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Six still chained to barricades at Dale Farm site

20.10.11
Six protesters remain chained to barricades inside the UK's largest illegal travellers' site... more

Battle of Dale Farm: Riot police storm illegal camp

19.10.11
Riot police and bailiffs were met with a hail of missiles as they moved in to clear Britain's biggest illegal travellers' site... more

Children told they were obese because ruler was broken

17.10.11
Health workers mistakenly told parents of 101 schoolchildren that they were 'too fat' - because their ruler was broken... more

Travellers to learn Dale Farm eviction decision

12.10.11
Residents of Dale Farm, the UK's largest illegal travellers' site, are to learn whether they have won their High Court battle against eviction... more

Two charged over cable theft which triggered severe rail delays

05.10.11
Two men have been charged in relation to the theft of cable next to a railway line in an incident which disrupted trains on busy commuter routes... more

High Court gives go-ahead to clear Dale Farm campsite

03.10.11
A high Court judge has paved the way for the Dale Farm travellers to be evicted from an illegal campsite in Essex as he ordered that the removal can go ahead... more

Judge tells Dale Farm: You're breaking the law

29.09.11
A judge has told Dale Farm travellers they were breaking the law by continuing to live on the illegal site... more

Dale Farm activist is Cambridge don

27.09.11
One of the supporters of the Dale Farm travellers is a Cambridge don who works with Stephen Hawking... more

Dale Farm travellers win weekend reprieve

23.09.11
Travellers at Dale Farm won another reprieve from bailiffs today when a High Court judge said he would consider his ruling over the weekend... more

Baronet's daughter and her pet dog Dooks join Dale Farm demo

20.09.11
The daughter of a Harrow and Oxford-educated baronet and shipping magnate was one of the more unlikely anarchists to join the demonstration at an Essex travellers' site... more

Travellers and 100 activists taunt police at start of eviction

19.09.11
A woman leading the Dale Farm protest can be unmasked as a radical Cambridge University graduate with a history of taking part in illegal direct action... more

Woman killed as fire engine crashes on call to trapped girl

09.09.11
A woman died after her car collided with a fire engine responding to a 999 call... more

Dale Farm travellers demand £6m to go

06.09.11
Travellers living illegally on the Dale Farm site asked for £6million of taxpayers' money to leave... more

Protesters warn police as date is set for Dale Farm eviction

05.09.11
Bulldozers will move in to clear Europe's largest illegal traveller camp on September 19 - but protesters have warned that police and bailiffs face a fight... more

Redgrave is tree hugger say traveller camp protesters - as legal bid to stay fails

31.08.11
Vanessa Redgrave is accused of being a 'tree hugger' and 'interfering' in the battle to dismantle Europe's largest illegal traveller site... more

Bailiffs get training on gipsies

26.07.11
Evictions of travellers from Britain's biggest illegal site could be delayed for council bailiffs to have 'cultural awareness' training... more

Get off my land: Eviction looms at country's largest travellers' site

01.07.11
Eviction notices could be served within days at what is thought to be the country's largest travellers' site ... more

Police 'heavies' rescued after getting stuck in overloaded lift

01.04.11
Six police officers responding to a 999 call had to be rescued themselves when a tower block lift couldn't take their weight... more

Travellers' Essex eviction: Tory council votes to spend almost £20 million removing gypsies

15.03.11
Conservative-controlled council has voted to spend millions of pounds of public money evicting travellers from an unauthorised site in Essex... more

Man dies after falling into frozen lake

20.12.10
Man died after falling into frozen fishing lake after an argument with his family... more

Boy, 17, surfs train for three miles

06.12.10
Teenager narrowly escapes death after falling from a train in Essex after clinging to its side for three miles in temperatures of minus 6C... more

Yellow line painted under parked car

12.11.10
Driver gets a £120 parking ticket after council workers paint a yellow line under his car... more

I want to conceive by 60, says 59-year-old IVF mother Sue Tollefsen

19.01.10
Woman hoping to become Britain’s oldest IVF mother has set herself a deadline to be pregnant by her next birthday in October ... more

Chiefs of high death rate hospital face calls to quit

27.11.09
Bosses of an NHS trust accused of letting dozens of patients die unnecessarily because of poor standards of care face growing pressure to quit... more

New rules on breaks could ruin us, say cab drivers

17.08.09
Black cab drivers warn that proposals to limit their working hours would force them out of business... more

Court official ‘got friends lucrative jobs on juries’

20.05.09
A court official fixed jury selection so her friends could sit on trials and claim thousands of pounds in expenses, a court heard... more

Protests grow in battle to save car jobs

02.04.09
Nationwide protests against job cuts at a car parts firm were set to continue... more

Workers enter factory in cutbacks protest

01.04.09
Workers at a car parts firm attempted to occupy two factories in London and Essex in protest over job cuts... more

1,000 travellers face eviction

22.01.09
More than 60 traveller families face eviction from unauthorised sites on green belt land after a ruling by the Court of Appeal... more

Hospital staff under guard after doctor is kidnapped

23.10.08
Staff at a London hospital have been given personal security guards after a junior doctor was allegedly kidnapped at knifepoint and robbed during a terrifying three-hour ordeal... more


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