Most of these riot or crowd control agents are designed as short-term irritants which are minimally toxic

Most of these riot or crowd control agents are designed as short-term irritants which are minimally toxic. The London-based unit is to reveal new findings from research into the controversial use by police of CS sprays and gases and into its delayed effects, particularly on the skin.
Despite claims that CS use in Britain has resulted in few casualties, the service’s medical toxicology unit based at Guy’s Hospital has been consulted more than 2,000 times by doctors, hospitals and health professionals about patients affected by sprays or gas.The research, some of which is due to be presented for the first time at a national conference next month, was triggered by a number of reported cases where the onset of effects of CS spray was delayed.Dr Virginia Murray, consultant medical toxicologist, said: “I and my team are concerned that there seem to be unexpected effects [of CS sprays or gas] which have been occurring. Nobody was killed in the accident near Chesterfield at 2pm, which involved 15 vehicles initially before other traffic smashed into the wreckage, police said.. DOCTORS AT the National Poisons Service say that they have had reports of unexpected adverse health effects of CS spray, including skin blistering.

A post-mortem examination is expected today.Police think the other body, which was badly decomposed, may be that of a teacher, aged 32, from Richmond, Virginia, who disappeared on 20 July.. Pile-up on M1 injures 28

A MULTIPLE crash in pouring rain left 28 people injured on the M1 in Derbyshire. The two had been staying with the family since 12 August and planned to stay another week.The friend left at around noon to take the young boy home When she returned Ms Clarke had vanished. Police believe the dead woman may have been been leaving the beach when she was attacked.After the disappearance, Mr Cole posted flyers around Nassau and Paradise Island as concern grew for her safety.Betty Thompson, who works for the Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas, said: “Everybody is shocked, particularly considering that two bodies have been found at the same time.”I get the sense that people are very worried and are taking precautions not to be alone on Paradise Island.”The two bodies were found in bushes separating the island’s golf course from a secluded part of Cabbage Beach on the seven-mile-long holiday island. Police have not ruled out the possibility of a serial killer on Paradise Island, a tourist resort near Nassau.
Joanne Clarke, 24, was found face down and fully clothed on Saturday afternoon off a secluded beach on the island. The former Lancaster University graduate had been staying with a local family in Nassau along with a friend.Ms Clarke was last seen by a friend on Friday when they took the 10-year- old son of their host, Greg Cole, to Cabbage Beach.

He was a Scottish Peer from 1935-63, and died in 1965.The current Lord Sempill, the 21st Baron, is a grandson who last week was selected as a Conservative candidate for the Scottish Parliament. We was described as “a highly intelligent ferret, working for and paid by other Embassies and Legations, as well as Japan”.Gerothwohl was believed to be a German Jew who had appeared in London in the 1930s and had been a foreign affairs adviser to Lloyd George.”We have used Gerothwohl, feeding him with `dud’ information which he believes genuine, and which the services wanted to plant on the Japanese,” said the note.Lord Sempill retired, but continued to serve on many public bodies. THE BODY of a British woman missing on holiday in the Bahamas has been found beside that of another woman Both appear to have been strangled. He said the family did not know about the Japanese allegations.. “What the files shows is that Japanese intelligence were able to recruit sources at a high level.”The Public Record Office files also show that the security service was concerned over a number of other British citizens, including the former Military Attache to Tokyo, General Piggot, and his continuing contacts with the Japanese.Lord Swinton’s memo to Churchill said: “General Piggot is a bigoted pro- Jap, but said to be honest and loyal, as he is misguided.”They were also using Professor Gerothwohl, a shadowy figure who fed false information to the Japanese.

Sempill protested.Churchill was unhappy at the action: “I had not contemplated Lord Sempill being required to resign his commission, but only to be employed elsewhere in the Admiralty.”A note in the file from Churchill’s aide, Desmond Morton, dated 17 October 1941 says: “The First Sea Lord .. proposes to offer him a post in the North of Scotland. It is not clear from the files whether Sempill was a paid spy or just indiscreet to his Japanese friends.On 9 October 1941, a signed note from Churchill says: “Clear him out while time remains.” The Admiralty confronted Sempill and told him he could either resign or be fired. I have suggested to Lord Swinton that MI5 should be informed in due course so they may take any precautions necessary.”Dr Aldrich believes that Churchill feared the scandal would become public. Lord Sempill denied the allegations and said he had not received payments from an “improper quarters.” He told the Admiralty Board that the money had stopped on the outbreak of war.MI5 tapped Sempill’s phones and found Sempill had kept up his contacts with the Japanese. A year later he again came to the attention of the security services and was suspected of passing information about the Battle of the Atlantic – the continuing efforts to get merchant convoys to and from the US.At the time Britain was not at war with Japan, but it was considered only a matter of time before war was declared.A note to Churchill says: “As long ago as August 1940 the Director of Naval Intelligence drew attention to the apparently undesirable contacts of Lord Sempill’s.”There was no hard evidence of a leak, but “recently, the Director of Naval Intelligence, found that Sempill had been indiscreet in talking to his wife about his work…” A memo reports that Churchill’s security adviser, Lord Swinton, had “official knowledge that Lord Sempill is at the moment in a serious financial situation”.On 5 September 1941, Sempill was brought in front of the Fifth Sea Lord and given “a private warning”.Some key details from the file are still retained.