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The bully-boys - and their possible grave-digging pals - of the Badger Trust have been faced down by Elin Jones and the Assembly government.

The trust has since wound themselves up into a fury because Ms Jones has refused to give the names (and the addresses?) of the TB Technical Advisory Group and Programme Board [...]

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Badger-lovers seem determined to turn into an international issue the cull of badgers proposed by Welsh minister Elin Jones in order to curb bovine TB.

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The fact that the English have decided not to cull their badgers will make no difference to minister Elin Jones.

Glib comments from the Badger Trust in England and from English newspapers will merely prove that they don’t know what they are talking about.

This is a devolved issue, has been for some time, and preparations are [...]

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Elin Jones is swiftly getting a name as the coolest, most able and even quietly funniest Plaid minister in the Welsh government.

Updating the press on the bovine tuberculosis outbreak raging in much of rural Wales, she told of the 100 cattle recently culled from contact with the disease at the Gelli Aur farm college near [...]

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Assembly folk reckon the Badger Trust is wasting its time trying to judicially challenge minister Elin Jones over her proposed badger cull in one of the disease hot spots.

A senior Assembly Member closely linked to the issue said, “The government’s position is very soundly based, particularly because a cull would be only one of [...]

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With the Badger Trust determined to obtain a judicial review of the Assembly Government’s decision to implement a limited rural cull of badgers as part of a panoply of measures to hunt the burgeoning bovine TB epidemic ripping though our countryside, Cardiff is entering new and difficult legal waters.
Apparently, badger-lover sites in England have been [...]

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