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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/champion-bulls-11th-hour-reprieve.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The owner of a prize-winning bull due to be slaughtered by Defra has won an 11th-hour reprieve in the High Court" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-champion-bulls-11th-hour-reprieve.jpg" alt="The owner of a prize-winning bull due to be slaughtered by Defra has won an 11th-hour reprieve in the High Court"/></a></p>
<p>The owner of a prize-winning bull due to be slaughtered after testing positive for bovine TB has won an 11th-hour reprieve in the High Court.</p>
<p>A judge ordered Hallmark Boxter, also known as &#8220;Boxy&#8221;, to be spared while farmer Ken Jackson, of Forlorn Hope Farm in South Yorkshire, makes one last legal bid to block the death sentence.</p>
<p>Mr Jackson disputes the validity of the TB test that condemned his &#8220;unique and irreplaceable&#8221; showground champion and has been fighting over several months for a re-test, offering personally to pay for it.</p>
<p>A positive blood sample was taken from the bull in April last year and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) ordered him to be slaughtered.</p>
<p>Mr Jackson, whose farm is at Stubbs Walden, north of Doncaster, and is named after an old battle site, argues the officers who took the sample mixed two half-full vials in the field, contrary to written procedures. He wants the positive test declared null and void by the courts.</p>
<p>He has obtained evidence from Professor Paul Torgerson that suggests the sample cannot be relied upon because of the danger that it was contaminated.</p>
<p>Boxy was due to have been put down on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The bull, one of the most valuable British Blonde bulls in the country, remains in isolation.</p>
<p>The High Court heard there was no evidence of bTB in the rest of Mr Jackson&#8217;s herd.</p>
<p>Julie Anderson, appearing for Defra, said: &#8220;It is very important this bull is slaughtered. There is a disease risk. That risk is being contained but no-one is suggesting it is eliminated.&#8221;</p>
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