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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Ross

‘I sold my home to HS2 for scrapped line for £1.2m – only for it to be turned into a cannabis factory’

Alan Wilkinson sold Ravenswood in Whitmore Heath for £1.2m, but today it stands empty, guarded by security teams, after being turned into a cannabis farm - (Submitted)

A man who sold his home to HS2 says he was left distraught after discovering it had been turned into a cannabis factory.

Alan Wilkinson bought the four-bedroom home in the hillside village of Whitmore Heath in Staffordshire with his wife, Gillian, in the late 1970s.

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