Plans to slaughter tens of thousands of badgers to halt the spread of tuberculosis in cattle have been abandoned, it emerged yesterday. In a move welcomed by environmentalists but condemned as a ...

Almost 7,500 badgers could be culled across Staffordshire and Cheshire as the government announced the extended list of badger control areas. Three areas of Staffordshire and two areas of Cheshire ...

It comes after it was revealed the controversial badger cull looks set to be extended to Shropshire following an application to include the county in the scheme in a bid to eradicate bovine TB.

At the end of August, the badger cull was expanded to two new areas in the Midlands. When we covered this story at the time, I mentioned we were still waiting on more data about the impact of the cull ...

When we covered this story at the time, I mentioned we were still waiting on more data about the impact of the cull and now that data been released. The argument for culling badgers is that in the ...