I am pointed to a website describing a grim battle has been going on for some 30 years(!) between the local Council in Ealing and Mrs Yafa Partner and relatives over the state of the family house in Uxbridge Road and surrounding environmental issues.

The site gives the Partner side of the story with some supporting documentation. No doubt the Council has a rather different view.

This is the sort of thing that makes us Mediators sob bitter tears. Has there really been no occasion over this long period when the various parties sat down with some outside neutral help quietly to sort things out?

Or maybe that was tried but got nowhere for more or less good reasons? The problem now is thataftr so long the issues take on a life and intractability of their own and get more and more entangled in process.

I stand ready to help. If asked nicely.