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A LEGAL battle between the descendants of James Bond author Ian Fleming and Oxfordshire County Council has taken a new turn.
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of an appeal by the council over the ownership of land in Nettlebed which the two sides disputed.
The council says the plot was gifted to it for use as a school. In 1914 and 1928, Mr Fleming’s grandfather Robert transferred almost an acre of land known as “the Fleming site” to be used for this purpose.
The school relocated to a bigger building in 2006 on adjacent land and the old site was sold to a property developer, Bluespace Property Nineteen, the following year for £1,355,000.