Foot-and-mouth reappears in UK

Officials at DEFRA - the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - say they're very concerned about a recent cluster of foot and mouth cases around Thirsk in North Yorkshire. There have been six outbreaks in the area in recent days. More the eighteen hundred cases of the disease have now been reported across the country, and more than three and a half million animals slaughtered. The BBC's Richard Bilton reports