Tests on animals culled at a third Egham farm have shown the latest foot and mouth outbreak is the same strain of the disease as discovered last week.

Animals on the Klondyke farm were culled on Monday after testing positive for the disease.

The positive test results follow the discovery of the disease in slaughtered cattle at two other farms in the area.

The Klondyke sits within the 3km protection zone set up after foot and mouth was confirmed at Hardwick Park Farm.

A temporary exclusion zone set up around a farm in Solihull in the Midlands has now been lifted after negative test results for foot and mouth.

Restrictions on the movement of livestock, introduced last week following the latest foot-and-mouth outbreak, have been lifted outside the 10km surveillance zone surrounding the three farms where the disease has been found.

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs announced yesterday that licences will be given allowing pigs to be moved for welfare reasons and the movement of animals for 3km or cows for calving between land belonging to the same owner.

The Government's chief vet Debby Reynolds said a decision about whether to provide foot-and-mouth vaccines would be kept under review.

She said it had been decided not to vaccinate because the risk of spread of disease outside Surrey remained low.