A Newcastle company says it will compensate the owners of cattle which died of cyanide poisoning following pollution of the town’s Ngagane River last week.

The Water Affairs and Forestry Department said a formal investigation would be launched into the incident following the deaths of 15 cattle.

Jaco Prinsloo, spokesman for synthetic rubber manufacturer Karbochem, said those who had lost cattle as a result of the poisoning would be compensated r

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From carpet cleaner to England's second row blond bombshell

By Chris Foy

Mouritz Botha calls it a ‘long road’. It has certainly been a convoluted one — his painstaking journey from Vryheid, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa to the England team via part-time rugby and asbestos-stripping in Bedford. Not the most conventional background.

When the 30-year-old Saracens lock came through the full 80 minutes of his adopted country’s 13-6 RBS Six Nations victory over Scotland at Murrayfield last Saturday, it marked another giant stride towards personal fulfilment.

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