The battle of Bathampton:
Woman, 70, ‘who planted 50ft leylandii trees to block her neighbours’ view during 20-year feud’ faces court accused of tearing up GRASS in row over shared gravel path
A pensioner is to face trial for ‘illegally digging up some soil’ in the latest twist of a bitter neighbour dispute in an idyllic village that has lasted nearly 20 years.
Valerie Vivian was led away by police in October after she was allegedly spotted digging up soil laid by her neighbours in a jointly-owned communal garden in Bathampton, Somerset.
Her neighbours had laid the soil over a gravel path she had allegedly put down in a ‘land-grab’ without planning permission, which harks back to a planning dispute that started in 2001.
