Dragons’ Den star Deborah Meaden leads fight against private allotment business accused of wrecking wildlife habitat

DRAGONS’ Den star Deborah Meaden is leading the fight against a private allotment business accused of wrecking a wildlife habitat.

The TV entrepreneur says Roots, which creates paid-for gardening spaces on green belt land, had ruined the site by dumping tons of manure on it.

She backed the company’s goals but said Abbots Leigh, near Bristol, was the wrong site for 600, £50-a-month plots.

Deborah...