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Thursday, 23 January, 2003, 11:07 GMT

FOOT AND MOUTH

THE REPORTS
Foot and mouth rules set to be eased
Laws aimed at preventing the spread of foot-and-mouth disease are to set to be relaxed.

Farm virus laws flouted

UK accused over foot-and-mouth

Beckett accepts farm disease errors

Scientists call for vaccination strategy

Ministers 'warned' over farm disease

Disease handling praise for Scotland

KEY STORIES
Farmer kept quiet about disease
A Northumberland farmer is found guilty of animal cruelty and failing to tell officials of a foot-and-mouth outbreak among his pigs.

Legal focus for farm disease crisis

Ministry 'shares culpability for disease'

A farmer's negligence

Farmers 'at risk' as inspections restart

Foot-and-mouth warning one year on

Farmers unsure of new roles

Foot-and-mouth phial 'went missing'

Disease inquiry 'blunted by absences'

Final area loses infected status

FEATURES
Living through foot-and-mouth crisis
BBC NI's agriculture correspondent Martin Cassidy looks back on a year when agriculture was rocked by the food-and-mouth crisis.

Farmers sow seeds of enterprise

Life after foot-and-mouth

'It was a hell of a mess'

Seeking an organic future

Foot-and-mouth: The toll on one business

Protecting the pigs

How much for that cow?

Why are farmers not insured?

'Ridding my farm of foot-and-mouth'

A farmer's diary: Returning to normal

Farmers face 'time of change'

Human foot-and-mouth: The history

Cumbria 'a green desert'

Living in the shadow of a pyre

BACKGROUND
Timeline: Foot-and-mouth cases
News Online provides a comprehensive list of every confirmed case of foot-and-mouth since the crisis began on 21 February.

Q & A: Foot-and-mouth inquiry

Foot-and-mouth: The key stats

Q&A: The risks to humans

Chief vet: Controlling a crisis

Foot-and-mouth pyres: Dioxin danger?

Nick Brown: From crisis to crisis

Head-to-head: Vaccination

Decline of the abattoir

THE 1967 CRISIS
1967: Remembering the epidemic
Cattle farmer John Bennett remembers the terror he felt as the foot-and-mouth crisis of 1967 took hold across Britain.

'Nobody knew who would be next'


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