POLICE yesterday mounted a search for stolen equipment used to combat of foot-and-mouth disease.

Items stolen from a car parked behind Front Street, Whickham, Gateshead, included a 5-litre container filled with disinfectant Sam 30, a yellow plastic disposable box containing used veterinary needles, a sealed plastic bag containing ten sets of paper suits and paper overboots, and 30 foil sachets of Vikron S disinfectant