1. March The Hall family and farm staff are subjected to a fire bomb attack and receive death threats.

2. A Defra inspector walks through the fields where animals suspected of having the disease were slaughtered "The Queen is very angry that farm staff did not take action sooner to move her cattle to safety.

3. Britain is by far the world‘s heaviest user of ammonium nitrate–based agricultural and horticultural fertilizer, which can be can be mixed with fuel or sugar to make extremely powerful home–made bombs, said Graham Smith of the state–run National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO). The Web site –– http://www.secureyourfertiliser.gov.uk – gives advice to growers, land–owners and farm staff. «Regardless of how much fertiliser you store –– it is important that you consider measures to prevent it from being acquired and misused by criminals,» the Web site said. «The vast majority of terrorist attacks in the UK have used home–made explosives, most of which have been fertiliser–based.» Fertilizer–based explosives were used in attacks such as those in Oklahoma City in 1''5 and in Mumbai this year.