The cathedral was cited by Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, the Russian suspects of the Salisbury spy poisoning, in an interview with RT (formerly Russia Today, you can view interview at bottom of this page) as the tourist attraction they claimed they had come over to see.
When asked by the editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan why they were in Salisbury, they replied: “Our friends had been suggesting for a long time we visit this wonderful town.
“There’s the famous Salisbury cathedral, famous not only in Europe but in the whole world, it’s famous for its 123 metre spire. It’s famous for its clock, one of the first [of its kind] ever created in the whole world which is still working.”
They also claimed they had come over to see Stone Henge.
RT have now sent chocolate models of the city’s cathedral to news outlet TV Rain, a Russian independent network, who tweeted a picture of the gift and then commented: “Come for tea, we are afraid of it alone”.
.@RT_russian прислали нам на Новый год шоколадный Солсберийский собор с тем самым шпилем! Спасибо! pic.twitter.com/oZLHrNtXu5
— Телеканал Дождь (@tvrain) December 27, 2018
The chocolate was in a plastic box and wrapped in RT ribbon.
Local MP and Christian, John Glen responded:…
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