An inquiry says the poisoning of Dawn Sturgess by a Russian nerve agent near Salisbury in 2018 was "unsurvivable from a very early stage" - read a summary of what the findings are
Vladimir Putin was "morally responsible" for the 44-year-old's death, alongside everyone involved in the assassination attempt on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal - Moscow has always denied involvement
Sturgess, a mother of three, died after spraying herself with a fatal dose of Novichok left in a discarded perfume bottle; her family says "we can finally put her to peace"
The attack may have been avoided if Skripal had been given a new identity, the report says, but adds it was reasonable to assess at the time that he was not at high risk of assassination
Prime Minister Keir Starmer says it's a "grave reminder of the Kremlin's disregard for innocent lives"
Could better security for Sergei Skripal have prevented the attack?Read our correspondent's analysis
Listen to our podcast: Crime Next Door - the Salisbury Poisonings
Harriet Robinson
Live page reporter
Thank you for following our coverage of the findings of the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry.
We are now bringing our live reporting to an end.
If you would like to continue reading about Lord Hughes' report, there is more here.
And those who were on the ground and at the centre of the story share their stories in the BBC iPlayer programme I Was There - Inside the Salisbury Poisonings.
Harriet Robinson
Live page reporter
Salisbury MP John Glen says he thinks it's "unlikely" the two GRU agents who are believed to have carried out the Novichok attack on Sergei Skripal would ever be brought to justice because there is no extradition treaty with Russia and President Vladimir Putin will not hand them over.
"We would love to bring both of those individuals who came to Salisbury, who administered that Novichok on the door of the Skripals’ home, and caused so much disruption and tragedy to Salisbury to face justice," he says.
Mr Glen adds: "That seems unlikely. But we’ve got to keep the pressure up and do everything we can to try and find them.
"The fact that we apparently will find it very difficult to bring them to justice doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t continue to seek justice at every opportunity."
Harriet Robinson
Live page reporter
"Could we have prevented it? Hindsight is a great thing here," says Mr De Bretton-Gordon.
"Sergei Skripal was very clear that he wanted to live in the open and didn't want to hide in the shadows," he tells Amanda Parr.
The chemical weapons expert explains: "The rules, that might sound a rather odd thing to say, is once these double agents have retired, they're left alone.
"Obviously, Putin didn't do that."
Sophie Parker
Live page reporter in Salisbury
A chemical weapons expert and former army officer has praised chair Lord Hughes' "pretty good job" on the inquiry report, adding that he had "most importantly" identified "that the person responsible for the death of Dawn Sturgess is directly the Russian president Vladimir Putin who ordered these attacks in the first place".
Hamish De Bretton-Gordon OBE calls Putin a "tyrant", who has "no concern for collateral damage".
He says he's pleased Lord Hughes pointed out more resources needed to be put into scenarios like this "as we are in a hybrid war".
He explains chemical weapons are "banned under every convention - they're horrendous weapons".
After seeing chemical agents used first-hand in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr De Bretton-Gordon, who lives just half an hour from Salisbury, says: "I never ever in my wildest dreams thought that they would come home to the UK and come home to my hometown as it were."
Harriet Robinson
Live page reporter
The MP for Salisbury says the Novichok poisonings had a "horrendous impact" on the city.
"We didn't know what was happening," John Glen tells Amanda Parr.
"Vast aspects of the city were cordoned off. "It was terrifying for a lot of people"
"Lives were changed forever," he adds.
But he says Salisbury's "a wonderful place with wonderful people and they're very resilient".
Will Glennon
Reporter, BBC Points West
"It really shook the city," says resident Mary.
“It made you question everything – what’s really going on? What’s happening?. Just by touching something, you could die. It was scary," she adds.
"I think it will stay with people for a very long time."
Mary, who lives in Salisbury, says the poisonings "made you question everything"
Another resident Anthony recalls "things were starting to happen that were making us feel uncomfortable" after the first incident, calling the situation "unnerving".
He says the locals weren't being told many details and "could just have done with a bit more information".
However, he says, "it's in the past now".
"I mean obviously those who did it aren't going to come to justice or anything - that's a shame."
Anthony says the situation was 'unnerving'
Kim Harrison, who also lives in Salisbury, says she thinks the city "dealt with it well".
But "it's sad for Dawn. Really, really sad," says Ms Harrison.
"I think Salisbury's still suffering. I'd rather forget it."
Bea Swallow
Live page reporter
Neil Basu, former Head of Counter Terrorism Policing, said his lasting impression of the incident felt like a "failure" on his part.
"I didn’t join policing to allow bad people to escape with their crimes, and that’s what’s happened here," he explained in the Salisbury Poisonings documentary.
"When you know who’s done something, you want justice for the people they’ve harmed. When you don’t get that justice, it’s a terribly hollow feeling.
"But it can’t be anything like the damage it does to the bereaved. Dawn’s family didn’t get justice."
Harriet Robinson
Live page reporter
Stick with us as from 18:30 tonight we'll be streaming a special hour-long live programme from Salisbury hosted by Amanda Parr.
She'll be joined by guests to react and analyse today's inquiry findings.
You'll be able to watch it at the top of this live page or by going to the BBC iPlayer and scrolling down to the Live and Latest news section.
Gordon Corera
Security correspondent
Image source, ReutersWhen the call came in to the duty officer at MI6 headquarters on the evening of 4 March 2018, it was met with surprise and alarm. One of their agents was lying in a hospital bed, apparently poisoned.
The realisation that Sergei Skripal had been targeted within the UK sent shockwaves through the world of British spies and raised important but difficult questions, some of which have been answered by this latest report. But have all the lessons been learnt?
Read my analysis here.
Harriet Robinson
Live page reporter
As our live coverage continues into this evening with more reaction to today's report, here are some of Lord Anthony Hughes' conclusions:
You can read our full story on the report and its findings here.
Image source, HandoutSophie Parker
Live page reporter in Salisbury
Image source, PAThe public bench where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal were found slumped and unresponsive was removed from the Maltings area on 4 March 2018 in a race to decontaminate the area.
The bench was one of nine sites in and around Salisbury and Amesbury which were part of a multi-million pound specialist clean-up operation.
More than seven years later, the only physical reminders of the bench's presence are the slighter lighter paving stones.
Bea Swallow
Live page reporter
In the iPlayer documentary, Dr Stephen Cockroft, a former ICU consultant, says the Skripals' symptoms appeared "extremely odd" when they first arrived at Salisbury Hospital.
"It immediately set off an alarm bell in my head, thinking ‘these people have been poisoned by something’," Dr Cockroft recalls.
"Without knowing exactly what had happened, we just continued to initiate intensive care. It wasn’t at the top of my list to think of a chemical warfare nerve agent," he adds.
He says a Wiltshire Police constable later came up to him and said: "Doctor, you've got to come and see this. I've just Googled Sergei Skripal and you're not going to believe what I've found out."
Sarah Turnnidge
BBC News, West of England
Asked by BBC News if today's report means Dawn Sturgess' family feel confident that what happened to her could not happen to another family, their barrister Michael Mansfield KC replies: "No, I don't think we're remotely confident."
He continues: "How can the family be confident when they haven't been given the answers on the key questions about security?"
Bea Swallow
Live page reporter
In our iPlayer special about the poisonings, former Head of Counter Terrorism Policing Neil Basu speaks of the force's fear of the unknown as more victims fell ill inexplicably.
“It was the thing we had been most afraid of," he says.
"That call to say ‘it’s happened again boss’. It was probably the worst thing I could have possibly heard.
“I think of weapons of mass destruction as nuclear missiles. I don’t think of them as a perfume tester bottle - but that’s what it was.
“I don’t think anyone will ever forget the first time they heard Novichok, and realised this was one of the most deadly substances in the world," Mr Basu says.
You can watch the whole of the iPlayer special here.
Sophie Parker
Live page reporter in Salisbury
Long-term Salisbury resident Dr Helena McKeown was a GP in the city at the time of the poisonings.
Speaking today, she says “half the city centre was cut off" after Ms Sturgess became ill.
"It was very difficult to get around Salisbury. My surgery and our pharmacy was behind a barricade. Patients would have to explain to police why they were there to get in," Dr McKeown says.
She says GPs previously did not have a lot of training on nerve agents and she saw a number of patients who visited her worried about symptoms.
“I had patients who gave me very clear histories of having walked through the city centre for shifts near where the bench was, where the Skripals had been.
"They gave me vague symptoms of unwellness, headaches, dizziness, not sure what was wrong, they didn't feel well. I had several face-to-face patients like that and people on the telephone talking about that," Dr McKeown adds.
We've just dropped our iPlayer special - Inside the Salisbury Poisonings.
In the programme, we hear from former Head of Counter Terrorism Policing Neil Basu, former ICU consultant at Salisbury District Hospital Dr Stephen Cockcroft and the former Head of Public Health in Wiltshire Tracy Daszkiewicz.
Bea Swallow
Live page reporter
Russian news agency TASS is reporting that the country's foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, has rejected sanctions imposed on Russia's intelligence service, the GRU.
"Russia does not recognise the illegitimate sanctions that are being imposed under trumped-up excuses bypassing the UN Security Council, and reserves the right to take reciprocal measures," TASS reports she said.
Daniel Sandford
UK correspondent
A little earlier, we heard from Wiltshire Police's chief constable.
Now, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Vicki Evans, senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism policing, is responding to today's report.
She says: "Counter-terrorism Policing, like all of those engaged in this inquiry, is fully committed to improving and enhancing our response to threats to the public and national security. We will take time to reflect on the inquiry report and findings.
"Much of this work has already been done and our operational capability is stronger now than it was in 2018.
"We have spoken a great deal about the growing threat posed by state actors, and our work to tackle what can often feel like dangers that are very far away from ordinary life.
"Dawn’s tragic death and today’s findings are a reminder of the personal and human cost of such national security threats, and we and our partners will do all we can to maintain and strengthen our response."
Bea Swallow
Live page reporter
In a statement, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust says it will "carefully review the recommendations" set out in the report to "ensure public safety and improve resilience in the future".
"We welcome the findings of the report and are committed to learning from its conclusions and how we can continue to strengthen our response to rare and complex incidents," it says.
The trust also commends the "calm, skilled and selfless response" of emergency services and NHS staff during an unprecedented event.
"We are immensely proud of the exceptional professionalism, dedication and compassion shown by all the staff at Salisbury District Hospital throughout the incident in 2018," it adds.
"Those who treated the victims, those who responded to the incident, and all those who continued to run our normal services under extraordinary circumstances.
"Their actions not only saved lives but also provided reassurance and strength to a community under immense pressure," the statement says.
Harriet Robinson
Live page reporter
Ms Roper acknowledges the impact of the poisonings on the victims and their loved ones, whose lives have "been irreversibly changed".
"These events also impacted many of our officers, staff and volunteers – both within Wiltshire Police and the hundreds of colleagues who supported us on mutual aid during the incidents," she adds, thanking all those who supported them.
"Beyond the public service response, these events have had a significant impact on our communities in Salisbury and Amesbury," Ms Roper continues.
"From the initial incident in Salisbury, the world watched on as local communities supported one another and the emergency services deployed in their neighbourhoods for months at a time.
"They have defined the true meaning of community spirit," she says.
