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Mail on Sunday censured over London Underground anthrax story

Earlier this year, the Mail on Sunday claimed that the deadly bacteria, anthrax was released on the Northern line as a biological weapons test back in the 1960s.
The newspaper was wrong.
Mail on Sunday graphic from the article
The newspaper headline, as published on 7th February 2021 was “The day anthrax was released in a tunnel on the Northern Line – by scientists from Porton Down”.
The article referred to experiments in 1963 and 1964 where a small package was thrown out of a
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