UPHILL STRUGGLES - Wednesday January 23 2002 article from the Guardian:Michael Simmons on farming communities reeling from the foot and mouth crisis.
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Arthur Wheeldon, Moor Cottage Farm, Wirksworth Moor.

Life and Death in Pictures
As Derbyshire farmer Arthur Wheeldon (pictured above) listened to the latest distressing foot and mouth news on his fireside radio at Moor Cottage Farm, Wirksworth Moor, he confessed to photographer Kate Bellis that he felt "ready for a box". Last November he died, aged 83.

"I sit here and listen to the wireless and all you hear is more and more cases," he told Bellis. "It's a rum job, all that killing and burning. They've gone mad."
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