Thursday 14th February 2002

Environmentalist and heritage groups lodged a complaint against Michael Schumacher’s plans to build a costly new house with heliports and garages in a small Swiss village near Altenrhein. Schumacher wanted to move to the German-speaking area to give his children an education in his mother tongue, but had to settle for a $10 million, 32-acre farm in the hills of Lac Leman near Geneva .