This is The North East | News | Foot-and-mouth outbreak 2001

Views sought on animal virus
A public meeting is to be held in the Yorkshire Dales national park to give residents, farmers and business people the chance to comment on last year's foot-and-mouth crisis.

Meeting over burial site
Plans to restore a mass foot-and-mouth burial site took a step forward as residents met with Government officials yesterday.

Wednesday 13th February

It's back to business for disease-hit cattle marts
Cattle marts closed during the foot-and-mouth crisis are preparing to reopen for the first time in 12 months.

Funding boost for hard-hit villages
More help is on the way for hard-pressed farming communities in North Yorkshire under a new multi-million pound funding initiative.

Cash aid for rural support projects
Rural projects affected by the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak have been awarded grants of more than �10,000 by mental health charity Mind.

Tuesday 12th February

Plans to open more paths
Work is under way to reopen more rights of way.
Durham County Council is hoping to reopen the paths following the lifting of foot-and-mouth restrictions.
Less than eight per cent of a network of more than 4,300 paths remains closed.
"Any closures are concentrated around Tow Law, Crook, Staindrop and Cornsay," said Chris Tunstall, the county council's director of environment and technical services.
Some routes may stay shut until March or April, to ensure cleansing processes are complete.
Anyone wanting further details is asked to contact 0191-383 3452.

Signs are improving for woods
A leading charity has teamed up with the Countryside Agency in an effort to entice visitors back to rural attractions.
All woods owned by the Woodland Trust are open for business in the wake of foot-and-mouth - and to help renew interest among tourists, the agency has provided funding for welcome signs and information boards.
The signs will be concentrated mainly on areas hit hardest by the disease, with North Yorkshire, Northumberland and Cumbria high priorities.
The trust's director of operations, Norman Starks, said: "We hope that the new signs will help to entice people back into the countryside.
"Our woods are freely open for everyone to enjoy, and if the signs can bring this to more people's attention, then we will be moving in the right direction."

Monday 11th February

Restrictions lifted on more footpaths
More footpaths are re-opening in County Durham following the lifting of foot-and-mouth restrictions by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Disease burial site invitation
People living next to a foot-and-mouth mass burial site have invited Euro MP Stephen Hughes to join them at a meeting with the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Country pub goes up for sale
An award-winning pub has been put on the market to save its owners from possible bankruptcy in the aftermath of last year's foot-and-mouth crisis.

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