Robot Check. Enter the characters you see below. Sorry, we just need to make sure you're not a robot. For best results, please make sure your browser is accepting cookies. Meet the 2. 0- stone beasts ramming cars and tearing up gardens in Gloucestershire. The residents of the Forest of Dean are being terrorised. Their pretty village greens are quagmires of mud and shredded turf; their cricket pitches are unrecognisable. Their gardens have been looted and uprooted. Their (surviving) dogs are whimpering behind closed doors and their women and children are afraid to step out alone for fear of being mauled. So who are these dreadful predators – freakish beasts from another world; drunken thugs bent on destruction? The residents of the Forest of Dean are being terrorised by merciless marauders. Not quite. These merciless marauders are huge, hairy, 2. They even charge at cars and, occasionally, the odd combine harvesters, and have caused 4. All of which, from the safety of a safe, urban home might all sound a bit, well, unbelievable. But for the terrified residents of Yorkley, Lydney, Coleford and Alvington, whose ordeal features in a new ITV programme, Neighbourhood Nightmares, it is all far, far too real.'They root everything,' says Ivor Ellis, 7. Coleford. I can't get out of the front door sometimes.'A pet dog has been killed. Gail Rees's 1. 6- year- old son was left terrified after being chased by a sow with young piglets.'She came running full pelt at him,' she says. Soon someone is going to get seriously hurt.'Huge menace: A wild boar in the Forest of Dean and, top, a herd foraging locally for food Right now, it seems things can only get worse. Over the past three years, the wild boar population in the Forest of Dean has almost tripled to 1,5. Forestry Commission to keep numbers to 4. Today they rampage like an angry mob, ploughing up grassland with their tusks to get at worms; overturning huge rocks with their snouts. As featured in the first year set texts reading list in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an extensive introduction. LEGO set database: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Dimensions Story Pack revealed. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more. Based on the book by Anton Coolen, Dorp aan de Rivier tells the story of village doctor Tjerk van Taeke (Max Croiset), a local professional who genuinely cares about. De film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them draait vanaf november in de bioscopen, maar nu al is bekend dat regisseur David Yates een vervolg maakt op de Harry. Wild boar have been native to Britain since the Ice Age and history is bursting with bloody tales of them mauling helpless peasants and disembowelling sheep. THE HAIRY INVADERS Wild boar were hunted to extinction in Britain centuries ago but were reintroduced on farms before escaping and then breeding in the wild. They stand around 3ft 3in tall, can be 6. They reach sexual maturity within their first year and can breed all year round. Herds are known as sounders and are dominated by females. Richard III had a boar on his badge and they are commonly used in heraldry. Their heightened sense of smell allows them to sniff out food underground and they have acute hearing. They are good swimmers. One reportedly swam across a 2,3. Males have four continually growing tusks used when fighting for females. They all but disappeared from the British countryside before the civil war but continued to flourish on the Continent, where every year they still injure hundreds of people and cause mayhem. And now they have a growing presence here, too, thanks to a gastronomic obsession with wild boar sausages and designer ragu, a pasta sauce that showcases the meat, which began back in the Eighties. To service demand, specialist boar farms, licensed like zoos under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act, started popping up. Which was a good idea, in principle, but boars aren't the sort to stay cooped up for long. Some escaped through storm- damaged fences. Others cut their way out with their keen teeth and handy tusks. There were a few that managed moonlight flits from abattoirs. And every so often well- meaning animal rights idiots released a few more into the wild. Where they thrived – eating rabbits, voles, roots and worms and excelling at pretty much everything. They can run like the wind, swim like fish, clear 6ft fences with ease and boast such thick leathery skin that shotgun pellets just bounce off. The only thing they can't do is climb. But destruction is their forte. Their disproportionately massive heads plough through vast quantities of earth in seconds. On top of all that, they breed like rabbits – churning out up to three litters, or troops, of up to 1. Loss: Dilke Memorial Hospital in Cinderford used to hold fetes on its lawn... This year our aim is to maximise the number of animals we remove to try and prevent the population growing again.'But though the commission does cull, it clearly does not do so in sufficient numbers to control the exploding population – or to allay the fears of the poor residents of the Forest of Dean. Here, the damage to farmland, gardens, allotments, village greens and cricket pitches is now far, far beyond a joke. Neighbourhood Nightmares, 8pm ITV1, Tuesday September 1.
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