Farmer's fury as lantern lands next to a hay barn
A Mid Wales farmer has hit out at people setting off Chinese lantern's near to his farm.
On New Years Day, Mervyn Lloyd Jones, who farms on land in Newtown, had to remove a lantern just 25 metres from a hay barn on his land.
He said in 2010 a cow died after eating a piece of wire frame from a lantern.
Releasing lanterns on council owned or managed land became illegal in 2015.
Mr Lloyd Jones posted on social media, and said: "My first job of the day, 9am, was removing this Chinese lantern just 25m from a hay barn.
"Farmers' groups and animal charities have long pushed for the lanterns to be withdrawn from sale, arguing that animals can eat parts after they have landed.
"In 2010, a cow died from eating a piece of a lantern's wire frame, which ruptured its stomach, and a foal had to be put down after it injured itself on a fence because it was startled by two lights that landed in its field.
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