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Drone_pilot
05-05-04, 12:31
A long-awaited second inquest is to open into the death of a soldier during nerve gas trials at Porton Down more than 50 years ago.

Ronald Maddison was 20 when he died after he was exposed to chemicals at the Ministry of Defence laboratories in Wiltshire in 1953.

BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3684503.stm)