The RSPCA has stepped in to save more than a thousand sheep stranded on Foulness.
Around 1,750 ewes and lambs, were stranded on Foulness because Bud Brignall, the Kent farmer who owns them, was unable to transport them because of foot-and-mouth movement restrictions. It is thought that 400 ewes and newborn lambs have already died.
He had applied to have the animals slaughtered on welfare grounds - but the RSPCA said he could move them to a compound on the Ministry of Defence land.
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