Revealed: Badger cull costs taxpayer £831,0000 – or £1,000 for every animal killed

9th June 2018 New figures show policing the badger cull in one county alone has cost the public purse more than £831,000 in the last year. A Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request from the Wounded Badger Patrol Cheshire was originally rejected by Cheshire Police, after officers said they did not hold the figures. But …