P.N.E. (The Wolfblood Prophecies Book 4) (31 page)

One more thing…

With reference to the spraying of Minnesota, (page 29) it is now known that the same thing happened in the UK.

The following information can be found on the BBC Inside Out web page.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/west/series1/porton-down.shtml

On February 1, 1961 a Land Rover set off at 10.45 am from the Somerset village of Ilchester. It was driven by scientists from Porton Down in Wiltshire.

The Land Rover travelled through Wedmore and on to the outskirts of Bristol. As it went, Zinc Cadmium Sulphide was sprayed into the air in an attempt to simulate germ warfare. The cloud was being traced at sampling stations through Somerset and Wiltshire back to Porton.

It was the height of the Cold War and the British government feared that the Soviet Union was planning a chemical and biological attack. They wanted to analyse how a cloud of germs might disperse.

The scientists were instructed to handle the chemical very carefully. They were ordered to wear full protective clothing and gas masks. Those handling the material were to be given annual medical checks.

Despite the extreme safety precautions the scientists took in regard to themselves, they were spraying the chemical cloud onto unprotected passers-by. When they arrived in Bristol they would have been travelling through groups of lunchtime shoppers.

The Land Rover was driven past my home, my school and my church with the hall where I was a Girl Guide. I was fourteen. When I attended a Girl Guide reunion in the 1980s, three of the ten of us who met up had lost, between us, four babies to rare chromosome abnormalities. My daughter’s name was Elanor Silk-Turnbull and she had Trisomy-13, also known as Patau’s Syndrome. I told a gynaecologist about the re-union. She made some enquiries. Later I was shown a letter she received. It said, ‘Your patient is under the impression that something in the camp-fire sausages killed her baby.’