A gang of free-roaming 'hooligan' sheep have terrorised a village for nearly a decade by keeping residents up all night, destroying their gardens and using their lawns as a toilet. Locals of the Kidnalls Drive estate in the Forest of Dean say they can't get any sleep, can't grow any flowers and have had enough of the consistent menace of the unruly flock.
They have now demanded local shepherd Jeremy Awdry take action and accused him of failing to control his rampaging woolly pests ever since the estate in Whitecroft, Glos., was built in 2014. Mr Awdry, 74, has hit back at his critics, saying his sheep have the right to graze anywhere in the Forest of Dean under ‘common of mast’ laws originating in the Middle Ages.
But locals say the forest boundary is marked by a bollard 30 metres down the road from the estate and claim the sheep have no right to roam there. And they have now said they have suffered long enough.
