0:00:02 > 0:00:05This programme contains some strong language.
0:00:05 > 0:00:09The Stewarts are Scottish Travellers, proudly maintaining their traditional lifestyle,
0:00:09 > 0:00:13spending most of each year on the road.
0:00:13 > 0:00:19Sisters Bella and Christine travel with their husbands Donald and Sammy, and their 13 children.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Punch him out!
0:00:21 > 0:00:24Their way of life is often at odds with those whom they refer to as
0:00:24 > 0:00:29the settled community, and it's often clear they're not welcome.
0:00:29 > 0:00:30They're being cheeky chapsies.
0:00:30 > 0:00:36But they are determined to carry on living their lives their way, whatever happens.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39We're not allowed in Montrose at all?
0:00:39 > 0:00:41Are you the occupier of this caravan?
0:00:41 > 0:00:48When the Travellers make the front page of the local paper, Sammy is concerned for their safety.
0:00:48 > 0:00:49They'll get a Traveller killed.
0:00:49 > 0:00:56And when they claim teenagers have shouted racist abuse at them, it is Donald who is arrested.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00He told me, if it doesn't go the right way, you're going down. Prison.
0:01:10 > 0:01:16The Travellers are camped at Riverview Drive in Dyce on the outskirts of Aberdeen.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Although many Travellers camp here, it is not an official site.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30Residents are unhappy about the camp on their doorstep,
0:01:30 > 0:01:34and now all the caravans have been served with eviction notices.
0:01:34 > 0:01:40Everyone must leave the site or face being charged with unlawful camping.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49An incident with local youths has resulted in Donald been arrested,
0:01:49 > 0:01:54and Sammy's work tools have been confiscated by the police.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58I went into my lorry, I opened up my door
0:01:58 > 0:02:02and I've got two power tools, my chainsaws,
0:02:02 > 0:02:04they've went into MY vehicle
0:02:04 > 0:02:06without my permission.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08They never even came and asked of me,
0:02:08 > 0:02:10"We're the police. Can we go into it?"
0:02:10 > 0:02:12They've never done none of that.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15They just went in and took what they needed.
0:02:19 > 0:02:22Sammy has decided to make a complaint.
0:02:22 > 0:02:28He's going to the police station to ask them why his power tools were taken from his van.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37It seems that Donald did more than shake his fists at the teenagers.
0:02:39 > 0:02:45According to the police, he chased them away with Sammy's chainsaw.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49He said the reason why they took my power tools
0:02:49 > 0:02:55was because one of the guys was seen with a power tool in his hand.
0:02:55 > 0:03:03Donald has been charged with a breach of the peace and possession of an offensive weapon - a chainsaw.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08Me and Sammy, when we're out working and that,
0:03:08 > 0:03:11we always take our chainsaws out, we always start them.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14They were roaring, so I took it into the back of the truck
0:03:14 > 0:03:17because Sammy was working with tools, I was working with tools
0:03:17 > 0:03:20and I gave it a couple of revs and I lifted it like that,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23but I looked across at them and the next minute they were off.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26But it wasn't the hooligans that phoned the police,
0:03:26 > 0:03:29it was the same moany people who were in the houses
0:03:29 > 0:03:31who complain about everything.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34It was them, not the hooligans, who phoned the police.
0:03:38 > 0:03:43The families leave Dyce before the eviction notice is enforced.
0:03:49 > 0:03:55Sammy and Donald both rent pitches at nearby Clinterty Travellers' Site.
0:03:55 > 0:04:02Although they travel most of the year, it provides them with a base and an address.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06Sammy has just taken delivery of a static caravan
0:04:06 > 0:04:09and he needs to make it secure.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12I was going to put stones in the bag.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14No, on top of here.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16On top of there.
0:04:16 > 0:04:20Yeah, but we have to go and lift it up and you have to put them underneath.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Go and put the stones under, Colin.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Hurry up!
0:04:27 > 0:04:29I told them. Did they do it?
0:04:31 > 0:04:34That will hold it the now, like.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39Do you think that would hold, Mike?
0:04:39 > 0:04:41That's fine. It's just to hold it.
0:04:41 > 0:04:46Now we'll have to go and buy heaps of breeze blocks and that,
0:04:46 > 0:04:49to put it all underneath and get it all sturdy.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Do you want to see the inside?
0:04:52 > 0:04:54What did I do with the keys?
0:04:57 > 0:05:01This is the first time the children get to see inside their new home.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06That is, if the key fits.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Lift the handle up and turn it round.
0:05:13 > 0:05:15That's it.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18- You see?- Yeah.- Brainiac can do it.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20I hope it's safe.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Ain't nothing in it.
0:05:25 > 0:05:32Colin, Colin, Colin, you've got dirt on your boot.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34You have, down the side of it.
0:05:36 > 0:05:41The caravan pitch has a chalet providing toilet and washing facilities,
0:05:41 > 0:05:46but Sammy wants the council to install mains water directly to his van.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Well, we're hoping to get it plumbed in
0:05:52 > 0:05:57and that will help the children, because my wee boy Sandy has asthma,
0:05:57 > 0:06:00and my wife suffers from problems and all.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03That will save them from going into the cold
0:06:03 > 0:06:04in the winter time.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06It's brand-new and it's big.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Brand-new, big.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10And one thing about a travelling man,
0:06:10 > 0:06:14if it makes the women happy and the children, that's the main thing.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17We just work 12 months a year.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19Come on.
0:06:20 > 0:06:27Sammy heads off, hopeful that the council will fit the mains plumbing while the family's off on the road.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42The Travellers are camping at Methil in Fife.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48It's now August. The children are enjoying the good weather
0:06:48 > 0:06:50and Sammy is doing a bit of DIY.
0:06:50 > 0:06:56Just trying to put the sealer stuff on to it, but... It is. It's broke.
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Go and show mummy you're walking.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04His wife Christine is enjoying a special moment.
0:07:04 > 0:07:11Her youngest child, Jeremiah, is taking his first tentative steps.
0:07:11 > 0:07:14Too excited, eh, Jeremiah?
0:07:14 > 0:07:17His dad calls him Tigger cos of the bouncing he does.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Wait until Morag and Sandy sees you.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27When Sandy gets him, it won't be long till he's out on his feet. Sandy'll have him out.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29< Clever boy!
0:07:30 > 0:07:34Sammy and Christine eloped as teenagers.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40'We were going out with each other for ages'
0:07:40 > 0:07:44and then we just got up one day and went, that was it.
0:07:46 > 0:07:50My dad was chasing me right enough, and her mum and dad were after her,
0:07:50 > 0:07:53because I had no licence, no driving licence,
0:07:53 > 0:07:56and I just jumped in the car and we went.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03Go and tell Morag, Maria, that Jeremiah's started stepping.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05We knew each other as children,
0:08:05 > 0:08:07and as we turned into like teenagers
0:08:07 > 0:08:10just basically got to like each other.
0:08:10 > 0:08:15I had seven warrants... off the camera!
0:08:15 > 0:08:20I did, I had seven outstanding warrants for driving.
0:08:20 > 0:08:21They never got me yet.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26I suppose when you just know it's the person,
0:08:26 > 0:08:29you know that person is for you.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34I think I've kept him back.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36When I babied him.
0:08:36 > 0:08:42- Dada!- Dada! Dada! Dada!
0:08:44 > 0:08:47I've got 22 grandchildren
0:08:47 > 0:08:49and they're all good. They're all fine.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52But some of them can be wee rascals.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55- HE SCREAMS - No! No!
0:08:57 > 0:08:58No! No!
0:08:58 > 0:09:00How you keeping, Hannah?
0:09:00 > 0:09:03Sammy's mother Hannah has come to visit.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05Yesterday I was pretty bad.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Aye, you don't keep very well.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09I don't keep very well, son.
0:09:09 > 0:09:14- Can I see the photos?- She's brought some family photos for him to see.
0:09:14 > 0:09:18That's me and my sister Marion.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21There's your dad.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23That's my dad, there.
0:09:23 > 0:09:27Sammy was a quite good boy.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30Sometimes he used to be a rascal, like the rest.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36This is you at the baptism with Marion.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39Me and you, Samuel, and Bill,
0:09:39 > 0:09:44and Tina and Michael, your brother Michael.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48We used to put a harness on him, a baby's harness,
0:09:48 > 0:09:50and tie him to the pole
0:09:50 > 0:09:52and he would play there with all his toys.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55It was safer than one of them going into the road
0:09:55 > 0:09:57and getting caught by a car.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01That was better for Samuel.
0:10:01 > 0:10:08Samuel was just born in Carlisle and the newspapermen came for a story to see inside the tent,
0:10:08 > 0:10:10to see what way we lived.
0:10:10 > 0:10:15As a newborn, Sammy was taken back to a bough tent,
0:10:15 > 0:10:17his family home at that time.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20Sammy was good at making bough tents,
0:10:20 > 0:10:22him and his father and his mother.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26Bough tents are traditional Travellers' accommodation
0:10:26 > 0:10:32made from sticks or boughs tied with rags and covered with a tarpaulin.
0:10:34 > 0:10:39Although life was hard, Sammy has fond memories of his childhood,
0:10:39 > 0:10:41and especially of his father.
0:10:43 > 0:10:49I saw my father drinking, coming up from England, and we had no home.
0:10:49 > 0:10:56The car broke down in Cornwall, and we landed on top of a wee roundabout,
0:10:56 > 0:11:01and my dad went up to the woods, cut up a few boughs, out with the cover and we had a home.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03That's all we took.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07My dad had a drinking problem.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10My dad used to drink a lot and that,
0:11:10 > 0:11:13but that doesn't mean to say anything.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Even though he was drunk and that,
0:11:15 > 0:11:18he left me heaps of good memories
0:11:18 > 0:11:23because he was the type of man who was jokey, laughy,
0:11:23 > 0:11:25he was never a fighter.
0:11:25 > 0:11:26He always got on with people.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29He thought getting on with people was a lot better
0:11:29 > 0:11:31than arguing with people and that.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34The memories of my father are very, very good.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48You know Hannah? Hannah asked me could Morag and Maria come,
0:11:48 > 0:11:52and Morag said aye, but I knew you would say no.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Baby Samuel is taking his afternoon nap,
0:11:54 > 0:12:01and Bella's five minutes of peace is soon disturbed by nine-year-old Maria.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04- You're only 9, not 19. - Morag, Morag!
0:12:04 > 0:12:07That's Morag's granny.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09'Maria was born with a muscle disorder.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12'She never walked until she was over two, she didn't talk.'
0:12:12 > 0:12:14She had special milk and that.
0:12:14 > 0:12:15Very stressful.
0:12:15 > 0:12:20The Stewarts have a strong Christian faith that they draw on.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24'We went through a hard time with her.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27'We didn't know if she was going to be alive or dead.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29'Our heads were all over the place.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32'I said, to be honest,'
0:12:32 > 0:12:35"I'm going away to the pub and I'm going to get drunk."
0:12:35 > 0:12:39I was so upset with everything.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Now, Bella's never done this before,
0:12:41 > 0:12:45which is why I believe it was the hand of God that caused it.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47And she says - I didn't have so many kids then -
0:12:47 > 0:12:49"I'm going with you," she says.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51I says, "I don't care what you do."
0:12:51 > 0:12:53She says, "But I want you to drop me off at the church
0:12:53 > 0:12:57"cos all my family goes to church, and I'm going to seek something,
0:12:57 > 0:13:00"because they've got something. Those people have got something."
0:13:00 > 0:13:04I says, "On you go, because everybody's Bible thumpers.".
0:13:04 > 0:13:08- Mummy, can you tie my boots? - You stay out now and watch your little brother.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12'I stopped at the door of the church, and next thing I knew I was sitting on the back row.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15'And I crouched down in my seat'
0:13:15 > 0:13:20and I said, "What am I doing here?"
0:13:20 > 0:13:22I don't know what is says.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24What does it say?
0:13:26 > 0:13:30'I go up and I says, "Bella." She says, "What?"'
0:13:30 > 0:13:35I say, "I want to become a born-again believer." "What?" she says.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Christina, there's a lot of papers you can get out of the way for me.
0:13:41 > 0:13:48As Maria lay in the hospital the whole congregation joined Donald in prayer.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57'My phone rang,
0:13:57 > 0:14:00'and it was my wife Bella.'
0:14:00 > 0:14:04She was up at the hospital. She says, "She's not going to make it through the night."
0:14:06 > 0:14:11I went, "Lord, if you're going to take her, take her, but I do not want her to suffer pain."
0:14:11 > 0:14:16I was crying, to be truthful. You don't care who's looking if it's your child, you cry your heart out.
0:14:16 > 0:14:21"But if you're the healing God you say you are," I says and I banged the pulpit,
0:14:21 > 0:14:23I says, "Heal her right now!"
0:14:23 > 0:14:26I was really angry with God.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30Maria, get your hair brushed and put that band in. Hurry up.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34landed at the hospital. I walked in...
0:14:34 > 0:14:36I almost collapsed
0:14:36 > 0:14:41cos I seen doctors of all sorts all round this crib.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47When they moved back, here was my little Maria
0:14:47 > 0:14:53standing at the cot and she was bouncing with life.
0:14:55 > 0:14:56I can see all the houses.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02And, er...it was comical.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05I was so filled with joy, happy at the time.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09The doctor turned round and says,
0:15:09 > 0:15:13"Whatever doctor yous have got," he says, "he's beyond us,
0:15:13 > 0:15:16"cos this child should never have been alive."
0:15:16 > 0:15:18She was never meant to be alive.
0:15:50 > 0:15:55The Travellers are camped on the shore, close to a modern housing estate.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00I would never choose to live in a house.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02I have, but I didn't like it.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05It's like you're in prison then.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07You've got the same people around you
0:16:07 > 0:16:10and, like, you just can't adapt to it.
0:16:13 > 0:16:18Although many of Scotland's 23,000 Travellers now live in houses,
0:16:18 > 0:16:24official statistics estimate only around 2,000 Travellers still take to the roads each year.
0:16:26 > 0:16:31Alex and Christine are cleaning their caravan.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33You don't put it on...
0:16:33 > 0:16:37Their brother Donnie holds traditional Traveller views.
0:16:37 > 0:16:42This is all a Traveller girl's supposed to do, just tidy the caravan.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46- Boys go working.- Who's pound is this?
0:16:46 > 0:16:48- Joshua's.- She found it.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51- Founder...- She left it lying on top of the seat.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54I don't agree with Traveller girls working,
0:16:54 > 0:16:59because before you know it, if a year goes by, if they're still working,
0:16:59 > 0:17:03they get into the settled community and they kind of forget about Travellers.
0:17:03 > 0:17:09"We'll go camping, we'll go out in the caravan this year." Never comes.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11- I'm just leaving this up here.- OK.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14Yous have been teached to get a job, go to school,
0:17:14 > 0:17:17get your degrees, whatever.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19That's what yous has been teached.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21We've been teached different ways to...
0:17:21 > 0:17:23It's just different, you know what I mean?
0:17:26 > 0:17:28A girl Traveller, erm...
0:17:28 > 0:17:31Girls, it's not allowed to do pretty much anything.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34Girls get to stay home, clean, cook,
0:17:34 > 0:17:37look after children, be respectful.
0:17:37 > 0:17:43We don't go out, like, with boys, out in cars and messing around,
0:17:43 > 0:17:46and be like...
0:17:46 > 0:17:48You've got to be really sensible.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52You can't, like, go around just date every boy and you can't go around
0:17:52 > 0:17:56talking to boys because you get a bad name for it, you do.
0:17:56 > 0:18:02But boys, they can go out there and do pretty much whatever they want and they'll get off with it.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Girls are a different story because boys can, like,
0:18:05 > 0:18:07defend themselves, but lasses can't.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14Even now, many Travellers lack a full formal education.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20I've never been to school in my life. Never.
0:18:20 > 0:18:25The only time I saw a school was when I put my own daughters in.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29I couldn't tell yous. I'm not going to lie.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31I've never been to school.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38I wished I knew how to read a bit more.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41I can read, but not enough
0:18:41 > 0:18:44and I find it hard to deal with letters and things.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47But I do want schooling for mine.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50So I wouldn't mix the picture up...
0:18:51 > 0:18:55..because this day in age is different from when I grew up.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59It doesn't seem all that long ago, but it is a lot harder now.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03There is... You need a lot of schooling to get by today.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07My Alex has left school now.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09She was in all last winter.
0:19:09 > 0:19:13But she's 13 past, so they want her to go high school,
0:19:13 > 0:19:16and I just don't want her to go there.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21They learn a lot of bad habits in high school.
0:19:21 > 0:19:26You get told one thing, but your child's standing in a corner somewhere else.
0:19:26 > 0:19:31And there's the other hand, there's the bullying because you're a Traveller.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33It's different in primary.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39There's a different story when they come 13, 14.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42There's bigger children and they're spiteful-er.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46It just kind of always causes that deflection between Travellers.
0:19:49 > 0:19:5314-year-old Donnie no longer goes to school.
0:19:55 > 0:19:56I've learnt every kind of work.
0:19:56 > 0:20:01Everything I can make money out of, go and sell batteries,
0:20:01 > 0:20:03and go looking, peel copper, burn copper,
0:20:03 > 0:20:08go in to the eyelets, save up alloy wheels, go ask for it.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10All types of work.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Anything you can make money at.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Well, you should be married about 19, 20.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20You should get your own life before it gets too late.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26But it's really your own choice, what you want to do with your life, is it?
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Travelling boys...
0:20:29 > 0:20:32is really manly.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34They grow up before their time.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38It's cos the minute they hit 17, it's like licence, lorry, work.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41That's it. Save, save, save until they get married. That's it.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45They provide for their marriage.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47That's how they do it.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49I'll just work like my dad did.
0:20:49 > 0:20:53Save up till I've got enough money to get a home, get my own nice car,
0:20:53 > 0:20:55so then I can get married.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57You know what I mean?
0:20:57 > 0:21:00Tina is almost 17.
0:21:00 > 0:21:04Would she ever consider eloping like her parents did?
0:21:04 > 0:21:08If I turn around and says, "I want to go away right now,"
0:21:08 > 0:21:11my dad would actually go mental at me because...
0:21:11 > 0:21:14I know his boundaries and I don't push them.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22I don't mix with anyone else, except from Travellers.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25I know my pals, I know they're the same as me.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28I've got a strict father, strict upbringing,
0:21:28 > 0:21:32not allowed to date anyone, not allowed to go out with anyone,
0:21:32 > 0:21:33not allowed to run away.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39With the camp right on their doorstep,
0:21:39 > 0:21:42local residents are well aware of their new neighbours.
0:21:42 > 0:21:48However, Tina feels it is the residents who are invading her space, not the other way round.
0:21:50 > 0:21:55When we're, like, in this kind of place, a built-up area, with all them kind of people,
0:21:55 > 0:21:59when we're doing our thing, it's like they're always there,
0:21:59 > 0:22:01always nosing, and it's not nice.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04It's not like we go to the doors of their houses
0:22:04 > 0:22:06and noses through what they're doing.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09But...that's just, like, they like doing that.
0:22:39 > 0:22:44As dusk falls, some local teenagers approach the camp.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48- THEY LAUGH We're on telly! - Why are you saying that?
0:22:52 > 0:22:57- Abbott, Abbott. - Alex tells big sister Tina that they have been calling her names.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59They're being cheeky chapsies.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02What is it, Alex?
0:23:04 > 0:23:07They're being cheeky. What'd they say?
0:23:07 > 0:23:11They were going, "That's gypsies, let's get our arse out to them",
0:23:11 > 0:23:13and being cheeky and all that.
0:23:13 > 0:23:14Rubbish.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16See what we've got to go through?
0:23:16 > 0:23:19The teenagers may have been cheeky,
0:23:19 > 0:23:22but they haven't done any physical harm.
0:23:22 > 0:23:27- See what I mean? - But Tina is worried they may come back later and cause more trouble.
0:23:27 > 0:23:31I'm going to get my daddy, right? No, he'll come out and see this.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34THEY LAUGH Get your tits out!
0:23:34 > 0:23:39- Daddy!- She decides to tell her father Donald what's been happening.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41Look, that's them up there, hiding.
0:23:41 > 0:23:48Earlier in the year, Donald was arrested in Dyce for chasing some local teenagers with a chainsaw.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52The case is due to be heard in court soon.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56- Is it all lasses, aye? - No, two, three boys.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59- I want you to tie the dog. Now. - Come on, bud.
0:23:59 > 0:24:04This time, he is keen to avoid any trouble.
0:24:06 > 0:24:10- But you would complain if he's barking.- Now.- I've got him!
0:24:10 > 0:24:12You see the cheek we get off them now?
0:24:12 > 0:24:14Yous are deid!
0:24:14 > 0:24:18He asks Tina to tie up the dogs and sets off to investigate the matter.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28We're giving them a fright so they won't come back tonight.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34Donald has a few words with them.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38Because if nothing gets done about it, then they'll be back doing...
0:24:38 > 0:24:40There's more of us than them.
0:24:40 > 0:24:45Putting stones through the windows and all that, so you've got to give them a fright so they stay away.
0:24:46 > 0:24:52Whoever had their underwear out or something, just doesn't want this kind of trouble or something.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58What they say doesn't really matter.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01Like, wherever we go we get that, it's no difference.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Next day, the Travellers are tidying up.
0:25:11 > 0:25:17They don't want last night's trouble to escalate, so it's time to move on.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31The Travellers are taking Donnie to Glenrothes,
0:25:31 > 0:25:35where he will compete in the British Schoolboys Boxing Championship.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44- How's the woman getting there? - Aye, she's coming up to meet us.
0:25:44 > 0:25:49Earlier in the year, Donnie won a silver medal in the Scottish championship.
0:25:49 > 0:25:54This time he's hoping to bring home the gold.
0:25:57 > 0:26:01I'm really stuck. I don't really know what I want for my life.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04I think I would like to go on with my boxing,
0:26:04 > 0:26:06come through, make a name,
0:26:06 > 0:26:12cos we never actually had anything in our family that's made a big name.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15I would like our name to be... spoken about.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21My mum's a McDonald and my dad's a Stewart,
0:26:21 > 0:26:23so that's what I want to do it for,
0:26:23 > 0:26:27so when I become professional my name will get shouted out in the ring.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Everyone will hear I'm a Stewart and McDonald.
0:26:35 > 0:26:41He has plenty of support, including his uncle Sammy.
0:26:41 > 0:26:46- How many of us?- 5,000! - I think it's 16 of us.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Yeah, including children and adults.
0:26:49 > 0:26:5116. It's a big event.
0:26:56 > 0:27:01The best young boxers from Scotland, England and Wales are competing here today.
0:27:06 > 0:27:08Donnie is checking out the opposition.
0:27:08 > 0:27:12That's nothing to look at. Looks can deceive you.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16The other one's wee, he says. He's fine.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18But he's built like that.
0:27:22 > 0:27:23He's not bothered about him.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25He's no' bothered.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Ladies and gentlemen, we now move on to the next...
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Donnie is boxing in the semifinal against a Welsh opponent.
0:27:37 > 0:27:44And introducing to you, in the red corner, from Scotland, Donald Stewart!
0:27:44 > 0:27:47CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:27:47 > 0:27:53And across the ring, in the blue corner, all the way from Wales, it's Geraint Jones.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:27:55 > 0:27:58Come on, Donnie.
0:27:58 > 0:27:59First round.
0:28:05 > 0:28:06Come on, Donnie!
0:28:10 > 0:28:11Come on, Donnie!
0:28:15 > 0:28:17That's it, that's it, that's it!
0:28:17 > 0:28:19Come on, Donnie.
0:28:25 > 0:28:26Get in there!
0:28:33 > 0:28:36Get right in with five or six tight punches. Bang, bang, bang.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39Don't be reckless, Donnie, right?
0:28:39 > 0:28:40Come on.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Last round.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54Come, on, Donnie!
0:28:54 > 0:28:55Come on, Donnie!
0:28:55 > 0:28:57The fight is close.
0:28:57 > 0:28:58Whoever wins this will be in the final.
0:28:58 > 0:29:03Come on, Donnie! Come on, son!
0:29:12 > 0:29:18Ladies and gentlemen, please show appreciation for two gladiators of the ring.
0:29:24 > 0:29:28By a computer score of two-two,
0:29:28 > 0:29:30it goes to a count back.
0:29:30 > 0:29:36And on the count back the scores were recorded five-five.
0:29:36 > 0:29:40We'll then go to an individual score of the judges.
0:29:40 > 0:29:42Ladies and gentlemen,
0:29:42 > 0:29:46by a score of the narrowest of margins, three to two...
0:29:49 > 0:29:51..in the red corner, Donald Stewart!
0:29:54 > 0:29:59- Ladies and gentlemen, please show your appreciation.- Yes!
0:29:59 > 0:30:01Donald is ecstatic.
0:30:03 > 0:30:06Young Donnie is now in with a shot at the gold medal.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11Oh, yes, I'm proud. I'm proud of him.
0:30:11 > 0:30:13Proud of him.
0:30:13 > 0:30:16I believe you'll have a gold.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18I know in the bottom of my
0:30:18 > 0:30:21heart he's going to take it.
0:30:21 > 0:30:23A year ago I wasn't doing none of this.
0:30:23 > 0:30:27I'm in the British Championships! Who knows, I might be the British Champion!
0:30:28 > 0:30:31Donald calls Bella with the good news.
0:30:32 > 0:30:36Hello, it's me. Did you hear he won?
0:30:36 > 0:30:39Aye, he won. Do you know who he's fighting tomorrow?
0:30:39 > 0:30:42The Bomber.
0:30:48 > 0:30:52Donnie is up against the same boy who beat him in the Scottish final.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58Also representing Scotland, in the blue corner,
0:30:58 > 0:30:59Donald Stewart!
0:31:04 > 0:31:05Seconds out, first round.
0:31:10 > 0:31:11Come on, Donnie!
0:31:15 > 0:31:19'I've actually had punches that took water to my eyes.
0:31:19 > 0:31:22'You know, when you get punched right on your nose it takes water to the
0:31:22 > 0:31:27'eyes, and then that's when you just dig in, you just get stuck into it.'
0:31:45 > 0:31:49'All that noise just goes blank in my head.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51'The noise of all the other people. The noise of the bells.
0:31:51 > 0:31:55'The noise of everybody screaming for other people.'
0:31:55 > 0:31:57I don't hear none of it. When you're in that ring,
0:31:57 > 0:32:00people maybe won't believe it, but you can't hear a sound.
0:32:00 > 0:32:03It's just stone quiet.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05You wouldn't even hear a pin drop.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07It's quiet as anything to me.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10'In my mind it's just him I'm seeing.
0:32:10 > 0:32:13'I'm focussing. It's all about focus.'
0:32:21 > 0:32:23Get in, Donnie! Get him!
0:32:34 > 0:32:38My dad always says I don't want you to be like me,
0:32:38 > 0:32:41I want you to do something with your life.
0:32:41 > 0:32:42So I want to be a boxer.
0:32:42 > 0:32:46But, of course, it can't always go my way.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48In the red corner, David Farrell.
0:32:52 > 0:32:55By the total score of four points to zero...
0:33:04 > 0:33:07Donnie has won a British Schoolboys Silver Medal.
0:33:09 > 0:33:11I had a fishing rod when I was three year old.
0:33:13 > 0:33:14My dad bought me it.
0:33:19 > 0:33:22You don't really know what can happen in five years' time, do you?
0:33:22 > 0:33:25Maybe I'll stop. Maybe I'll stop, maybe I'll get worse.
0:33:25 > 0:33:27I could get better at boxing.
0:33:27 > 0:33:29Anything could happen in five years.
0:33:29 > 0:33:32It might just come out of my mind. It might just be a fantasy.
0:33:32 > 0:33:35It might come out of my mind and... I don't think it's a fantasy. It's what I want to do.
0:33:37 > 0:33:39That's the wee-est I've ever caught!
0:33:41 > 0:33:45The last time I caught bigger ones than that.
0:33:45 > 0:33:48If it was something about that size I would be proud.
0:33:48 > 0:33:53I've known boys who are brilliant boxers, could have went pro.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56I've seen them box, absolutely brilliant.
0:33:56 > 0:34:00And then soon as they got their driving licence,
0:34:00 > 0:34:03buggering off and not boxing.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06Fishing is a slow sport, but it's always worth it at the end.
0:34:12 > 0:34:15Start going out drinking and just not boxing.
0:34:15 > 0:34:18That's not me.
0:34:18 > 0:34:20I want to make something of my life.
0:34:37 > 0:34:43Sammy has returned to Clinterty Travellers' Site to check on his static caravan.
0:34:43 > 0:34:49In addition to the parking bay, the Council provides a small chalet with basic facilities.
0:34:54 > 0:34:58Toilet facility there. And just a sink for washing.
0:34:58 > 0:35:03That's our own washing machine, our own dryer.
0:35:03 > 0:35:04That's all our own.
0:35:06 > 0:35:13Sammy would like mains water so his family can use the shower and toilet inside the caravan, but nothing has
0:35:13 > 0:35:17been done since their new static arrived on site several months ago.
0:35:21 > 0:35:25You're still paying I think it's £80 a week or £79 a week.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27For what? For what?
0:35:27 > 0:35:29I paid for the static myself.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32This is what we're paying 80 odd pounds for.
0:35:34 > 0:35:39In addition to rent, both families pay Council Tax for their Clinterty address.
0:35:42 > 0:35:45We actually had to move on the site.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49It's not what we picked, it's what they picked.
0:35:49 > 0:35:54At the end of the day, it's what Aberdeen City Council... This is where they picked to put us.
0:35:54 > 0:35:59CHILDREN CHATTER
0:36:01 > 0:36:07At the end of the day, you just want to be treated equal, the same,
0:36:07 > 0:36:10people in the houses and the people in the caravans, you know?
0:36:10 > 0:36:12That's all we want, to be treated equal.
0:36:16 > 0:36:23Although Sammy is disappointed, he leaves Clinterty in the hope that the van with be plumbed in soon.
0:36:37 > 0:36:41It's now September and the Travellers are heading for Montrose and Angus.
0:36:47 > 0:36:53They're going to visit family in the town and to look for whelks along the nearby coastline.
0:37:09 > 0:37:14Sammy sets up camp at the links, common ground beside the golf course.
0:37:18 > 0:37:20Donald and Bella plan to join them later.
0:37:27 > 0:37:30I'd say we've been coming here since about the
0:37:30 > 0:37:32last eight years.
0:37:32 > 0:37:35This field where we are staying,
0:37:35 > 0:37:39you wouldn't believe the amount of dog walkers who come here anyway.
0:37:39 > 0:37:42That's all they basically use it for.
0:37:42 > 0:37:47It's different, the likes of here, because I knew where I was coming to.
0:37:48 > 0:37:52But sometimes it's very stressful if you're on the road
0:37:52 > 0:37:55you don't know where to go, you're frightened of the police.
0:38:00 > 0:38:04I'm going to set up the dogs. I've got lurcher dogs.
0:38:04 > 0:38:08I'll put my dog over to that wee spot there, the rough kind of part,
0:38:08 > 0:38:12because it gives you a good warning if anybody comes about and that.
0:38:12 > 0:38:16If it's not used to you she'll give a bark and that.
0:38:16 > 0:38:17That's you set up camp!
0:38:27 > 0:38:31Less than an hour after their arrival, the Travellers are visited by the police.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37Members of the public have complained about yourselves.
0:38:37 > 0:38:41All we're here to do is just to get some details of your vehicles and
0:38:41 > 0:38:45what your intentions are, how long you're intending to stay here, OK?
0:38:45 > 0:38:50We're about 55 minutes into the hour, we're just under the hour.
0:38:50 > 0:38:54I haven't seen anybody to have several complaints.
0:38:54 > 0:38:56I've never seen anybody since I landed here.
0:38:56 > 0:39:01Well, it's just because you're parking on
0:39:01 > 0:39:03common ground.
0:39:03 > 0:39:06Well, because it's a links.
0:39:10 > 0:39:12- Occupation?- Just housewife.
0:39:12 > 0:39:14- The same address as your husband? - Yes.
0:39:14 > 0:39:16You know, that's
0:39:16 > 0:39:20obviously not good for the community to see litter
0:39:20 > 0:39:25and human faeces, so
0:39:25 > 0:39:29it's basically a process we're going through at the moment.
0:39:29 > 0:39:32What we need to do is we need to know are the children yours?
0:39:32 > 0:39:36- Six.- All mine, yeah. - We'll need to know their details. Right...
0:39:36 > 0:39:39The Travellers have their personal details recorded,
0:39:39 > 0:39:42along with those of their children and their vehicles.
0:39:45 > 0:39:48They said, you'll be expecting us
0:39:48 > 0:39:50coming in the middle of the night.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52I said, why? Why do you have to come in the middle of the night?
0:39:52 > 0:39:55They said, just checking on you, keeping an eye on you.
0:40:01 > 0:40:03I mean, what harm are we doing?
0:40:03 > 0:40:07We're just sitting here, a family guy with children.
0:40:07 > 0:40:11I mean, what could I do in a big massive field,
0:40:11 > 0:40:12you know?
0:40:15 > 0:40:20Despite the police visit, the Travellers stay on in Montrose.
0:40:20 > 0:40:24They're awoken by another police visit the next morning.
0:40:24 > 0:40:27Do you've another vehicle you're going to be out in at all?
0:40:27 > 0:40:31- Yes, a Transit van.- Once again, all their details are recorded.
0:40:38 > 0:40:40You know, the feeling you get when you even pull in, if there
0:40:40 > 0:40:46are people actually walking their dogs, you just get the feeling that they're against you, you know?
0:40:46 > 0:40:49I haven't got a clue why they don't like us.
0:40:49 > 0:40:52I don't know why, I don't know what harm are we doing
0:40:52 > 0:40:57and I've never hardly spoke to a settled person in the community.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59I don't even know. I'm just passing through.
0:40:59 > 0:41:02You're just there for a short time and away.
0:41:06 > 0:41:10Sammy is upset by their treatment in Montrose.
0:41:10 > 0:41:15He believes that Travellers have traditionally camped on this ground and they're doing no harm.
0:41:15 > 0:41:20He would like the Council to work with Travellers to create a better relationship.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23They could put bins down.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25They could maybe put toilets there.
0:41:25 > 0:41:30They could do what Morayshire and Aberdeenshire's been helping the
0:41:30 > 0:41:32Travellers and that way there's no mess.
0:41:40 > 0:41:44You don't feel like you're an actual person.
0:41:44 > 0:41:47You get treated like an animal, actually here in Montrose.
0:41:47 > 0:41:49You don't get treated like a human.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10Bella arrives at the links with her children,
0:42:10 > 0:42:18and following her are the Sheriff Officers sent by the council to issue eviction notices.
0:42:20 > 0:42:23I think they're a clannish little town and stuck up,
0:42:23 > 0:42:27if you ask me. And they're very, very prejudiced because
0:42:27 > 0:42:32in their eyes they want to keep this as a little holiday-making village
0:42:32 > 0:42:35and they've got no time for Travellers.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37No time whatsoever.
0:42:41 > 0:42:44Donald arrives towing the last of the caravans.
0:42:44 > 0:42:50As he reverses into position, on the edge of the links, the police show up again.
0:42:50 > 0:42:53Hey! The boys in blue! My God!
0:42:53 > 0:42:55- I'm not even three minutes here. - What's your name, please?
0:42:55 > 0:42:57Donald John Stewart.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01S-T-E-W-A-R-T.
0:43:01 > 0:43:03What's your date of birth?
0:43:03 > 0:43:07- 6.1.70.- Is he yours, Bella? - BELLA: The 170th time(!)
0:43:07 > 0:43:10I never assume these things.
0:43:10 > 0:43:12Do you have any other kids?
0:43:12 > 0:43:14- Plenty.- With you here?
0:43:14 > 0:43:16- They're all up at the park. - How many?
0:43:16 > 0:43:18- I've got seven.- In that wee caravan?
0:43:18 > 0:43:21Excuse me, if you don't mind, right?
0:43:21 > 0:43:24I'm not being cheeky and that, but what has all the children got to do with it?
0:43:24 > 0:43:27- They're all staying here, is all. - Yeah, but they are children, we're the guardians.
0:43:27 > 0:43:30I'm taking details of the occupants of the caravans.
0:43:30 > 0:43:34That's what I've been asked to do, occupants of the caravans.
0:43:36 > 0:43:40It is the third police visit in 24 hours.
0:43:54 > 0:43:59They plan to stay until the tides change, collecting whelks,
0:43:59 > 0:44:02but now they have an eviction notice hanging over them.
0:44:10 > 0:44:16Sammy and Christine have their sleep disturbed during the night.
0:44:16 > 0:44:20At half past three last night, we were in bed since the back of 11,
0:44:20 > 0:44:23we'd heard a car, bright lights shining. We looked out the window,
0:44:23 > 0:44:27it was the police who were creeping by slowly past the caravans, past ours,
0:44:27 > 0:44:33and down to Don and Bella's. Out slowly and then at half-five in the morning, I was feeding the wee one
0:44:33 > 0:44:36and another police car in.
0:44:40 > 0:44:46The next day the police returned, their 4th formal visit in 48 hours.
0:44:46 > 0:44:48I'll let my colleague speak to you.
0:44:48 > 0:44:53- You were issued with your 48 hour warning two days ago.- Yeah.
0:44:53 > 0:44:58So now we are issuing a 24 hour warning for you to leave the area.
0:44:58 > 0:45:00So, I'm allowed another 24 hours?
0:45:00 > 0:45:0224 hours and tomorrow we will be back.
0:45:02 > 0:45:06- That's where I'm parking now. - 24 hours they will be back - this time tomorrow.
0:45:06 > 0:45:11Under normal circumstances you would have been visited by the council, a welfare visit,
0:45:11 > 0:45:17and someone from the housing department to tell you where the legal
0:45:17 > 0:45:20- travelling sites are, where you could go.- Yeah.
0:45:20 > 0:45:24There are camping sites. There's a site at then South Lights.
0:45:24 > 0:45:27I phoned one this morning, but the maximum stay is three days.
0:45:27 > 0:45:30Could you take us to Christine, now and we'll let her know?
0:45:30 > 0:45:36Montrose has a Travellers' site, but like most of the 28 council sites throughout Scotland,
0:45:36 > 0:45:43it is permanently full with no temporary base for Travellers on the move like Sammy and Donald.
0:45:43 > 0:45:47- ..Caution tomorrow...- I'll be away by 12.30, 1 o'clock.
0:45:47 > 0:45:51The police suggest they go to Tealing on the outskirts of Dundee,
0:45:51 > 0:45:56but there is no guarantee there are any spaces there either.
0:45:56 > 0:46:01Every time we do come down to spend a week or so we get told to go to Tealing.
0:46:01 > 0:46:03It is over 30 miles away.
0:46:03 > 0:46:07We didn't intend to come to Tealing, we came to Montrose.
0:46:07 > 0:46:12- I'll be out of here at 12.30 tomorrow. I want no charges.- Very good, Samuel.- Thanks.- See you later.
0:46:17 > 0:46:22Despite calls for temporary halting sites for Travellers, none of the
0:46:22 > 0:46:25local authorities in Scotland have provided them.
0:46:27 > 0:46:29This is a caravan that wasn't here yesterday.
0:46:29 > 0:46:35More sheriff officers arrive to present a further eviction notice on Donald's caravan.
0:46:35 > 0:46:40- It's the same caravan.- Yeah.- Are you going to give it to a 10-year-old lassie?- Obviously...
0:46:40 > 0:46:43Young Donnie records the event on video.
0:46:43 > 0:46:46Excuse me! Just give it to me in my hand.
0:46:46 > 0:46:48It has got to go on the caravan.
0:46:48 > 0:46:54- Give it to me in my hand. I'll be putting it in the bin anyway. - It has got to go on this caravan.
0:46:56 > 0:46:59- Catch it out of his hand. You're accepting it.- You are the occupier of this caravan?
0:46:59 > 0:47:03- Yeah, he occupies it. - DONNIE: I occupy it.
0:47:03 > 0:47:04Are you the chap from Aberdeen?
0:47:04 > 0:47:07- Come down from Aberdeen? - How do you know that?
0:47:07 > 0:47:11My colleagues spoke to your wife yesterday and said you would be coming down.
0:47:11 > 0:47:14Common ground has always been available for travellers,
0:47:14 > 0:47:17because common ground is not just for travellers,
0:47:17 > 0:47:20it is for communities, show people, everything, it is for that use. Nobody owns it.
0:47:24 > 0:47:27For centuries, Travellers camped on common ground,
0:47:27 > 0:47:34but now these areas are council maintained and the Travellers are regularly refused access.
0:47:34 > 0:47:37With the threat of eviction hanging over them,
0:47:37 > 0:47:42they all agree it is better to move on than stay and be charged.
0:47:46 > 0:47:51The Travellers have moved half-a-mile away, still within Montrose.
0:47:53 > 0:47:59If I never moved off that bit over there, I had another half hour and they were coming down to charge me.
0:47:59 > 0:48:02The thing is if I was in a caravanette over there
0:48:02 > 0:48:05they wouldn't come in and I would not be bothered.
0:48:05 > 0:48:07They wouldn't even bother me.
0:48:09 > 0:48:12Come on. It's moving.
0:48:12 > 0:48:17I don't think the police has got nothing else to do than come and harass people 24 hours a day.
0:48:26 > 0:48:28The next morning the police are back again.
0:48:28 > 0:48:33Even though they have moved their location, the eviction notice is still active.
0:48:33 > 0:48:38The thing is, you know what's supposed to be happening, you have received a warning.
0:48:38 > 0:48:40- We did - from over there. - That's right.
0:48:40 > 0:48:42Not from over here.
0:48:42 > 0:48:45You can't just move from A to B and think...
0:48:45 > 0:48:48But we moved from there over to here.
0:48:48 > 0:48:51You think you can charge people for different ground, yes?
0:48:51 > 0:48:54You are still within Montrose.
0:48:54 > 0:48:57- So we're not allowed in Montrose at all?- No.
0:48:57 > 0:49:00- You must be racist, against Travellers.- No.
0:49:00 > 0:49:03- Are we not part of the public? - It is nothing to do with racism whatsoever.
0:49:03 > 0:49:08- If we're not allowed in Montrose. - You've been warned you're not allowed on the land.
0:49:08 > 0:49:12But what I'm saying is we are not allowed in Montrose at all?
0:49:12 > 0:49:14- No, that's not what we're saying. - You just said it.
0:49:14 > 0:49:18- I am allowed to speak.- Would you tell your son to stop videoing us.
0:49:18 > 0:49:20We're allowed to do this because it's a camcorder in my home.
0:49:20 > 0:49:26- There is a camcorder there. - This camcorder inside here. - We have been warned, we understand
0:49:26 > 0:49:29that, but we can't understand we've been warned for different areas.
0:49:29 > 0:49:32It is still considered as being the same area.
0:49:32 > 0:49:35It is common ground, the council don't own it.
0:49:35 > 0:49:36They maintain it but they don't own it.
0:49:36 > 0:49:39There is no point in getting yourself agitated.
0:49:39 > 0:49:43Just get on with the job because I'm not moving anyway.
0:49:43 > 0:49:47To us we moved to a different area.
0:49:47 > 0:49:49- We cannot read and cannot write.- OK.
0:49:49 > 0:49:50I am illiterate.
0:49:50 > 0:49:56When I get told to move off the property we think we're doing the right thing by moving away.
0:49:56 > 0:49:59You can see we were trying to keep within the law.
0:49:59 > 0:50:02At the end of the day we are here to do our job.
0:50:02 > 0:50:07- I'm not against you for that. I know you're doing your job. - I am doing as I am told.
0:50:10 > 0:50:17The charge is that between 19th September and the 24th, which is today, you occupied and camped
0:50:17 > 0:50:22on land at Marine Drive, Montrose, which is where we are just now. Being private land without the
0:50:22 > 0:50:29consent or permission of the owner or legal occupier of such land, Angus council in this case.
0:50:29 > 0:50:37That is contrary to the Trespass Scotland Act of 1865 section 3 as amended by Schedule 1 part 6 of
0:50:37 > 0:50:44the statute of a law of repeals Act 1973, and Schedule 9 of the Roads Scotland Act 1984,
0:50:44 > 0:50:46the Trespass Scotland Act.
0:50:46 > 0:50:48Do you understand all that?
0:50:48 > 0:50:50I don't understand none of that.
0:50:54 > 0:50:57All we wanted was a fortnight and we were out of here.
0:51:03 > 0:51:08It doesn't matter how heavy the authorities come on top of me, the police, the council
0:51:08 > 0:51:15can arrest me, it is not going to take Traveller away. I'm still a Traveller.
0:51:39 > 0:51:43The Travellers have moved north into Aberdeenshire.
0:51:43 > 0:51:47There are no official stopping places available to
0:51:47 > 0:51:51them so they have camped on a farm track outside Kinneff.
0:52:02 > 0:52:06Donald is heading off to Aberdeen to meet with his solicitor.
0:52:09 > 0:52:14Earlier in the year he was charged with a breach of the peace and possession of an offensive weapon.
0:52:19 > 0:52:23He claims teenagers shouted racist abuse at his family
0:52:23 > 0:52:28while they were camping at Dyce and he chased them away with a chainsaw.
0:52:34 > 0:52:37Donald thinks he is the victim of a racist attack.
0:52:37 > 0:52:40His day in court is fast-approaching.
0:52:43 > 0:52:44I tried to tell them. There was eight of them,
0:52:44 > 0:52:48eight of them, which is of the statement, and one of me.
0:52:48 > 0:52:51And I'm the violent one?
0:52:51 > 0:52:53So, where is the justice in that?
0:52:53 > 0:52:55There is no justice, is there?
0:52:55 > 0:52:57There's no justice at all.
0:52:57 > 0:53:04Donald believes he was protecting his family and says he had no intention of harming anyone.
0:53:04 > 0:53:06They told me if it
0:53:06 > 0:53:10doesn't go the right way you're going down to prison.
0:53:23 > 0:53:27It is now November and Sammy and Christine have returned
0:53:27 > 0:53:29to Clinterty Travellers' site for the winter months.
0:53:31 > 0:53:36Earlier in the year the Council allocated a grant to upgrade the site,
0:53:36 > 0:53:39but little appears to have been done.
0:53:44 > 0:53:49We were meant to get a lot of money from the council to get the caravan park done up,
0:53:49 > 0:53:52we were meant to get Tarmac and concrete
0:53:52 > 0:53:56and these things were meant to be done, a swing park for the children and it's
0:53:56 > 0:54:03almost a year down the line and there has been nothing done.
0:54:05 > 0:54:10There was 240,000 to be spent and so far there has been a few chalets
0:54:10 > 0:54:16- up that end done - a couple of hundred pounds of paint. - As you can see.
0:54:16 > 0:54:22The thing is we pay £77 a week, that's £380, £390 a month.
0:54:22 > 0:54:28- When you think about it.- It's a lot of money to use that toilet.
0:54:30 > 0:54:37The council was asking me why don't you just get a house, but I don't want to go to a house.
0:54:37 > 0:54:41- That is my choice. That is the human rights.- You can't change a person.
0:54:41 > 0:54:48My human rights, my culture, we believe in this so we are proud of this.
0:54:48 > 0:54:52The man in the house is paying a mortgage, buying his house,
0:54:52 > 0:54:54he does a job, he has those things, he will not
0:54:54 > 0:55:01change that for our lifestyle, so I am not going to change my lifestyle for that.
0:55:01 > 0:55:04It is the same way. You know.
0:55:17 > 0:55:20As Donald's court date approaches, he is worried he will receive a
0:55:20 > 0:55:24custodial sentence leaving his family to fend for themselves.
0:55:39 > 0:55:45When a race of people like the Jews were despised, it doesn't matter what we say, it is never right.
0:55:45 > 0:55:47We are always liars.
0:55:54 > 0:55:59I am not going to stop until the end of my days, even if I am 70.
0:55:59 > 0:56:02I'll have to get my son or somebody to move me about.
0:56:02 > 0:56:05It will be in the mind all the time.
0:56:08 > 0:56:10- I can't be anything else but a Traveller.- Why?
0:56:10 > 0:56:14Because I am not born to be anything else.
0:56:14 > 0:56:18Since the day I was born I have been brought into a caravan, so I don't know anything else.
0:56:21 > 0:56:26We choose to travel and they choose to settle down.
0:56:27 > 0:56:32I know they'll never see us for other decent people.
0:56:32 > 0:56:39All I want to do is, when we go places, I don't want them to be thinking we are something so bad.
0:56:42 > 0:56:46We do not hide what we are. We are proud of what we are and we will stand up and tell people
0:56:46 > 0:56:48We are the Travellers.
0:56:55 > 0:56:57Not ashamed, never will be.
0:56:57 > 0:57:01At the end of the day it doesn't matter if I am a Traveller
0:57:01 > 0:57:03or what I am,
0:57:03 > 0:57:07I'll still be standing on that judgement seat beside the Lord on the day of judgment
0:57:07 > 0:57:13as an equal beside everybody else. And I will be judged fairly.
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