Evening Standard - London, October 25th, 2002
FOR nearly 30 years she has borne the hardships of living rough with only her own resourcefulness - and a dignified silence. But, after a council mistakenly wrecked the small patch of wasteland she had reclaimed as her own flower garden, Anne Naysmith is finally finding it hard to cope. Speaking publicly for the first time, the woman known as the "Rag Lady of Chiswick" told the Evening Standard: "My things have been destroyed, it's heartbreaking. How would you feel if you didn't have much but the little you did have was ruined? One gets so fed up with the whole thing. I do feel like breaking ...
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