The battle of Bodmin Moor: How an ex-cavalry officer has gone to war with the landowning neighbour who 'kidnapped' his family of runaway beavers - led by Sigourney Beaver and Jean Claude Van Dam
When Merlin Hanbury-Tenison strode out to inspect his beavers last summer, the former Army major wasn't in the slightest bit surprised to find they'd gone AWOL.
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