A DISPUTE has erupted between a business owner and customer after the contents of a skip were dumped over a neighbouring garden.

On Tuesday, April 8, Carol Roberts asked BBS skips to remove the skip and its contents which had been sitting on the drive since January.

However, Neil Yeomans, owner of the company, had difficulties securing payment and emptied the skip where it had been standing on the neighbour's drive.

"It was a really hard decision to make and I slept on it for two or three days," said Mr Yeomans.

"We did chase the builder for payment through phone calls and letters but we were in between a rock and a hard stone.

"If we take it away we have to pay for it to be disposed of and we would not take it away before we have payment." Mrs Roberts and her husband Robert have had builders at their house in Yock Lane, Wick, near Pershore, since the July floods and have been living in temporary accommodation in the mean-time. The neighbours' drive where the skip was housed and the rubbish dumped was Mrs Roberts's late father's, who died in 2003.

The original builders, who ordered the skip, are no longer working on the site and have not paid BBS Skips for the hire and removal of the waste.

"These skip firms made a killing out of us when the flood happened and that is the way they treat people," said Mrs Roberts, aged 53.

"It is dreadful, what sort of signal does that send out when a responsible firm do that, they do not care.

"I just cannot believe somebody would do that."