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THE HORRENDOUS


      EVENTS OF



      25TH JANUARY








      Saturday 25th of January 2025 saw      fuel and shop item thefts from Sisco's
      one of the darker days in our wonderful   garage in Wimblington and then joining
      Manea's history, with the village      up on a farmer’s property on the Sixteen
      and surrounding Fenland area being     Foot river bank. From there they made
      violated by up to 30 4x4 motor vehicles   their way to a local farmer’s property
      and persons unknown. They had no       - Robert Sears’ farm on Fodder Fen -
      regard for villagers’ safety or property   where they careered across both drilled
      and left a large amount of destruction   and fallow farmland causing thousands
      in their wake, including damage to local   of pounds worth of damage, including
      farmers’ fields, hedges and left four   destroying new hedgerows which had
      abandoned crashed vehicles within a    been recently planted.
      mile of Manea.
                                             On seeing these unwanted intruders
      The incident unfolded with a number    on his land Mr Sears tried to challenge
      of these vehicles carrying out several   them, but was unsuccessful and his























         The Emergency Meeting Panel                The Emergency Meeting
          Chaired by Steve Barclay MP

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