#property-dispute

#property-dispute

A neighbour who waged a campaign of harassment and "blackmail" against the son of England cricket legend Colin Cowdrey, scuppering the sale of his 3.85m home, is now facing a 500,000 bill after losing a court battle. Film producer Jeremy Cowdrey, 65, whose father famously captained England, successfully sued his neighbour, Vanessa Gibson, over what he alleged were lies that made his sprawling 10-acre country house in Goudhurst, Kent, unsellable.

It's my gravel; I can do whatever I want with it

I was nervous, that first day on the job, walking up to Edith Macefield's house. I'd heard so much already. Developers had purchased most of a city block in Seattle, Washington, to build a office and shopping area. They'd gotten every inch of the property they wanted except for this one little ramshackle house. They'd even offered her $1 million for it, and she had declined. So they had had to build around it.

"The town police department has taken this matter extremely seriously, which is interesting and encouraging," said Patricia Belford's attorney, Glenn Wood. "I would say that we welcome the town police department's engagement."