Letters: The monks of Skanda Vale may have become 'experts in microbiology' (Monks and nuns prepare to confront health officials in life or death showdown over Shambo the bull, July 2) but they ...

The Skanda Vale community has a wide range of livestock including an elephant, ponies, water buffalo, cows, bulls, llama and deer. Monks say they believe in the sanctity of all life and oppose the ...

The animals from the Skanda Vale Temple in Carmarthenshire, have been isolated from the herd and will be re-tested.

MONKS who went to court to try to save a bullock’s life were yesterday braced for news that more of their animals may be killed if they test positive for TB.

Brother Alex of Skanda Vale said the community was "very disappointed" by the new slaughters but they had "exhausted all possibilities in terms of legal challenges". And Brother Michael said the ...

Two more animals must be put down at a religious community where Shambo, the temple bullock, was slaughtered after testing positive for bovine tuberculosis, Wales' rural affairs minister has said.

Hindu monks at the Skanda Vale multi-faith community in west Wales are facing new demands for the slaughter of some of their cattle.Almost a month after a. Sign in. LATEST. LATEST.

A NORTH Wales AM has called for the immediate slaughter of any further TB-infected livestock at the religious retreat which repeatedly tried to prevent infected bullock Shambo from being killed.

Two more animals from the same religious community as Shambo, the bullock that was slaughtered after it tested positive for bovine tuberculosis, face being put down, it emerged today. Animal ...

London: Two more animals, a water buffalo and a bullock, infected with bovine tuberculosis at the Skanda Vale Hindu temple will be slaughtered immediately, the Welsh Assembly government announced ...

THE fate of a sacred Hindu bullock is likely to be decided by lawyers despite an Assembly government decision to order its slaughter. Eleventh hour representations by the Skanda Vale Temple ...