lose home in neighbour

A WOMAN will have to sell her home to pay a £113,000 legal bill after she lost a five-year boundary dispute over a strip of land just 1ft wide.

- By Corey Ross

Pensioner Jenny Field's feud with next-door neighbour Pauline Clark over who owned the patch between their bungalows began in 2020.

She lost the case over the placement of a new fence when the legal bill was under £14,000 but Ms Field repeatedly challenged the ruling. The 76-year-old grandmother has now been told by a judge that she owes £113,266.

She must raise the funds and pay her debt within three months or her £420,000 detached bungalow will be sold to recoup the money.

Ms Field failed to attend a hearing at Bournemouth County Court and the matter was heard in her absence.