However, Pc Towers said there was no evidence that badger baiting had taken place, and that the sett may have been filled in by children. He said: “We are not classifying this as a criminal ...

Hunt groups sometimes deliberately block badger setts so that foxes can ... I've shot all the badgers on the farm so why would I want to fill in their setts?" He added that it is legal to do ...

Mr Clarkson said: "Badgers are much loved in certain circles. Not here. "We haven't filled in a badger's sett. There's no point because we've shot them. "So is it contrary to say we've shot our ...

Badgers are relocated by fitting one-way gates to the existing sett, allowing them to leave but not return. There then must be 21 days without badger activity at the sett before it can disturbed.

Officers investigating what they have described as a "serious case of badger sett interference" have released an image of three men they want to speak to. The alleged incident is said to have ...

Sixteen badger setts have, so far, been protected by the volunteers who run Operation Brockwatch. The scheme is led by the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (USPCA ...

A temporary den was discovered on an active badger sett, police have said. Evidence of drug use was found at the site in the Monkmoor area of Shrewsbury. It came following reports to police that a ...