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Photograph: Victor Watts/AlamySome, though, have welcomed the investment, saying it has cheered up a previously unloved train station and the Bekker family were creating jobs as well as bringing new people to the area to eat in the restaurants and drink in the pubs.Visitors to the \u00a3800-a-night Newt hotel are invited to enjoy being immersed in the nature of deep Somerset. The hotel recently welcomed a cage of endangered red squirrels. But there, too, lay a problem.The Newt consulted rewilding expert Derek Gow about keeping five red squirrels in a pen. They became extinct in most of England after invasive grey squirrels were introduced from America which carry a virus that causes a disease called squirrelpox, which kills off the reds.Gow said: \u201cThe Newt did talk to me about it; we did have one conversation. I said: \u2018It is not going to be viable.\u2019 It is performative \u2013 [the squirrels] are in the cage to show guests. That\u2019s it. 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Photograph: Dave Benett/Getty Images for The Newt in Somerset & BurberryThe businessman has a net worth of about \u00a33bn and is the chair of Naspers, one of the world\u2019s biggest technology firms. 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Photograph: Victor Watts/AlamySome, though, have welcomed the investment, saying it has cheered up a previously unloved train station and the Bekker family were creating jobs as well as bringing new people to the area to eat in the restaurants and drink in the pubs.Visitors to the \u00a3800-a-night Newt hotel are invited to enjoy being immersed in the nature of deep Somerset. The hotel recently welcomed a cage of endangered red squirrels. But there, too, lay a problem.The Newt consulted rewilding expert Derek Gow about keeping five red squirrels in a pen. They became extinct in most of England after invasive grey squirrels were introduced from America which carry a virus that causes a disease called squirrelpox, which kills off the reds.Gow said: \u201cThe Newt did talk to me about it; we did have one conversation. I said: \u2018It is not going to be viable.\u2019 It is performative \u2013 [the squirrels] are in the cage to show guests. That\u2019s it. 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