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Residents claim F&M ash was out of bounds
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• The Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is fighting back against claims by residents of a Northumberland village that it transported ash from a footand-mouth pyre on roads that were not approved routes to disposal sites.
Residents of Widdrington claim that as well as using the wrong routes, DEFRA allowed the ash to be loaded onto unsealed trailers and failed to warn residents that the ash was going to be transported.
A spokesperson for DEFRAs Disease Control Centre says that out of 35 vehicles used to transport ash from the pyre in Widdrington only two travelled on roads outside the agreed route because they "took the wrong direction".
The spokesperson rejects clans that unsealed trailers were used and says the trao portation of the ash was base on an "operational decision 1 move it quickly". DEFRA had fii ished the jab of clearing 3,0C tonnes of ash from the pyre sil and was in the process restoring the land on the Si! when 500 tonnes of buried am was found.
DEFRA refuses to name th haulier involved because "commercial confidentially".