• A businessman in the UK who had declared bankruptcy has run into trouble after telling authorities that he had less than £500 ($A800) worth of possessions and was living in a shed. As it turns out, the shed was in fact a mansion in disguise.

The 61-year-old man, Alan Yeomans, had built a manor house out of a large barn in his mother’s backyard in Derbyshire in 2002 – without planning permission, and not visible from the road outside – and attempted to hide it with green cladding.

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