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Campaigners are demanding an immediate end to the badger cull programme, while vets’ and farmers’ groups insist activity should still have a role in Government’s new strategy on the disease.
Three counties in eastern England are now subject to animal movement limits amid warnings that the virus is now spreading locally.
Some of sector’s largest operators also issue warnings efforts to regulate prices may be “unworkable”.
Practices have until mid-October to submit their entries for the awards, whose winners will be showcased at the group’s annual congress in the new year.
Places are now available at four new sessions in the latest phase of the Vet Nursing Vision programme, which will take place this autumn.
A total of 27 animals across 10 sites in Norfolk and Suffolk are now known to have the virus and officials say there is now evidence it is being transmitted locally.
Department vows to work with vets and farmers in wake of BBC programme, as it today (30 August) also reveals consultation on ending the cull within five years.