A 30-year-old man from the Bristol area has been arrested on suspicion of common assault as part of a badger cull police operation.

He was arrested by officers working on Operation Themis, which is monitoring the badger cull, and follows an incident at a farm in Bromsberrow Heath, Ledbury, on the Herefordshire-Gloucestershire border at about 10pm on Monday, September 22.

The man is currently being questioned at Cheltenham police station.