Culling campaigners film moment badger 'took a minute to die' after being shot

A campaign group protesting the cull of badgers in Cumbria has filmed the moment they say an animal in the county took almost a minute to die after being shot.

The group called the Hunt Investigation Team planted a secret camera at the sett near Newby, south of Penrith.

The female badger, which had been trapped, was then shot at close range, but appeared to convulse for some time before dying.

The Government permits badger culling under licence, within a set area and timescale, as a way to reduce badger numbers in the hope of controlling the spread of bovine TB - which is carried by badgers and poses a risk of death among cattle.

Campaigners argue that the cull has not been proven to reduce that spread.