Couple win legal battle with millionaire neighbours over tiny strip of land outside their £1.3m home after company boss who moved in next door installed garden gnome

Expert gardener Liz Dobson and her former British Airways executive partner Andrew Pleming, both 60, had long tended the tiny parcel of land outside their detached home in Dorking, Surrey.


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