EVERY morning residents of Soudley's Sutton and Church Road wake up wondering how much more green has turned to brown. They are not looking at the autumnal shades creeping through the wooden sides of this quiet valley, but down at the grass at their feet and the growing devastation left behind from another night of foraging boar.

It started on a sloped area at the end of the large grassy area in the Sutton Road cul-de-sac about two weeks ago. Now it has increased to over a third of this along with a smaller area where the road splits at a street light which has had no blade left unturned.

The worst affected is an enclosed back garden that has had the boar breach the fencing. After a summer of love and hard work turning it from the waste land it was to a lovely lawn garden it has been destroyed for a second time on the third visit despite the best efforts by the owners to block and strengthen the bottom of the boundary fence. Stone blocks, wooden stakes and board proved no match for the determined boar.

Church Road has not escaped the notice of these snuffling nocturnal invaders as can be clearly seen by any motorist passing through the village. Even the children of the nearby primary school have not been left unaffected. Their weekly 'Wellie Walks' are now cancelled for the foreseeable future due to the close proximity of damage left by, and danger presented by, the presence of the boar in this area.

The questions is, if the boar continue at the rate they are going and destroy all of the remaining grass that Two Rivers charge to maintain, will it's residents have to continue to pay?

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