboratory (FEL), an internationally recognised leading authority in the detection and identification of explosive traces.
FEL staff attend scenes of crime relating to explosives, and painstakingly analyse evidence using advanced analytical techniques to identify minute traces of explosives. These traces are as small as a billionth of a gram, approximately 100,000x smaller than a single grain of sugar and present no explosive risk to the general public.
Survey of explosives contamination in the environment
Dstl scientists will be conducting a routine survey, which is not connected to any specific threat.
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Scientists from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (
Dstl) will shortly conduct an environmental survey across a number of different locations to detect and identify traces of explosives that are present in the general environment. The data is used to understand the level of explosive traces in our environment and can be used to interpret evidence gathered at potential crime scenes to aid the criminal justice system and maintain the security of the UK.
Surveys such as this are routine and this work is not connected to any specific threat.
A BRADFORD company which offers Covid-19 travel tests has been inundated with complaints. Expert Medicals, based on New John Street in the city centre, is listed on the Government’s website as a provider of the Covid tests people must carry out before arriving in England. But unsatisfied customers have taken to review site Trustpilot to raise major concerns about the way it is operating. Out of 127 reviews, 94 per cent of those have rated the service as ‘bad’. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said the Government does not “endorse or recommend” any particular test provider, but monitors all issues and takes action where appropriate, including removing providers from the list.
Politicians are offering two explanations for the presence and spread of the Indian variant in the UK. Government ministers are blaming vaccine hesitancy – that some who are eligible for jabs who have not come forward. This is something of a distraction given that uptake has been unusually high relative to other countries and to other vaccination campaigns
in the UK. Labour is highlighting the time that elapsed before the government added India to the “red list” of countries from which travel is banned (other than for British and Irish arrivals, who have to quarantine in a hotel room for ten days). India was only put on the list on 23 April, three weeks after the government announced that neighbouring countries Pakistan and Bangladesh would be red-listed on 2 April, and even then travellers were given four days’ notice to return.