Hold the front page(s): Lockdown 'property' project sent me up the walls

The country’s lockdown provided Property Editor Tommy Barker with a chance to become an architect/builder ... well, of a shed, at least.

‘Distant sea views,’ the auctioneer’s sales spiel heralded, in the brochure and in the online images, including naturally enough a shot of the sea, winking silver and blue, by a white sandy beach at the end of a valley, a mere mile away.