Badgers in Lincolnshire are to enjoy luxury well beyond the trampoline used in John Lewis’s Christmas advertisement John Lewis/PAAs if it were not enough that they are brazenly bouncing on trampolines in this year’s John Lewis Christmas advert, badgers are now being given luxury homes, too. The Environment Agency has come under attack for spending almost £50,000 on a badger sett that included a larder, areas for socialising and sleeping and a latrine. It also spent more than £240,000 repairing damage done to flood defences by the animals. The badgers had been digging into and undermining the banks of the River Steeping near Skegness. Officials hoped that the superior accommodation would tempt them away, allowing workers to shore up the banks.

Source: The Times November 21, 2016 00:05 UTC