Extra vets have been drafted in by the UK government to contain a new foot and mouth disease ‘hotspot’ in the Yorkshire Dales.

Eighteen new cases of the disease have been reported around the town of Settle in the past three weeks, raising fears that the area could become ‘another Cumbria’ (the county most badly affected by the main outbreak of the disease, earlier this year). Jim Scudamore, the government's chief veterinary officer, called the cluster "a very serious outbreak".

Share this story: