Expert calls for bread ban at Lough

THE age-old tradition of feeding bread to birds at a city’s famed wildfowl sanctuary should be banned after a devastating outbreak of suspected botulism.

The call came from a leading animal welfare expert yesterday after several more dead ducks were recovered from the Lough in Cork city over the weekend.

Their deaths are believed to be linked to the worst outbreak of disease to ever hit the much-loved amenity and renowned carp fishery on the city’s southside.