PROTESTORS will take their campaign to close a mass foot-and-mouth burial site to ministry headquarters today.
People from Tow Law, near Bishop Auckland, County Durham, will join other anti-burial site campaigners who will visit foot-and-mouth disease emergency control centres throughout the country.
Hugh Nicol protests outside the entrance to the burial site at Inkerman, Tow Law, every day.
He said: "The National Action Day is being called by burial site protestors from Devon, Exeter, Wales and Tow Law. We plan to lobby disease control headquarters, and the Tow Law group is going to Tyneside.''
The peaceful demonstration begins outside the Newcastle Disease Emergency Control Centre, at Kenton Barr, at 1pm.
Meanwhile, residents said last night that a plague of rats has descended on Tow Law and they believed the vermin were coming from the site.
One person said: "We have had to call in environmental health."
"This has only just started over the last few days.''
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