Badgers might look like fairly meek and mild animals, but they have scored an unlikely victory over highways officers at Oxfordshire County Council.
The animals had been moved from their sett to allow workmen to repair a stretch of road in Cumnor Hill.
But, cocking a snook at those in charge of the work, the badgers have moved back in and now looks as if they will stay until the end of their breeding season in June. Repair work, due to start this month, has now been put on hold.
The badgers have been living in the vicinity for 80 years and Cumnor Hill is their rightful home.
They certainly seem to like the area and appear to have got one over their human adversaries at County Hall, who thought simply moving them would make the problem disappear.
Game, sett and match to the fury four-legged animals? Watch this space.
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