Foot-and-mouth – news update
25 February 2001
Foot-and-mouth – news update
- Disease levy to be compulsory
25 February 2001
THE government is to force farmers to take out insurance against future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, reports The Sunday Telegraph - Scots deny plan to end ban early
25 February 2001
THE Scottish Executive has categorically denied newspaper reports that it plans to lift the ban on livestock movements before next Friday (2 March) - Snow hampers foot-and-mouth fight
24 February 2001
SIEGE conditions prevail in rural Northumberland as wintry weather adds to the difficulties of farmers caught up in the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak - Disease experts focus on pig feed
24 February 2001
EXPERTS are visiting an airport in northern England amid fears that animal feed made from waste airline food sparked foot-and-mouth disease in Britain - Source farm was given all-clear
24 February 2001
THE farm thought to have sparked off Britains foot-and-mouth disease crisis was recently given the all-clear by the Ministry of Agriculture, it has emerged - Foot-and-mouth family wont give up
24 February 2001
A NORTHUMBERLAND family whose livestock have been hit with foot-and mouth disease have vowed that they wont be forced out of farming - Touch-and-go on foot-and-mouth
24 February 2001
BRITAIN is waiting to see whether an emergency ban on all livestock movements manages to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease - School cancelled over foot-and-mouth
24 February 2001CHILDREN from farming families in areas hit by foot-and-mouth disease have been told to stay at home and not attend school until further notice
- Alliance dismisses Livingstone call
23 February 2001THE 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
- Ban is best solution, says industry
23 February 2001FARMING industry representatives agree that the Government ban on livestock movements is the best way to eradicate foot-and-mouth disease
- Brown bans livestock movement
23 February 2001AGRICULTURE 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
- Foot-and-mouth hits north-east again
23 February 2001A 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 that infected meat was exported
23 February 2001FEARS 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
- Livestock movements to be banned
23 February 2001THE 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
- North-east farm source of disease?
23 February 2001FOOT-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
- Illegal meat imported as fruit and veg
23 February 2001ILLEGALLY imported meat could be the source of the foot-and-mouth outbreak, reports the BBC Radio 4 Farming Today programme
- Foot-and-mouth spreads to third site
23 February 2001FOOT-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
- MAFF takes flak on foot-and-mouth
22 February 2001THE Ministry of Agriculture is under fire for failing to publish details of the foot-and-mouth outbreak as soon as they become available
- Prices slump as foot-and-mouth bites
22 February 2001THOUSANDS of pounds have been wiped off the value of livestock as Britains markets reacted violently to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease
- Prices slump as foot-and-mouth bites
22 February 2001THOUSANDS of pounds have been wiped off the value of livestock as Britains markets reacted violently to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease
- Foot-and-mouth fight stepped up
22 February 2001MOVEMENT restrictions are expected to be imposed on hundreds of farms that supplied the abattoir at the centre of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak
- Sixth foot-and-mouth case suspected
22 February 2001A 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
- Foot-and-mouth threat to march
22 February 2001THE Countryside March, expected to attract 300,000 rural people to London next month, is under threat because of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak
- Meat is likely foot-and-mouth source
22 February 2001INFECTED meat is the most likely source of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain, claims the countrys top vet
- Foot-and-mouth – what the papers say
22 February 2001THE plight of farmers whose businesses have been hit by the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease draws sympathy from the morning newspapers
- Foot-and-mouth hits export trade
21 February 2001AN emergency ban on exports of all British livestock and meat imposed because of foot-and-mouth disease threatens to devastate the industry
- Foot-and-mouth export ban
21 February 2001THE British government has announced emergency controls on the export of live animals, meat and milk following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease
- Foot-and-mouth halts NFU meetings
21 February 2001THE National Farmers Union has cancelled two meetings due to take place in East Anglia because of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth in Essex
- Foot-and-mouth – telltale signs and precautions
21 February 2001LIVESTOCK 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 to ban British meat exports
21 February 2001BRUSSELS is expected to ban all meat exports from Britain following the first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the country for 20 years
- Foot-and-mouth threatens exports
21 February 2001A BAN on all livestock exports looks certain to be imposed after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed in Essex
- Foot-and-mouth outbreak confirmed
21 February 2001AN 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
- Pigs show foot-and-mouth symptoms
20 February 2001GOVERNMENT vets are conducting tests on pigs found to have symptoms of foot-and-mouth disease at an abattoir in Essex
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