A widow who bought a patch of fly-tipped wasteland for £57,000 and transformed it into her dream mini farm has been told to tear it down after being dragged into a bitter planning battle.
Tara Dexter bought a smallholding in Sidlesham, West Sussex, while mourning the death of her veteran partner, Gary.
The couple had long dreamed of owning a slice of the countryside, creating a micro-farm and living their own version of The Good Life.
She spent two years transforming the site from a fly-tipped dumping ground filled with car parts and rubbish to a smart smallholding with plants, pigs, chickens and
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