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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish engineers have poured pig manure into a contaminated pond next to an old mine, saying the bacteria in the slurry will clean up metals in the water. Mining company Outokumpu dumped 450 cubic meters of pig slurry into the waste water near the closed Kangasjarvi mine, which once produced zinc, copper and sulfur. "Pig slurry contains bacteria that bind metals that are in the mine water and they will sink to the bottom. We have used this system to clean mine waters at various mines," Eero Soininen, Outokumpu's mine reclamation manager, told Reuters. "Around 15 years...

Vet Sue Potter had to hold her breath under the slurry A farmer who held a terrified vet's face under 18 inches of slurry has been found guilty of affray. Judge Stephen O'Malley released farmer Roger Baker on bail while a pre-sentence report was carried out, but warned him he faced jail. The jury at Taunton Crown Court could not agree on a second charge of threats to kill and the case was dropped by the prosecution. Susan Potter, 46, and animal health inspector Jonathan McCulloch, 27, were videoing a dead lamb and emaciated cattle on Baker's land at...