Every Dutch mink farm to be shut down
Heroic WW2 spy honoured
VIRUS FEARS Farm mink
ALL mink farms in Holland will shut for good by March next year.
It is understood the move is to stop Covid-19 reservoirs forming. Mink are thought to have given the virus to farm workers.
About two million mink have already been culled after virus outbreaks.
Mink on unaffected farms will be slaughtered for their pelts in November this year, but breeders are not permitted to restock.
Holland farmed around 4.5 million mink in 2018.
Dr Joanna Swabe, of the Humane Society International said: “This signals the end of suffering for animals confined to small wire cages on fur farms in the Netherlands.”
The Mirror is pushing to stop the sale of fur products into the UK.
Noor died with call for freedom
Blue plaque at house
Noor in uniform
WARTIME Britain’s “most unlikely” spy was yesterday honoured with a blue plaque.
The English Heritage tribute marks the home that Noor Inayat Khan left to battle the Nazis in 1943. Noor, of Indian and American descent, was the first woman radio operator flown into occupied France and Britain’s first Muslim war heroine in Europe. She escaped from Gestapo arrest but was recaptured and killed in Dachau, aged 30. Despite torture, she refused to reveal anything to her captors – even her name. Her last word was “Liberté!” Noor’s incredible bravery serving in the Special Operations Executive won her a posthumous George Cross.
The plaque was unveiled in Bloomsbury, Central London, by her biographer Shrabani Basu.
She said: “When she left this house on her last mission she would never have dreamt that one day she would become a symbol of bravery.
“She was an unlikely spy. As a Sufi she believed in non-violence. Yet when her adopted country needed her, she gave her life unhesitatingly.
“It is fitting she is the first woman of Indian origin to be remembered with a blue plaque. Her story will continue to inspire future generations.”