ANOTHER BSE scare. Now, it is claimed that thousands of carcasses of BSE-suspect cattle, buried in landfill sites - as has happened here in East Lancashire - may be a health hazard.

But in answer to concern in the Commons that, according to the regulations, they should have been incinerated, Agriculture supremo Douglas Hogg in effect said his ministry did not know where these dead animals are buried and it would be too expensive to find out.

Now, we are told that reply was wrong and that we must wait until tomorrow for the right answer. But, health hazard or no, does not this confusion yet again prove how difficult it is to get a straight word out of the awful Min of Ag on anything to do with BSE?

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