A wealthy businessman has been ordered to tear down his Indian gastropub after it was built just a stone's throw from Shakespeare's wife's childhood home.
Rakesh Singh, 57, has lost his battle over The Cask N Tandoor, which sits just 188m (618ft) from Anne Hathaway's Cottage in the village of Shottery, Warwickshire.
The Bard, born just a few miles down the road, in the town of Stratford-upon Avon, would have visited her family's 15th-century thatched property.
Now a museum, managed by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the hallowed site would have borne witness to the early part of the pair's relationship.
Mr Singh's eatery, part of the Burnside Hotel, was built without proper planning permission last March.
