Police were called this morning after a farmer and her supporters began a blockade and stand-off with an agricultural contractor sent to create a new gateway in a hedge on the main road out of Bristol.
The stand-off began at around 9am this morning (Monday, April 3) and continued for the rest of the day, with local farmer Catherine Withers and supporters and environmental campaigners parking their cars to stop a hedge-cutting tractor from working on the hedge.
The owner of the land sent the contractors out to cut a 12-metre wide gap in the hedge on the corner of the A38 Bridgwater Road in Bishopsworth, and the privately-owned country lane to Yew Tree Farm, but left at the end of the day with the hedge intact.
