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Welsh badger cull blocked by campaigners

Jonathan Riley
Tuesday 13 July 2010 10:25

The Welsh Assembly Government has lost a courtroom battle on the legality of a badger culling trial to combat bovine tuberculosis.

Three appeal court judges in Cardiff upheld a challenge by The Badger Trust to overturn an earlier decision which ruled in favour of a cull.

The move means the assembly government will have to rethink its TB Eradication programme in Wales.

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