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An environmentally-friendly award-winning farmer is facing jail after he rammed a family GP's car with his tractor during a road rage row.
Parish councillor Andrew Hollinshead, 54, who was named 'Green Farmer of the Year' at the Northern Farmer Awards in 2016, ploughed his seven and a half tonne vehicle into Dr Paul Uglow's VW Tiguan after 'cutting him up' at a road junction.
During the incident Dr Uglow, 48, followed Hollinshead back to his farmyard in Arclid near Sandbach, Cheshire, only for the farmer to drive his tractor straight at him - and smash into the side of his car.
The VW sustained £13,000 worth of damage whilst glass from the driver's side window shattered in the impact causing a four-inch laceration in Dr Uglow's arm.
At Crewe magistrates court Hollinshead, who won a slot on a BBC regional programme, was convicted of criminal damage and assault occasioning actual bodily harm after a trial.
Andrew Hollinshead (pictured), an environmentally-friendly farmer who featured on the BBC, is facing jail after ramming into a family GP's car following a road rage row
Dr Paul Uglow (pictured) sustained a four-inch laceration after Hollinshead rammed his seven-and-a-half tonne tractor into the side of his car
He will be sentenced later but could face up to four years jail if the case is sent to crown court.
The incident occurred on the busy A534 at 6.20pm on July 11 of last year when Dr Uglow, who runs a surgery at Haslington medical centre near Crewe, was driving home from work having earlier collected his six month old puppy.
Prosecutor Simon Leong said: 'Dr Uglow saw a tractor pull out on the right in front of him causing him to make an emergency stop. The tractor stopped and its driver gave a middle finger salute to Dr Uglow.
'Dr Uglow then made the decision to follow the tractor as he wished to speak to the driver about what happened.
'At the defendant's farm he rolled down the window, saying "Can I have a word please?" But the driver of the tractor who was about 50 yards away across the yard went straight in his direction and rammed straight into the driver's side of the vehicle where Dr Uglow was sitting in the driver seat.
'He was applying the accelerator at the time and it caused the car door to bend and the driver's side window to shatter, causing glass to fall on Dr Uglow, who suffered a slight injury to his right arm which was bleeding.
'The defendant then got out of the tractor and said "I will tell the police you pulled out in front of me." He got back into his tractor and drove away.'
Describing being 'cut up' by Hollinshead, Dr Uglow told the hearing: ' I had to swerve hard to my left to avoid a collision with him. I hit the side embankment very hard, causing damage to the two alloy wheels.
