Farmers break law in bovine TB hot spot area. Mother and daughter Kathleen Wallis, 61, and Sarah Wallis, 23, of Appleton Farm, at Wick St Lawrence, near Weston-super-Mare, admitted 18 counts of providing false information as to the location of a number of their cattle when they appeared before Bristol Crown Court. The farmers admitted to failing to adhere to cattle disease control laws and were branded "ignorant, rotten and cruel" by a judge. North Somerset Council trading standards officers and the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratory Agency discovered the cattle had been moved to Wick St Lawrence in 2011 without being subject to mandatory pre-movement tuberculosis testing, in an attempt to dodge laws designed to prevent outbreaks from spreading. Judge Julian Lambert gave Kathleen Wallis a seven-month suspended jail sentence and two-year community order. He told her she was "stubborn, ignorant, rotten and cruel" and would face immediate jail if she offended again. She has to pay costs of £16,960. Sarah Wallis was given a two-year community order and told to do 210 hours of unpaid work. The court heard that both farmers had previous animal movement or welfare-related convictions. www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Farmer-ignored-cattle-control-laws/story-19452126-detail/story.html#axzz2XsJUzJ7y