"Nicholas Hugh "Nick" Brown" is a United Kingdom/British Labour Party (UK)/Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (UK)/Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne East (UK Parliament constituency)/Newcastle upon Tyne East since United Kingdom general election, 1983/1983. He has served as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Department for Work and Pensions/Minister of State for Work and Pensions, Chief Whip/Deputy Chief Whip, and was the Government of the United Kingdom/Government's Chief Whip from October 2008 to May 2010.

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We have to get the time between the identification of the individual disease outbreaks and the slaughter of infected animals down as far as we can get it and to try and get it within twenty four hours.

Potentially a very serious situation.

A loss always stings, no matter who it is to. But we don't have anything to hang our heads about.

These measures are not an issue of human health but are designed to prevent the spread of the virus in livestock.

We had it coming. We just had a couple of bad games.

We will succeed in eradication.

It's under control. What we don't know is how much is incubating, which spread before the movement restrictions were put in place.

Our brand of football.

This is a comprehensive and very powerful public protection measure to extinguish mad cow disease.