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In a few frantic moments, she was desperately fighting for what she believed was her life as he dragged her towards a more secluded overgrown area.

“There were these communities that backed up to the river, where really all they had was blight and chain-link fences and overgrown weeds,” she said.

She also points to perimeter hedges left overgrown, while empty plots were left unmaintained.

Working at Muir on a rainy February morning, Villegas took a break near a chain-link fence where he and his crew had just cut back some overgrown oleander.

A landowner is challenging a Scottish government decision to force it to sell a patch of overgrown ground to a community group.