Movement Ban Lifted (08.08.2007)
Animal health officials said on Wednesday they were lifting a ban on the movement of livestock to slaughter outside a foot and mouth protection zone from midnight.
"The decision has been taken today to permit the movement of live animals direct to slaughter and the collection of dead animals from farms from midnight tonight," Chief Veterinary Officer Debby Reynolds told a news conference.
Reynolds also said she had ordered livestock on a third farm in Surrey to be culled on suspicion the foot and mouth outbreak had spread