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Porton Down
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Proper noun
en science park near town/Porton co/Wiltshire cc/England that is home to two British military research facilities
en 2025-01-24 w:BBC How red flags over Southport killer were repeatedly missed https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78w7nlwz9po Tests at Porton Down, the government's biological warfare laboratory, confirmed the substance was ricin, a poison for which there is no cure. https://web.archive.org/web/20260611120901/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78w7nlwz9po 11 June 2026