Hollywood director Tim Burton is facing backlash from his neighbours after a 3ft-tall fence was erected near his £2.9million Cotswolds home – which locals say blocks their riverside walks. Residents in the village of Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, are up in arms after the ‘selfish and heartless’ wooden fence appeared two weeks ago. Villagers say they fence … Read more
An affluent community is raising £100,000 to buy a patch of bulldozed farmland amid fears it will become a massive traveller site in the shadow of Windsor Castle and Eton College. Villagers in leafy Eton Wick, Berkshire, were alarmed when a digger began ripping dowen trees and churning up the empty plot Crown Farm ahead … Read more
Who ate all the pies…? Villagers turn super sleuth amateur detectives to find thief who stole £100 worth of pastries… because police are too busy Shopkeeper Mark Griffiths, 26, was stunned when a thief pinched his delivery Delivery of 70 pies, sausage rolls and pasties were stolen at his post office store in Broughton, Flintshire … Read more
Angry residents called in the police when they discovered an Army major and his family had been allowed to relocate to a holiday cottage in their remote village. Residents of Melmerby, North Yorkshire believe Major Neil Foot-Tapping should have been isolating on an Army base after flying in from his posting in Kenya. Instead the … Read more
Poet laureate Simon Armitage recalls heroic villagers of Eyam who quarantined themselves in 1665 to make sure no one else would catch their Black Death in his new coronavirus poem Locals in Derbyshire village took selfless measures to minimise disease spread They stayed home and left ‘cleansing’ vinegar-soaked cash in exchange for food Armitage says … Read more