Government releases figures showing badger cull case was exaggerated by flawed bovine TB statistics

Tom Bawden Saturday, 15 February 2014 The Government’s highly controversial badger cull has suffered a further setback after it released figures which showed it had exaggerated the case for the cull. The Department for Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs (Defra) has admitted that an IT glitch meant it had overstated the number of cattle herds …