Foot and mouth disease (aphthae epizooticae) is an infectious disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals. Since 1967, Britain had been free of the disease, until an outbreak was detected on 19 February 2001 in pigs from Buckinghamshire and the Isle of Wight. The epidemic lasted until October, in which time over six million cows and sheep were killed, costing the U.K. an estimated £8 billion.
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Foot-and-mouth epidemic
 The first memorial was obviously sinking into the ground when our photo...
 The first memorial was obviously sinking into the ground when our...
Killed in the Moorgate tube disaster. Â Father of the writer Laurence Marks, who with his partner Maurice Gran has written TV shows such as Birds of a Feather. His son wrote an article for The Guard...
Born Santiago, Chile. Married Marcelo Salinas Eytel 2 August 1974. She and her husband were both 'disappeared' on 30 October 1974, victims of the Chilean military dictatorship.
Thomas Henry Thrower was born on 30 December 1915 at 35 Eagle Wharf Road, Hoxton, London, the sixth of the eight children of Frederick Thrower (1882-1963) and Alice Maud Thrower née Stubbings (1884...
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