GRUINARD BAY, Scotland - It was here on this fern-covered island that British scientists first harnessed the deadly power of anthrax, wiping out herds of sheep with microbe-packed bombs in one of the ...

Knight and germ warrior, Sir Paul Fildes ran the biology department at Britain's secret Porton Down facility and oversaw his country's first attempts to develop biological weapons. Son of a noted ...

During the Second World War, government scientists from Porton Down attempted to weaponise anthrax, creating a deadly strain that they then tested on Gruinard Island, an uninhabited remote site off ...

When you think of the Scottish Highlands, images of mountains and deep, mysterious lochs typically comes to mind. But the ...

How shadowy Scots activists used deadly anthrax to get a Scottish island cleaned up.