Mail OnLine 13/01/2012 Staff at an ice rink have been accused of inciting racial hatred after placing a sign in the reception stating: ‘No travellers’. Managers said they put up the notice following a series of incidents at the Ice Arena in Blackburn, Lancashire. Hughie Smith, life president of The Gypsy Council, said the sign [...]
Daily Star 07/01/2012 CELEBRITY Big Brother champ Paddy Doherty avoided going to jail yes- terday for his part in a brawl with rival gypsies. The 52-year-old had his ear bitten off during a ferocious fist-fight on a dual carriageway that left passers-by horrified and screaming. Surgeons had to sew back Doherty’s left lug after he [...]
BBC News South West Wales 14/12/2011 A film about the fate of Gypsies in the Holocaust, made by young people from Pembrokeshire’s Gypsy and traveller community, is to have its premiere. Members of the Priory Project, Monkton, visited the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps where 20,000 Roma Gypsies were killed during World War II. Their seven [...]
Huffington Post 06/12/2011 Describing herself as the “gobby bird married to the Speaker,” Sally Bercow used the HuffPost UK soapbox event in the Stratford Westfield to dispel sterotypes about Gypsies. Megaphone in hand, the outspoken wife of John Bercow said she wanted to “puncture myths” that surround the travelling community. She said hostility was their [...]
Chorley Guardian 05/12/2011 You’ve heard of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. However the popular TV documentary about gypsies and travellers in Britain had none of the drama of a real-life traveller wedding reception in Leyland. Police were called to a wedding reception at the Best Western Leyland Hotel last week after they received a report [...]
MailOnline 24/11/2011 The number of gypsies and travellers living in England has more than doubled over the last 100 years, statistics suggest. Latest figures published by the Department for Communities and Local Government show there were 18,600 people classed as gypsies or travellers living in the country in July 2011. This is 400 more than [...]
MailOnline 25/11/2011 A BBC report about the Dale Farm evictions was biased, according to an internal investigation. Basildon Council had complained of misleading coverage, saying The One Show had effectively sided with the travellers at the illegal site. And the corporation’s editorial standards committee has now found that the broadcast breached impartiality rules.
Express 15/11/2011 GOLF has a reputation, deserved in some cases, for snootiness. Given the choice between inclusiveness and exclusiveness, it can too often opt for the latter. So how about this then for a blast of icy air up the sport’s complacent kilt? London gypsies being crowned European champions. Joe Smith, a scrap metal dealer [...]
Fulham and Hammersmith Chronicle 10/11/2011 RACISM in sport has been dominating the headlines in recent weeks, particularly in football. But a type of discrimination described as ‘the last socially acceptable form of racism’ rarely makes the top of the news agenda – that against gypsies and travellers. A scheme at Queens Park Rangers Football Club [...]
Mail OnLine 01/11/2011 Lawyers defending the Dale Farm gypsies have been handed £6million of taxpayers’ money in just five years, it emerged today. Leeds-based Davies Gore Lomax cashed in while villagers living beside the Essex campsite had to fund their own campaign to evict the travellers. The firm, which specialises in helping the ‘vulnerable and [...]