Somerset Travellers Face Second Eviction within 48 hrs

April 28, 2008

Trav­ellers, who had been evict­ed from a site they had occu­pied for near­ly two years, near Rad­stock, Som­er­set, Now face a vio­lent evic­tion from a dis­used quar­ry, in the Mendips.

April 28, 2008

Trav­ellers, who had been evict­ed from a site they had occu­pied for near­ly two years, near Rad­stock, Som­er­set, Now face a vio­lent evic­tion from a dis­used quar­ry, in the Mendips.

A Group of Harassed Som­er­set Trav­ellers have been promised a vis­it from base­ball bat- wield­ing bal­liffs if they don’t leave imme­di­ate­ly. The threat was made dur­ing a child’s 4th birth­day par­ty. Hav­ing just been removed from there pre­vi­ous site with lit­tle notice, the group have no where to go. All they ask for is a lit­tle time. But evil quar­ry com­pa­ny Han­son, have obtained an injunc­tion, which means that bal­liffs can evict at any time, with out the safe­guard of a police pres­ence.

The Trav­ellers are appeal­ing for sup­port, and have made a spe­cial request for any­one with a video cam­era to get down there, hope­ful­ly with the effect of abat­ing any vio­lence.

The site, is in an old quar­ry, adja­cent to the old protest site at the fab­u­lous­ly named “dead wom­ans bot­tom. Also known as What­ley Quar­ry. Its on the A361 before you get to Wells.

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update

after not flee­ing in the face of threats of vio­lence, seems the own­ers of the quar­ry have decid­ed to go through the caughts, giv­ing the trav­ellers , a lit­tle breath­ing space.