As a Saltdean resident, I congratulate Defra for issuing a licence to cull the badgers.

We are sick and tired of replacing our garden fences, re-turfing our lawns and finding flower pots ruined.

The Argus refers to only four homes having problems.

We can assure you there are hundreds. If the protesters had to put up with the destruction we have had, it would be a different story.

Incidentally, how many of the protesters came from Saltdean? As one neighbour said, badgers are lovely - in somebody else's garden.

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