EV-0106 — Press cutting: “Tears flow as 800 year-old farm house is razed at last”

EV ID	EV-0106
Title	Press cutting: “Tears flow as 800 year-old farm house is razed at last”
Date of document	c. 7 December 1988
Type	press
Evidence label	PRESS REPORT
Repository / reference	Buckler family evidence repository: file 2026-02-07_consortium-formal_notice_bpvsbuckler__en_v0-0-1_002.jpeg (datro repository, pinned commit 2e514c59); Second copy Google Drive file 1185106_10201435169861268…jpg; Catalogue placeholder GHF-E027-08.
Status	HELD — open the scan (image)
Provenance	Family-held newspaper cutting imaged in Buckler family evidence repository, second copy in Google Drive, transcribed on Press Archive page N11; Newspaper and date unidentified.
Wiki catalogue page	GHF-E090-N11
Claims that rely on this	Court of Appeal — Forensic Assessment, Event Nomenclature Register — 1988 Great House Farm removal, seizure and occupat, High Court — Forensic Assessment, House of Lords — Forensic Assessment, Media Gallery, Press Archive — Newspaper Transcripts, Press Articles Index — every newspaper cutting and press extract, one page each, GHF-E090-N08 — “History fight to save farm” (South Wales Echo, 3 December 1988)

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Quotation: “The twenty-strong team moved in with bulldozers just after 4am and by breakfast time there was not a building left standing on the ten-acre site which overlooks Cardiff Bay.”

Proves: Shows an unidentified newspaper reporting demolition of Great House Farm by a bulldozer team hours after possession was granted to BP Properties Ltd, witnessed by the Buckler family.

Does not prove: Press report does not prove the statements’ truth or title; Newspaper, date, and court are unconfirmed; Cited historical figures are unconfirmed and conflict with other reports.