Couple who couldn't afford a house in the UK buy an entire French hamlet with seven cottages and two barns for £26,000 - and save £100,000 by renovating it themselves

Yip Ward and Paul Mappley, both 52, were living in a caravan in Tunbridge Wells when they were offered the chance to buy the unique property in 2020.

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