A PROMINENT member of a group set up in the wake of the Foot and Mouth crisis 18 years ago has quit claiming it has descended into nothing more than ‘an exercise in naval gazing’.

Paul Hiett said that the sheep liaison group is made up from representatives from the Forestry Commission, Forest of Dean District Council, Gloucestershire Police, and the

Gloucestershire County Council trading standards, says he has tried to get more action within the organisation but nothing has happened.

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