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To: Tim Luke who wrote (148)	4/7/2001 7:55:59 PM
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SATURDAY APRIL 07 2001 Foot-and-mouth 400,000 sheep to be entombed in graves of clay BY SIMON DE BRUXELLES MORE than 400,000 sheep carcasses will be buried in 18 giant clay-covered tombs in Devon, the Government announced yesterday. The Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (Maff) said it planned to use land near Meeth for a mass disposal site. The chosen locations are in five fields and have the capacity for up to 432,000 carcasses. The tombs, or barrows, will be set three feet into the ground and rise six feet above it. Any liquid inside will be pumped out, treated and disposed of safely, Maff said. Earlier it was announced that 40 members of the Royal Navy would be brought in to help to fight foot-and-mouth in Devon. David Harris, regional spokesman for the Army, said the naval team would be involved in “command and control” procedures using their supervisory and logistic skills.The county will lose at least 10,000 jobs as a result of the epidemic, a report by researchers at the University of Exeter said. The university’s agricultural economics unit estimated that the eventual cost to the county as of mid-March would be at least £280 million. It predicted the loss of 1,200 jobs in farming and related industries and of 8,700 jobs in tourism. Peter Doyle, spokesman for the county council, said: “The consequences of this are spreading from the countryside to the towns and cities to all sectors of the economy. And foot-and-mouth has got a lot worse since the report’s cut-off date, so the estimate of job losses is on the low side. “It is going to have a knock-on effect throughout the rest of the year unless we can get across the message that there are still plenty of things to see and do. “The fact is that you can drive across Devon from east to west without even noticing there is an outbreak of foot-and-mouth.” Devon County Council estimates that the tourism industry in the county lost £32 million in March. To that total can be added losses in the other industries supported by tourism spending, particularly catering, retail and transport. It is estimated, based on the expected fall in business volume noted in the new survey work, combined with known tourist spending patterns, that there was a total fall in tourist revenue of £51 million in the whole of the West Country in March, which represents approximately 25 per cent of what would be expected in March in a normal year.