Farmer welcomes action calls on TB

COVENTRY and Warwickshire farmer David Elgin has welcomed calls for the culling of badgers to protect cattle against tuberculosis.

Mr Elgin, who is chairman of the Warwickshire NFU, says people should not forget that back in the 1930s and 1940s - before milk was pasteurised - bovine TB was passed on to humans.

The government's chief scientific adviser has recommended culling in a new report.