A pensioner's bright yellow car, blamed for ruining the view in one of Britain's most picturesque villages, has been written off by a vandal who scratched "MOVE" on the bonnet.

Peter Maddox, 84, parks his banana-coloured Vauxhall Corsa outside his Cotswolds cottage in 14th-century Arlington Row, which is owned by the National Trust.

The houses are the oldest inhabited properties in the UK and appear on the inside cover of millions of passports.

But a row erupted in 2015 when visitors complained that Mr Maddox's "ugly" car was wrecking the classic English scene in Bibury, Gloucestershire, and "photobombing" tourists' images.

The retired dentist insisted he had nowhere else to park and continued leaving his car on the road, until it was targeted last week.

A vandal scratched the word "MOVE" onto the bonnet, scratched every other panel and smashed the driver's side window and rear windscreen.