Investigations in the public interestEvidence. Enquiry. Accountability.

Reporting & reflection

Articles & reporting.

Follow a question through the correspondence. Read the background. Return as the record develops.

NEWPlanning & heritage

18 September 2026 · The Evans case

The sign, the driveway and the unanswered planning questions.

The sale-related display, heritage objections and planning records, with 22 questions by recipient.

NEWThe case map

18 September 2026 · Annex E

The allegations were delivered. What happened next?

Seven strands, the firm’s acknowledged receipt, recorded denials and later outcomes. A starting point for the developing investigation.

WATCHCCTV record

29 September 2026 / Life at home

Life beside the right of way. Watch the record.

The recordings behind Miss E’s complaints, in chronological order, with the visible events and her reported impact.

NEWWrit follow-up

26 September 2026 / The correspondence compared

Shergroup’s changing accounts. Show the record.

Sandbrook, the unnamed registry stamp, who prepared the certificate and the stay-order warning.

NEWTPDO hearing

26 September 2026 / Transcript and response record

A pensioner’s money at stake. Her questions still unresolved.

The treatment by Nicholas Johnson, Cornwell’s departure and return, Mayo’s further costs and the documents still sought.

BH68Expert evidence

25 September 2026 / New linked strand

The agreements were missing. The boundary opinion was not.

Dennis Venn, the R4/R5 challenges and the material route from disputed utility records to the boundary case.

NEWWrit provenance

25 September 2026 / Documents in view

An unnamed registry seal. A conflicting account.

The recovered N293A, Sandbrook’s statements, the court’s order and fourteen questions about the authority behind enforcement.

NEWCosts enforcement

24 September 2026 / Documentary investigation

A frozen account. A writ. Where is the costs evidence?

The N260 demand, the firm’s refusal, intended enforcement and 19 named questions, including SRA scrutiny.

NEWPolice & Council

Torrington · CPN appeal · 23 September 2026

A five-year notice. Where was her evidence heard?

The private emails, the evidence question and named responsibilities.

NEWIndependent scrutiny

Bristol · London · September 2026 correspondence

Miss E demands independent scrutiny.

The N260 refusal, changed references and the direct questions to Leslie Adrian Blohm (Senior Circuit Judge and Designated Civil Judge, Bristol; appointed to the Western Circuit in October 2022).

NEWFiled appeal

12 August 2026 · Bristol High Court

Eight grounds. One filed appeal.

Miss E’s challenge to Timothy Edmund Walsh’s judgment: the signed notice, the eight grounds and the record behind them.

Timothy Edmund Walsh — Circuit Judge, Western Circuit; appointed to Exeter Law Courts on 27 June 2022

NEWJudgment rebuttal

Miss E’s account · Five specific challenges

The finding. The challenge. The answer required.

The disputed admission, late evidence, opportunity to answer, missing history and counterclaim.

NEWForestry & access

Illustrated investigation · 19 September 2026

The trees. The track. The photographic record.

Four dated aerial views, machinery photographs and the correspondence connecting a felling complaint to the right-of-way proceedings.

01Mark John Mayo v Miss E / L00BP152

Document analysis · Editorial draft

Nick Shackson, National Grid and the BH68 plan.

Estates Specialist, National Grid Electricity Distribution (South West) plc; Barnstaple, North Devon, in the 2024 correspondence

What the Pole BH68 correspondence says, what the responses address, and what the subsequent questions ask.

02Our purpose

From the editorial desk

Why the record matters.

Our opening statement on evidence, questions, public interest and the duty to answer.

Annex E / New document comparison

The £120,000 field purchase: who issued the statements?

Compare the letterheaded invoice with both completion statements. Follow the 12 March–5 April payment sequence, the source-email question and the records needed to authenticate the transaction.

Bank-record challenge: the address, source copy and ledger verification → · See the documents → · Read the named questions →

Home life / Public protection / Accountability

Gunfire at home. Her distress needs an answer.

A pensioner in tears. Noise recorded inside her home. Read the direct challenge to Timothy Edmund Walsh’s findings in the supplied transcript, Torridge’s response and the fourteen demands for answers.

Watch the full film and read the context · Named questions and recorded replies

Latest / The attempted sale

Buyers deterred. Marketing stopped. What justified the interference?

The formal warning, agent’s withdrawal letter, Council challenge and eight questions, with a route to the evidence for future claims.