A batch of Dunsyre Blue was alleged to have started an outbreak of E. coli

A cheesemaker is demanding almost £400,000 compensation from the council that tried to have his products destroyed.

Humphrey Errington, 74, has been told that he can sell his cheese again after winning a fight with South Lanarkshire council, which wanted the products declared unsafe to eat. It called for Mr Errington’s cheese to be destroyed after an E. coli outbreak, allegedly involving an Errington cheese, in which a three-year-old girl from Dunbartonshire died.

Sheriff Robert Weir, QC, ruled that Errington Cheese did not breach safety standards at its factory and has lifted an order stopping the sale of Lanark Blue and Corra Linn. A civil hearing at Hamilton sheriff court was told that one batch of Lanark Blue and three of Corra Linn will be