Farming Industry Counts the Cost of New Outbreak ; Exports Lost Through Fmd Put at Pounds 1.8m a Day

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NORTH farmers were last night counting the cost of a new foot- and-mouth crisis after the confirmation of another outbreak of the disease.

A total ban on animal movements was imposed yesterday after the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) announced initial tests on cattle on farmland near Egham showed they had the virus.

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Farming Industry Counts the Cost of New Outbreak ; Exports Lost Through Fmd Put at Pounds 1.8m a Day

Protection and surveillance zones were set up around the outbreak and the cattle were culled.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged...

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