Travellers

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 Lose Battle Against Eviction

Posted 12.12.2011 | UK

Residents of the Dale Farm travellers’ site have lost their High Court battle against eviction. Basildon Council has been attempting to remove th...

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 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...

Dale Farm Travellers Win Latest Round Of High Court Legal Battle

PA | Posted 26.11.2011 | UK

Travellers fighting to stay on the UK's biggest illegal site - at Dale Farm near Basildon, Essex - won the latest round of their High Court legal batt...

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...

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. ...

Dale Farm Travellers Prepare For Eviction

Posted 18.11.2011 | UK

Travellers living on Britain's largest illegal site face eviction on Monday, as one resident pleaded with David Cameron to intervene on their behalf. ...

Dale Farm Travellers High Court Bid Rejected

Posted 16.11.2011 | UK

A last-ditch bid to halt the clearance of the UK's largest illegal travellers' site at Dale Farm in Essex has been rejected by an appeal judge at the ...

Dale Farm Eviction Would 'Violate International Law'

The huffington Post UK | Posted 14.11.2011 | UK

The eviction of travellers from the Dale Farm site in Essex would "violate international law", a United Nations adviser has warned. Bailiffs acting...

UN Team At Dale Farm Traveller Eviction Site

PA | Posted 13.11.2011 | UK

A United Nations team is to visit the UK's largest illegal traveller settlement ahead of a planned eviction. The UN Advisory Gro...

Ned Simons

Criminal Gangs 'Enslaving London's Homeless'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ned Simons | Posted 13.11.2011 | UK

The UK is seeing a rise in the number of rough sleepers being exploited and enslaved by criminal gangs, charities are warning, following the revelatio...

Four In Court On Slavery Charges

PA | Posted 12.11.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Four men are due to appear in court charged with slavery offences relating to four people found at a travellers' site. Tomm...

Men From Travellers' Site Charged With Slavery

Sky News | Posted 12.11.2011 | UK

Four men have been charged with slavery offences relating to four people found at a travellers' site in Bedfordshire, the Crown Prosecution Service ha...

Dale Farm: How About Some Radical Rationalism?

Adam Richards | Posted 02.11.2011 | UK
Adam Richards

The frustration for Dale Farm is that the situation has been allowed to develop to such a disturbing extent. There is clearly something wrong when an individual declares they are willing to die to protect the interest of their community.

Dale Farm Travellers: 'We Will Resist Eviction Peacefully'

PA | Posted 02.11.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Travellers and supporters fighting eviction from the UK's largest illegal site have refuted claims they have been infiltrated by ...

Ned Simons

Dale Farm Eviction Will 'Not Come In The Middle Of The Night'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ned Simons | Posted 01.11.2011 | UK

Travellers due to be evicted from Britain's largest illegal site will be given one week's notice before the bailiffs are sent in, the local council ha...

Council Defends Decision To Evict Travellers From Dale Farm

Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 30.10.2011 | UK

Basildon Council has rejected the accusation that its decision to evict families from Britain's largest traveller site is based on their "lifestyle or...

Schooling Provision For Travellers

Olivia Williams | Posted 10.09.2011 | UK

The Conservative MP Philip Hollobone has queried how many schools in England are attended entirely by traveller children. His question to education m...