Posted on April 29, 2008 by cambriapolitico
Elin Jones is swiftly getting a name as the coolest, most able and even quietly funniest Plaid minister in the Welsh government.
Updating the press on the bovine tuberculosis outbreak raging in much of rural Wales, she told of the 100 cattle recently culled from contact with the disease at the Gelli Aur farm college near [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by cambriapolitico
Assembly folk reckon the Badger Trust is wasting its time trying to judicially challenge minister Elin Jones over her proposed badger cull in one of the disease hot spots.
A senior Assembly Member closely linked to the issue said, “The government’s position is very soundly based, particularly because a cull would be only one of [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by cambriapolitico
With the Badger Trust determined to obtain a judicial review of the Assembly Government’s decision to implement a limited rural cull of badgers as part of a panoply of measures to hunt the burgeoning bovine TB epidemic ripping though our countryside, Cardiff is entering new and difficult legal waters.
Apparently, badger-lover sites in England have been [...]
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