The journey from Clermont-Ferrand to Montpellier takes just over three hours on the A75. It is a fairly spectacular drive, across the Massif Central, down into valleys and rising sharply over the next mountains in a landscape shaped by volcanoes.

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Disinfecting stations are being set up on main roads surrounding Scotland's foot-and-mouth hotspot as part of heightened measures to contain the outbreak.