It's an extraordinary story... the north Yorkshire landlord who claims the American tenants living in his four-bedroom farmhouse owe him £15,000 in rent arrears, and who took matters into his own hands by surrounding the property with a dozen skips and farm machinery in an attempt to stop them moving out and returning to the States. Without the payment, the landlord is facing repossession of the property (which he's owned for 22 years... suggesting he might have taken out a remortgage at some point). Fighting back, the tenants called on 20 friends to help get their belongings out through fields. A scuffle broke out in which the two wives went at it, at one point falling into a hedge. Amazingly, the landlord and his wife have been living on the property in an adjoining apartment. More here and here.

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