UK News 26-10-2004 who: Councillor John Williams what: Says gipsy shanty town has shattered quiet rural life where: NORTH CURRY when: Yesterday snippet: "Operating with military precision, up to 60 travellers moved diggers on to the five-acre field at North Curry, near Taunton, after delivering a planning application to the council after its offices closed," says The Times. "They laid roads and driveways, dug four septic tanks and erected toilet blocks. Fences were raised to separate the pitches and stone platforms built for the caravans." [... more]

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