A row has broken out over the treatment of a badgers sett in the line of a major housing development. The animals' underground home is on land between Pleasley and Mansfield in Nottinghamshire ...

A member of the South Shropshire Hunt who admitted interfering with a badger sett has been fined £845. David Conde, 61, from Condover, had pleaded guilty to the offence at a hearing at Telford ...

Under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992, it is an offence to interfere with a badger sett A member of the South Shropshire Hunt who admitted interfering with a badger sett has been fined £845.