Kenya travel review: Hemingways Watamu and Nairobi provide bountiful landscapes, beautiful wildlife and brilliant people
So the two-hour journey to our hotel allowed an initial, if unofficial, adventure – an opening glance at the country’s bountiful landscapes, beautiful wildlife and brilliant people.
Rural tsar who advised government during foot-and-mouth crisis reflects on learnings twenty years on
Lord Haskins claimed that the rapid nature of the outbreak could have been curtailed if Ministers had opted to rely on the expertise of authorities and vets in the communities that had been affected in 2001.
Calls to stop Brexit and hold People's Vote issued at Leeds MP's debate
Speaking at a People’s Vote event in Leeds yesterday evening, she said: “There are still reasons to hope that Labour’s position will move towards a people’s vote.”
Malton market leader reflects on foot-and-mouth as he prepares for food stalls to return
Stalls will once again be erected to offer some of the leading produce on offer in the Ryedale district, as the town’s monthly food market is staged for the first time this year.
Holiday plans in disarray as BA and easyJet abandon Sharm el-Sheikh until January
And Thomson Airways has said it will not use the Egyptian destination up to and including December 9, amid security concerns following the terrorist bombing of a Russian airliner.
Mental health implications of foot and mouth crisis still apparent in US farming communities twenty years on
A study by the University of Cambridge at the time of the crisis found just 1.5 per cent of farmers affected sought help from a mental health professional, choosing instead to rely on family and friendship networks, although diagnoses of anxiety and depression went up.
At least three dead as gunmen take hostages at luxury hotel in Mali
The attackers seized about 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, although a Malian army commander later said about 20 hostages had been released.
Farming better prepared for post-Brexit shake-up due to changes made after foot and mouth, leaders say
George Dunn, Chief Executive of the Tenant Farmers’ Association (TSA) said he could still remember the moment he found out about the first case in 2001.
At least three dead as Islamic extremists take hostages at luxury hotel in Mali
The attackers seized about 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, although a Malian army commander later said about 20 hostages had been released.
Farmers must work together to continue to survive 20 years after devastating foot and mouth crisis
The 2001 outbreak, which effectively shut down the countryside, sparked a major change in government policy with a greater emphasis placed on sustainability, environmental concerns and landscape management.
