Basildon Council

Jessica Elgot

'The Last Year Has Been Torture'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Elgot | Posted 19.10.2012 | UK

Two-by-two, lines of caravans fill Oak Lane, housing up to 20 families. They are travellers, forced out of Dale Farm a year ago, but they have not bee...

Tributes Pour In For Schoolgirl Killed By Rugby Ball

PA | Posted 14.03.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Tributes have been paid to a 12-year-old girl who died after being hit by a rugby ball during a PE lesson at a school. Leonie Nice was catching the...

Schoolgirl Hit By Rugby Ball In PE Lesson Dies

PA | Posted 13.03.2012 | UK

A 12-year-old girl has died after being hit by a rugby ball during a PE lesson at an Essex school. Leonie Nice was catching the ball during a lesso...

Dale Farm: Eviction Operation Cost Essex Police £2.4m

PA | Posted 24.03.2012 | UK

The police operation to clear the UK's largest illegal travellers' site cost almost £2.4m. Essex Police confirmed the figure for the policing side...

Families Move Back Onto Dale Farm

PA | Posted 16.01.2012 | UK

At least 10 families have moved back onto the UK's largest illegal travellers' site after bailiffs and council officials completed their clearance ope...

Families Move Back Onto Dale Farm Saying 'There's Nowhere Else To Go'

PA | Posted 16.11.2011 | UK

At least 10 families have moved back onto the UK's largest illegal travellers' site after bailiffs and council officials completed their clearance ope...

Dale Farm Travellers 'Wish To Leave'

PA | Posted 20.12.2011 | UK

Travellers are preparing to leave the UK's largest illegal travellers site at Dale Farm but police are braced for possible further violence. Bailif...

Six Still Chained In Traveller Site

PA | Posted 19.12.2011 | UK

Six protesters are still chained to barricades inside the UK's largest illegal travellers' site. The supporters remained locked on to cars and truc...

Dale Farm Families Have Been Failed by the Council at Every Turn

Kate Allen | Posted 19.12.2011 | UK Politics
Kate Allen

When they spoke to Amnesty, many of the Dale Farm residents recounted the uncertainty that ruled their lives before they moved to the site - being moved from car parks to common grounds and fields, for a few months at a time. It was only after they moved to Dale Farm that their children and grandchildren, had been able to attend one primary school continuously. For many families, this is the first generation that has completed primary school and is literate. Two sisters, in their 60s and 70s, told us how proud they were of their grandchildren having learned to read and write at school, something neither one of them had the opportunity to do.

Bailiffs Move In To Clear Dale Farm Travellers' Site

PA | Posted 18.12.2011 | UK

The leader of a council set to clear the UK's largest illegal travellers' site has said: "All preparations have been completed." Basildon Council l...

Dale Farm Travellers Meet With Council Officials Ahead Of Eviction

PA | Posted 18.12.2011 | UK

Travellers facing eviction from the UK's largest illegal site are meeting council officials. Dale Farm representatives have met a delegation from B...

Dale Farm In 'Lockdown' Ahead Of Eviction

Posted 17.12.2011 | UK

Travellers living on Dale Farm in Essex are steadying themselves for eviction after they lost a final appeal against the Basildon Council sending in t...

Dale Farm Travellers Refused Permission To Appeal Eviction

PA | Posted 17.12.2011 | UK

Residents of Dale Farm, the UK's largest illegal travellers' site, have been refused permission to appeal against a High Court ruling that gave Basild...

Further legal bid over Dale Farm

PA | Posted 16.12.2011 | UK

Residents of the UK's largest illegal travellers' site are to return to court in the latest round of their long-running battle against eviction. La...

Dale Farm Travellers To Learn High Court Decision On Eviction

PA | Posted 11.12.2011 | UK

Residents of Dale Farm, the UK's largest illegal travellers' site, are to learn whether they have won their High Court battle against eviction. The...

Dale Farm High Court Decision Put Back

PA | Posted 06.12.2011 | UK

Residents of Dale Farm, the UK's largest illegal travellers' site, will have to wait until next week to learn whether they have won or lost their High...

Dale Farm Residents Head Back To The High Court

PA | Posted 29.11.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Residents of the UK's largest illegal travellers' site have launched a fresh, three-pronged attack on moves to evict them. The...

Dale Farm Travellers Step Up Legal Battle Against Eviction

PA | Posted 28.11.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Residents of the UK's largest illegal travellers' site are to launch their latest legal battle against eviction. They are retu...

Dale Farm Travellers Apply For English Heritage Status

Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 27.11.2011 | UK

Travellers resisting eviction from Dale Farm have applied to English Heritage to gain official protection for the scaffold tower erected at the entran...

Fresh Ruling Due On Traveller Site

PA | Posted 25.11.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Travellers fighting to stay on the UK's biggest illegal site are due to discover whether they have won the latest round of a lega...

Behind the Gates at Dale Farm

Nicolas Niarchos | Posted 25.11.2011 | UK
Nicolas Niarchos

Mary Slattery's careworn face belies the uncertainty of the situation the Dale Farm travellers find themselves in. At 57 years old, she has already lost her only daughter, a trainee nurse, and now will potentially lose the place she calls home.

Dale Farm Eviction Decision Delayed Until Monday

Posted 23.11.2011 | UK

A High Court judgement on the eviction of travellers from Dale Farm in Essex has been delayed until Monday afternoon following a hearing at the London...

Dale Farm Residents To Battle Back In High Court

PA | Posted 22.11.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- The long-running dispute between Basildon Council and Dale Farm residents is returning to the High Court. On Monday, the trave...

Travellers To Open Main Gate At Dale Farm

PA | Posted 20.11.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Protesters inside the UK's largest illegal travellers' site have said they will open the heavily barricaded main gate. ...

Human Rights Watchdog: Let Travellers Stay

PA | Posted 19.11.2011 | UK

Europe's human rights watchdog has called for the legalisation of long-established traveller sites - even if they breach local planning laws. ...