Foot and Mouth, back.

Cattle at a farm in Surrey have been found to be infected with foot-and-mouth disease.

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Some 60 animals on the farm near Guildford have tested positive for the disease which wreaked havoc in 2001. A protection zone has been put in place around the premises and a UK ban imposed on movement of all livestock. Gordon Brown has cancelled his holiday in Dorset and taken part in a meeting of the government's Cobra emergency committee by telephone about the issue.

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Meanwhile, our actual government - the EU commission - has been informed.

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Last time Britain was infected with Foot and Mouth it was one of the most disgraceful episodes of governmental mismanagement that has ever been seen in this country. We pray that this is an isolated outbreak.

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