Exclusion zone created in region after cases of “highly pathogenic” bird flu (Image: Newsquest)
An exclusion zone has been set up near a North Yorkshire town after bird flu cases were found there.
Cases of the highly pathogenic avian influenza have been confirmed in properties near Easingwold, North Yorkshire.
A three-kilometre protection zone and 10km surveillance zone has been declared around the area.
All of the birds, which numbered 25,000, will be culled in a humane way.
It comes as 131 cases of the disease has been found in England.
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