Here is a handy trick for fixing a barbed wire fence. This simple method uses a tool found in most homes or workshops to ...

An aristocrat has lost his bid to erect a barbed wire fence around a common close to his 17th century estate. Lord Charles Townshend, who owns Raynham Estate, hoped to construct the fencing around ...

Smooth wire fences didn't work either - the cattle simply pushed through them. Barbed wire changed what the Homestead Act could not. Until it was developed, the prairie was an unbounded space ...

Injuries are common when "jumpers" try to scale the six-metre (20 ft) fences. They are often topped with barbed wire or even coils of razor blades. Fernando Grande-Marlaska, a judge who became ...