Residents locked in legal battle with neighbour who barricaded communal footpath with 4ft trellis

Residents on a road of Victorian terraces are locked in a bitter legal battle with a neighbour after she barricaded a communal walkway with a garden trellis.    Police were called last month when Julia Hartley, 53, erected the four-foot tall trellis fence along with a sign which read, ‘Private 14-8’, on Common Road in Evesham, … Read more

Can I force my neighbour to prune a tree blocking light to my garden?

My neighbour’s tree is blocking the sunlight in my garden. With every year the tree grows taller, the problem worsens. I have made a number of polite requests to my neighbour to either prune or cut down the tree, which he has rebuffed. We now get almost no sunlight in our back garden, but he … Read more

Couple win battle to keep their 62ft leylandii hedge after neighbour blamed it for ruining his crop

Couple win battle to keep their 62ft leylandii hedge after neighbour blamed it for ruining his fruit and vegetable crop Andrew Clarke claimed 62ft leylandii cast a huge shadow over his Tain garden He applied to council to get trees reduced after talks with Beales collapsed Council order to reduce trees to 6.5ft was overruled by … Read more

NHS worker is mortified when neighbour leaves note after hearing him crying while listening to Adele

An NHS worker was left crying tears of embarrassment when his next door neighbour dropped off a note – after hearing a particularly sorrowful karaoke session. Harry Joe, 25, from Leeds but based in Aberdeen, had spent the prior evening crying in his bath while listening to Adele.  The next day, his compassionate neighbours left … Read more

James Corden fought planning war with London neighbour who lives next to Chris Martin

James Corden fought a planning war with he and Coldplay singer Chris Martin’s  next-door neighbour over controversial plans to build an ‘iceberg basement’.  The celebrities, both based in Los Angeles, owned multimillion-pound properties in the upmarket Belsize Park area of North London – separated by a £600,000 garage conversion home.  The pair were renting out their … Read more

Glowing verdict on teacher in Charlie Hebdo cartoon storm – by his Muslim next-door neighbour

Glowing verdict on teacher in Charlie Hebdo cartoon storm – by his Muslim next-door neighbour: Islamophobe? No, he gives us cards at Eid and hands my kids halal sweets Jamal Al-Terk has defended his neighbour saying he is ‘not Islamophobic at all’  Mr Al-Terk, 42 said the teacher and his family fled their home three days ago … Read more

B*Witched singer Edele Lynch reveals an ‘angry’ neighbour threatened her with a CHAINSAW

Edele Lynch has revealed an ‘angry’ neighbour once threatened her with a chainsaw when she asked him to move a bathroom suite from her garden. The B*Witched singer, 41, explained that the altercation happened while she was moving into a three-bedroom house after going back to Ireland in 2001.   Speaking on the Irish band’s Starting Over … Read more

Admirer tries to woo a neighbour by leaving her a note and a bizarre gift on doorstep

Not a sausage! Woman left baffled to find a love note from a secret admirer with a bizarre gift of two FRANKFURTERS on her doorstep Elleanor Holland, 25, from Lancashire, received note and bizarre gift on doorstep She was forced to explain to ‘shocked’ boyfriend she had no idea who it was Elleanor suspects it … Read more

Police give grandmother, 82, a warning after she enjoyed a cup of TEA with a neighbour

Police give grandmother, 82, a warning after she enjoyed a cup of TEA with a neighbour in their shared garden during lockdown 82-year-old woman warned by police over socially distanced tea with neighbour Gloucester Police officers arrived to speak with her when she was tucked in bed She was reported for drinking tea outside  with … Read more

My neighbour signed for my parcel but it was stolen. What can I do?  

I bought roughly £200 worth of clothes from online fashion brand, Fashion Nova. Currently I am still going into my workplace and couldn’t be there to collect my order.  Yodel, who were the courier company, asked my neighbours to sign for it, which they did. A Fashion Nova customers order was stolen after her neighbours … Read more