Article: FIELDS OF BLOOD; 26 separate ailments including meningitis encephalitis, blisters, rashes, asthma and boils .. all blamed on blood and guts fertiliser.(News)

Byline: MAGNUS GARDHAM

HUMAN waste and animal blood and guts are still being spread as fertiliser on farmland in Scotland.

Angry MSPs condemned the fields of filth yesterday.

And villagers near one such site told of their fears that the spreading is making them ill.

The 250 people of Blairingone, Clackmannanshire, have counted 26 cases of illness they believe could be linked to the fields.

Locals have suffered blisters, rashes, German measles, viral meningitis, and the brain condition encephalitis.

The villagers have ...

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