WHEN Wellington pensioner Mary Ridgeway and her husuband Eric bought their house they called it Blackdown View because of the stunning panorama of the distant Blackdown Hills.

Now, all Mary can see from the windows of her neat house in Buckwell, is the brick walls of a new 21,000 sq ft supermarket, being built off High Street.

Mrs Ridgeway, 88, whose husband died four years ago, told the WWN: "It's horrendous. We bought the house eleven years ago because of the view.

"Now the view has been obliterated by the supermarket."

Jeremy Carter, director of Haslemere, Surrey-based developers Hawks Meadow Properties Limited, told the WWN: "We have been in conversation with Mrs Ridgeway, but there's nothing we can do.

"The store is being built in accordance with the planning permission."

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