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Birds of prey are terrorising Henley-on-Thames by attacking people and stealing their food.
A two-year-old boy was left with blood pouring from his hand when a huge bird - thought to be a red kite - with 5ft wide wings swooped down to grab his biscuit.
In another attack in the town, a woman was forced to flee indoors when a red kite, with needle-sharp talons, tried to snatch smoked mackerel from her salad.
The attacks in the Oxfordshire town have led to experts pleading with people not to tame the kites - which resemble eagles - by feeding them scraps in back gardens.
PICTURED: One of the new tunnelling machines and some of the wall sections being produced at a factory in Bucks (pictures by HS2 Ltd). Right: The River Misbourne (image by Brenda Spargo/BFP Camera Club) More concerns have been raised about HS2 digging under the Chilterns AONB amid fears it could damage Bucks rivers. Last week the Chiltern Society warned that the chalk aquifer – which it says provides drinking water to thousands of people in the region – is “under threat” from HS2’s planned operations for the 10-mile-long Chiltern tunnels. It said in a statement on its website: “When plans to tunnel beneath the Chiltern Hills were first announced in 2010, the Chiltern Society and others raised concerns relating to the potential for significant damage to both the chalk aquifer, which supplies drinking water to many thousands of people regionally and in London, and to the Rivers Misbourne and Chess, which are internationally rare and threatened chalk streams that r
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PLANS to build up to seven log cabins on land off Tidmore Lane, Woodcote, have been refused permission.
Marcellus Brown, from Harrow, wanted to set up a holiday site with associated hot tubs, a sewage treatment plant, parking and landscaping.
The two- and three-bedroom cabins were to be mobile structures which would have been built off site.
Mr Brown argued that his scheme should be given the go-ahead because a similar one exists in Ewelme.
But planning officers at South Oxfordshire District Council recommended refusal, saying the cabins would harm the character of the area, affect neighbours’ quality of life and pose a road safety hazard.
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Jennie Hempleman says that people’s good intentions could backfire with the birds being killed.
Mrs Hempleman, who lives in the village, wrote to the parish council expressing her concerns after noticing the birds were becoming more aggressive and swooping down to grab people’s food as they were eating outdoors.
She said: “They’re quite menacing as they circle in large numbers over gardens and are clearly looking for an opportunity to steal food.
“Recently a five-year-old child had food taken from them and was scratched by the bird in the process.