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'They'll stop at nothing!' Jeremy Clarkson terrified about thieves targeting farm

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Jeremy Clarkson, 62, is worried about trespassers stealing from his Cotswolds farm - but it's not his costly tractors or supercars that he's concerned about.

Instead, The Grand Tour host confessed he fears a new trend in the South of England that could cause something much more unusual to be plundered from his land.Speaking of a "spate of thefts" that recently happened in Kent and Sussex wildflower meadows, he lamented: "[People] go to bed at night, happy that a rare lady's slipper orchid, worth about £2,000 to the hobbyists, is growing on their land, and they wake in the morning to find nothing but a hole in the ground."He pointed out: "Unlike Range Rovers, orchids don't have steering locks and alarms."Jeremy claims that, according to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, thieves of rare flowers could receive up to six months in jail.However, the former Top Gear motorist admits that a penalty that extreme is unlikely to happen.He cited an occasion in 1956 when a rare type of orchid was plundered in the New Forest, and subsequently ended up extinct.It isn't that Jeremy was unable to empathise, having once tearfully pressurised his father to drive all the way from Doncaster to London to fill up with Esso petrol, just so that he could earn the collectable football coins offered to its buyers.However, he continued: "There are orchid collectors who are so determined to have the equivalent of that Kilmarnock football coin that they'll stop at nothing to get it."Meanwhile, Jeremy says he has recently been tempted to steal too.His theft of choice would be even more unusual than orchids - to the astonishment of those around him, he has been hankering after soil.The Clarkson's Farm star claimed he was "consumed with envy" at the.

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