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Online career aid for foot-and-mouth families
An online service has been launched providing information about career and learning opportunities across York and North Yorkshire, including communities badly hit by foot-and-mouth disease.

Farrier's back . . .
The end of the foot-and-mouth outbreak has marked the return of the ancient trade of the farrier.

Thursday 7th February

Farmers' leader's vision for the future
National Farmers' Union president Ben Gill, will today spell out his vision for the future of the farming industry at the union's conference.

Wednesday 6th February

Auction mart re-openings hit by delay
Red tape delays by the Government are hampering efforts to re-open auction marts after the effects of the foot-and-mouth outbreak, it was claimed yesterday.

Call for full inquiry after disease crisis
Businesses in the North-East are calling for a full public inquiry into the foot-and-mouth outbreak, to restore firms' confidence.

Support urged for Dales festival
A Dales festival, hit hard by the foot-and-mouth crisis, is hoping audience figures this year will help balance the books.

Tuesday 5th February

�2.7bn for epidemic
The total cost to taxpayers of last year's foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, excluding defence ministry costs, is now put at �2.7bn, junior environment minister Lord Whitty said last night in a written reply.

Sheep case
A man has been charged with allowing sheep to wander from their fields when foot-and-mouth restrictions were in force. Durham County Council is prosecuting Robin Shield, of Ox Close Farm, Willington, County Durham, with breaching a Form D notice on June 20. He will next appear before Bishop Auckland Magistrates' Court on March 4.

Monday 4th February

Making hay to mark the countryside's recovery
Farmers and their families travelled to a hay show held in the region yesterday to demonstrate that country life was "alive and kicking" in the aftermath of foot-and-mouth disease.

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