THE community joined together for a service of cleansing after the nerve agent attack in the city.

Sunday’s service of Celebration of the Community Life of Our City was held at St Thomas’s Church and was followed by a procession to the Maltings for an act of cleansing near to where Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found.

The service and act of cleansing was led by the Revd Kelvin Inglis, Rector of St Thomas’s, and the Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Revd Nicholas Holtam. More than 300 people attended.

The Bishop said “In this season of Easter, which the Church celebrates for fifty days, this feels like an affirmation of the Christian story – that good ultimately triumphs over evil, truth over deception and life over death. Salisbury was built on that Christian story 800 years ago and it still centres the city today.”