4 d. ago Resident finds note on car with very 'entitled' request from angry neighbour

A man has shared his distress over his neighbour taping angry notes to his car's windscreens as he explains how his mum accidentally started a parking war on their street

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8 d. ago Rory McIlroy now has some very famous neighbours after making London move

Rory McIlroy is set to move his family from Florida to Surrey next month, with the five-time major winner and his family set to have some famous faces as neighbours

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8 d. ago 'My neighbours hate me... but I don't care!': Woman at war with whole village over her 'HS2 tunnel' house wins bitter planning battle

EXCLUSIVE: A farmer whose controversial new Teletubby-style eco home caused her own tight-knit village to ostracize her for 'bringing HS2' to their idyll has finally won her planning battle.

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9 d. ago Owner of £1.4m home enrages neighbours by winning right to 'squeeze' new four

The approval came despite complaints from locals in Winchester, Hampshire, who said the new property would spoil the 'harmonious nature' of their affluent road.

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1 week ago Pole dancer is set to win planning battle to keep dance studio at her £700,000 bungalow despite angry neighbours' complaints over 'grunting and loud noise'

Samilou Saunders has been battling 'generational bias' from neighbours in the town who are against her business.

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2 w. ago Drama as country accused of stealing neighbouring nation's wind

Belgium has built a load of renewable wind farms in the North Sea but now, an expert has claimed that they are actually pinching some of neighbouring Netherlands' wind

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2 w. ago Vegan family give 'final warning' to neighbours over BBQ request

A family have been embroiled in a row with their neighbours over a request to shut their window while cooking a barbecue.

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2 w. ago The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien review – a dazzling fable of migration

The adventures of great voyagers echo across centuries as a father and daughter flee from flooding in near-future ChinaThe sea takes many forms in fiction. It was an adventure playground in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and a rowdy neighbour in Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn. It played the wine-dark seducer in Homer’s Odyssey and the snot-green tormentor in Joyce’s Ulysses. But while its colour can change and its humour may vary, its fictional properties remain reassuringly stable. The sea is our unconscious, a repository of memory, the beginning and end of all things. It’s what Jules Verne described as the “Living Infinite”.In Madeleine Thien’s rapturous fourth novel, The Book of Records, “the Sea” is the name given to a gargantuan migrant compound, sprawled on the shoreline a decade or two in the future. Lina and her ailing father, Wui Shin, occupy an apartment on the labyrinthine 12th floor, from where they can watch the refugee boats pull in and depart. The pair have...

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