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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Ross

‘My £500k home has been left cracked and irreparable by the heatwave – now I can’t sell it’

“I spotted a crack in the concrete of our garage floor,” retired mortgage advisor Kaye Brown said. “It then led to a frightening ordeal neither I or my husband had envisaged at our wonderful home.”

Thirty years after moving into their new four-bedroom home in Lincolnshire countryside, the couple had never contemplated subsidence.

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