The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door

Episode 2 (1x2)

Date de diffusion: Avr 08, 2014

The peace of rural Somerset is shattered when animal-loving Meg Sunningdale moves to the small village of Withycombe. Meg fiercely protects all creatures great and small, a view at odds with some of the locals, especially when she takes to feeding the local badgers. Matters come to a head when she erects posters naming and shaming one of the villagers for taking part in a government backed cull to prevent tuberculosis spreading in cattle, resulting in him and his family being driven out by an animal rights backlash. Though Meg receives a police caution, the trouble does not end there. Animal Rights activists start turning up in droves – leaving the village under siege and Meg's relations with her neighbours beyond repair. In Woodford Green, friendships are thrown out of the window when Tariq Ahmed's plans to extend his three-bedroom end-of-terrace house into a five bedroom mansion lead to untold misery for his neighbours Helen Coughlan and Tony and Veronica Martin. The extension will go right up to Helen's boundary, severely blocking light and restricting access to her property. To Helen's disbelief, the council approves the building plans. The disruption is immediate, with endless noise and seemingly unsafe building practices being carried out by Ahmed's partly YouTube-educated crew. The colossal structure begins to overshadow Helen's house and shroud it in darkness, while the Martins discover huge cracks inside their property. Following their complaints, Ahmed starts to threaten his neighbours, even saying that he will blow up their house... In Bournemouth, mum Debra Freestone has been happily parking her car on a small unregistered strip of land that backs onto her garden for over 20 years. In 2011, she inherits some money and decides to apply to the Land Registry to officially claim the land, building a gated driveway on it in the meantime. When her new neighbour Charles Garegnani demands that she remove the gates and driveway, she refuses, so he digs up