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Bird flu: Bernard Matthews gets £600k

Last Modified: 19 Apr 2007
By: Tom Clarke

£600,000 awarded in compensation for the firm at the heart of Britain's bird flu outbreak - but no answers as to how the virus got there.

£600,000 in compensation for the firm at the heart of Britain's bird flu outbreak - even though an official report found it had failed to maintain its biosecurity.

MPs have reacted angrily over the size of the payout to Bernard Matthews with the leader of the Commons Jack Straw saying he felt 'uncomfortable'.

But despite an intensive investigation, the DEFRA report couldn't pinpoint how the infection occurred. Watch the report from our science correspondent, Tom Clarke.