'Vile' tourists 'blocking drives and threatening locals' in beautiful village

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Tourists visiting 'Britain's prettiest village' have been branded vile by fuming locals after they were confronted about blocking residents' driveways.

Locals living in Bibury in the Cotswolds claim they have been threatened by visitors - and even punched and kicked by coach drivers.The beautiful area attracts 10,000 tourists a day, many from as far away as the US, China, Japan and South Korea.

Crowds flock to admire the charming stone buildings, pretty waterways and a famous Instagram-able view, however their lack of manners have left locals angry.The tiny ancient village roads are not suitable for coaches and huge volumes of traffic, meaning the idyllic setting has become clogged with large crowds, traffic jams and frayed tempers.Chairman of the local parking action group, Mark Honeyball, who has lived in Bibury for 10 years, said around two weeks ago he asked a coach driver to move on from some double yellow lines before the unthinkable happened, reports the Express.He said: “I’ve been physically attacked four times now, but once really quite badly two weeks ago, I was kicked in the chest and stomach and kneed and punched in the face full force by a driver that I’d just asked simply to move on from double yellows at the top of the village.“The coach drivers themselves are being pushed here by their coach companies, they don’t really want to be here, they find it really difficult to park.

The tour operators are the key behind this, the coach operators are doing what the tour operators ask them to do, primarily with people from China, India and South Korea at the moment."Mark explained he had reported the incident to the police but so far had not had any update on the case.