Thieves steal hedge from nature reserve
Friday 18th June 2010, 11:25AM BST.
Bosses at Shropshire Wildlife Trust say thieves have carried out the most bizarre theft they have ever encountered – by pinching a whole hedge from one of their nature reserves.
Trust chiefs said staff have no idea why anyone would want the hedge, which has been taken from the group’s Holly Banks Nature Reserve at Melverley, near Oswestry.
The hedge, measuring about 25 feet long and three feet high, was stolen sometime between Wednesday evening and yesterday.
Staff say the unusual theft was “pointless” because recent weather conditions mean the hedge was in such a condition it could not be replanted.
Trust spokesman Sarah Bierley said: “The hedge was made of up about 25 trees such as hawthorn and field maple.
“It was only planted a few months ago so it was not very tall.
“Whoever did it has come along with tools, dug it up including all the roots and taken it away.
“Our staff said the last time they checked it was there and then next time the whole thing was gone.
“Nothing else was taken and I have never heard anything so bizarre in all my time working with the trust.
“It is pointless taking it because this is the wrong time of year to be planting hedges.
“The condition of the hedge will mean that it will just die.”
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Is this the bit where English Exile starts banging on about the British disease and how Spanish kids don’t steal hedges and if any hedges were to go missing in Spain then they were probably stolen by English kids..
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It’s probably one of them Laandoners, Spencer. ;)
Holly doesn’t grow so well in clay soils in the south whereas here it grows very easily like a weed.
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maybe some dimwit who’d heard about hedge funds so decided to start his own..;-)
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