A couple are facing eviction from their Hobbit-style mud hut

Nature-loving Kate Burrows and her partner Alan built their home out of tree trunks, mud and straw after being forced out of their rented home by her permanent flu-like symptoms. Kate, who has lived in the hut in Tarka Valley, near Chumleigh, Devon, for 19 months, says the extreme move was prompted by her rare condition - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). But North Devon Council say the couple have broken planning laws - and have given them until December to move out. Distraught Kate said: "This is our nest, this is our everything, this is our art. "We have sculpted it with our hands from the soil.