Lord and Lady Heseltine: 'Grey squirrels need to be culled'
Lord Michael and Lady Anne Heseltine have spoken out about the culling over 400 squirrels on their estate in recent times.
The couple, who are owners of the Thenford Estate in Nottinghamshire, have just released a new book about their passion for gardening called Thenford, The Creation of an English Garden. But their passion is not one that that extends to grey squirrels who have been running riot on their estate.
"They are destroyers," Lord Heseltine said.
"They destroy the trees and they destroy the wildlife. We had 30 nesting boxes and every one of them was destroyed by squirrels eating the eggs. We culled over 400 squirrels in 70 acres in nine months, so in other words we had an infestation. If you cull the greys, you get red back."