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Sides square up over badger cull

ITV News hears both sides of the badger debate following the Government's decision to push ahead with a cull to help tackle tuberculosis. The first licence to kill the wild animal was issued for a pilot cull in Gloucestershire.

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Brian May urges public to sign anti-badger cull petition

More than 100,000 have signed a petition against a cull of badgers to tackle tuberculosis in cattle, in a bid to prompt a parliamentary debate on it.

The e-petition was launched by Queen guitarist and campaigner Brian May last week as part of the "team badger" campaign, after the first licence to kill the protected wild animal was issued for a pilot cull in Gloucestershire.

He told ITV News he hoped one million people would sign the petition because it would "persuade David Cameron he would probably lose his job if he goes ahead" with the cull.

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