A former policewoman has won £100k in a court battle against her pensioner neighbours after they claimed her vintage lantern was causing light pollution. Roger and Margaret Hunt, both 80, complained about a vintage lantern belonging to their neighbours, retired police officer Frances and her husband Graham Pollard, saying it was causing “sky glow and excessive light pollution”, because it was placed at the back of the Pollards house and ruining their “quiet enjoyment”. They also complained the light had disrupted sleep at their £1million home and tried to get the light ruled as a public nuisance, but Folkestone Magistrates’ Court ruled they did not have enough evidence. The court heard how the couple noticed that the Pollards moved the lantern from the side of their £550,000 second home in Union Road, Deal – where it had been for nine years without being used – to the back and lit it up in December 2021. Ian Rees Philips, for the Hunt family, told Mr Justice Bourne that the former officer and her husband turned the light on, …