92-year-old told to tear down beloved rose bushes for encroaching village green
(World News UK)

John Proudlock with his 92-year-old mother, Thelma Peppert (Picture: North News) A devastated 92-year-old woman has been ordered to remove her beloved rose bushes that have stood in front of her cottage for five decades. Thelma Peppert, 92, has lived in Rose Cottage in the sleepy village of Dalton Piercy, County Durham, since 1967. She´s proudly tended to the small flower bed in front of her Grade II-listed cottage that dates back to 1750 every week. But Thelma and her son John Proudlock,...