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 | | Sunday, 24 March, 2002, 17:06 GMT Horse event to restart  The fair attracts travellers from across the UK The Appleby Horse Fair in Cumbria is to go ahead this year. The event, which attracts travellers from all over the UK, was cancelled last year because of foot-and-mouth disease. The Appleby Fair Joint Committee has given approval for the traditional horse fair in June. But organisers are asking visitors not to bring animals other than horses to the event. Economic loss The fair will be held from 6-12 June. The date will allow visitors to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee before starting their journeys to Appleby. The horse fair takes place a mile outside Appleby-in-Westmorland.
The event is one of the biggest such fairs in Europe and is held traditionally in June. Several hundred horses are normally brought to the fair to be sold. The event attracts large numbers of tourists. The chairman of the committee, Keith Morgan, said the cancellation of the event last year was an economic and cultural loss to the town. Farms infected Cumbria's economy was hit badly by the foot-and-mouth outbreak. It is estimated �230m was lost to the tourist industry. By the end of the outbreak 893 county premises were infected and 3,500 farms either lost all or some of their stock. In the county 1.1m sheep, 215,000 cattle, 45,000 pigs, and 1,500 other animals were killed. | |  
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