ECHO 12/11/05

Throckmorton, the next village – a sinister place once beautiful. An RAF base in WW2, now hundreds of cattle corpses are buried there at the edge of the disused airfield. A tumulus, burial mound of poisoned flesh, from the outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease a few years back when hundreds and hundreds of cows were burnt on huge pyres. A poisonous sludge is still being removed from the land there, drained off and transported out of the village by huge tankers regularly. Virgil might visit; another circle of hell. But who is being punished for this? Only the innocent in this case, the people that live in the village. The ministers and scientists who made the decision remain purposely unaware.