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MARK CARWARDINE OPINION

WE WERE DANCING IN THE streets, in March 2020, when the government announced that badger culling would be phased out over the next five years. But we should have known better. Quite the reverse, it has extended the number of cull zones and increased the number of badgers being killed.

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