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Travellers vow to fight after council starts to evict them from home of 20 years

2024-06-19 40 Dailymotion

Travellers say they'll be "left on the streets" after the council started action to evict them from a caravan site where they've lived for 20 years.<br /><br />Bolton Council began the process to close down Crompton Lodge in Bolton, Lancashire, yesterday (18) in response to "escalating violence and criminality".<br /><br />But travellers facing eviction say they are "fighting for their babies' home".<br /><br />Kathleen Moloney moved into Crompton Lodge in 2004 and fears she’ll be “left on the streets” - along with her six children, aged 21, 17, 12, 11, eight, six, and elderly uncle.<br /><br />'Irish traveller' Kathleen says seven families - approximately 40 people - face losing their homes at the site.<br /><br />She says some have lived there for two decades.

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