Agriculture

History of Foot and Mouth epidemic U.K. 2001
Foot and Mouth in Britain - 14/10/01 Collected information about DEFRA etc., such as: "Common Sense is not to be hoped for from the EU Commission when they plan such restrictions as limiting farmers to three hours a day on a tractor"

Profile: Nick Brown - 08/11/98 The agriculture minister, who has revealed he is gay, is a former chief whip who came to politics after working in advertising and as a legal adviser to the GMB union
Farmers' confidence 'at all-time low' - 18/09/99
Farmers win sympathy but no cash - 01/02/00
Angry farmers cream Nick Brown - 02/02/00
Blair admits farming crisis - 03/02/00
Dairy farmers rally in London - 15/03/00
Blair pledges £200m for farmers - 30/03/00
Farmers cautious over £200m aid - 30/03/00
Blair gives £200m emergency lifeline to angry farmers - 31/03/00
Cattle priced out of Constable Country - 21/04/00
Farmers forced to take second jobs - 19/05/00
Disillusioned farmers seek foreign pastures - 04/06/00
Farming: Subsidies on the Internet - 19/07/00
Red tape is strangling farmers, says Prince - 25/07/00
Army's decision angers farmers - 26/07/00 the Army will no longer feed its troops on British meat
Pig farmers lose High Court case - 27/07/00
Hill farmers face crisis under EU's aid scheme - 04/08/00
Holland and Belgium ban British pigs - 12/08/00
Fears that swine fever has spread - 16/08/00
'Hundreds' of farmers face losing livelihood - 16/08/00
The plague that spells ruin for the pig industry - 16/08/00
Hill farmers win an extra £4.8m - 15/09/00
Future looks even worse for farmers - 19/09/00
Labour 'to blame for farms crisis' - 03/10/00
Farmers' profits plunge - 12/10/00
Food agency urges mass screening of sheep for BSE - 01/11/00
Chirac demands CJD action - 07/11/00
BSE alarm spreads across Europe - 10/11/00
UK rules out French beef ban - 21/11/00
Tories call for French beef ban - 26/11/00
British beef 'safer than French' - 13/12/00
Brussels ban could ruin animal food mills - 17/01/01
NFU Tories angered by 'snub' to Yeo - 05/02/01
Farm disease crisis closes markets - 23/02/01
Counting the cost of the disease - 23/02/01
Foot-and-mouth: No human risk - 23/02/01
Complete ban on livestock movement - 23/02/01
A desperate pig farmer's story - 23/02/01
Seven day ban on movement of farm animals - 24/02/01
Farm where it all began 'was cleared by ministry' - 24/02/01 despite repeated complaints by neighbours over its conditions
Scientists fear that virus has already spread - 24/02/01
Meat prices could be forced up by transport ban - 24/02/01
Ireland alert as livestock markets and hunting are suspended - 24/02/01
Aberdeen farm with links to source of outbreak sealed off for tests - 24/02/01
Pyre built for foot-and-mouth animals - 24/02/01
Pay foot and mouth levy, farmers told - 25/02/01
Industry tots up £51m bill to meet payrolls and feed - 25/02/01 The National Farmers' Union has warned that the industry faces lost sales of more than £51 million a week as long as the ban on transporting live animals and exporting meat continues
11.36am call that started the crisis - 25/02/01
Search for outbreak source intensifies - 25/02/01
For many, this is the final straw - 25/02/01 This business has taught us to expect the worst, but nobody had believed that foot and mouth would strike again... most farmers agree that the disaster was worse for those who did not lose livestock, because they were unable to sell their meat and suffered huge financial losses without receiving the compensation paid to those whose animals were slaughtered
Memories of 1967 still haunt the vets who were drafted in - 25/02/01
Enemy of the people - 25/02/01Much of the television coverage of the outbreak, especially the BBC's, has revealed only metropolitan distaste for the rough realities of farming... Red tape, as farmers can attest, is more often than not hostile to the high standards its instigators claim to be championing
Farm disease takes hold - 01/03/01
Foot-and-mouth disease timeline - 02/03/01
Moves to stop spread of disease - 02/03/01
Stephen Yates: Report from the front line - 07/03/01
Stephen Yates: The disease's grip tightens - 14/03/01
Prince donates £500,000 for farmers - 14/03/01
In the shadow of the virus - 15/03/01
Foot-and-mouth virus 'hides' in sheep - 18/03/01
Chief vet stands firm on cull - 19/03/01
Stephen Yates: Nightmare of execeution - 20/03/01
Tories attack over foot-and-mouth - 20/03/01
Lifeline for rural communities - 20/03/01
Rural package at a glance - 20/03/01
Foot-and-mouth 'cover up' denied - 21/03/01
Rare breeds 'could be lost' - 21/03/01
Disease prediction 'within days' - 21/03/01
Farm disease 'to peak in May' - 22/03/01
Crisis jobs toll rises - 22/03/01
Army to assist with slaughter - 22/03/01
Cull extended to all parts of Britain - 23/03/01
Delay election, pleads Major - 23/03/01
£150m lifeline for the besieged farmers - 23/03/01
Labour's rural MPs back calls for May election - 23/03/01
Cumbria gets the green light from Blair - at last - 23/03/01 Blair arrives in Carlisle - with a team driven in two Jaguars
Blair trails behind by a country mile - 23/03/01 Labour is the third party of rural Britain
Super virus has beaten the best defences - 23/03/01
Vaccination preferred by soil group - 23/03/01
Maff gives go ahead for Chelsea Show - 23/03/01
It is mad to hold an election while foot and mouth rages - by John Major - 23/03/01
Farm crisis 'out of control' - 23/03/01
Infected farm numbers rise - 25/03/01
Lake District 'nightmare' as fell farm is infected - 26/03/01
Huge burial pits dug at airfield site for 200,000 sheep - 26/03/01
A 12-hour day of anger and frustration - 26/03/01
False diagnosis fails to lift threat - 26/03/01
Blair 'trying to blame farmers' - 26/03/01
Hunts' offer is ignored by Ministry - 26/03/01 Up to 100 hunt staff with slaughtering licences are available
New Labour has half a mind to bulldoze us all into voting - 26/03/01
What we owe the farmers - 26/03/01
Anglesey braced for mass cull - 26/03/01
Troops called in to control livestock - 26/03/01
Hague tells Blair: 'Get a grip' - 26/03/01
Nick Brown proposes pigswill ban - 27/03/01
'Firebreak' slaughter in disarray - 27/03/01
Lakes outbreak 'brought by the wind' - 27/03/01
Mass grave is dug for 500,000 carcasses - 27/03/01
Use vaccine instead of slaughter, vets demand - 27/03/01
Stop dithering on foot and mouth, Hague tells Blair - 27/03/01
Ministry 'failing on target for slaughter' - 27/03/01
Hill farm family get through first day - 27/03/01
Blair's first impulse: the victim is to blame - 27/03/01 I was amazed by his cowardice
Don't damn the farmers by caricaturing the Thatcher years - 27/03/01
Labour's deadly delay - 27/03/01
Blair hints at vaccine policy change - 27/03/01
Animals rounded up for Anglesey cull - 27/03/01
Brown yields on vaccine for cattle - 28/03/01
Election hopes are going up in smoke - 28/03/01
Farm's standards under the microscope - 28/03/01
Air passengers smuggle tons of meat every year - 28/03/01
Millionaire's High Court challenge to slaughter - 28/03/01
Glyndebourne farmer defiant - 28/03/01
Only the ghosts are out on the moor - 28/03/01 Exmoor
Americans stay away from 'closed Britain' - 28/03/01
Time to decide on vaccination - 28/03/01 at each stage of this disease, the Government has been too late
Live sheep arrive at burial site - 28/03/01
Stephen Yates: Awful scenes of TV footage - 28/03/01
'No end in sight' to foot-and-mouth - 28/03/01 Blair has admitted he cannot say when the outbreak will be brought under control
Put the country first, says Hague - 29/03/01
EC allows dairy cattle vaccination scheme to begin - 29/03/01
Cumbria's future is being slowly buried - 29/03/01
Brigadier maps out a way to contain 'the enemy' - 29/03/01
All methods used to speed animal cull - 29/03/01
Suspect pig farm checked six times before outbreak - 29/03/01
Blair asks for help to stem losses in tourism - 29/03/01
Borders outbreak as Labour pledges £13.5m to tourism - 29/03/01
Closed zoos 'could be bankrupt within weeks' - 29/03/01
From mishap to crisis - 29/03/01
What the Government said - 29/03/01
Pigswill banned in Ireland - 29/03/01
How it took 37 days to ruin the country - 29/03/01 Within a week, Mr Blair seemed to have forgotten the countryside crisis... after a fortnight he launched a global charm offensive... yesterday he made it clear that tourism, not agriculture, is his priority... he has focused on winning his second term... He must accept the blame for the delay in deploying the Armed Forces
It's going to be May 3 'cos the Sun says so - by Boris Johnson - 29/03/01 Blair's MPs fear an economic downturn in the autumn
Blair delays vaccination after 'glimmer of hope' - 30/03/01
Disease creeps up on the North Pennines - 30/03/01
Cull is halted by Anglesey residents' pyre protest - 30/03/01
McLeish rules out vaccination for Scotland - 30/03/01
Ireland fears second case on Co Louth sheep farm - 30/03/01
'Two weeks of bungling have ruined us' - 30/03/01
Churches are forced to cancel services - 30/03/01
Bishop confined to his castle after farmland outbreak - 30/03/01
Charities helping farmers - 30/03/01
Cruelty through bungle - 30/03/01
The responsibility for the suffering lies squarely with Mr Blair's Cabinet
Election dilemma as disease spreads - 30/03/01
Blair faces 48 hours of agonising - 31/03/01
Blair delays decision over mass vaccination - 31/03/01
Minister in deal on cull numbers - 31/03/01
An island of hope in sea of disaster - 31/03/01
William Hague's country diary: The people I meet are desperate for decisive action - 31/03/01
Meat adverts hit by foot-and-mouth - 31/03/01
Vaccination decision awaited - 31/03/01
Burial to replace burning of cattle - 31/03/01
Blair delays election until June - 31/03/01
Maff failed to install tracking computer - 01/04/01
Fears focus on barracks kitchen - 01/04/01
A farmer's battle to preserve his inheritance - 01/04/01
Foot and mouth round-up - 01/04/01
How General Jackson makes politicians feel small - 01/04/01
Yo-yo Yeo - 01/04/01 he is held to have trumped [Nick] Brown, whose sweaty, swivel-eyed demeanour and "beats me" approach to questioning have contributed much to the current level of anxiety
Blind date - 01/04/01 William Hague has outmanoeuvred the Prime Minister at every turn, demanding that the Army take action, that Mr Blair take personal control of the epidemic, and that the election date be reconsidered. In each case, the Prime Minister resisted - and then gave in
Nick Brown: Outbreak 'under control' - 01/04/01
Hague: Army 'should handle disease crisis' - 03/04/01
'I sacrificed my healthy lambs' - 03/04/01
Carcasses burial setback - 03/04/01
Disease toll exceeds 1,000 - 04/04/01
Family farm is 1000th case - 04/04/01
Nick Brown: Disease prediction 'in a week' - 05/04/01
Tough decisions on the farm - 06/04/01
Lessons of 1967 outbreak 'ignored' - 06/04/01 A military report written in the aftermath of the last crisis said that the army should have been brought in from the beginning to halt the spread of the disease earlier
Tourism drive as disease spreads - 06/04/01 Blair urges people to return to the countryside as fears grow that foot-and-mouth may have hit another prime tourism spot
Foot-and-mouth graphs - 06/04/01
Don't let this breed become extinct - 07/04/01 The unique qualities of Herdwick sheep
Anger grows over location of pyres and burial sites - 09/04/01
Foot-and-mouth: Mass burial sites - 09/04/01
Plan to save Lakeland sheep - 09/04/01
Nick Brown: Disease 'spread by farm families' - 10/04/01
Ministry in 'numbers cover-up' - 10/04/01 It is politically attractive for the Government to say the number of outbreaks published are going down or are flat, while very probably the number of farms being killed out has risen enormously
No decision yet on vaccination - 10/04/01
60,000 animals await burial - 10/04/01 and other foot and mouth stories
Timeline: Foot-and-mouth cases - 10/04/01
Starting over down under - 10/04/01
Farmers hit at 'incompetent' ministers - 11/04/01 and Tony Banks, Labour MP for West Ham, claimed that the Ministry of Agriculture was "fouling up big time" in handling the crisis
Man accused of spreading disease defies threats - 11/04/01
BSE inquiry 'left Maff drained of resources' - 11/04/01
Welsh farmers 'face ruin' as crisis deepens - 11/04/01
What's the point of foot-and-mouth mats? - 11/04/01 Nick Brown says the use of disinfected mats is mostly symbolic in the fight against foot-and-mouth
Foot and mouth past the worst, claims Blair's scientific adviser - 12/04/01
'No evidence at all' of farmers infecting stock - 12/04/01
RSPCA in mercy plea for trapped lambs - 12/04/01
Tourism firms seek bigger share of aid - 12/04/01
Slurry disaster may be first of many - 12/04/01
'I'm picking up animals that died terribly' - 12/04/01
An epidemic of untruths - 12/04/01 Labour has been looking for scapegoats for its own inadequacies in the fight against foot and mouth; farmers, Chinese restaurateurs, supermarkets, whoever fits the bill that day, gets a bucket of unattributable pigswill thrown over them by one spin doctor or another
Has the A-team defeated the virus? - 12/04/01 No
Disease total in Wales reaches 70 - 12/04/01
Vaccination back on agenda as cull backlog grows - 13/04/01
Angry vets criticise government delays - 13/04/01
Nick Brown faces new calls for sheep vaccination - 13/04/01
Scientists explain why slaughter is the best solution - 13/04/01
I had to confront Blair with the truth, says shop owner - 13/04/01 He said he would get back to me in 24 hours but I am still waiting
Chinese hit by backlash from [Nick Brown's] 'racist' rumours - 13/04/01
Royal Show called off - 13/04/01
Farmers fight plan to re-open New Forest - 13/04/01
Job cuts at castle short of visitors - 13/04/01
Scientists back rapid slaughter policy - 13/04/01
Disease 'could hit a third of farms' - 13/04/01
RSPCA 'appalled' by sheep shootings - 13/04/01
Disease slaughter is 'too slow' - 13/04/01
Nick Brown orders inquiry into cull - 13/04/01 after a slaughterman was filmed taking pot shots at sheep with a rifle... firing at a herd of free-roaming sheep and then chasing his wounded targets before finishing them off
Maff losing race to cull livestock - 14/04/01 the backlog of dead livestock awaiting disposal had more than doubled in 10 days
Cull logistics worse than in Gulf, says brigadier - 14/04/01 About 408,000 carcasses are still to be disposed of
For one doomed lamb Easter brings new hope - 14/04/01
Hardy breeds fighting to survive - 14/04/01 Herdwick sheep, Helvellyn
Toxic smoke fears over pyre plan - 14/04/01
These measures have ruined livelihoods - 14/04/01
Farming's slow death - 14/04/01 Every hour's delay in dispatching the condemned and disposing of their carcasses allows the sickness to spread further, consigning yet more animals to slaughter and yet more farmers to ruin... Nick Brown's dithering: "The strategy that I am attracted to is..." etc.
Third NI disease case confirmed - 15/04/01
Chinese restaurant 'not disease source' - 15/04/01
Scots farmers' fury at vaccination plan - 15/04/01
Pollution halts animal burials - 15/04/01
Blair poised for selective vaccination - 16/04/01
How Nick Brown changed his tune over vaccination Voters see it [foot and mouth] as a national issue, handled very poorly - 16/04/01
Blair broke his promise, restaurant owner says - 16/04/01
Sally Leany: Diary of a farmer's wife - 16/04/01
Surveyors press for Maff to be scrapped - 16/04/01
Vaccination and vacillation - 16/04/01
Vaccination back on agenda - 16/04/01
Hostile farmers force delay on vaccination - 17/04/01
Use germ war gear to test pyres, says expert - 17/04/01
Crofter faces cull of his flock after visiting Cumbria - 17/04/01
Chemist with love of art steps into the breach - 17/04/01 Prof King, the new Chief Scientific Adviser
Risk of closure for riding stables - 17/04/01
Foot and mouth noticeboard - 17/04/01 I feel angry at the Minister of Agriculture and Tony Blair for the decision to kill healthy animals on farms neighbouring infected ones. Clearly, it did nothing to stop the spread of the disease because, as we all know, the virus travels up to 150 miles on the wind
Tissue Digester could put an end to incineration of carcasses - 17/04/01
Government under vaccine pressure - 17/04/01
Animals burned on NI disease farms - 17/04/01
Blair ponders vaccine move - 17/04/01
Blair close to a decision on vaccination - 18/04/01
'I don't know how much longer we can hold out' - 18/04/01 many dairy farms in Cumbria are running short of fodder
Disease could be spread by birds, warns US - 18/04/01
Cumbria trip crofter's stock could be culled today - 18/04/01
Tear-stained diary of girl whose pet cow had to die - 18/04/01
Warning on vaccination swept aside - 19/04/01 Tony Blair knew a fortnight ago that the foot and mouth vaccinations proposed yesterday could do more harm than good
Chief vet ignored expert advice - 19/04/01 vaccination could mask the foot and mouth virus and lead to outbreaks months later
Army called in too late, admits MoD official - 19/04/01 The Government didn't call the Army in was because they didn't want to make it look like a crisis that would force them to change the May election date. The irony is that because they did nothing they turned it into a major crisis which forced them to push back the election anyway
Animal welfare adds to burden - 19/04/01 William Hague says local vets should be allowed to sanction the movement of herds on to fields to graze
A still silence falls over Eden - 19/04/01 Eden Valley, Cumbria
While animals suffer - 19/04/01 Mr Hague has a record of getting it right on foot and mouth, so we can hope only that Labour will swallow its pride and listen to him. Yesterday senior defence sources acknowledged that the Army should, as Mr Hague had demanded, have been involved far earlier
Farm wins battle against slaughter - 19/04/01
Foot and mouth 'has cost £20bn in lost business' - 20/04/01
Two months that changed the face of rural Britain - 20/04/01
New farming methods hamper the campaign - 20/04/01
Vets' leader criticises 'carnage by computer' - 20/04/01
Protest prevents farm slaughter - 20/04/01
Animal activists' silence on the lambs is inexcusable - 20/04/01
After two months - 20/04/01 Tony Blair goes on insisting that the epidemic is under control
UK hails progress in disease fight - 20/04/01 UK? No, actually it was the government's chief scientist, Professor David King
Farmers' stress levels set to soar - 21/04/01
Burials proceed despite health fears - 21/04/01
Farmer's fury over slaughter mistake - 21/04/01 a grid reference error by the Ministry of Agriculture led to the unnecessary slaughter of 500 animals
Focus back on foot-and-mouth pyres - 22/04/01
Fears over disposal of carcasses - 22/04/01
Farmer found hanged after cull - 22/04/01
UK 'ignored foot-and-mouth warnings' - 23/04/01
Health fears over burning pyres - 23/04/01
Foot-and-mouth pyres: Dioxin danger? - 23/04/01
Human 'may have foot-and-mouth' - 23/04/01
Human foot-and-mouth: The history - 23/04/01
'A mild and transient disease' - 23/04/01 Bobby Brewis had the disease in 1966
Doctors investigate two more foot and mouth cases in humans - 24/04/01
TT races are a non-starter - 24/04/01
'First case' abattoir gets all-clear - 24/04/01
Vaccination now looking less likely, says Nick Brown - 24/04/01
Anger is ignited by animal pyre - 24/04/01
Smallholders win fight over cull - 24/04/01
Farm disease 'victim' awaits results - 24/04/01
Napalm could aid carcass disposal - 24/04/01
Landfill sites have capacity to clear carcass backlog - 25/04/01
Human 'victim' says it feels like bad dose of flu - 25/04/01
Ministers blamed for creating confusion - 25/04/01 The Government's handling of the foot and mouth epidemic was branded "a national disgrace" yesterday by rural business leaders
Phoenix, the calf they couldn't cull, fights on - 25/04/01
Fears for slaughtermen's safety - 25/04/01
Blair to cull Brown in farm reform - 25/04/01 numerous tensions became apparent between Mr Blair and Nick Brown, the Agriculture Minister, over the foot-and-mouth outbreak
Three [people!] await foot-and-mouth results - 25/04/01
Calf's fate rests with vets - 25/04/01
Disease 'almost over by June' - 25/04/01 Government chief scientist says there should be hardly any new cases of foot-and-mouth disease by election day
Phoenix is saved as Blair changes slaughter policy - 26/04/01
Phoenix rises victorious after day of debate - 26/04/01
Human 'victim' fears farms will shun him - 26/04/01
NFU chief defends anti-vaccine stand - 26/04/01
Blair faces fresh hostility when he revisits Cumbria - 26/04/01
The angel of death has landed one mile away - 26/04/01
EU deals fresh blow to farmers - 26/04/01 up to £26 million a year for the disposal of fallen stock
Coniston laments its missing tourists - 26/04/01
Phoenix is 'ray of light' for future - 26/04/01
Calf's plight 'did not change policy' - 26/04/01
More human foot-and-mouth feared - 26/04/01
Why Blair decided to rescue Phoenix - 27/04/01 The timing of the decision resulted in "Blair saves calf" headlines on the 10 o'clock news
Cull pay-outs slashed amid rejoicing over Phoenix - 27/04/01
Pyre pollution 'inconsequential' - 27/04/01
Wildlife sanctuary threatens barricade - 27/04/01
Vietnamese pig hides in home to avoid cull - 27/04/01
Trader held over infected sheep import - 27/04/01
Like Phoenix from the flames, farming can be saved - 27/04/01 No one would weep for Maff. It has massaged the figures and massacred sheep 100 miles from the nearest outbreak
Many farmers plan to 'scale down' - 27/04/01
Farmers to be 'keepers of countryside' - 28/04/01
Spare me from the Cabinet cull - 28/04/01
Farmers not persuaded disease is under control">Farmers not persuaded disease is under control - 28/04/01
1,500 sheep to be dug up as body fluid leaks - 28/04/01
Human 'victim' of the disease given all-clear - 28/04/01
Workers on the conveyor belt of death - 28/04/01
Demob for Army chief who beat the backlog - 28/04/01
Cut down Maff - 28/04/01
Human foot-and-mouth fears fade - 28/04/01
Army 'caused original foot and mouth infection' - 29/04/01 by supplying untreated waste food to the pig farm where the disease broke out
Anger as the waste from carcasses is pumped into the sea - 29/04/01
Agency faces stampede of rates appeals - 29/04/01
Happiness as Porky lives to grunt another day - 29/04/01
Vital questions about health risks of foot and mouth - 29/04/01
Top scientist condemns 'flawed' cull - 29/04/01 about 550,000 of the 2.2m animals killed to date have been unnecessarily slaughtered
Army denies link with foot and mouth outbreak - 30/04/01
Diary of a farmer's wife - 30/04/01
Carcass protesters to meet Maff - 30/04/01
Farmers hit by 10pc rise in workers' wages - 01/05/01
'Epidemic over, now for election' - 03/05/01 Blair to declare that the Government is winning the battle against foot and mouth
French tests ease fears over sheep - 03/05/01
It's curtains for Phoenix as career in TV and pantomime beckons - 03/05/01
The future of agriculture - 03/05/01
UK 'winning disease battle' - 03/05/01
Blair tries to heal rift with countryside - 04/05/01 £10 million will be invested in business consultants who will tour the country giving free advice to farmers
Meat swill ban to help stop future outbreaks - 04/05/01
Hefted sheep and rare goats to be spared in 'firebreak' culls - 04/05/01
Some farms are nowhere near the home straight - 04/05/01 Foot and mouth is now "fully under control", declares Mr Blair. But no, Mr Blair, you cannot sweep this virus under the Devon and Somerset countryside. A virus does not meet election schedules
Woman at barricades to save her pet sheep - 04/05/01
The A-Z of rural Britain - 04/05/01 a list of all the places where outbreaks have been declared
Sheep slaughter follows house protest - 04/05/01
This crisis cannot be put in a box, say farmers - 06/05/01 Blair's claim that the foot and mouth crisis is effectively over provoked an angry reaction from farmers and the tourist industry yesterday
'I wanted Tony Blair to see the murder of my animals' - 06/05/01
Army threatened cull farm family with house arrest - 06/05/01
Exmoor farmer to fight 1,000 herd cull - 07/05/01
Wild Chillingham herd under threat - 07/05/01 Northumberland
Human shield sets up camp at refuge - 07/05/01 Dumfries and Galloway
Diary of a farmer's wife - 07/05/01 possibly the disease was spread as a result of the farmer attending a vaccination course... Mr Blair's message that the "crisis is over and we can get back to normal" is obviously working in London as two friends thought we were now able to move and sell cattle as before. If only
Farmer sets up barricades to repel slaughtermen - 08/05/01
Farm virus: 30% of diagnoses were wrong - 11/05/01
New outbreak in the Dales - 12/05/01
100 herds saved as trainee solicitor finds loophole - 12/05/01 iss Addy's discovery might mean the Government having to pay huge damages to farmers whose herds were illegally culled
Contiguous cull 'a blunt instrument' - 12/05/01
All ports alert for striped menace - 15/05/01 Colorado Beetle
Spooked cattle at large after cull backfires - 15/05/01 The Ministry of Agriculture was accused of bungling the slaughter of two dozen Limousin bullocks yesterday after they escaped, potentially infecting neighbouring farms with foot-and-mouth disease
Ministry under fire as cull cattle escape - 15/05/01
Doubts raised over slaughter policy - 16/05/01
Foot-and-mouth: The key stats - 16/05/01
Slaughtermen waiting months to be paid - 17/05/01
Alive and kicking: Phoenix revels in freedom - 17/05/01
First day with no foot and mouth - 18/05/01 no new outbreaks were reported yesterday anywhere in Britain
Farmers welcome disease-free day - 18/05/01
1,000 farms in hotspot face foot and mouth curbs - 22/05/01
Tactics used on half the farms 'were inefficient' - 22/05/01
'Cull my herd to save neighbours' animals' - 22/05/01
Overkill - 22/05/01 It is a tribute to Labour's presentational skills that, as the number of slaughtered animals has climbed above three million, foot and mouth has virtually disappeared from the news
Farm disease cluster sparks alert - 22/05/01
Farming row erupts - 22/05/01 Foot-and-mouth has resurfaced as an election issue - with the government being accused of giving misleading information about the extent of the disease's decline
Foot-and-mouth: A moving target - 22/05/01 within the last week a hundred farms a day were being killed out
Maff 'hiding behind law to conceal true picture' - 23/05/01 The Ministry of Agriculture is using the Data Protection Act to block information on the numbers and types of most animals culled
Foot-and-mouth cases leap - 23/05/01
Slaughter statistics are wrong - 24/05/01
Nick Brown jeered on Dales visit - 24/05/01
Mass slaughter 'must go on' - 25/05/01 "We want an end to foot and mouth. Labour wants and end to British agriculture."
Maff reveals 1,500 more virus farms - 26/05/01 The true number of farms infected with foot and mouth disease so far is likely to be more than 3,000, almost double the present official total of 1,637
Milk warning over cancer pollutants from cattle pyres - 26/05/01
Foot-and-mouth 'cover-up' denied - 26/05/01
Healthy animals killed in army blunder - 26/05/01 since when has Otterburn been anywhere near Yorkshire?
Foot-and-mouth setback for Devon - 28/05/01
Maff report accuses people of spreading foot and mouth - 29/05/01
Fears of new disease cluster - 29/05/01 a new foot-and-mouth hotspot has emerged in Lancashire over the weekend
Fresh outbreaks of foot and mouth bring despair - 30/05/01 in Lancashire & Cheshire
Blair 'expected' new disease clusters - 30/05/01
Timeline: 100 days of foot-and-mouth - 30/05/01
Farmers warned not to relax their guard on disease - 31/05/01
Health checks in farm virus areas - 31/05/01
Hanged farm man obsessed by virus - 01/06/01
Carcasses left in the sun pose biggest threat - 01/06/01
Vaccination 'must be the bedrock of fighting virus' - 01/06/01
Ministers blamed for food crises - 13/06/01
Farmers' suicides 'linked to outbreaks' - 14/06/01
Beckett extends hand to farmers - 16/06/01
Sheep at risk from shearer shortage - 17/06/01
It's no wonder Margaret Beckett has nothing to say - 17/06/01 since almost every aspect of her new department's policy, from environmental laws to food safety, from agriculture to fishing, is now dictated by Brussels
Ban all children from working on farms, says union - 18/06/01
Beckett given cull warning - 26/06/01
Delays 'doubled' foot and mouth toll - 02/07/01
Foot and mouth jobs alert - 03/07/01
Victory for farmers over vet bills - 07/07/01
Foot and mouth brigadier battles for countryside - 09/07/01
Export ban forces cull of 2m healthy lambs - 15/07/01
Brigadier warns of F & M rural exodus - 15/07/01
Farm clean-up delay condemned - 23/07/01
Angry farmers blame ministry for cost of epidemic clean-up - 24/07/01
Hague: Blair's new betrayal of the farmers over foot and mouth - 24/07/01 Four more outbreaks of foot and mouth were reported in England and Wales yesterday, taking the British total to 1,884
'Ridding my farm of foot and mouth' -24/07/01
Disease hits Beacons flocks - 25/07/01
Farmers angry over epidemic 'swindle' - 26/07/01
Beacons set for sheep slaughter - 26/07/01
Disabled boy fails to prevent pet cull - 27/07/01
More flocks tested after Beacons cull - 28/07/01
Cost of each foot and mouth farm hits £1m - 29/07/01
New disease blow for Beacons - 30/07/01
Farmers angry as payout scheme is axed - 31/07/01
Major blasts Blair on foot and mouth - 01/08/01
The clearance of the Brecon Beacons - 05/08/01 the UK Government has agreed a behind-the-scenes deal with the European Commission
Farmers' fury at millionaire 'leak' - 06/08/01
Labour bares its teeth - 06/08/01 Labour is indulging in gratuitous farmer-bashing to distract attention from the poor fist it has made of the epidemic
Farms 'briefing' claim rejected - 06/08/01
a strong advocate of the euro and one of Labour's rich business friends - 06/08/01
No 10 denies foot and mouth millionaires leak - 07/08/01
Government is accused of foot and mouth cover-up - 10/08/01
Scientist criticises closed inquiries on foot and mouth - 11/08/01
Farmers are an ungrateful lot, says Labour minister Elliot Morley - 12/08/01
Head of rural affairs gives small farmers little hope - 12/08/01 Lord Haskins, the Irish multi-millionaire appointed by his friend Mr Blair as "rural affairs co-ordinator", began by betraying astonishing naivete about his new role
Cull let-up could double new cases - 13/08/01
The TelegraphTelegraph's 'Farmer Brown' dies at 54 - 14/08/01 It was Brown who broke the news on Oct 25 1987 that (BSE) had arrived in Britain, and he who coined the term "mad cow disease"
Six months of slaughter down on the farm - 20/08/01
Farming is ranked fifth at Beckett's ministry - 24/08/01
New farm disease case raises fears - 24/08/01
New foot and mouth setback - 25/08/01
Second farm disease case sparks alert - 25/08/01 Stonehall farm at Catton
Fresh cases renew foot and mouth fears in 'clear area' - 26/08/01
New fears after third case of foot and mouth - 27/08/01
Foot and mouth flare-up spreads - 28/08/01
Campaign for full public inquiry launched - 28/08/01
Animal movement rules eased - 28/08/01 despite 13 new cases in Northumberland
Livestock markets stay banned for autumn - 29/08/01
Army on stand-by to fight disease - 29/08/01
The silence descends on Allendale - 29/08/01
Foot and mouth is back - and the Government isn't ready - 29/08/01 Three million dead animals didn't harm Labour at the general election
FMD report: Outbreak's economic impact - 29/08/01
Allendale Valley hit hard by disease outbreak - 29/08/01
Foot and Mouth Disease 'threatens rural life' - 29/08/01
Foot-and-mouth: The toll on one business - 29/08/01
A countryside in crisis? - 29/08/01
Northumberland: A farmers' view - 30/08/01 snakes and ladders
Sheep will starve under new rules, say farmers - 31/08/01
Generations of work wiped out in 24 hours - 31/08/01
Two more Scottish farms are investigated - 31/08/01
Army joins foot-and-mouth battle - 31/08/01
How annoying that farm virus will not obey rules - 02/09/01 the foot and mouth epidemic is over, as we all know, because Mr Blair told us so (during his election campaign)
Disease cluster spreads to new area - 02/09/01 Consett
Farms' foot and mouth cases dwarf 1967 figures - 03/09/01
Foot and mouth epidemic is world's worst - 04/09/01 2000th case
Farm disease - 2,000 and counting - 04/09/01
Foot and mouth mistakes 'cost farms £125,000' - 06/09/01
Dutch vet fights the EU orgy of slaughter - 07/09/01
Unity over foot and mouth jabs - 08/09/01
Experts demand global vaccination programme for foot-and-mouth vaccination strategy - 08/09/01
Fresh foot and mouth scare - 10/09/01 suspect cattle slaughtered on two farms in Leicestershire
Fresh foot-and-mouth scare - 10/09/01
New disease rules for autumn - 11/09/01
Foot-and-mouth curbs may harm herds - 12/09/01
Scotland declared free of foot-and-mouth - 12/09/01
Ban means sheep face starvation - 12/09/01
Cumbria on fresh foot-and-mouth alert - 16/09/01
Disease restrictions lifted at farms - 18/09/01
Farm disease response criticised - 24/09/01
Plan to cull all sheep if BSE is found - 28/09/01
Foot and mouth zone is extended - 28/09/01 12 miles southwards to Carnforth, Lancs
Beckett: Farming 'will have to change or die' - 03/10/01
'One million animals could have been spared the cull' - 04/10/01
County to find truth about foot and mouth - 08/10/01 Devon will begin its own independent public inquiry today
Three out of 10 farmers 'ready to leave industry' - 09/10/01 Devon enquiry
Hundreds of Dartmoor ponies face winter cull - 10/10/01
Cull was 'chaos and a shambles' - 11/10/01
Family farm profits 'are down to £50 a week' - 12/10/01
Bungled cull 'spread foot and mouth' - 12/10/01 Devon inquiry: Ministry of Agriculture officials were arrogant, ignorant and incompetent
Queen Mother helps to unveil statue of a bull - 12/10/01 Aberdeen Angus Cattle Society
Farm virus policy was chaos - 14/10/01 various EU directives hindered the fight against Foot and Mouth
More cases of foot and mouth likely, says Beckett - 18/10/01
Sheep BSE research 'flawed' - 18/10/01
BSE test on sheep ends in fiasco - 19/10/01
Storm over Government 'burial' of brain blunder over BSE tests - 19/10/01
BSE mix-up 'known far earlier' - 21/10/01
Defra rejects attack over disease - 29/10/01
Farmers angered by payment cuts - 30/10/01
'Needless delay' in BSE sheep test - 02/11/01
Farm disease 'doubled by delay' - 07/11/01
Final area loses infected status - 29/11/01
Landowners condemn 'freeze' on pasture - 15/12/01 ministers are under criticism from their own civil servants for ignoring the views of the people who own the countryside
Scrapies error is blamed on robot - 15/12/01
Foot-and-mouth battle 'almost won' - 31/12/01
New foot-and-mouth case feared - 26/02/02
Key extracts: Sixsmith interview - 26/02/02
EU beef aid deal upsets farmers - 09/03/02 Farmers struggling to rebuild after the foot and mouth crisis are "extremely disappointed" by the EU deal to increase Argentinian beef imports to help them recover from its economic slump
Glyndebourne family heir behind bars - 10/03/02 Hector Christie is the first farmer to be jailed for protesting about the Government's refusal to have a public inquiry into the foot and mouth crisis
'No more pyres for foot and mouth' - 13/03/02
EU rules make piggies want to stay at home - 18/03/02 pigs must be given toys
Call for inquiry into 'cruelty' at Labour peer's farm - 18/03/02
Government's foot and mouth lesson: 'improve our spin' - 23/03/02 "an object lesson in arrogance, loaded with complacency, peppered with evasion and served up with dollops of whitewash"
Ex-minister faces farm disease grilling - 26/03/02
Peers thwart new cattle cull powers - 27/03/02
Listen to Mrs Beckett - 27/03/02 the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs appears not to have the slightest interest in farming
Nick Brown blames foot and mouth slaughtermen - 27/03/02
Government to delay decision on aid package - 27/03/02
Labour admits huge errors over foot and mouth - 30/03/02
Farmer 'not to blame for outbreak' - 07/05/02
Accused pig farmer 'was not to blame' - 08/05/02
Quarantine 'failure' led to farm epidemic - 08/05/02
Tories appoint new farms spokesman - 08/05/02
Farm slaughter powers are slipped past MPs - 09/05/02 Government officers will have the power to cull any cow, sheep, goat or cat - whether healthy or not
Foot and mouth cull 'was barbaric' - 19/06/02
Vital records lost by MAFF - 26/05/02
Farmer convicted of animal charges - 30/05/02 A Northumberland farmer, charged in connection with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, has been found guilty of failing to tell officials his animals were ill
Farmer kept foot and mouth a secret - 31/05/02
UK farmers face £62m cut in Euro subsidies - 14/06/02
France puts new ban on British lamb - 16/06/02
UK farming 'facing fresh crisis' - 18/06/02
Farm rip-offs hit taxpayers for millions - 21/06/02
Rich pickings for contractors as Britain blazed - 21/06/02
Where the taxpayers' millions went - 21/06/02
Farmers furious as French impose clamp on British lamb - 23/06/02
Slurry restrictions on half of England - 28/06/02
Foot-and-mouth farmer to be sentenced - 28/06/02
MEPs question foot and mouth victims' politics - 03/07/02 Labour up to their dirty tricks again - trying to discredit their critics as they did with the rail crash victims
Cost of package to rescue farming doubles to £1.1bn - 06/07/02
£190,000 a year for not farming - 10/07/02
EC unveils a farming revolution - 10/07/02
EC agrees to cut farm subsidies - 10/07/02
French condemn reform plan for CAP - 11/07/02
Milk shortage fear as farmers begin dairy blockades - 11/07/02
Labour's foot and mouth mistakes - 12/07/02
Agriculture: Farmers' future unclear - 16/07/02
Quicker response 'would have halved foot and mouth cull' - 16/07/02
Foot and mouth vaccination recommended - 16/07/02
Scientists call for vaccination strategy - 16/07/02
Foot and mouth computer data was inadequate - 17/07/02
'This time, advice must be heeded' - 17/07/02
Campaigners celebrate - 17/07/02
Kill the cull - 17/07/02
Ministers 'thwarted farm inquiry' - 23/07/02 Tony Blair, ministers and senior officials dodged questions on who made key decisions
Who is blamed for the foot and mouth crisis? - 23/07/02 Blair pretended the outbreak was under control and did not convene the emergency committee until the disease was out of control
Foot and mouth lessons that Labour should have learnt - 23/07/02
£250 an acre grants for organic farmers - 29/07/02
Farmers call off road blockades - 10/08/02
UK farmers go on strike - 22/08/02
Striking farmers to withhold produce - 23/08/02
Supermarkets 'still failing farmers and consumers' - 13/12/02
Fudge to CAP it all - 21/06/03
EU agrees 'radical' farm reform - 26/06/03
EU farm reform - 26/06/03
Crisis sweeps British dairy farms - 10/11/03 Farmers blame EU commissioner Fischler's reforms for their woes
Farmers braced for subsidy reform - 12/02/04
'Probable' new farm disease leak - 22/11/07 yet another leak of foot and mouth from the Pirbright lab!