Total confirmed cases - 1,058

• Tony Blair will today attempt to boost the ailing tourist industry which has been badly damaged by the foot and mouth outbreak.
  
  
• The National Pig Association said "Government negligence" was responsible for the outbreak, through poorly regulated swill-feeding. It also blamed the Government for last year's outbreak of swine fever.
  
  
• A 37-year-old man has been questioned over the fatal shooting of a slaughterman, Steven Smart, during the mass cull of livestock in Cumbria.
  
  
• US President George W Bush expresses sympathy over foot and mouth when he meets Scottish First Minister Henry McLeish in the Oval Office.
  
  
• A herd of unidentified cattle - possibly smuggled - are found roaming in Co Tipperary. They were slaughtered.
  
  
• A Nottinghamshire vet makes a formal complaint to Maff claiming a diagnosis of possible foot and mouth was overruled without an examination.
  
  
• The number of soldiers involved is set to almost double to 2,900 with US vets also flying in.
  
  
• William Hague suggests the creation of a gene bank for rare breeds threatened by decimation.
  
  
• But he also accuses the Government of being "obsessed with the daily numbers game".
  
  
• One in five businesses has been hit by foot and mouth, according to a survey of financial directors.
  
  
• Two-thirds of consumers feel the Government is not doing enough for the future of farming, another survey shows.
  
  
• Measures to wipe out foot and mouth are "beginning to bite", chief scientist Professor David King says.
  
  
• Emergency vaccination of zoo animals given the go-ahead by EU vets.