FOOT-and-mouth disease in Britain is unlikely to spread beyond a small area, according to a New Zealand expert in computer modelling and predicting the spread of diseases such as foot and mouth and bird flu.

THE source of the foot and mouth outbreak in England looks likely to have been the Pirbright laboratory facility adjacent to the first farm affected.

Four British rowers whose boat was split in two by a rogue wave which ended their hopes of a transatlantic record have arrived back in safe dock today.

A British oarsman has spoken of the moment a rogue wave split his team’s boat - and delivered a “killer blow” to hopes of breaking the transatlantic rowing record.