timelord
27-08-2008, 03:26 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7584471.stm
A man whose home is to be demolished to make way for improvements on the A1 in Lincolnshire has been arrested as bailiffs move in to evict him.
Noel Sims, 76, said he and his wife Shirley were refusing to leave their home at Colsterworth, near Grantham.
They have been offered compensation and a council house but they said they had the right to stay in their own home.
The Highways Agency said the couple's eviction was being carried out with "extreme reluctance".
"This decision has only been made after every other avenue has been explored," a Highways Agency spokesman said.
"It is extremely rare for the agency to evict people from their homes when acquiring land for a road scheme but unfortunately, in this instance, we have no choice."
Safety improvements
Mr Sims, who has lived at the property with his wife for 36 years, previously said he would not move unless he was offered more then the original offer of £300,000 in compensation.
He said: "They've got to come and grab me and put handcuffs on and take me out the door. There's no other way they can do it is there?
"They have two options, either they lock me up and throw away the key or they put me six feet under ground."
A police spokesperson said Mr Sims had been arrested to prevent a breach of the peace and negotiations were ongoing with his wife at the property.
The Highways Agency wants to put a road junction on the Sims' land to improve road safety on the A1.
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You can spend thousands and thousands of money on a debt that doesn't really exist, to 'own' your own home, to be indebted to no-one, yet the State can still turn round and send in it's troops and evict you from it forcefully whenever it sees fit - and after threats, blackmail and coercion have failed. Society is very, very sick.
A man whose home is to be demolished to make way for improvements on the A1 in Lincolnshire has been arrested as bailiffs move in to evict him.
Noel Sims, 76, said he and his wife Shirley were refusing to leave their home at Colsterworth, near Grantham.
They have been offered compensation and a council house but they said they had the right to stay in their own home.
The Highways Agency said the couple's eviction was being carried out with "extreme reluctance".
"This decision has only been made after every other avenue has been explored," a Highways Agency spokesman said.
"It is extremely rare for the agency to evict people from their homes when acquiring land for a road scheme but unfortunately, in this instance, we have no choice."
Safety improvements
Mr Sims, who has lived at the property with his wife for 36 years, previously said he would not move unless he was offered more then the original offer of £300,000 in compensation.
He said: "They've got to come and grab me and put handcuffs on and take me out the door. There's no other way they can do it is there?
"They have two options, either they lock me up and throw away the key or they put me six feet under ground."
A police spokesperson said Mr Sims had been arrested to prevent a breach of the peace and negotiations were ongoing with his wife at the property.
The Highways Agency wants to put a road junction on the Sims' land to improve road safety on the A1.
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You can spend thousands and thousands of money on a debt that doesn't really exist, to 'own' your own home, to be indebted to no-one, yet the State can still turn round and send in it's troops and evict you from it forcefully whenever it sees fit - and after threats, blackmail and coercion have failed. Society is very, very sick.