Claims extracted
20
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
69/100
Daily Mail's corrections and
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Outlets on this story
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Crime & Law
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articles that frame the event the way this one does
A farmer caught in a bitter row with his neighbour over parking solved the problem, illegally, by picking up his neighbour's truck with his tractor and carrying it along their lane.
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farmer → catch → lane
Welsh farmer Cerdin Jones, 53, was captured on video using the lifting arms on his huge Massey Ferguson tractor to haul his neighbour Anwen Hughes' Fiat Fullback truck 20 yards down the lane after she allegedly blocked his way.
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she → capture → way
The rival farmers in Llanarth, Ceredigion in west Wales, were engaged in an ongoing feud over their shared narrow lane - but it ended in court this month after Jones' shocking makeshift tractor removal caused more than £5,000 in damage to the truck.
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removal → engage → truck
Aberystwyth Magistrates' Court heard how the lane near both their farms was owned by Miss Hughes, although Jones had a right of way to access his own farmland through the narrow land.
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Jones → hear → land
Sheep farmer Miss Hughes was shocked to find her truck moved from her lane on August 9 last year, and had to have it written off because of the damage.
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it → find → damage
Magistrates at Aberystwyth were shown a video of the front-loader of Jones' tractor picking up Miss Hughes' truck in front of a bemused herd of sheep, before driving it down the lane.
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loader → show → lane
Cerdin Jones was caught on camera picking up his neighbour's truck with his tractor in a makeshift parking removal
Bemused sheep watched on as the vehicle was moved 20 yards down the lane in Ceredigion, Wales
Jones, of Llanarth, was sentenced on September 10 at Aberystwyth Magistrates' Court following a trial over his parking feud tactics.
Jones had pleaded not guilty to criminal damage to property valued at more than £5,000.
Magistrates also imposed a restraining order preventing Jones from attempting to enter Hughes' farm or accessing the lane where the tractor move was staged.
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move → catch → lane
Jones was also ordered to pay £650 in costs and a £150 surcharge.
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Jones → order → costs
The neighbours had been engaged in an ongoing row, which Miss Hughes detailed on Facebook in a lengthy post on the group 'Healing from narcissistic relationships' in January this year.
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Hughes → engage → January
Speaking of the feud with her neighbour, who she did not name, she said the tension had lasted 'six years' and that he had 'intimidated her' by 'driving close to me' and that he had 'depressed' and 'belittled' her.
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he → speak → her
Cerdin Jones (pictured) was handed a restraining order and a fine of £650 in costs and a £150 surcharge
Arwen Hughes (pictured) owned the lane near both their farms, but Jones had right of way to access his own farmland through it
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Jones → picture → it
Miss Hughes wrote: 'This man has a problem and not a small one, with women working the land he has a problem with us owning the property next door.
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us → write → property
He has controlled me by making me paranoid, so much that I didn't want to leave the property or work the land or look after the animals.
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I → control → animals
He intimidated me by driving close to me.
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He → intimidate → me
Making me fear my life while all the time he was laughing.
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he → make → life
He has made me think more than once that I'm not right mentally.
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I → make → ?
Belittled myself by making me think that I don't know what I am doing is wrong.'
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doing → belittle → what
She added that he had 'called her unacceptable names' and that at one point, her neighbour had 'burst into our house accusing us of something we had nothing to do with'.
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we → add → nothing
She also described how he had eventually 'damaged my pickup' and given her 'IBS from stress'.
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he → describe → stress
The Daily Mail approached Cerdin Jones for comment.
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Mail → approach → comment
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