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24/10/2007

Farmers hail badger cull advice



THE Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) has welcomed the report from Sir David King, the government's chief scientist, which advocates a widespread cull of badgers in areas where there is a "high and persistent incidence" of bovine tuberculosis.




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