Badgers dig up graves in churchyard

Badgers have wrecked seven graves in a churchyard – even digging up a beloved husband.

A dozen of them caused havoc after tunnelling under a wall to extend their sett from a neighbouring field.

But church bosses say protection laws mean they can’t do anything about it until the badger breeding season ends in June.



The church says to take action would be breaking the 1992 Protection of Badgers Act.

The law says it is an offence to disturb, damage or destroy a sett and it carries six months’ jail or a £5,000 fine.

Rev David Eady, 64, said: “We sympathise with the families. But our hands are tied.”