Paging Special Agent Starling

Up to half a million Welsh lambs are to be culled as they have been trapped in the hills after the livestock movement restrictions following the latest hoof and mouth scares. If they remain on the hills there will not be enough food for ewes to make it through the winter until the next lambing season.

Don't, however, expect this to drive down the price of a leg of lamb for your Sunday roast. Rather than being sold for food the lambs will be incinerated (not by your Mum either). Apparently they are too young to be the kind of lamb Brits like and the French won't take them because of the foot and mouth thing.