The English cathedral city of Salisbury, the location of a deadly nerve agent poisoning blamed on Russia, was named Britain's best place to live by the Sunday Times newspaper.
The award comes a little over a year after a former Russian double agent and his daughter were found slumped on a bench, triggering a sequence of events which ended with one person dead and the West's relations with Russia in the diplomatic deep-freeze.
The Sunday Times praised the "divinely attractive" city in southern England, previously best-known for its medieval cathedral, citing its friendly atmosphere, good rail links and the high-speed broadband connections.