An outraged builder cut his son's car in half with an angle grinder after it was clamped by local authorities.

Ian Taylor, 40, from Tredworth, England, said the car was due to be scrapped and he tried to explain to clamping firm NCP Services that the car had a Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN).

The Ford Fiesta extended approximately two inches past his driveway and was therefore deemed to be parked on the road.

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Mr Taylor said: "I had to make a point. The vehicle was totally legal where it was. It was a drastic step but I stand by my decision."

A spokesman for NCP, James Pritchard, Communications Manager, said: "One of our team spotted the vehicle and half of it was on a public highway. We decided to clamp it as it didn't have any road tax.

"We returned to find that the chap who owned it had bumped it onto his own land and had taken a rather drastic step of using a petrol-fuelled angle grinder to cut it in half. He managed to set fire to it at the same time."

(CD/JM)