The MP for East Devon is meeting DEFRA officials later today... to discuss the future of the colony of beavers living on the River Otter.
The Government department says they may be diseased... and should be tested, and then taken into captivity.
But local people, including the landowner, want them to stay once they've been checked for disease... and an online petition in support of that has more than eight thousand 600 signatures
Council fights unreleased Ofsted report
Authority still rated inadequate
£550,000 Christmas windfall for Brixham pool
'It's time to celebrate!'
Girl missing from Newton Abbot
Christeen Madge could be trying to go abroad
Exeter to bid for unitary status in major council shake-up
City's 'powerhouse' role key to county success
Bomb squad investigates suspicious car in Cranbrook
Homes not yet evacuated
