Foot-and-mouth – news update

THE Countryside Alliance has dismissed as “a political stunt” London mayor Ken Livingstones call for the countryside march to be stopped because of foot-and-mouth

FARMING industry representatives agree that the Government ban on livestock movements is the best way to eradicate foot-and-mouth disease

AGRICULTURE minister Nick Brown has banned all movement of sheep, cattle, pigs and goats within Great Britain in a bid to control the foot-and mouth outbreak

A SIXTH outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed as hopes rapidly diminish that the outbreak will be confined to a handful of farms

FEARS are growing that infected meat from the Essex abattoir at the centre of foot-and-mouth disease crisis may have been exported to the EU

THE Ministry of Agriculture is set to suspend all livestock movements in a bid to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, claims an industry source

FOOT-AND-MOUTH disease has been confirmed on a Tyne-and-Wear farm – and it could be the source of the infection, says the Ministry of Agriculture

ILLEGALLY imported meat could be the source of the foot-and-mouth outbreak, reports the BBC Radio 4 Farming Today programme

FOOT-AND-MOUTH disease has spread to a third site in Britain as Brussels warns it could extend a ban on exports of UK livestock and animal products

THE Ministry of Agriculture is under fire for failing to publish details of the foot-and-mouth outbreak as soon as they become available

THOUSANDS of pounds have been wiped off the value of livestock as Britains markets reacted violently to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease

THOUSANDS of pounds have been wiped off the value of livestock as Britains markets reacted violently to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease

MOVEMENT restrictions are expected to be imposed on hundreds of farms that supplied the abattoir at the centre of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

A SIXTH case of foot-and-mouth disease is suspected in a beef bull at an abattoir in Guildford, Surrey, the Meat and Livestock Commission has confirmed

THE Countryside March, expected to attract 300,000 rural people to London next month, is under threat because of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

INFECTED meat is the most likely source of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain, claims the countrys top vet

THE plight of farmers whose businesses have been hit by the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease draws sympathy from the morning newspapers

AN emergency ban on exports of all British livestock and meat imposed because of foot-and-mouth disease threatens to devastate the industry

THE British government has announced emergency controls on the export of live animals, meat and milk following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease

THE National Farmers Union has cancelled two meetings due to take place in East Anglia because of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth in Essex

LIVESTOCK farmers have been urged to look for telltale signs of foot-and-mouth disease following Britains first outbreak of the disease for 20 years

BRUSSELS is expected to ban all meat exports from Britain following the first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the country for 20 years

A BAN on all livestock exports looks certain to be imposed after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed in Essex

AN outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed in a batch of pigs which arrived at an Essex abattoir from Buckinghamshire and the Isle of Wight

GOVERNMENT vets are conducting tests on pigs found to have symptoms of foot-and-mouth disease at an abattoir in Essex