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Is Paul Hollywood close to a peace deal with neighbours? GBBO star said to be making move to end war with furious Kent villagers over family's 600-year pub after 'unforgivable' abuse
EXCL: The celebrity baker and his wife Melissa Spalding had put more than £80,000 of their own cash into trying to save The Chequers pub, near Ashford, Kent - but sadly to no avail.
Despite a drawn out and bitter legal battle to get approval to transform the property - which Paul and Melissa won - a major U-turn could still be performed after it is understood that a new bid has been put in as part of a plan to keep the building a pub. The Chequers, near Ashford, Kent, is no longer viable as a business, so Mrs Hollywood's family submitted plans to turn it into a home earlier this year Following a tense planning meeting, where locals said they had made more than one offer but had been 'unable to get them to agree or engage fully with us', The Great British Bake Off host took exception at the 'vindictiveness' of villagers.
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