Government vets imposed the order last autumn as cases of bird flu climbed.

The first case of the HPAI H5N1 strain of avian influenza of the 2025 to 2026 outbreak season was confirmed in England on October 11 last year.

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Since then 97 cases across the UK have been confirmed - 76 of them in England - and thousands of poultry and kept birds culled.

The AI season runs from October 1 to September 30 each year. In 2024/25 there were 821 cases, in 2023/24 six cases, in 2022/23, 208, and 2021/22 there were 158.

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Mark Gorton - managing director of Traditional Norfolk Poultry (TNP) which operates across Norfolk and Suffolk - described the news as........

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