‘Zap cancer in breast ops’
But 2m monstrosity built in front of this woman’s window can STAY
WOMEN with early breast cancer should be offered a 30-minute dose of radiotherapy during surgery, experts said yesterday.
The Intrabeam treatment delivered directly to the wound area would reduce later hospital visits, said the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
It causes fewer sideeffects such as breast tenderness, pain, swelling or a lower range of movement.
Dr Emma Pennery, of Breast Cancer Care, said: “For many, one dose of radiotherapy alongside their surgery will be a huge relief.”
WHEN Janice Hemms looks out of her kitchen window she longs to enjoy a classic view of the countryside...
Instead she sees a two-metre high wooden fence just centimetres away.
And the neighbour responsible has just won an appeal against tearing it down.
Yesterday, fighting back tears, Mrs Hemms, 63, said: “We are shocked and devastated.
“It was bad enough watching the fence go up, that was horrifying. I mean you only have to look at the kitchen window to see how unreasonable it is.
“What is so hard for us is that we’ve tried to be reasonable at every stage of this process and yet now we can’t see out of our own window and there seems like there is nothing we can do to stop it.”
The 90-metre fence was put up over two days in 2015, at an estimated cost of £15,000. Neighbour Kate Chubb, 52, claimed it was needed to protect cattle from being harmed by coming into contact with windows at Mrs Hemms’s home.
Mrs Hemms, who shares the house with husband Anthony and businessman son Robert, tried in vain to reason with their neighbour. Eventually they applied to have the fence removed. Bath and North East Somerset Council agreed it should be knocked down. But Ms Chubb, who lives in a £1million property 500 metres from the Hemms, appealed and the Planning Inspectorate has now ruled that the eyesore can stay.
The judgment from inspector Peter Drew acknowledges: “The structure harms the living conditions of the occupiers of Papermill Cottage by reason of loss of outlook and daylight.” But he concluded: “I have no reason to doubt that the Appellant’s motivation was to safeguard the tenant’s cattle. There
People have joked it’s like Trump’s wall but there’s a very serious side to this
ROBERT HEMMS WHOSE HOME IS BLIGHTED BY FENCE can be no doubt that a means of enclosure can be erected up to two metres high.”
But Robert Hemms, 30, said: “How big does a fence need to be? People have begun joking that it is like Trump’s wall [with Mexico]. But there is a very serious side to this. Not only have they blocked our light they have caused my mum psychological distress by putting the fence up.”
Ms Chubb, who has lived on the property at Beeks Mill, near Bath, Somerset, since 2011, denies being the “arch villain”.
She said: “I’m a single mum and I’ve had to go along and put something up there like I’m the Hungarian government putting up a border patrol when I’m not.”
She declined to comment further. Pictures: ROWAN GRIFFITHS