EXCLUSIVEGarden wars in suburbia: Couple branded 'The Glums' who have a perfectly manicured garden are （刑事）被告 of '行うing vendetta' against next door 隣人s for feeding seagulls and foxes in their re-wilded 楽園

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A couple 脅すd with 起訴 by 会議 officers for feeding birds in their re-wilded garden have 非難するd next-door 隣人s dubbed 'the Glums' for 行うing a '27-year vendetta' against them.

Stephen Atkinson-Jones, 71, and his wife Caroline, 64, say they love 野性生物 and have let trees and shrubs grow 自由に to 高める nature in what they call '熟考する／考慮するd neglect'.

But in stark contrast next door, Keith Edwards, 77, and his wife Pauline have a beautifully manicured 郊外の 前線 garden - with symmetrical styled hedges, 小型の ornamental trees and flowers.

Mr Atkinson-Jones has said it was Mr and Mrs Edwards who complained to a 地元の 会議 about the daily bird feeding 決まりきった仕事 that was attracting seagulls ? 広範囲にわたって 非難するd as '飛行機で行くing ネズミs' in seaside towns because of the nuisance they 原因（となる）.

For more than 20 years he and his wife have thrown pieces of dog 薄焼きパン／素焼陶器s into the 中庭 at 8am to 料金d gulls and about 10 of them 急襲する 負かす／撃墜する to gratefully 選ぶ up their breakfast before 飛行機で行くing off again.

Stephen Atkinson-Jones, 71, and his wife Caroline, 64, say they love 野性生物 and have let trees and shrubs grow 自由に to 高める nature in what they call '熟考する／考慮するd neglect'

Mr Atkinson-Jones has said it was Mr and Mrs Edwards who complained to a 地元の 会議 about the daily bird feeding 決まりきった仕事 that was attracting seagulls

Keith (支援する) and Pauline Edwards (権利), pictured with their daughter?Samantha Akehurst (left), have a beautifully manicured 郊外の 前線 garden

Commenting on Mr and Mrs Edwards (pictured), Mr Atkinson-Jones said: 'We call them the Glums because that's what they are.'

Next door, Keith Edwards, 77, and his wife Pauline have symmetrical styled hedges, 小型の ornamental trees and flowers

Mr Atkinson-Jones said that the couple' love all 野性生物' and 'support the 野性生物' along with their other 隣人s who also 料金d the gulls.

Living half a mile from the coast in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, there has always been a large seagull 全住民 in the area.

The couple also 料金d other birds and 野性生物 around their 所有物／資産／財産 and （人命などを）奪う，主張する many of their other 隣人s do the same.

Mr Atkinson-Jones said: 'We love all 野性生物 - we are very lucky around here because we support the 野性生物 and 現実に so do all the other 隣人s, they all 料金d the gulls.

'We've got キツツキs, フクロウs, jays and we 料金d all of them - doves, magpies, jackdaws.'

But a （民事の）告訴 to Rother 地区 会議 has put a stop to the daily feeding 決まりきった仕事.

Last August Mr and Mrs Atkinson-Jones were visited by an 環境の health officer about a （民事の）告訴 they were '原因（となる）ing a nuisance 予定 to 執拗な bird feeding'.

The pair agreed to stop feeding the birds, yet その上の （民事の）告訴s and 証拠 of '執拗な bird feeding and nuisance' have resulted in a formal 'community 保護 警告' under the Anti-Social Behaviour 罪，犯罪 and Policing 行為／法令／行動する 2014.

A letter from Phil Smith, from the 会議's community 保護 team, 明言する／公表するd they would be 問題／発行するd with a Community 保護 Notice if they continued to leave food on their 所有物／資産／財産 to 料金d birds.

The couple also 料金d other birds and 野性生物 around their 所有物／資産／財産 and （人命などを）奪う，主張する many of their other 隣人s do the same

The pair agreed to stop feeding the birds, yet その上の （民事の）告訴s and 証拠 of '執拗な bird feeding and nuisance' have resulted in a formal 'community 保護 警告'

Last August Mr and Mrs Atkinson-Jones were visited by an 環境の health officer about a （民事の）告訴 they were '原因（となる）ing a nuisance 予定 to 執拗な bird feeding'.

For more than 20 years he and his wife hav e thrown pieces of dog 薄焼きパン／素焼陶器s into the 中庭 at 8am to 料金d gulls

He 述べるd their 活動／戦闘s as '原因（となる）ing 過度の noise and excrement on a 隣人ing 所有物／資産／財産'.

失敗 to 従う with the notice is a 犯罪の offence 'for which you could be 起訴するd', they were 警告するd.

Under the 条件 of the 警告, Mr and Mrs Atkinson-Jones can only use bird feeders designed for birds smaller than a pigeon.

The 警告 mirrors the 事例／患者 of a 97-year-old woman and her son 脅すd with a £2,500 罰金.

Anne Seago, 97, and son Alan, 77, were told they 直面する possible 活動／戦闘 to 軍隊 them from their 個人として-owned 所有物／資産／財産 if they continue putting out food for birds in their garden 近づく Blackpool.

The Bexhill-on-Sea bird feeding 論争 初めは began in 2016.

It went to '介入', 伴う／関わるd another 隣人 too, and Mr Atkinson-Jones says they stopped the feeding after about two years.

He told of how they re-started it when things 'quietened 負かす／撃墜する', but a その上の （民事の）告訴 last year has 誘発するd the 会議 活動／戦闘.

Under the 条件 of the 警告, Mr and Mrs Atkinson-Jones can only use bird feeders designed for birds smaller than a pigeon

A letter from the 会議's community 保護 team?述べるd the couple's 活動／戦闘s as '原因（となる）ing 過度の noise and excrement on a 隣人ing 所有物／資産／財産' (Pictured:?前線 gar den of Stephen and Caroline Atkinson-Jones)

The Bexhill-on-Sea bird feeding 論争 初めは began in 2016 and went to '介入', during which Mr Atkinson-Jones says they stopped the feeding after about two years

It was 申し立てられた／疑わしい Mr Atkinson-Jones, who owns five 所有物／資産／財産s rented through a letting スパイ／執行官, was 不法に running a 商売／仕事 from home

Other （民事の）告訴s have 関心d smoky bonfires in the couple's garden, trees and bushes from their 所有物／資産／財産 over-hanging a road and feeding animals such as badgers

The couple have 非難するd next-door 隣人s dubbed 'the Glums' for 行うing a '27-year vendetta' against them

Mr Atkinson-Jones said: 'I really feel we are 存在 いじめ（る）d here. How can it be anti-social behaviour and 不当な behaviour when only one person with a history of complaining against us complains?'

He said this was just the 最新の in a long 一連の （民事の）告訴s to 地元の 当局 by Mr and Mrs Edwards during almost three １０年間s as 隣人s.

It was 申し立てられた／疑わしい Mr Atkinson-Jones, who owns five 所有物／資産／財産s rented through a letting スパイ／執行官, was 不法に running a 商売／仕事 from home.

Other （民事の）告訴s have 関心d smoky bonfires in their garden, putting a window 支援する in an outbuilding that had been boarded up, trees and bushes from their 所有物／資産／財産 over-hanging a road and feeding animals such as badgers.

Mr Atkinson-Jones said:??'Some of these have been recurring over the years and not just a one-off.

'It's all petty but it 料金d into your wellbeing. There is a horrible feeling of unease - you are just waiting for them to 報告（する）／憶測 you for something. It upsets my wife a lot.'

Commenting on Mr and Mrs Edwards, he said: 'We call t hem the Glums because that's what they are.

'They are decent people, they look after their 所有物／資産／財産, they are not rough, they are not difficult with anybody else - they just dislike us and how we live.'

Mr Atkinson-Jones said his 隣人s lived in a 'modern house' he 述べるd as a 'cross between Versailles and Chessington World of Adventure'.

Retired music teacher Anne Seago (権利), from Blackpool, has been 脅すd with a £2,500 罰金 for feeding birds - she is pictured here with her son Alan, 77

A 調印する that reads 'Grand 再開するing soon! All birds welcome.' Alan Seago, a retired car salesman, said the 最新の 脅しs were 原因（となる）ing his mother 'more 強調する／ストレス'

The most 最近の letter from Fylde 会議, shar ed with Anne on 22 March 2024, 明言する／公表するs that she is 存在 '不当な' and having a 'detrimental 影響 on 居住（者）s and their 所有物／資産／財産s'?

A （民事の）告訴 from a 隣人 that she was attracting pigeons and seagulls 誘発するd the 会議 to 問題／発行する a 'written 警告' last November (above) and 脅す a 罰金

He 追加するd:?'We like old 所有物／資産／財産, we believe in 野性生物, we like attracting the bees and the バタフライs, but they like the manicured parochial 郊外の 地方自治体の park look.

'The more you get into suburbia, the more people think everybody should think and behave the same.'

Mr Edwards told MailOnline: 'I am not 用意が出来ている to comment.'

When given a 要約 of what Mr Atkinson-Jones had said, Mr Edwards said there were 'inaccuracies' but 辞退するd to 明らかにする.