What's eating my laurels?

Hi everyone, i'm wondering whats having a munch on my laurels? It started late last year & im not sure when it stopped or if it has...
Is this Vine Weevil? Or caterpillar maybe? Or something else? thanks for any advice, im quite new to gardening.

 

I don't know what it is but I have some, or at least my neighbour does, that looks the same.

 

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I like the way they say don't worry about it.
It always looks rubbish every year here.

 

Seems like good advice to me, since there isn't much you can do about it. As my grandmother used to say, "what can't be cured must be endured".

 

One of the reasons I refuse to have it in the garden here . As for
pruning a hedge of it using secateurs because a hedge trimmer damages the leaves.....

 

Its over planted in the UK these days, mostly by developers because it grows fast and they dont have to worry about the upkeep.

There is one two houses away from me that has been allowed to let go, its over 30ft high, its the new leylandii in my opinion.

 

My neighbour to the side has one on our boundary and has just cut it after leaving it to grow for years. It's still about 7-8ft high now and I reckon they reduced it by at least half. I agree about it being the new Leylandii. I took a closer look today and saw it had some little holes, but would never have noticed without this thread.

 

Thank you noisette47 ill look into it.

 

Part of my neighbour's laurel hedge developed those symptoms last year. They disappeared within a few weeks (the symptoms, not the neighbour ).