North Yorks Foot And Mouth 'Negative'

Initital tests on animals in a suspected foot and mouth outbreak in North Yorkshire have reportedly proved negative.

The tests were instigated after a vet visiting the farm at High Worsall, near Yarm yesterday noticed a cow with suspicious symptoms. A five-mile exclusion zone around the farm has also been introduced.

A Defra spokesman is quoted as saying: "Preliminary laboratory tests from Pirbright have come back negative. But culture testing will continue and we may know something more definite within 96 hours, it may be considerably earlier."

And if you didn't realise there was a suspected outbreak in North Yorkshire until now, join the club. Here's the original DEFRA release detailing it anyway.