Pet ferrets are being used to kill hundreds of rabbits causing serious damage to sports pitches in a Mid Wales town.

Shropshire Star

Welshpool Town Council has so far been unsuccessful in its attempts to address the “rabbit problem” which has been plaguing the town’s Maesydre playing fields with holes.

But now ferret owners appear to have taken the matter into their own hands and have started taking their pets down to the pitches in a bid to reduce the number of rabbits churning them up.

Now the town council is hoping other ferret owners will follow the example.