A British couple bought an entire French village for £22,000 after struggling to get onto the property ladder back home.
Paul Mappley and Yip Ward snapped up the hamlet of La Busliere, Normandy, which consists of six cottages, two barns and a paddock. It also boasts a two-storey workshop, a well, cider press and communal bread oven.
The pair, both landscape gardeners and 48, were living in a friend's caravan as they tried to buy a home of their own in the UK. After failing to get on the property market back home, they snapped up a village in France which they plan to turn into a luxury holiday site.
