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A grandmother has forked out over £125,000 in legal fees in a desperate bid to save her £59,000 eco-cabin from the bulldozers.

Brigid Eakins, 70, was left fearing homelessness after officials demanded she dismantle the luxury wooden lodge she constructed herself in 2014.

The Cambridge University examiner used most of her life savings to build the cabin from natural materials, allowing her to live off-grid.

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She sought planning permission prior to its construction but was informed it wasn't necessary as there was already a mobile home on the site in the hamlet of St Michaels, near Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire .

However, six years after construction, Herefordshire County Counci

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