Fri 30 March, 10:30 GMT
THE Archbishop of York, the Rt Rev David Hope, has joined in the growing chorus of national leaders calling for the postponement of a general election thought to be planned for May 3.
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Thurs 29 March, 10:00 GMT
YORKSHIRE Dales national park planners have come up with a give and take policy to tackle the foot and mouth outbreak.
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Wed 28 March, 10:00 GMT
Agriculture Minister Nick Brown admitted that the first outbreak of the disease on a pig farm in Northumberland did start three weeks earlier than at first claimed, as we suggested in our update yesterday.
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Tues 27 March, 11:30 GMT
EMBATTLED Ministry of Agriculture politicians and civil servants were today combating growing allegations from the opposition and countryside experts that attempts were made to cover up the first outbreaks of foot and mouth.
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Mon 26 March, 11:30 GMT
ARMY logistic troops were today beginning the grisly task of burying up to 200,000 sheep carcasses on an airfield at Great Orton, near Carlisle.
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Fri 23 March, 11:00 GMT
THE Government finally admitted today that the present foot and mouth crisis will overtake the devastation caused in the 1967 outbreak.
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Thurs 22 March, 10:00 GMT
THERE is more gloom on the foot and mouth front today as recorded outbreaks race towards the 500 mark.
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Wed 21 March, 10:30 GMT
THE Government was showing signs of wavering on its announced plans to slaughter thousands of healthy sheep.
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Tues 20 March, 09:30 GMT
Army transport specialists were beginning operations in Devon today in a desperate effort to start clearing thousands of slaughtered livestock carcasses.
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Mon 19 March, 10:00 GMT
THE number of confirmed foot and mouth outbreaks more than doubled over the weekend from two to five.
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Fri 16 March, 09:30 GMT
Yorkshire has been relatively lucky so far in the foot and mouth crisis but there is a suspected outbreak in East Riding.
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Thurs 15 March, 11:00 GMT
PRINCE Charles announces that his charities are to donate £500,000 to farmers whose lives have been shattered by the epidemic.
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Thurs 15 March, 11:00 GMT
Many parts of the Yorkshire Dales National Park are still open to visitors.
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Thurs 15 March, 11:00 GMT
100,000 ewes to be killed, Countryside still open for business, and Londoners to pray for the countryside.
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Wed 14 March, 11:00 GMT
There is uproar in Europe and a ban imposed on all livestock exports from the EU to the USA and Canada.
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Tues 13 March, 10:00 GMT
Half a million sheep may be killed, the army may be moved in.
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Mon 12 March, 12:00 GMT
MARCH 25 is one of the key dates in the farming calendar, known as Lady Day. It will not be very welcome in many parts of the countryside because is the day when the rent becomes due for many tenant farmers.
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Sun 11 March, 18:00 GMT
THE confirmed number of foot and mouth outbreaks nationwide reached 139 over the weekend of March 10 and 11.
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Fri 09 March, 08:00 GMT
HUGE SWATHES of North and West Yorkshire are under virtual siege this weekend following the foot and mouth outbreaks near Hawes and Queensbury.
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Fri 09 March, 08:00 GMT
Government's Chief Vet, Jim Scudamore, appealed to farmers to make regular examinations of their sheep
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Thurs 08 March, 09:00 GMT
A MASSIVE shadow fell over Wensleydale on March 7 when a case of foot and mouth was confirmed on Raygill House Farm, near Hawes.
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Wed 07 March, 12:00 GMT
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Tues 06 March
John Sheard looks at the long-term implications of the latest livestock scourge.
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