内容摘要："I went to Guernsey and that was a great games and I imagine it will be quite similar," he said.

"I went to Guernsey and that was a great games and I imagine it will be quite similar," he said.

John, who has received interim compensation from the Welsh government for the loss of his garden but is awaiting a full settlement, is adamant "it's not over"."The peace and quiet is nice now and just being able to get on with my life is lovely but I've a few more fights with Welsh government to come," he added.

He is not the only one. Just over the road, Daryl Wilkins is also writing to the Welsh government and politicians claiming the vibrations from piling behind his house has led to cracks throughout his home."I've lived here for almost 45 years and never had any problems until construction started on the Heads of the Valleys," said the 79-year-old former fish and chip van owner."I had a survey on the house before work started and there were no cracks. Now my house has cracks on outside and inside walls and that's because of vibrations from piling going on outside my house."

Daryl said contractors replaced nine window panes as a "goodwill gesture" after they were damaged, but claims he had pay more than £1000 on window frames."The piling lasted for at least six months," said Daryl. "The house used to shake, it was terrible.

"My great-granddaughter loved going on our trampoline but she wouldn't come here because of the noise from the piling.

"Now I've got damage throughout the house, it will take thousands of pounds to repair. I don't want compensation, I just want my house repaired."Services from Troon, about 15 miles further south on the Ayrshire coast, will be provided by the new ferry MV Glen Sannox and the chartered catamaran Alfred.

In the 20 months since the war in Gaza began, Amit Hevrony has been spat at, screamed at, and pelted with rocks and eggs in Israel's streets, all because she was calling for peace."We would sit in silence, just a bunch of women dressed in white, holding signs in Hebrew, Arabic and English saying: 'compassion', 'peace', 'nutritional security'," she told me.

"We thought: who argues with peace? But these demonstrations would get the same hatred as when we called to Stop the Occupation or Free Gaza. One guy screamed at us during a peace sit-in in Tel Aviv that he wished we would all be raped in Gaza, while we sat in silence holding signs saying 'love'".I first met Amit in the early months of the war. The grandchild of Holocaust survivors, she described to me then how family discussions about what was happening in Gaza left her feeling angry and frustrated. She is convinced that Israel's actions amounted to "Nazification".