An export ban prompted by the foot and mouth outbreak will cost the British red meat industry around £10m (€14m) per week, it was estimated today.

NEW advertising rules which will brand cheese as “junk food” were yesterday slammed as “dietary nannying gone mad” by a leading farming industry figure.

Farmers leaders in Britain have reacted angrily to Government claims that farmers themselves may have been responsible for the rapid spread of foot-and-mouth.

An eleventh case of foot-and-mouth disease has been confirmed at a farm in Herefordshire.

Farmers in south west England are to learn whether the outbreak of foot and mouth disease has spread across the region from a Devon farm where it has been confirmed.