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Multifaceted, Beautiful and Inspiring - Community Channel Portrays the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities

Caroline Diehl | Posted 06.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Gypsies, Community Channel, Romanies, Travellers, Media Trust, Uktv, Documentaries, UK Documentaries, UK Entertainment News
Caroline Diehl

Britain's 300,000 Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are cited by Travellers' Times (Britain's only national magazine for the community) as the 'most misunderstood and misrepresented community in the UK'. So we decided to dedicate a season of films to try to redress the imbalance, and give our Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities a platform from which they can tell their own stories.

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Councils To Be Given Stronger Powers Over Travellers' Sites

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 29.03.2013 | UK
Read More: Eric Pickles, Travellers, Pickles, Planning Law, UK News, Bailiffs, Dale Farm, Illegal Travellers, Local Government, Local Councils, UK News

Councils are to be given stronger powers to stop the setting up of illegal travellers' sites, in a bid to stop another case like Dale Farm. Local a...

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£500k Legal Aid For Rich Travellers Who Exploited Homeless Into Forced Labour

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 17.02.2013 | UK
Read More: UK Courts, Travellers, Billy Connors, UK News, Jimmy Connors, Exploitation, UK Police, William Connors, Johnny Connors, Legal Aid, Forced Labour, Mary Connors, UK News

A family of millionaire travellers jailed for forcing vulnerable men to work for a pittance have been given nearly £500,000 in legal aid, it has emer...

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Traveller Family Jailed Over Forced Labour Exploitation

PA | Posted 19.12.2012 | UK
Read More: UK Courts, Travellers, Billy Connors, UK News, Jimmy Connors, Exploitation, UK Police, William Connors, Johnny Connors, Forced Labour, Mary Connors, UK News

A traveller family who lived a luxurious lifestyle at the expense of vulnerable men forced to work for a pittance are beginning prison sentences of up...

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Jessica Elgot

'The Last Year Has Been Torture'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Elgot | Posted 19.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Travellers Rights, Basildon Council, Travellers, Dale Farm Travellers, UK News, Dale Farm Update, Dale Farm, Eric Pickles, Poll, Dale Farm One Year On, UK News

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...

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Top Gear Strikes Again With 'Pikey' Jibe

The Huffington Post UK | David Hobbs | Posted 01.06.2012 | UK
Read More: Travellers, UK News, Richard Hammond Pikey, Top Gear, Bbc, Richard Hammond, James May, BBC Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson, UK News

Oh dear, here we go again - another Top Gear gaffe. Well, it has been a few weeks since the last one. This time it was Richard 'the hamster' Hammon...

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Derby Schools Close As Travellers Park On Playing Fields

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 31.05.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Travellers, Channel 4, UK News, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, UK Students, UK Exams, Gypsies, UK Schools, Exams, UK Universities & Education News

Schools in Derbyshire were forced to close after travellers parked their caravans and motorhomes on playing fields. Pupils at three schools in Long...

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Vulnerable Workers Kept 'In Fear' By Traveller Family

PA | Posted 23.05.2012 | UK
Read More: UK Courts, Travellers, UK Crime, UK News, Exploitation, Southampton Crown Court, Slavery, UK News

Vulnerable men were enslaved and exploited by a family of travellers who made them work from sunrise to sunset with no pay, live in tents and suffer b...

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Travellers Took In Homeless Man, Made Him Their Slave

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 23.04.2012 | UK
Read More: Homeless Man Made a Slave, UK Courts, Travellers, UK News, UK Crime, Homelessness, Traveller Kidnap Man, UK News

A destitute man was plucked from the streets by a traveller family, forced to work as a "slave" and "mentally tortured", a court heard today. The m...

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'Protect Human Rights Of Terrorism Suspects'

Huffington Post UK / PA | Posted 04.05.2012 | UK
Read More: UK Human Rights, Travellers, UK News, Human Rights, Gypsy, Terrorism Suspects, Tpims, Immigration, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Terrorism Prevention Act, UK News

The human rights of suspected terrorists, illegal immigrants and gypsies should all be given better protection in the UK, a report said today. The ...

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UK 'Violated' Gypsies' Rights

PA | Posted 01.03.2012 | UK
Read More: Travellers, Dale Farm Travellers, UK Impact, UK News, Council of Europe, Dale Farm, Gypsy, UK Politics, Eric Pickles, Gypsies, UK News

Europe's human rights watchdog has accused Britain of undermining the rights of gypsies and travellers to adequate housing. Thomas Hammarberg, Comm...

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Why I've Stopped Watching My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

Ali Schofield | Posted 17.04.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Travellers, Channel 4, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, Advertising, Romany Gypsies, UK Entertainment, Tv Reviews, UK TV, Racism, UK Entertainment News
Ali Schofield

I won't be watching the new series, though. The advertising billboards, stating 'BIGGER, FATTER, GYPSIER' disgust me and have resulted in complaints to the Advertising Standards Agency. I wish I could take credit for the defaced poster I spotted on Chapeltown Road in Leeds, which has 'MORE RACIST' graffitied under the strapline

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Dale Farm: Eviction Operation Cost Essex Police £2.4m

PA | Posted 24.03.2012 | UK
Read More: Basildon Council, Travellers, Essex Police Authority, Dale Farm Travellers, UK News, Essex Police, Dale Farm, UK News

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...

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750 New Traveller Pitches Approved In Effort To Avoid Repeat Of Dale Farm

PA | Posted 07.01.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Travellers, UK News, Traveller Communities, Dale Farm, Communities Minister Andrew Stunell, Travellers Pitches, Traveller Families, Andrew Stunell, UK Politics News

More than 750 new and improved authorised pitches for traveller families were given the green light by the Government today as part of efforts to avoi...

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Sally Bercow Defends Gypsies: 'They're Not Flash Gits'

The Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 06.12.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Travellers, Sally Bercow, Gyspies, Big Fat Gypsie Wedding, Paddy Doherty, When Paddy Met Sally, UK Politics News

Describing herself as the "gobby bird married to the Speaker," Sally Bercow used the HuffPost UK soapbox event in the Stratford Westfield to dispel st...

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Families Move Back Onto Dale Farm

PA | Posted 16.01.2012 | UK
Read More: Basildon Council, Dale Farm, Travellers, UK News

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

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

PA | Posted 16.11.2011 | UK
Read More: Basildon Council, Travellers, Dale Farm Travellers, UK News, Dale Farm, Illegal Travellers, Essex, Travellers Site, Caravan Park, Basildon, UK News

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

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How Saying Nothing Means You Are Doing A Lot

Mark Fletcher-Brown | Posted 14.01.2012 | UK
Read More: Travellers, Racism, Dale Farm Travellers, Discrimination, Abuse, Gypsies, UK News
Mark Fletcher-Brown

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. Words misattributed to Edmund Burke but irrefutable whoever said them. It's eas...

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Bill On Evicting Travellers To Be Introduced To Commons

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 08.01.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Conservative Party, Travellers, UK Parliament, Dale Farm Travellers, Dale Farm, Theresa May, Traveller Sites, UK Diary, Simon Kirby, UK Politics News

A Tory MP will introduce a Bill to Parliament on Wednesday which would give greater powers to police forces and councils to move on travellers from il...

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The Fallacy of Fear

Scott Hill | Posted 19.03.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Daily Express, Noam Chomsky, Travellers, Dale Farm, Daily Mail, Terrorism, Protest, Rupert Murdoch, Richard Desmond, Anti-Capitalism, Immigration, Capitalism, UK Politics News
Scott Hill

As outlined at freedictionary.com, fallacy is an "incorrect or misleading notion based on inaccurate facts or invalid reasoning"; in other words, a fa...

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Six Still Chained In Traveller Site

PA | Posted 19.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Basildon Council, Eviction, Essex, Travellers, Basildon, UK News, Dale Farm, Gypsy, UK News

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

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Dale Farm Clearance To Continue Despite Activist Resistance

PA | Posted 19.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Travellers, UK News, Dale Farm, Police, Gypsy, Essex, Eviction, Bailiff, Basildon, Video, UK News

Bailiffs are expected to begin removing homes from the UK's largest illegal travellers' site after police spent the night securing their position. ...

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Police Advance In Numbers On Dale Farm

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 18.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Travellers, Dale Farm, Police, Gypsy, Essex, Eviction, Bailiff, Basildon, UK News

Two protesters have been tasered and 23 arrested after clashes broke out with authorities as police moved into the Dale Farm site in Essex, where a pl...

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Bailiffs Move In To Clear Dale Farm Travellers' Site

PA | Posted 18.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Basildon Council, Travellers, Dale Farm, Gypsy, Eviction, Basildon, Essex, UK News

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...

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Dale Farm In 'Lockdown' Ahead Of Eviction

Posted 17.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Basildon Council, Travellers, Dale Farm, UK News

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...

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