A UK millionaire has used a forklift to remove a bus shelter which encroached onto his land by six inches.

Clive Jewers was arrested on suspicion of theft and criminal damage after removing the shelter just hours after its installation in Suffolk village on October 5, according to the East Anglian Daily Times.

Jewers said he had warned the parish council that he would remove the shelter if it proceeded with plans to erect it on his land. He informed the council he was removing it, just minutes before doing so, and then alerted the council he was responsible for its removal after it had been uprooted.

"Effectively it's a civil matter relating to the legality of the placement of a bus shelter on land which is shown on my deeds as my property," he said.

He was released from custody with an apology from the police, and all charges were dropped. Suffolk County Council later released a statement, saying, "We have got to hold our hands up here and say we didn't get it right. If we had communicated more then perhaps this situation could have been handled better and the whole thing might have been avoided."