Cases of bird flu have been confirmed in Bury St Edmunds and Maldon.

Suffolk Trading Standards has confirmed that the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 is present in a backyard flock of poultry, in Little Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds.

Essex Trading Standards also confirmed an outbreak at a premises just outside Tolleshut Major, near Maldon.

It has been confirmed that all poultry on the infected premises have been humanely culled.

A 3km protection zone and a 10km surveillance zone has been put in place around the infected premises, to limit the risk of the disease spreading.

In a post on Facebook, Suffolk Trading Standards said: "If your birds aren’t housed you are putting them at huge risk and if they are housed they are still at high risk if you don’t practice good biosecurity."