A retired beautician has lost her house after being forced to pay her neighbour's legal bills in a bitter dispute over a £300 garden fence.
Muriel Middle, 79, who worked for Selfridges and Boots, expected that one day her £200,000 home would pass to her only daughter Sam.
But Sam, a firefighter, has been forced to step in and buy the two-bedroom property to save her mum from potential bankruptcy.
Widow Muriel lived happily at the mid-terrace house in Pontyclun, South Wales, for 20 years.
Then businessman Alexander Miles moved in next door and started making renovations. He built an extension in his back garden and removed part of a fence between the two properties so he could access a drainpipe.
