Government fights to avoid paying for land taken by squatters' rights

Taxpayers face a bill totalling millions of pounds to compensate a property development company for 23 hectares of prime land it lost to a farmer under "squatters' rights".

The money will be due unless the government succeeds in its appeal this week to the grand chamber of the European court of human rights in Strasbourg.

In what one lawyer has described as "Britain's biggest land grab", Caroline Graham, who farms at Henwick Manor in Thatcham, near Newbury in Berkshire... (51 more words)

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