Reporter’s Notebook: David Gray

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This week’s Reporter’s Notebook comes from Orkney, where the islanders are wrestling with an invasion of stoats. As an alien species on the island, the ‘furry ninjas’ have wreaked havoc on indigenous ground-nesting bird species and the Orkney vole population, but how to control stoat numbers without outraging animal lovers? BBC reporter David Grey investigates.