UK/GERMANY: BRITISH GOVERNMENT TRY TO PREVENT SPREAD OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE /GERMAN OFFICIALS MEET TO DISCUSS PREVENTATIVE MEASURES

Record ID: 971297

  • Title: UK/GERMANY: BRITISH GOVERNMENT TRY TO PREVENT SPREAD OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE /GERMAN OFFICIALS MEET TO DISCUSS PREVENTATIVE MEASURES
  • Date: 26th February 2001
  • Summary: HEDDON-ON-THE-WALL, UNITED KINGDOM (FEBRUARY 26, 2001)(ITN - NO ACCESS BBC/BSkyB/ABC (Aust)/TVNZ/.CO.UK SITES(Internet) 1. WIDE VIEW CATTLE AND PIG CARCASSES BEING BURNED IN SNOWY LANDSCAPE 0.09 2. VARIOUS OF CARCASSES BEING BURNED (5 SHOTS) 0.37 LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (FEBRUARY 26, 2001) (ITN - NO ACCESS BBC/BSkyB/ABC (Aust)/TVNZ/.CO.UK SITES(Internet) 3. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) BEN GILL, NATIONAL FARMER'S UNION, SAYING: "What it means is every farmer in the country now has to be doubly vigilant, and I beg, I emplore the British public, to stay away from all parts of the countryside. We desperately need to contain this outbreak. We cannot afford to have a repeat of what happened in certain (inaudible) areas yesterday where the roads were clogged with people just coming to see farm animals. They must realise they are putting them at risk." 1.02 WILTSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM (FEBRUARY 26, 2001) (ITN - NO ACCESS BBC/BSkyB/ABC (Aust)/TVNZ/.CO.UK SITES(Internet) 4. SCU NO ADMITTANCE SIGN ON FENCE BORDERING FARM / PULL OUT TO WIDE VIEW ENTRANCE OF FARM (2 SHOTS) 1.11 5. SLV SHEEP IN PANS ON FARM 1.14 6. SLV , EMPTY LORRIES ALONGSIDE FARM 1.19 DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM (FEBRUARY 26, 2001) (ITN - NO ACCESS BBC/BSkyB/ABC (Aust)/TVNZ/.CO.UK SITES(Internet) 7. SCU SIGN FOR CLOSED CATTLE MARKET 1.23 8. SCU SIGN ON CLOSED GATE READING, "CATTLE MARKET" 1.32 ANGLESEY, UNITED KINGDOM (FEBRUARY 26, 2001) (ITN - NO ACCESS BBC/BSkyB/ABC (Aust)/TVNZ/.CO.UK SITES(Internet) 9. VARIOUS, EXTERIOR OF SLAUGHTER HOUSE OF WELSH COUNTRY FOOD / NO ADMITTANCE SIGN (2 SHOTS) 1.41 LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (FEBRUARY 26, 2001)(ITN - NO ACCESS BBC/BSkyB/ABC (Aust)/TVNZ/.CO.UK SITES(Internet) 10. SMV, BRITISH AGRICULTURE MINISTER NICK BROWN ARRIVING AT MINISTRIAL PRESS CONFERENCE 1.49 11. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRITISH AGRICULTURE MINISTER NICK BROWN, SAYING: "I think the export ban was timely and of course it is very effective. I have given instruction that no export certificates are to be issued for trade outside the United Kingdom in material that could spread foot and mouth disease. This government is not going to export disease to other countries, whether or not they were permitted to come in - I am not going to allow it to go out." 2.17 BONN, GERMANY (FEBRUARY 26, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 12. WIDE OF MEMBERS OF GERMANY'S CRISIS COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE STANDING IN CONFERENCE ROOM (2 SHOTS) 2.24 13. SMV, OFFICIALS GOING THROUGH PAPERS 2.29 14. SMV, OFFICIAL DISPLAYING DOCUMENTS 2.32 15. SCU GERMAN DOCUMENT ON FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE 2.35 16. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (German) THOMAS GRIESE, STATE SECRETARY IN STATE OF ORTHRHINE-WESTPHLALIA'S AGRICULTURE MINISTRY, SAYING: "There was a heightened risk. During the time in question private individuals imported some 1,400 pigs and about 700 sheep from Great Britain to (the German state of) Northrhine-Westphalia and it was now discovered that some of the sheep came from a (British) farm where a foot-and-mouth-disease affected animal was found. That is why we decided it was necessary to kill these animals - which has happened or is still happening right now." 3.12 17. SCU DOCUMENT 3.16 18. WIDE VIEW SEATED AROUND CONFERENCE TABLE 3.21 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: HEDDON-ON-THE-WALL, LONDON, WILTSHIRE, DEVON, ANGLESEY, UNITED KINGDOM / BONN, GERMANY
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  • Country: United Kingdom
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