UK relaxes restrictions for future badger culls

Government met cull targets in Somerset, Gloucestershier and Dorset to combat bovine TB, but scientists criticise plan to drop time limit on future culls

The government is to relax the restrictions on its controversial badger culls as it rolls them out to new areas in 2016.

But a leading scientist has warned that the move makes it even less likely that culling will achieve its aim of reducing tuberculosis in cattle and could even make it worse.