West Aucland foot-and-mouth

Eight-year-old Jessica Cleminson at her home in West Auckland, County Durham, holds a page from her diary, showing her heartache - Jessica ringed her tears as they fell on to the page - at losing her favourite cow to the foot-and-mouth outbreak. *...Despite being scarcely old enough to understand the magnitude of the disease, her thoughts and feelings as shown in the diary graphically depict the trauma caused when Ministry of Agriculture officials ordered that her 14-year-old pet cow, Caroline, was to die. News that Caroline and the rest of Jessica's father's herd were to be culled came the day after the little girl wrote that the prized pet was expecting a calf. (Photo by John Giles - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)