Farmer Sam Workman: Fighting the move

Others managed to break through the cordon and lay down in the road - one woman had to be dragged away after running in front of a lorry.

Welsh Rural Affairs Minister Carwyn Jones flew into Powys to hold talks with the protesters later on Saturday.

In total six lorries carrying supplies got through the blockade, but the protesters warned that when the lorries carrying carcasses arrive they will not have the same success.

"What we are facing is not the lorries today or tomorrow but something which will affect us for six months or six years, " said farmer Sam Workman.

She said farmers whose sheep graze on the land there were worried that the carcasses would contaminate the streams.

A separate demonstration by angry farmers and their families was also being mounted a few miles away at Sennybridge.

What we are facing is not the lorries today or tomorrow but something which will affect us for six months or six years

Sam Workman

Glyn Powell of the Farmers' Union of Wales said he hoped the protest would be a warning to other villages in Wales which would be travelled through by lorries carrying the carcasses.

Meanwhile on Anglesey - the movement of slaughtered animals continued on Saturday with more carcasses being transported to the landfill site at Penhesgyn near Menai Bridge,despite anger over plans to bury more dead sheep there

But the row over where to dispose of the carcasses on the north Wales island continues.

People living in the Penymynydd area held an emergency meeting on Saturday to discuss the burial of 40,000 dead sheep.

Farmers have reluctantly accepted that 10,000 carcasses will be buried at the Penhesgyn tip but there was overwhelming support to oppose any moves to dispose of any more dead animals there.

Farmers leaders on Anglesey will meet the Rural Affairs Minister Carwyn Jones and First Minister Rhodri Morgan on Sunday.

Meanwhile, in Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales, council leader Ray Thomas voiced his concerns over plans to take dead cattle from Cardigan to the Trecatti landfill site at Dowlais from Monday.

He said he had not even been consulted on the matter.

Two new cases of foot-and-mouth were confirmed in Wales on Saturday.

One was at Meifod near Welshpool in Powys, taking the total there to 29, and another at Raglan in Monmouthshire increasing the numbers there to five.

There are a further 13 cases on Anglesey. Four cases are still under suspicion.

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