AN ill Lydney man is fuming after the lawns he has nurtured all summer have been "completely wrecked" by wild boar.

Colin Halford has a muscular disorder which means day-to-day tasks can leave him exhausted.

But determined to tidy-up his large lawned garden – he struggled through the pain – only to wake up last Wednesday to find his back garden, on Allaston Road, dug up.

The Review has also received reports of boar damage in nearby Lancaster Drive and to a property near Allaston mesne.

He said: "My garden looks like somebody has been down with a mini digger. It's a complete mess, nobody wants to take responsibility for them – it's scandalous!

"The cost side of it doesn't bother me as much as the fact that I struggled to get the garden back right in the summer.

"What's most concerning is that we don't even live in a rural area, we live on a main road, and the only place we think they could have come from was up the lane from the wood. It has really upset me as I have spent a lot of time treating the lawns in preparation for the winter. My two wheel barrows were also knocked over. They need to go altogether," he added.