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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Danny Halpin

Hollywood actor sues UK council in bitter row over 500-year-old manor house

Hopwood DePree outside Hopwood Hall, his family’s ancestral home - (Getty Images)

US actor Hopwood DePree is taking legal action against a UK council in an attempt to gain ownership of his 500-year-old ancestral home.

Hopwood Hall in Middleton, Greater Manchester, has become the centre of a High Court challenge after Mr DePree accused Rochdale Borough Council (RBC) of breaking an agreement made eight years ago.

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