This is what a chemical attack on the UK would look like

Firefighters sprayed down members of the public while a bomb disposal robot poked a ‘bomb’ on a bed and soldiers in hazmat gear set up tents.

Thankfully, this wasn’t a genuine emergency, but a simulation of a large scale chemical attack on UK soil, when armed forces and emergency services took over an abandoned hospital in Cambridgeshire earlier this month.

Security expert Will Geddes told Metro that the people of Papworth don’t need to be unduly alarmed, as these types of drills have been going on since the early 1990s, when the threat level increased after the Gulf War’s Operation Desert Storm. But that the fact they happen at all indicates that the threat is there.

Chilling scenes at the hospital near Bedford saw up to 600 members of the emergency services join up with armed forces,