The peace and beauty of a Kent river are being ruined by yobs hurling bottles and cans at pleasure tour boats and targeting wildlife with catapults. The anti-social behaviour has sparked outrage among nature lovers and tour operators who are urging a police crackdown. The incidents are blighting the River Stour in and around Canterbury where one boatman recently found a duck dead in the water with a hole in its chest caused, he believes, by a type of ball bearing or stone. One operator says the yobbish activity and vandalism are the worst he has ever known. Police say they have stepped up patr…
