Name: Fox-proofing.
Age: Pretty new.
Appearance: Some makeshift combination of netting, planks, bricks, metal spikes, bits of fence and even wellies.
I guess it can be pretty difficult to keep a determined fox off your raised beds. This isn’t for the garden – it’s to stop foxes damaging your car.
Your car? It’s a particular problem in the suburbs of the south-east: Kent, Sussex, Greater London.
Which bits of the cars are they damaging? The brake cables, mostly.
That sounds a bit, erm, premeditated. But not just brakes; they also chew through tyre pressure sensors and electric charging cables.
Is this common? It’s happening more frequently. Residents of Sidcup, in south London, have recently been forced
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