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Minister hit by eggs in beef protest

They attacked him as he arrived at the Cumbria College of Art and Design to take part in the BBC Radio Any Questions programme.

The farmers were protesting at the government's plans to ban the sale of beef on the bone.

In Plymouth, hundreds of farmers from the West Country have been demonstrating again outside the Millbay Docks.

They are angry about the import of cheap foreign meat into Britain while their industry is in crisis.

Meanwhile, farmers have decided to stop picketing the port of Holyhead in Wales.

They said the protests would end as a gesture of goodwill after the Welsh Secretary, Ron Davies, announced that he was considering their situation and an announcement would be made in the next few weeks.

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