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He continued: "You're only here to make money".

That's when I replied - "Well what's the point of the film then?"

Strangely, he didn't to reply to that one.

I asked him if he was going to hit me, to which he replied: "No, why would I do that?"

I replied: "Because you are threatening us."

"No I am not," he said, while leaning his face into mine.

Anyway, after several minutes he retorted and said: "Look! You lot stay up there and do what you like I have had enough of ya," and then stormed back to the railway station.

We started to take further pictures, and found that before long they had blocked our sight with umbrellas and a large board which blocked out the whole scene.

Undeterred by this, I travelled up the next morning, determined to get the picture I wanted.

It was great for the first three hours, until another security guard found my dug out, and sat down beside me, and another photographer that had joined me.

We had the same problem again, of two photographers with long lenses, and two heavies with umbrellas.

We were in a conundrum as to what to do, as bribing them had failed already, until we realised that we were not the only photographers on the hill.

I had a chat with the third snapper and basically said, "Well if there are three photographers, and only two umbrellas, one of us should be okay".

He replied: "Well actually there's four," pointing behind us on the top of the hill.

We withdrew and the word was spread. We suddenly found ourselves darting about in a sort of pincer movement, until they realised that there were more photographers than umbrellas, and the word went out on the radio: "There's three of them now, send another umbrella up there".

We started running about again dodging the three umbrellas, before crouching and firing, it was like a comedy version of Platoon.

Then the fourth photographer started to take pictures, which really took them by surprise, and the word went out again - "There's another one of them now, send someone else up."

We managed to all get pictures out of it, but unfortunately in the heat of battle, one of the guards had knocked one of the photographers while he was trying to do pictures, and he (the snapper) decided to press charges.

In the ensuing arguments between the security guards and ourselves one of them said: "It's people like you that killed Princess Diana." Which prompted my reply: "I actually thought that she had died in a car being driven by a security firm driver, who, allegedly, according to court cases was over the legal limit after drinking alcohol."

We found out later that the police had made a complaint to the film company regarding their aggressive tactics, and they were given a warning.

The police told the photographer that under no circumstances should the guards be holding up umbrellas in front of our cameras, as it can lead to a breach of the peace. If they did it again, we were to let them know.

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