LIVESTOCK movement restrictions are being lifted on some 3,000 farms in the Settle-Skipton-Ilkley area although some 300 farms culled out in the summer's disastrous outbreak will remain restricted until secondary cleansing operations have been completed.

Meanwhile, in South Cumbria, the Lake District National Park has with reluctance allowed electric fences to be erected in the Duddon Valley so that re-stocked sheep can find they way around the fells.

The move, requested by the National Trust which has large holdings in the valley, comes as a sad reminder of the FMD slaughter which has wiped out generations of inherited knowledge amongst the once local sheep flocks.

For many years, ewes have taught their lambs the way around the fells. But those ewes died in their hundreds during the culls and newly-introduced livestock will have to start the learning process from scratch.

The electric fences will keep them away from danger spots - but the national park is insisting that they must be moved after a maximum of four years.