The row between two warring pensioners revolves around a quarter of an acre of disputed territory - with both parties saying it has cost them tens of thousands and affected their mental health.
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00:00 Our neighbour on that side decided that she wanted to steal half an acre, no sorry, quarter of an acre of our land, which of course we didn't agree with.
00:13 We've had surveys done that have told her that our line was correct.
00:20 She's had one survey that tells her that her line is correct.
00:27 But all the way along she has been obstructive, she's ignored letters, she's not wanted to do anything other than put her fence in the position that she feels is correct, which is wrong with all the surveys.
00:44 She was offered the chance to do a shared survey, she rejected and we would have agreed to settle on whatever the shared survey came across.
00:56 Like I say, she disagreed, she didn't want to do it and she stuck it out right to the very end and it's finished up in court and the judge has said, well, she's come down in our favour, saying that our fence was correct all along.
01:11 But the judge has decided for some unknown reason that he was not going to allow us all the costs.
01:17 So this lady has caused us grief over about four years, she caused grief for my mother and it's finished up costing us quite a lot of money just to put us fence back where it was in the first place, in the correct place.
01:33 I'm Angela, I've owned this land since 1972. It was in mid-1990s that I caught Mr Revel moving the fence and when I approached him he said that he'd measured the land and found my fence was in the wrong place.
01:52 I asked him to get a surveyor, he told me I didn't need a surveyor and the fence they put in will not move and I reiterated at the time that we did meet in the mid-90s that I would have a surveyor in time.
02:11 But I couldn't afford a surveyor, I couldn't afford anything at that point.
02:17 And obviously you had a surveyor, in the end you got a surveyor.
02:20 I had a surveyor, he came along, yes, and placed the markers and when I informed Mr Ian Revel that the markers had been placed, he came along and threw them out all over the field.
02:37 So I had to pay again, ask them and ask them to get a surveyor. But when my surveyor came I just let him get on with the job. I don't know nothing about surveying.
02:48 But his surveyor came along and I don't know why or how they got the fence where they wanted it.
02:56 The judge said he didn't believe me that I put a fence up, even though I'd got a photograph there. He told me I lied.
03:03 The barrister of Mr Revel asked me if I did catch Mr Revel and his late father moving the fence and I said yes I did and he just turned to me and said "You lied!"
03:16 So I went with their surveyor. That's something that needs to be looked at. I'm not allowing two surveyors' reports in court and I'm looking at going further and appealing to High Court.