Supermarkets must help out in FMD crisis - CLA
Friday 10 August 2007THE Country Land and Business Association has issued a plea to the big supermarket chains not to exploit the foot-and-mouth crisis to the cost of vulnerable farmers and suppliers.
Keighley kids and Kettlewell scarecrows
Friday 10 August 2007PARENTS and children from Ingrow Primary School in Keighley have been busy making their own contributions for the Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival, which starts tomorrow (Saturday 11 August) and runs to the 19th.
CLA welcomes lifting of FMD movement restrictions
Friday 10 August 2007THE Government's decision to lift some of the foot and mouth animal movement restrictions has been greeted with a sigh of relief in Yorkshire.
Contractor selected to build £30m dales school
Friday 10 August 2007A state-of-the-art secondary school is a step closer to becoming reality for one Yorkshire Dales town today with the appointment of a contractor for the project.
CLA welcomes lifting of FMD movement restrictions
Thursday 09 August 2007THE Government's decision to lift some of the foot and mouth animal movement restrictions has been greeted with a sigh of relief in Yorkshire.
Contractor selected to build £30m dales school
Thursday 09 August 2007A state-of-the-art secondary school is a step closer to becoming reality for one Yorkshire Dales town today with the appointment of a contractor for the project.
North Yorkshire sets Foot and Mouth precautions in progress
Wednesday 08 August 2007ANIMAL welfare officers in North Yorkshire have moved to set precautionary measures in place following the confirmation of a second outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Surrey.
FMD spread via drains?
Wednesday 08 August 2007HEALTH and safety experts trying to find the source of two foot and mouth outbreaks in Surrey are today concentrating their investigation on the drainage system from the American-owned plant which manufactures anti-FMD vaccines close to the outbreaks.
Second FMD case no cause to panic say CLA
Tuesday 07 August 2007AS Government officials confirm a second case of Foot and Mouth within the Surrey protection zone one countryside organisation is calling for calm.
Drivers caught in road safety blitz
Tuesday 07 August 2007HUNDREDS of drivers and riders have been dealt for with driving and road safety offences by North Yorkshire Police in the first few days of the force's road safety campaign - and, there were no fatalities on the county's 6,000 miles of roads.
Foot and mouth special: the silver lining?
Monday 06 August 2007In this Daelnet special, our countryside commentator John Sheard, who covered the 2001-2002 FMD debacle for us every day for months on end, hopes that there is a silver lining to the present outbreak in Surrey.
Anger and amazement over possible FMD source
Monday 06 August 2007NEWS that the latest outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease may have originated from a Government laboratory has left farmers feeling angry and amazed according to leaders of the major farming union.
FMD back to haunt farmers
Saturday 04 August 2007FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE has come back to haunt British farmers just six years after a major epidemic devastated livestock farming across many parts of the country.
