A Winchester busker who has spent the last 12-years living in a dome-shaped tent next to the River Itchen will find out today if he has lost his home.

Frank Williams, pictured, has been embroiled in a battle with Winchester City Council over his "dome" tent next to St Catherine's Hill for the past three years.

Frank, 54, is known to hundreds of city residents as the accordion busker from the High Street with the three-legged dog.

He says he has lived on the site, by Garnier Road, for more than a decade and only moved in after believing the land was not owned by anyone.

Three years ago the council wrote to Frank, who's tent even has its own postcode, informing him that they actually owned the land and wanted him off it.

Since then the council has taken Frank to court in a bid to get him evicted, but earlier this year the case was put on hold after the authority got its knuckles rapped for providing unsatisfactory evidence. Frank says he has lived on the site for so long that he is entitled to remain there, and the council can not prove the land is theirs.

The case is back in court after the council was ordered to find documents that conclusively proves that not only is the land still theirs, but that it has not been sold on. Frank said: "I'm still feeling quietly confident.

"I still haven't seen the conclusive proof the council says it has, and neither has the judge. However, I have to say that I find the way the council has conducted this case shameful. They have repeatedly failed to produce documents on time when ordered to do so by the judge, and have treated me with a certain degree of contempt."

The case, before Judge Nicholas Murphy, is now due to be heard later this afternoon.