Current emergency incidents

Further extension of Bluetongue Protection Zone to allow vaccination

Defra have announced that the Bluetongue Protection Zone will be extended to cover the counties of Northumberland and Cumbria.  This follows a completion of DEFRA's vaccination programme and this will mean that all of England is in the protection zone.

Protection Zone restrictions will apply to those keepers coming into the extended zone. Animals can only be moved out of the Protection Zone if they are vaccinated, naturally immune or moving for slaughter, subject to meeting certain conditions.

Revised licences - Movement of animals out of a Bluetongue Protection Zone or Bluetongue Surveillance Zone - are also now on the Defra website. 

Further Bluetongue information, including a map of the bluetongue surveillance zone and protection zone, is available on the Defra website

The declaration has been made on behalf of the Secretary of State and comes into force on the  1st September 2008 at 00.01 and at that time will replace the declaration made on 11th August 2008.

You can download

• Local authority form for moving sheep or cattle out of the Bluetongue Surveillance zone
• Bluetongue regulations

in pdf format from the right hand side of this page.

Flooding

For information and advice in regard to the flooding in Leeds click on the "Flooding" link on the right hand side of the page.

Other emergency contact numbers

• Leeds City Council emergency number (out-of-hours)
  Emergency repairs outside of normal hours to non-housing council buildings, dangerous structures and dangerous highways (including street lights or signs)
  0113 3760499
  
• Leeds City Council Social Services Emergency Duty Team (Emergency Temporary Accommodation)
  0113 2409536
  
• British Telecom Public Helpline
  0800 800151

Additional 24 hour numbers for council tenants to report property damage are:

In an emergency

• Click on the ‘BBC Leeds Emergency Information’ link for the latest update on the multi-agency response and appropriate contact information.

• Click on the ‘Leeds Alert’ link for information on an evacuation in Leeds City Centre.

• Follow the links on the right hand side of this page to websites which give emergency information and advice.

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