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More than 40,000 cows are culled in the uk each year, after testing positive for tb. helen says geronimo passed multiple tests before being imported and thinks the two tests here were flawed. she's still hoping this eight—year—old alpaca can somehow be saved. andrew plant, bbc news. a very busy afternoon. we have not forgotten about the weather, there will be a full forecast coming up just before the top of the hour but it's been very busy in tokyo as well, so we will catch up right 110w now on all the sports news. hello. i can give weather forecast or an assessment of what happened in tok...

30 days, officials could turn up here to put geronimo down. in a statement, defra said... "testing results and options for geronimo have been very carefully considered, as well as passing several stages of thorough legal scrutiny. while nobody wants to cull infected animals, we need to do everything we can to tackle this disease." more than 40,000 cows are culled in the uk each year, after testing positive for tb. helen says geronimo passed multiple tests before being imported and thinks the two tests here were flawed. she's still hoping this eight—year—old alpaca can somehow be saved. and...

Geronimo, in quarantine at this gloucestershire farm for the past four years, since he was imported from new zealand. now, though, he's set to be destroyed, after owner helen lost her fight against his positive tests for tb. sick. absolutely sick. because all of this was avoidable. we've had four years of trying to just sit down and rationally discuss the science. the science is just not there. farmers everywhere have cattle tested, and then they get a positive result and they have to put those animals down. why are you different? because the cattle test is designed for cattle, and it's an est...

Tests for tb. sick. absolutely sick. because all of this was avoidable. we've had four years of trying to just sit down and rationally discuss the science. the science is just not there. farmers everywhere have cattle tested, and then they get a positive result and they have to put those animals down. why are you different? because the cattle test is designed for cattle, and it's an established programme, that is the test for cattle. the environment secretary george eustice said he'd looked into geronimo's case and, though he sympathised, the alpaca's tests, he said, were highly specific and r...