ITMB Media Monitor

BBC News England 12/04/2012 As the travelling fair season begins, fairground workers from all over Britain are heading out on to the road. But while their presence is familiar, what do we really know about the people who work the fairs? From the heated evictions at the Dale Farm traveller site in Essex to the [...]

The Westmoreland Gazette 11/04/2012 A WEBSITE offering comprehensive information on the Appleby Horse Fair has been revamped ahead of this year’s event. Organisations including Eden and South Lakeland district councils, Cumbria Police, the RSPCA and representatives from the Gypsy and Traveller communities have, for the fifth year running, formed a working group to ensure the [...]

This is Gloucestershire 10/04/2012 TREKKING the roads and byways of England, Craig Solar is not your typical gypsy or traveller. With his old-fashioned horse-drawn wagon, the 34-year-old sees himself closer to eco-warriors, such as Swampy, than the stars of programmes like My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.  

Derry Journal 08/04/2012 Forty years ago, two Californian anthropologists, George and Sharon Gmelch, moved into a barrel top wagon in a traveller encampment in Rathfarnham in Dublin. They spent thirteen months living and travelling with three extended traveller families. They returned to the States with material for a number of books and over 3,000 photographs. [...]

Chorley Guardian 28/03/2012 A public inquiry into a campsite on green belt in Chorley has heard how gypsies are a ‘valued part of the community’. Paul Wilkins, of Kings Lea, Adlington, was giving evidence at a three-day inquiry into a site on Hut Lane, Heath Charnock, which is occupied by families of Romany Gypsies. The [...]

Leamington Observer 15/03/2012 A CAMPAIGNING Warwick schoolgirl is in the running for a prestigious national writing competition. Alice Woodhouse, a pupil at King’s High, has been shortlisted for Amnesty International’s Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year award. The 16-year-old’s report on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Rights was selected in the top ten for her [...]

This is Leicestershire 14/03/2012 Three generations of a gypsy family have urged people to get to know the travelling community before making stereotyped judgements about them. The women – all born in Leicestershire – spoke out after a meeting about Leicester City Council’s plans for official pitches at Greengate Lane, Red Hill Way and Beaumont [...]

Get Surrey 09/03/2012 LEGAL traveller sites are needed in Surrey Heath because the community is growing and needs somewhere to live, members of a travellers’ forum have said. The comments were made ahead of Friday’s deadline for people to submit their views about the plans to build around 1,200 homes in Deepcut. The Surrey Gypsy [...]

Red Pepper 02/03/2012 The storming of Dale Farm by hundreds of riot police at dawn on 19 October 2011 was the money shot that the press had been waiting for following weeks of legal proceedings; the next day they all went home. But three months down the line, the eviction continues for the Dale Farm [...]

BBC News Leicester 02/03/2012 Gypsies in Leicester say there is a desperate need for more sites where they can live. Tracy Nedic, chairwoman of the Leicester Gypsy Council Liaison Group, said some Gypsies and travellers were being forced to live in houses. Mrs Nedic said the adjustments people have to make to cope with the [...]