Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Julius LeBlanc Stewart paintings

Julius LeBlanc Stewart paintings
Jeffrey T.Larson paintings
EU ministers were due to meet from 1400 GMT to monitor progress in combating the spread of BSE, but the talks were likely to be overshadowed by the confirmed outbreaks in Britain of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease.Britain's Agriculture Secretary, Nick Brown, has warned that the disease might have crossed the Channel after a new case was found on Sunday among cattle at a farm in southwest England that exported sheep to continental Europe.Brown was due to make a statement to the British parliament before heading for the meeting with his EU colleagues.Farmers earlier used hundreds of tractors in slow-moving convoys to block roads into the Belgian capital and in northern France, causing chaos for early morning commuters.

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