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Date: 17th October 1989
Service: ORACLE
Region: N/A
Original Broadcast Channel: TVS
Current Page: 113
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P113 ORACLE 113 Tue17 Oct ITV 1944:57 NUNS GIVE UP BATTLE TO SAVE HENS A group of Northamptonshire nuns have given up a High Court battle to save their flock of 5,000 hens from slaughter. The Ministry of Agriculture says salmonella has been found in the flock at Our Lady of Passion monastery near Daventry. The nuns, who at one stage locked themselves in a henhouse to save the birds, are now giving up egg production Agriculture Minister John Gummer said the hens would be destroyed as soon as possible. "I'm glad our position has been totally vindicated." News headlines 101 Sport 130Next Story Newsfile Sport TV Guide