The UK has met the animal health and biosecurity assurances required for a third country to export live animals and animal products to EU member states.

USA: New Orleans police are investigating an armed robbery in which the assailant walked away with only 35 cents. Two men, aged 33 and 29, were robbed by a man armed with a semi-automatic gun in the city’s Carrollton area.

There has been an outbreak of bird flu on a British duck breeding farm.