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putting forward very pragmatic proposals for about separating the

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investment and the detailed activities in balance, financial

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transactions, but what Boris Johnson says he is, I'm sorry to

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use a French word, but it is at cliche. This could all lead to one

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interesting an actual contest this year. Onto the weather and Sara

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Thornton is here. A great day today Towards the countryside but could

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see grass frost as temperatures under the clear skies start to fall

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into single figures so a chilly start for some of us and also

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patchy drizzle to come through first thing and you can see for the

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majority, clear skies for some time, cloud makes its way end tomorrow

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morning from the West but temperatures as low as four degrees

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and some drizzle making its way towards the West. Skirting towards

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the south and the majority will not see this and in the afternoon,

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bright spells coming through. Temperatures in the mid-teens, 14

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degrees, and through the next few days, we will continue with this

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mild feel, temperatures above where they should be, Tuesday seeing the

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peak and brighter spells sometimes. No problems with Frost, and it is a

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taste of spring. That's all from us for now. We're back at 10.15pm.

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Until then, enjoy the rest of your It has been a cracking day in the

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sunshine, Aberdeenshire had 15 degrees but in Glasgow, just seven

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degrees. And the cloud will spread across the north-west and that

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moves south east tonight, taking rain with it. On the once it

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reaches the drought parts of south- east England, later in and out,

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barely enough to dampen the ground. Ahead of that, clear weather in

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southern England, allowing for some ground frost in places but the

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temperature is recover. Elsewhere, it is a man start to Monday but

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cloudy with more rain for Northern Ireland, heavier in western

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Scotland and that spreads southwards tomorrow. Tomorrow

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afternoon, 3pm, across northern England and into the Midlands, more

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rain and this will be a brighter slot perking things up across East

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Anglia and the south-east and the temperatures were left. In the far

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south-west and across much of Wales, Wicky plenty of cloud. Damn,

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drizzly in places with drier slots. Another band of rain moving across

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Wales for the evening. As that clears from Northern Ireland it

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leaves behind a lot of cloud, for the damp weather and rain in

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western Scotland. In north-east Scotland, it warms up again and

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there will be a gusty, blustery wind. Very bad on Monday night and

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on Tuesday, cloud in the West, but brighter weather further east.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 77 seconds

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Cornwall. The dramatic coastline in the North...

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Sheltered bays in the south. In between, beautiful countryside.

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This county has it all. But there is a side to Cornwall you

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really do get to see. I am going to be getting access to

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a new tunnel that could bring the industry back to life.

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It years ago, a naval frigate was sucked down there to create an

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artificial reef, and since then has been home to 250 marine species.

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There is a problem - this. I will be going under the waves to

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find out what is happening to the Whilst I am exploring beneath the

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waves, John is looking into what could be looking in our favourite

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meat. We all know about the dangers of

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food poisoning from undercooked meat up. Our fondness for chicken

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has led to increased concerns about the risk. Is anything being done to

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make the food we eat the saver. They really are the crudest of

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animals, but she'd like this are at risk because of the viruses that

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have spread across Europe and have Cornwall, the longest coastline of

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any county in the UK. The under my feet, why is a rich,

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natural resource, networks of tunnels belonging to 2,000 disused

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mines Riddle the rock beneath Cornwall. For centuries, men have

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children as young as 12 worked in the darkness. As deep as 3,000 ft

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underground, they were chipping away at precious minerals, as well

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as keeping their families fed. They were supplying the world with

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2:00am. Until, in the late 1,800, tin deposits were discovered around

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the globe. The price plummeted, and they could

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not compete. Today, the remnants star the Cornish landscape. 100

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years after the Cornish mines closed, one is hanging on.

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This became the last 109 in Europe. It survived until 1998. Alan

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Reynolds worked there. Allen, while the mines were closing

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across Cornwall, headed his stay open? -- how did this stay open?

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The guys that were working here, it was their job, their life. We took

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pay cuts, that kept them going. Is there any left under ground?

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There is, there is an incredible tonnage left on the ground. When it

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closed, there were 200 -- to 0.5 million tonnes still sitting there.

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There is probably as much left to 950 million cubic feet of metal was

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removed from the site. The labyrinth of tunnels created was

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enormous. Below a surface area of two square miles was a network of

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tunnels 400 miles long. That is the distance from here until yorked.

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Each of these coloured shades is a tunnel where the miners worked.

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Alan Buckley moved to Cornwall and became a miner, but even in his

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retirement he cannot shake it off. OK. I'm all set. Try your light.

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Yep, it's working. Good, good. Super job. Right, so

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Matt Baker from Countryfile is leaving the surface and going

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underground. Round here. Yep. Oh, OK. Here we

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are. Thank you very much indeed. We're going down here, then? Mm-hm.

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That's a weird feeling! Straight down there, it just drops away. How

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There's not much of a view. Just That is a strange feeling. Alan!

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They're tiny passageways, aren't they? Yeah. They are a bit narrow.

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I thought they'd be much bigger And thinking back to the early

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miners with a little candle, hacking away at this rock. 'We

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eventually reach a stope, 'a vast cave created as the miners removed

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the ore.' When was this all taken out?

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The very top of the mine, over there, was taken out as early as

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the 1660s, in the records. about 50 feet above us, through

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there, it was being stoped out in the early 18th century, almost 300

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years ago. The fascinating thing about this is not just the

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continuity in time but the families. The same families worked in these

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stopes over generations. Was it really hard work?

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The deeper you go, the hotter it gets, so it's obviously very, very

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hot down there in places. The oxygen is low so the humidity is

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high and, of course, you're working physically. I don't think there's a

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harder job in the world than mining. How did it feel when you knew it

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was going to come to an end? Oh, gutted. I think everybody did,

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the whole community did, not just the miners. Everybody was really

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gutted. We organised a march led by the town bands and it was good, but

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it was also very emotional. There were old ladies in the doorways,

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crying. Their families had worked there for generations and they just

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couldn't believe it that, you know, it had actually come to an end.

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'But today, tin prices are five times higher 'than when South

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Crofty closed. 'There's a chance the mine might not be condemned to

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darkness forever.' The prospectors are back and I'm on my way to meet

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them, half a mile down this tunnel. 'But first, John is suited up in

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Lincolnshire, 'investigating a growing concern for anyone who

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likes chicken.' In the UK, we have an enormous appetite for chicken.

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Around 850 million birds like these are served up every year, and with

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this massive consumer demand, food safety is the top priority. Poultry

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is the world's fastest-growing meat sector.

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Global consumption has nearly quadrupled since the 1960s, but

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with an expanding industry comes a serious problem.

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All chickens, whether they're reared in sheds like this one or in

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outdoor systems, are prone to picking up campylobacter, a type of

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bacteria that can then travel from the farm to the kitchen. 'The

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result can make you seriously ill 'and that's what happened to Paul

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Radcliffe 'after a night out.' How did you get it?

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Myself and a number of friends were dining at a restaurant and we all

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ate the same thing and a couple of days after, we started to feel

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unwell. And what were the symptoms?

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I started to get a fever, high temperature, and then, that evening,

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I got stomach cramps, which felt pretty severe at the time and then

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it was acute diarrhoea for about two weeks after that.

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Could you actually pin it down to what had caused it?

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Everyone who had it had had the chicken liver pate, so it looks

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likely to be that. When it comes to fears over food

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poisoning, we're probably more familiar with salmonella, but cases

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of that are falling every year. Meanwhile, campylobacter incidents

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are on the increase. Hundreds of thousands of us go down with it

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every year in the UK and most cases are like Paul's - very nasty at the

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time, but over in a week or so. But in some rare, extreme cases,

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campylobacter can be deadly. 'About 80 people die every year, 'so I've

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come to the University of Liverpool's veterinary school,

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'where Professor Tom Humphrey is Is there more campylobacter around

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than ever before? There is, John. Last year was a

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record year. There were 75,000 reported cases, which means

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probably about 700,000 cases in the UK in total.

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And what's causing it? Why is there so much of it?

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There are a number of ways we can catch it, from unpasteurised milk,

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for example, drinking or bathing in contaminated water, contact with

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pets that have got diarrhoea, but the biggest vehicle across the EU,

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according to surveys, is chicken. Does it affect chickens as well?

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It doesn't. That is what makes it so much more difficult to control,

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because it's in the chicken gut as well but it does the animal no harm.

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You find it in pigs, you find it in sheep, you find it in cows...

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And they're all OK? 'When the Food Standards Agency

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tested samples of chicken 'on sale in the shops, they found that two-

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thirds were contaminated. It's not clear if levels of bacteria are

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increasing. We do know we're eating more chicken 'and the odds of

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getting campylobacter are up. It starts off on the farm, and that's

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a big challenge for chicken producers like Graham Porter. Bio-

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security is their best defence. This is all pretty familiar to me

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on farms, you know, this disinfectant, the protective

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clothing and wellies, but how does it especially help in the fight

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against campylobacter? Campylobacter's everywhere. It's

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ubiquitous. And most diseases, John, are brought in on your feet. We

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wear these overclothes so we don't bring things in on our clothes and

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we also put our hoods on... Put these on as well?

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..to keep it out of our hair! Shall we go in? Yes. This is quite

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a sight, isn't it? How many chickens altogether are on this

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farm? There's about 250,000.

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So you must be concerned about the rising levels of campylobacter,

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then? Yes, John. We're doing all we can,

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and all we can is basically not introducing the bacterium into the

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house. The chicks arrive clean, we use clean feed and we make sure we

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have clean water. Because you're dealing with an invisible foe,

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aren't you? Absolutely, which is always

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terrifying. Things you can't see are more worrying than things you

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can. Despite all the precautions,

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campylobacter still gets into the sheds and into the chickens. It's

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estimated 70% of indoor flocks carry the bacteria. By the time

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they reach the processing plants, campylobacter could be anywhere.

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1.6 million birds go through this factory alone every week.

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What are the problems that campylobacter poses in a chicken-

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processing plant like this one? Campylobacter is in the gut of the

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bird, so it's when we're eviscerating the bird that there's

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a risk area. Taking the insides out?

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Yes, but also potentially on the feathers. We have systems in place

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for any processing plant designed to reduce and deal with any hazards

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there might be. Campylobacter is one of those areas, one of those

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risks that we're not succeeding at The war against campylobacter is

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being fought all the way to the kitchen. If the bacteria manages to

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get through the farm and through the meat-processing plant, the

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final defence is with whoever's doing the cooking. At home, the

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responsibility lies with us. When we eat out, we rely on others to

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cook our food safely. Proper cooking kills campylobacter, but

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the Food Standards Agency is worried that the message isn't

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being taken seriously enough, 'especially in some parts of the

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In recent years, there's been a huge increase 'in the number of

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outbreaks and the majority of those' can be traced back to

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undercooked chicken liver pate. I'm sure this has been prepared

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properly. This is perfectly safe. Yes, yes. Unfortunately, there

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tends to be a trend with chefs to flash-fry the chicken livers so

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that the inside is undercooked, they seem to like the nice, softer

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texture, but the problem is the undercooking. You're not going to

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kill off the campylobacter bacteria. How much of a priority is

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campylobacter to the agency? Campylobacter is one of the top

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priorities for the Food Standards It's now pretty clear that the

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danger of being affected by campylobacter goes hand-in-hand

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with eating meat. And the boom in demand for chicken has certainly

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added to the problem. So what can be done to try to stop the risk?

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That's what I will be asking later All across the UK farmers are

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attending to their lambs but some of the new arrivals have been

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affected by abide as which can have a devastating impact. There are

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images in this film you may find distressing. We have got about 750

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ewes. They will lamb on the farm. It is getting to be a busy time of

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year. We want them all to be in very good health as they give birth

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and one of the things we do is vaccinate them against areas a

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bacterial diseases. That in unity goes through their blood into their

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colostrum, the first milk that the Lambs drink. That protection will

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go through to the Lambs. Healthy sheep are productive sheep. While

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this vaccination protects against most common diseases, I am

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concerned that a new virus that has recently hit the UK could affect my

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livestock. It has the serious symptoms in sheep, cattle and goats.

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The main one is deformed lambs and caffs. I am on my way to East

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Sussex which has recently had an outbreak of this bias. I want to

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know what impact it is having. Thank you for letting me come to

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visit you. You have a lovely flock of lambs but you have been struck

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by this buyers? Yes, we have lost about 40 lambs. So many have died

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or been born dead or we have had to put them down. Have you ever seen

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anything like it before? Never. I find the whole thing most

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distressing. I have been lambing sheep for 50 years and have never

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had anything like it. Financially it will be quite devastating but

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that is the wave farming goes. could just be the beginning of

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something that could be quite horrendous right at the start of

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the farming season. It sends a shiver down my spine. Horrible. It

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is not easy having to deal with the victims of this spiders. They

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suffer from the areas deformities and often have to be put down. This

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contract climber knows best or only too well but some lambs she has

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delivered have had that. There were triplets. One was very deformed and

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born dead. This one has come a minor deformity. It has a very

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strange job, it appears to be parrot mouth where its job does not

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quite come together. The Jozsef should meet but they are not so

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presumably suppling problems? -- the jaws should meet. Yes, suckling

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problems. Best lamb has quite deformed front legs than do not

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straighten up properly. I can see that. It has problems walking?

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Doing fine but smaller than his sibling. When you are Lamming are

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you they should be presented properly with their front feet

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first. With deformities it must be really weird. A wet the first lamb

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I delivered I wondered what it was and I thought I was dealing with a

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breach but then I find the head. You have two very carefully deliver

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these lambs from news and it is not easy. You do your absolute best and

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there is nothing we can do about these lambs. There is no saving

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them and it is really hard. Around 1,000 farms have been affected in

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Europe come up over 60 in the UK. I am keen to find out how it has

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spread and what precautions I can take. I am spreading -- heading to

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North cookware and number of other cases have been discovered. I have

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come to meet a veterinarian who has been dealing with the virus since

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it first hit our shores in January. Where did this by his come from?

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seems to have originated in northern Europe, we think it was

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spread by midges and must have arrived here around

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September/October. The problem comes when pregnant animals are

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infected by the animals and particularly when they are affected

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in the first third of the pregnancy. The virus can have devastating

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effects on the Thetis at that stage. -- the foetus. Because the sheep

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has a five month pregnancy and the cow has a nine-month pregnancy we

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would not expect to be seeing problems for four months after we

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see the problems in the sheep. farmer, of what should we be doing?

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Do we have to notified the Government? Are there movement

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restrictions? You are not legally obliged to notify anybody but it is

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important that we know where this disease is, we get is spreading and

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who is likely to see it next. Contact your local veterinarian.

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There are no movement restrictions because we think it is spread by

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midges, we do not think there is animal to animal restrictions so

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there is no point in movement restriction. A new will not know if

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these animals have the virus until lambing starts. It is a concern for

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the farmer because he is used give birth in the fields. How difficult

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could it be for you? I lamb them out in the field so it is difficult

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because you have to have straight legs to get them to come out. I do

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not know what is going to happen. I worry about it. The idea of having

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to leave out you not knowing what will happen. They do not warrant

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expensive caesarian operations. If I have difficult ones in the middle

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of the night they will probably have to be destroyed. I really hope

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his flock escape the virus. While there is a risk to sheep, cattle

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and goats, what about humans? is no evidence that this will

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affect humans. Because it is a new buyer is we cannot say

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categorically but we do not think it will affect people. With blue

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tongue we vaccinated quickly, how quickly will there be a vaccination

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for this? My guess is that you are looking at a 12 month delay minimum,

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maybe two years. A It is early days and it will be a while before we

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know the true extent of this. I just hope that livestock farmers do

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not get hit too hard and that I escaped this terrible virus with my

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animals. Earlier we heard how the cases of a type of food poisoning

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caused by cooking -- eating undercooked chicken are on the rise

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but is there more we can do to make the food we eat safer? Worldwide,

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this is the number one food born bacteria. It is the most common

:27:43.:27:48.

cause of food poisoning in the UK. Cases are on the increase. It is

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more commonplace in poultry which accounts for almost half of all the

:27:53.:28:00.

meat we eat in the UK. There are calls for a tougher action to fight

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this out deer. It poses a cost to our health and a huge cost to the

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economy. That is the opinion of this food safety expert. 300 to 400

:28:14.:28:20.

people per year fall ill with this bounteous. They take time off work,

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some will need medical attention, they go into hospital, some will

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have long-term medical complications. Can we put a price

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on it? The problem is underestimated but we can say half

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a billion to start with. The feeling is a lot of this bacterial

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infection is preventable but not enough people are paying attention

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to it. There is so much uncertainty about bet that it will not be a

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rapid response we get but as law Hall. The poultry industry is

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funding research but until an answer such as an effective vaccine

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is found chicken farmers like this one say there is always so much

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they can do. We are hoping some bright spark will come up with a

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solution. We hope there is a solution out there, we just have to

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find it. Is it possible to her magically seal a place like this so

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that nothing could get in during the length of a bird's life?

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idea is technically correct but one thing we would lose his welfare.

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The minimum we need to see the Chequers is twice per day and the

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more attention you get them the better they perform. -- CD check-

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ins. What about that seemed like that for backs and Ella? That is

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what we are hoping for it. Perhaps solutions can be found in the

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processing plants? In the United States carcasses are washed with a

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chlorine based rents to tell of ITF but that practices banned here

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because of EU regulations. There are certain techniques in place

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right now that we are trying. You could freeze the Cheka, that would

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kill it but most people want to buy their chicken fresh. Perhaps so per

:30:28.:30:38.
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gelling the outside of the skin. Or eating ate like in milk. Washing

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the bird as well. The demand for check-in seems to get bigger every

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year, will it ever get easier to control this bacteria? We are

:30:51.:30:56.

learning more about it all the time. We are doing everything we can to

:30:56.:31:05.

make it as safe product that everyone can enjoy. Research into

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bad Teale resistant check-ins is about to get under way in Scotland.

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-- bacterial resistant chickens. Every link in the chain must play

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its part, that includes us. What time the golden rules to staying

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safe? To cook the chicken thoroughly so that the juices run

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clear. Despite Tiare spreads very easily around the kitchen so good

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hygiene practices in the home are essential. You need to wash your

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hands thoroughly once you have handled any chicken or raw meat.

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You need to wash utensils and the chopping board but one practice we

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would really like to stamp out is the washing of check-in at home. --

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By washing it, you're potentially spreading those germs that have

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been on the chicken around the kitchen, on two surfaces and food

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that may not be cooked. That is the problem. The chances are you're

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going to come down with a nasty In the end, we have to remember

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that bacteria like campylobacter, are all around us all the time.

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Pressure is mounting to try to reduce the risks, but in the

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meantime, all of us who enjoy eating chicken have to play a our

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part by making sure that campylobacter it is beaten before

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Beautiful cliffs and craggy calls line Cornwall's shores. I have been

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deep beneath the land in a disused tin mine. At 300 ft down there I am

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about to enter a new drilling chamber where the search for

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precious metals has begun again. It is from these depths that a team of

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miners and prospectors are exploring what is buried in the

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surrounding rock. Gareth is a geologist in charge of the team.

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What is it you're looking for. We're looking for 10, as well as

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copper, zinc and other metals. That the is what the team behind us are

:33:46.:33:51.

busy with? That is right. We are drilling into

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the rock to find samples and Seeboard is there.

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And it is a diamond drill? For yes, if I show you a drill bit,

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it is circular, and impregnated in it are different diamonds.

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That will cut in two the rock and we get a tube of rock down the

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middle, and after each three metres we pull the rug out, empty boat

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into a box and see what is in it. We have lots of different minerals

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here, Garnett, and sometimes within these we will set -- see a mineral

:34:25.:34:35.
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load. So far, at the diamond drill has

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cut 75,000 ft of core and will do again before the project is

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finished. All of this ends up in this warehouse.

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Won't see what we have here. Nice minerals. We can look at our

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portable X-ray analyzer, and it will tell us what elements are in

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there and how much. OK, better get out the way then, eh? Yes, if you

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stand behind me. Let's have a look, see what's there.

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We've got 2.5% copper, about 4% zinc and almost 1% tin. Copper,

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zinc and tin are the main minerals here. Those are the main minerals

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we're mining. There's lots of smaller, more precious metals and

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more valuable metals that we find here as well. Things like tungsten.

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Indium, which has got quite a high value. It's used in modern

:35:30.:35:32.

technologies, flatscreens, things like that. We've even found small

:35:32.:35:34.

traces of gold and silver. Have you?

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We have. Very small amounts, but we might be able to take some of it,

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yeah. All of this information then is entered into a computer system.

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We'll take all the zones of mineralization In a big 3D model

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and Seaborough we can call mining. 'Investing �60 million over the

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next three years, 'this mine is hoping to pick up where it left

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off.' It would be a huge boost to the area.

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Everyone you talk to locally, you say you work at South Crofty, "Oh,

:36:12.:36:15.

when's it opening? What's going on?" There is a sense of real

:36:15.:36:22.

excitement. Modern technology is now driving

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the price of precious metals through the roof and it could well

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breathe new life into the old tin mines of Cornwall. In a moment,

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Ellie will be going in search of hidden gems of her own beneath the

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sea. But first, here's the Countryfile weather forecast for

:36:34.:36:44.
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Our late winter weather has had more of a lick and feel of early

:36:46.:36:50.

spring about it, recently. Especially on Thursday. Tony Watson

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took this picture in Warwickshire, and it is here on Thursday in that

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sunshine the temperature got close to 19 Celsius, the warmest February

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day since 1992. -- 1998. This week there will not be much sunshine,

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but very mild where the sun comes out. On the flipside, where we meet

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the rain, -- where we need at the rain, the drought-hit parts of

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central and eastern England, hardly any on offer. This weather front,

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going into Tuesday, will introduce some vet -- mild oxygen once again.

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Tomorrow, another weather system brings rain to Northern Ireland and

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western Scotland, brisk winds, moving south during the day.

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Through the afternoon in Scotland it will West, damp in Northern

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Ireland. In north-eastern Scotland, it brightens up and will become

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mild, but gusty winds. Rain moving down across northern England into

:37:53.:37:57.

the Midlands will stop ahead of that there will be brighter

:37:57.:38:02.

conditions, perking up across East Anglia into the south-east staying

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at rather grey and damp across Wales and the far south-west. The

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weather system moving again on Monday night, weakening when it

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reaches the areas that needed most. Temperatures around the Moray Firth

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could hold up into double figures, very unusual for the time of year

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on Tuesday night. We have high pressure close by, but a rent that

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we are bringing up this very mild air. Not everyone will get the same

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degree of warmth and sunshine, because in to the west there will

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be lots of cloud, Phil fog, patchy rain and drizzle, especially in

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western Scotland. Further south, there will be sunnier breaks in the

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east. This is where temperatures will climb in the sunshine. 17,

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possibly 18 Celsius is possible. If we get there, in Scotland on

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Tuesday that will be significant. The temperature we record --

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temperature records for February in Scotland is near 18 stealthiest in

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Aberdeen. This year we have an extra day, it is the 29th on

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Wednesday, but it will hardly be any different than Tuesday. It will

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be mild on Wednesday, but we're not expecting the same giddy heights

:39:27.:39:33.

the day before. On Thursday, more of the same, the weather fronts are

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still trying to come in. Ahead of that, still cloud coming into the

:39:37.:39:44.

West, drizzle, brighter brakes on high ground and still mild. Another

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weather system running through the South possibly going into Friday.

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By a lot of uncertainty about the end of the week, this next weather

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system could come in late Friday into the weekend. For Friday, wet

:39:56.:40:03.

weather for a time, and the South variable weather elsewhere. It will

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be warm coming back, but for rain in the gardens, where it is most

:40:07.:40:17.
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The Cornwall has got it on. Sleepy villages, beautiful beaches and

:40:48.:40:58.
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oppressive clefs. I have been discovering its rich coastline.

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Mount a Just round the coast from here, offshore at the bottom of the

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sea, lies a wreck. But it's not just any old wreck, because it's

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become one of our most significant marine life dive sites. I want to

:41:23.:41:25.

experience it for myself. 'Paul Cox from the National Marine Aquarium

:41:25.:41:29.

'is going to bring me up to speed with HMS Scylla.' So, tell me about

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the back story of this wreck then. She was launched in 1968 and went

:41:33.:41:36.

into service. She was in service for 25 years. Served in the cod

:41:36.:41:38.

wars with Iceland, also was involved in hurricane relief in

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Cayman Brac. She was then decommissioned in 1993. Must have

:41:41.:41:45.

been a spectacular sight, the day that she was put down. The crowds

:41:45.:41:48.

that appeared on the day were phenomenal. Thousands of people

:41:48.:41:51.

lined the cliffs and it generated so much attention. Even now, when

:41:51.:42:01.
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you talk about it locally, people remember that day. 'A specialist

:42:04.:42:07.

diving team is taking us out to the site, 'but I must admit I'm a

:42:07.:42:10.

little apprehensive.' I remember when I first learned to dive years

:42:10.:42:14.

ago, it was freezing cold and it was snowing. There were a few wreck

:42:14.:42:17.

items to look at under the water. I came away thinking, "Why would you

:42:17.:42:20.

ever do this?" Then I discovered marine life, went diving in the

:42:20.:42:23.

real world and had my lightbulb moment. I've got that same sense of

:42:23.:42:25.

trepidation today,. It's perishingly cold. It may look

:42:25.:42:29.

beautiful, but it's bitter. We're going to look at a wreck, which has

:42:29.:42:39.
:42:39.:42:40.

got that slightly sinister feel to It's not long before we're floating

:42:40.:42:49.

directly above the wreck. There we go. Rarr! I'm in. So it's obviously

:42:49.:42:52.

very good for diving here. What about the marine life on this new

:42:52.:42:57.

reef? When you put something like this in, life just attracts to it

:42:57.:42:59.

and you get new colonisation. That's what we've been interested

:42:59.:43:02.

in in the seven years since Scylla's been there. Watching that

:43:02.:43:04.

colonisation and how it progresses and how animals out-compete each

:43:04.:43:10.

other for space on the reef. it's not just a jolly today.

:43:10.:43:15.

There's some bad news going on down there, isn't there? Yeah, we've had

:43:15.:43:18.

reports that there's a net, some reports before Christmas that a net

:43:18.:43:21.

had become attached to the reef. So we're going to have a look at that

:43:21.:43:24.

today and see what kind of damage that's causing to the animals

:43:24.:43:29.

living in and around the reef. what kind of net is it that's

:43:29.:43:35.

caught down there? It's a fine monofilament. I've got a bit of it

:43:35.:43:42.

down here that some divers removed previously. Oh, right. You can see

:43:42.:43:47.

it's really tangly. I mean, if you can imagine it. Put it on here and

:43:47.:43:50.

it just kind of snags. Catches on everything. Actually I can't get

:43:50.:43:54.

that off. Oh, my word. There we go. What marine life have you seen

:43:54.:43:58.

caught up in this? We've seen several fish, some crabs, lots of

:43:58.:44:01.

crabs just kind of caught onto it with their claws. Also a cormorant.

:44:01.:44:04.

There was a cormorant that had obviously been diving for food and

:44:04.:44:07.

had got itself entangled in it. It's important that it gets taken

:44:07.:44:10.

off? Yeah, as soon as possible. Also the diving season's coming up.

:44:10.:44:13.

We don't want any divers getting entangled, so we need to get it of.

:44:13.:44:17.

So, work to be done. Yeah. Paul and his team have counted almost 300

:44:17.:44:27.
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different species on the wreck. I First of all, Paul's taking me to

:44:34.:44:37.

one of the only parts of the reef that isn't engulfed in netting. And

:44:38.:44:47.
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