With Mary Poppins again in cinemas on the movie’s sixtieth anniversary, the query of whether or not or not one should feed the birds is making its means again into the general public consciousness.
That debate has plagued a pair who say they’ve been threatened with prosecution after their neighbours determined to wage a “27-year vendetta” in opposition to them for feeding the birds that land of their rewilded backyard.
Stephen Atkinson-Jones, 71, and his spouse Caroline, 64, let vegetation and bushes develop freely of their backyard, whereas their neighbours, whom they’ve dubbed “the Glums”, have opted for manicured lawns and completely symmetrical hedges.
The entrance of Stephen and Caroline Atkinson-Jones’s backyard, proper, and their neighbours’ backyard in Bexhill-on-Sea
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Atkinson-Jones stated that till just lately his angle was to reside and let reside. However, he determined to make public the feud with the