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Article: FOOT & MOUTH CRISIS: PIT OF DESTRUCTION; Burial ground for sheep in 500,000 cull.(News)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 26, 2001
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Byline: OONAGH BLACKMAN and STEPHEN WHITE
IT is the largest grave ever dug in Britain - and a grim symbol of the foot-and-mouth crisis.
Up to half a million sheep will be buried in huge pits carved out yesterday on a windswept airfield in Cumbria.
It is the first phase of the Government's new "firebreak" policy - aimed at bringing the epidemic under control.
Today Premier Tony Blair will spearhead the fight against the plague from the Cabinet Office war room in Whitehall.
He will also make a statement to MPs following his visits ...