A second licence has been issued allowing farmers to cull badgers - this time in West Somerset after the first was granted in Gloucestershire last month.

The government wants 70 percent of badgers in the two counties to be killed to stop the spread of bovine tuberculosis - which they say is causing the death of cattle and costing the UK one hundred million pounds a year.

Animal welfare charities wanted widespread vaccination instead - but lost an appeal at the High Court.