Smallholder given 10-year ban after failing to remove rotting carcases

A Nottinghamshire smallholder has been issued a ten-year ban from keeping livestock after trading standards officers found rotting carcasses on her land.

Nottinghamshire County Council has prosecuted Gemma Slinger, from Torworth near Retford, after finding carcasses of a goat and pig on her land.

The carcasses had been left rotting and decomposed to skin and bone, the council said.