THE foot-and-mouth threat was today hanging over a Worcester farm after a lorry from Northumberland pulled up outside its yard.

Furious Trea Newell, who runs Mill Farm at Spetchley with her husband Alan, said their ewes were lambing.

But just 50 yards away a furniture removal lorry driven from Northumberland - the source of the virulent outbreak - had parked up outside a neighbour's house.

"People should be more responsible," Mrs Newell said this morning.

"It's just so easy for the disease to spread.

"This lorry must have driven through the affected area on its way down here.

"The people who are moving know we're angry, but what can they do?

"They must have known the risks, why did they have to move now?"

Mrs Newell, who also runs Woodhall Farm at Norton, near Worcester, said the family was determined to take every precaution necessary not to become victims again.

"We had foot-and-mouth in 1947 and in 1967 and we don't want to get it again," she said.

"We know how very difficult it is to avoid, so this has made us really angry.

"People who move into agricultural premises have no idea."

She called on the lorry driver to at least disinfect the truck before it left the village to lessen any further risks.

Meanwhile, the farmer at the centre of Britain's foot-and-mouth crisis has revealed his pigs had been fed on swill made from school dinners.

Bobby Waugh, 55, of Sunderland saw his entire herd of pigs slaughtered and incinerated at his farm at Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland.

Yesterday, Sunderland City Council confirmed it supplied swill made from school dinners to Mr Waugh, who runs the pig farm with his 59-year-old brother Ronnie, who is in hospital with a stomach complaint.

Three-year slump

The council said: "Ronald Waugh had a contract for more than 10 years to collect pig swill from several Sunderland schools.

"He was licensed by MAFF to carry out this work, but the contract was terminated in January."

Business had picked up recently after a three-year slump but Mr Waugh did not know if his livelihood would recover.

He said: "All my customers have told me they will stand by us. We are trusted 100 per cent in the job.

"I don't know if we can carry on the business, with my brother being in hospital I just don't know.

"It is 40 years' work wiped out."