Friday, October 12, 2012

United Kingdom: Owen Paterson: True blue countryman putting wind up green campaigners

Guardian: The little orphaned badgers Bessie and Baz, one-time pets of the new environment secretary, Owen Paterson, are enjoying a surprising posthumous fame thanks to his new role overseeing the imminent cull in England, which could result in a third of the population being shot dead. "I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in," Paterson reminisced in 2004. "So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/oct/11/owen-paterson-environment-guardian-profile?newsfeed=true
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2012/10/3/1349275946198/Owen-Paterson-MP-008.jpg

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