| Cultural legacy of foot-and-mouth | |
|  | | The images of the outbreak shocked the country |
| | The farming communities of Cumbria and Devon are to relive the drama of the foot-and-mouth crisis. The two counties which suffered most are joining artists, writers and film-makers to come up a cultural legacy of the year-long outbreak. |
| | | The "For the Record" event will also see the first meeting of members of the independent inquiry teams from both areas since the end of the outbreak.
The Manchester conference has been organised by Littoral Arts, a charity which develops social arts projects in north-west of England.
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Organiser Ian Hunter of Littoral Arts, said: "There needs to be a national record kept of what happened.
"Many people in the farming community have said the country should have learned from the last outbreak in 1967.
"If we can make an national record that is honest and constructive, then maybe things like this won't happen again.
 | | One Devon farmer has recorded the events in black and white. More |
"What we have here is a joining together of the rural communities of Cumbria and Devon and also those from the three universities studying foot-and-mouth.
"We also have artists, writers, photographers and film-makers who recorded what happened."
The rural communities of Cumbria and Devon were severely hit during the disease outbreak, with tourism and farming losing millions of pounds.
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