Article: Calf used in plea to apply cull pressure ; A poignant message from a little four-month-old calf exhibited at the Royal Bath and West of England Show, called on the public to lobby their MPs for a cull of TB-diseased badgers.

Article: Cull tension looms at show ; The spectre of bovine TB and a ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  July 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The spectre of bovine TB and a possible cull of diseased badgers to stop it from spreading hung over the opening ... already have contingency plans to implement a cull of diseased badgers, which they blame for its spread to their livestock ...

Article: Ministers lose farmers' trust ; The deep divisions between those ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  July 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... be no officially sanctioned cull of diseased badgers, an already yawning chasm became ... and carefully controlled culls of diseased badgers, For the most part, they would take ... thinks refusing a controlled cull of diseased badgers is more likely to endear him and his ...

Article: Government 'must order a cull of diseased badgers ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  September 8, 2006 ;     614 words ... ... badgers 35 years ago. It was, he said, a disease that kills horribly. Yet the Government refused to order a cull of diseased badgers. He said it was believed there were about 750,000 badgers in Britain, about half of them in the South West. Two per ...

Article: RURAL MATTERS: Farming 'crisis' in cull on diseased ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  October 4, 2005 ;     460 words ... ... its continuing future. "The NFU is absolutely right to say that we now need to take action and engage in the cull of diseased badgers." He added: "The fact is that many badgers are dying in many parts of the country including my own West Dorset. They ...

Article: Scourge of Bovine TB to be debated ; The spread of bovine TB and ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  September 10, 2008 ;     372 words ...The spread of bovine TB and the Government's refusal to order a cull of diseased badgers will form a central theme of the event's discussions. There has been a 25 per cent increase in the number of new TB incidents ...

Article: Court battle on cards in TB row ; The prospect of the Government ...
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  May 20, 2008 ;     535 words ...The prospect of the Government finding itself in the European Court for refusing to cull diseased badgers has moved closer to becoming reality. Farmers in one of the country's worst TB hotspots - Devon - have handed over another pounds10 ...

Article: Benn must act on Bovine TB ; This week - barring any further ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  June 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... from the Secretary of State at Defra, Hilary Benn, about whether or not the Government is to sanction a targeted cull of diseased badgers in the fight against bovine TB. It's an announcement that is long, long overdue. People talk in politics about ministers ...