Badgers face eviction over grave damage

Parts of the Welsh bard’s final resting place have been so badly damaged by the animals they look like a ploughed field.

St Martin’s Church in Laugharne, West Wales, is visited by tourists from across the world because of the poet.

The simple white cross bearing Thomas’s name forms part of a literary pilgrimage together with the boathouse, now a museum, where Thomas wrote Under Milk Wood and spent his last four years.

Now, the church is considering alternative ways to keep the badgers out of the graveyard.