Have a pub in

PEASANT WAYS: Stefan ( entertains family members at his bar- cum- garage

REFRESHMENTS: Stefan cracks open a bottle the family’s Lada while he is “steaming drunk”.

Neighbours claim that up to 50 of the Bognadov’s friends and extended clan descend on Lower Wattle at weekends, “causing absolute mayhem”.

Human stools found outside the post office were said to be the work of Bogdanov cousins.

But defiant Stefan, 63, has dismissed complaints levelled against him as “racist” and blames the “cultural conservatism” of the Wattlers.

He said: “They do not like us because we came to this country in 2008, worked very hard and made money.

“Then, like many English people, we moved to the country. Yes, we keep some of our old ways – good, solid, peasant ways – but we mean no harm.

“And yes we have a bar in our garage… so what? Your Mr Ed Sheeran has a pub in his back garden. I saw it in a magazine – if it is OK for him, why not us?”

In fact, singer- songwriter Ed has had his own trouble with neighbours at his Suffolk estate, which does indeed boast its own

EXTENDED CLAN: People often drop in at weekends pub, called The Lancaster Lock.

Proud Wattler Purkiss Kenton, 68 – whose family have farmed around Lower Wattle for eight generations, said: “This is nothing to do with racism, it’s to do with decency.

“One of their cousins mounted my bitch, Harpy, Tuesday last. I had to chase after him with my shotgun. It’s just not on.”

Purkiss’s daughter, Susan Reynolds, 41, who moved back to her childhood village with hubby Pete, 39, five years ago, is more blunt.

She told Sunday Sport: dirty, dirty bastards.”

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