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A livestock auction has been fined following a prosecution brought by trading standards
Posted 10 August 2018 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Crime|North West
UPDATES: Gisburn Auction Marts has been found guilty after 35 lame sheep were placed in sale pens, with the court identifying procedural failures that could have allowed unfit animals to be sold.
A livestock auction mart in Blackburn where 35 lame sheep were put on sale has been given a six-month conditional discharge following a prosecution brought by trading standards.
Farmer James Andrew Drake brought 35 young sheep to Gisburn Auction Marts on June 24, last year. County council animal welfare officer Stephen Green, who was on duty at the auction, noticed that the animals ...
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