Dale Farm: The Big Eviction Panorama

Tony Ball THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS SCENES OF REPETITIVE FLASHING

150 riot police, 200 bailiffs. �18 million. The biggest eviction

in modern British history. It was over a breach in planning

law. I've followed this story for six

years, talking to travellers... We're going to be dragged from the

homes like dogs. To residents... I will persecute

them like they will persecute me. And to the council... I've had

unpleasant letters of e-mails, one addressed to the Group Fuhrer, or

leader of the fourth Reich. Now the time for talking is over

and 400 gypsies who have made this their home are about to be evicted.

They are taking me out in a body bag! Get back now! They came in

force and almost dominated life in our village at one time.

Get back! I'm too old to be doing this.

Hugger off! It's like the Second World War down there! Honest to God,

I have never seen the likes of it Dale Farm. 1,000 Irish travellers,

Europe's biggest unlawful encampment, right in the heart of

Essex. Ten years ago, Irish travellers

bought a scrapyard, but then they put up chalets, caravans and

settled down, but the land was green belt, they were in breach of

planning law. League battles raged for ten years, from the Court of

Appeal to the court of human rights in Strasbourg.

It became an issue at the highest level.

Will the Prime Minister join me in sending a clear message to the

travellers at the illegal Dale Farm site? It is an illegal development,

so those people should move away. By the beginning of the year, the

travellers had lost every days. In May, Basildon Council met to

make a final decision on Dale Farm. The council leader had threatened

to resign if the eviction did not happen.

It is wrong, there cannot be one rule for one and another rule for

another. APPLAUSE

Can I see all of those in favour? Will you please show, please.

All those against? APPLAUSE The vote is carried.

They think they were going to back into the trailers and go.

Basildon will go up in fire before we go.

In July, the council tried to serve eviction notices on the 81 families

on Dale Farm, but the travellers resisted.

The tone was set for what was going to come.

. It's a no-go area! It's a fight! It's August on Dale Farm. The

council have served due notice. The travellers now have 28 days to

move off or they will face an I viduction.

-- an eviction. 400 Irish travellers have lived

here for ten years. For them, a semi-settled life means

access to schools, healthcare and a local church. It's a respite from

REPORTER: How important is it to be here? Very, important. I'm with all

of my family here. If we were moved from here I would lose my family

because we wouldn't all end up together.

Serena is up in the caravan. They are like sisters and brothers

here, first cousin, second cousins,. They are a community here.

Miami moved in 2005 to be close to her family after her daughter was

killed in a road accident. This is a photocopy. As the time

has gone on, you can see she is starting to fade.

REPORTER: Do you miss her? Miss her?! Honest to God, I could put a

rope around my neck and end my life. If I don't die, I would not go to

heaven, I would not see her. I am still breathing for her.

Her best friends, the McCarthy family live three doors away.

Marie, Margaret and Pearl. Mary Anne, their mother, also lives

on the site. I was reared up on a horse-drawn

caravan, travelling from coast-to- coast, as you would say. I was in

Ireland at this time. Then we came to this country in the 50s.

I got married and that was the end of the wagon for me.

I have now what I never had in my life. That is to press a button and

I have electric light. To press the kettle and I have water. I have

toilets. We never had that travelling.

The best part of it was that when the children were going to school,

to see that they could read and write, come back and show me things.

Asking to read stories for me. was lovely here when we arrived. We

settled down. All of the families were around you. Our own home.

Everything. It was lovely. The future was ahead of you. This was a

part of your life. While the McCarthy girls have been

happy to be on camera, the men prefer not to, fearing it will

affect their ability to get work. Dale Farm is right next door to the

village of Crays Hill. There are now almost as many

travellers as there are villagers. Some of the properties back

directly on to the site. One of them is owned by the travellers

most outspoken opponent. Len Gridley is one of the few local

residents prepared to go on camera and speak against the travellers.

He claims he has paid a high price. They see me as the enemy as I'm

standing up to them saying that they have broken the law, devalued

my property. I will fight you through the courts and the law.

When I have spoken to them about it, I have told them they have taken

�300,000 out of my pocket, devaluing the property, I cannot

sell it, I will fight them every way possible. I have had threats on

national television. Debt threats in the lane from them, everything

else, but I will not let them intimidate me. I will stand my

ground. I have not done anything wrong. It's them that have broken

the law. Not me. Dave McPherson, a former parish

councillor, he has lived in the village for 30 years. He feels that

Dale Farm has used up the local resources at the expense of the

villagers. We had a lot of problems from the

start. A lot of antisocial behaviour. We are a ved spread out

community. They came in force and almost dominated life in our

village at one time. This is, effectively, a village in

its own right. They have not attempted to integrate or

communicate with the rest of the village that is spread out over

there. I wouldn't be able to, effectively,

build a house in this field here because I'm in the allowed to do so,

but, for whatever reason, travellers feel that they should be

given special privileges in buying a piece of land and effectively

developing it and living on it. Since 1994, councils no longer have

to provide sites for gypsies and travellers.

Instead, they were encouraged to buy their own land and move on to

Travellers have lived at Dale Farm for 20 years.

Half of the site was licensed in the 1990s. These travellers are

allowed to stay... The other half moved on in 2001, without licence.

These 400 people now face being evicted.

With the eviction looming, supporters from all over the world

have flocked to Dale Farm. Climate protesters, anti-road

campaigners and environmental activists.

They've built barriers, towers and look-out posts. They now live

alongside the gypsies. Look up at there, with them

sleeping! REPORTER: What's going on there?

Those are the supporters, Richard. At the minute we have them all over

the place. We have them in the trees. We have them on the

scaffolding, they are from all over the world.

Campaigners, protesters. Some of them are peaceful. Some of them are

more of a "let's get out and do it, gang". What is that? Well, if the

bailiff wants a fight, we have fight! Gratton Puxon has been

fighting gypsy evictions for 50 years. It began back in Ireland in

the 60s, when he took up the cause of the travel ners a bitter dispute

over a site called Cherry Orchard. These families were to be evicted.

I found that there were 200 people, also under threat of eviction. It

is from among the 200 people that this movement has really sprung.

Some of those original travellers are related to the ones on Dale

Farm. Dan Flynn here, his great uncle was

at Cherie. Mickey O'Brien, these are the grandchildren that made the

stand at Cherie, now they are making a stand on their own land,

that they feel they own. They will not give it up. They are very

determined now. REPORTER: Is that part of it for

you? It is. It is amazing. A full circle in the 50 years of the civil

rights movement, with the travellers, it is impressive. I

believe that we can do the job. But Dale Farm has more famous

support. Vanessa Redgrave has campaigned for gypsies and

travellers for many years. They are hoping that her visit will raise

awareness for the forthcoming eviction.

It is a freedom for a really warm, strong and good community.

So why Vanessa Redgrave and all of the others should get involved in

it, I do not know. She is coming today, he is will get

her answer from me. In a couple of words. She has heard the gypsy

curse, but I'm cursing her. She should not interfere with something

that she has nothing to do with. REPORTER: You feel that way? I do.

The same with the protesters, I hope that they get run over

tomorrow. But in the village, there are

serious worries about the influx of activists. A delegation has gone to

see the council leader, Tony Ball. REPORTER: So, what the residents

are concerned about is that we are going to get pockets of protesters

roaming the village. They are concerned that there will not be

enough police, support and coverage? This is a police matter.

I am aware that they are very concerned at the interference of

outsiders. They don't know or have the travellers' interests at heart.

They could be damaging the travellers' case, they are their

for their own motives, some, not all, but some with intent upon

violence. They must be condemned. The police will deal with them, but

it is more the distraction. It's an issue that we could do without. It

Morning everybody. I am here to speak on behalf of the travellers

and our supporters. There's been rumours going around that they've

come in and took over our camp and that's not the real story. I want

to get the real story out. We invited these people here and

they're showing us great respect and great support. News just in.

had news in that the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial

Discrimination has called for a complete stop to the eviction.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING. I have great respect for the United Nations as

an organisation. I'm very disappointed with this committee,

which is connected to the United Nations. It's a committee against

racism or something like that. They've never contacted me or the

council, to my knowledge. What they should be doing, in my view, is

looking at countries where ethnic cleansing and racism is rife,

rather than looking at England. I've had some very unphres letters

and -- unpleasant letters and e- mails from travellers actually, but

from non-travelling people accusing me of ethnic cleansing and I think

one was addressed to Group Fuhrer, born leader of the Fourth Reich.

The council have offered the travellers permanent housing but

they refused, saying they don't want to live in bricks and mortar.

With no other site on offer, their eviction is costing a a - �18

million. �10million for the Police Bill. The scale is so vast that

Basildon Council have set up their own control centre right next to

Dale Farm. This will be the base for 200 bailiffs and the heavy

machinery needed. The bailiff company Constant and Co are

stepping up their operations. For the travellers, the message is all

too clear. It must be a sight to see that many.

Look at the stance, look. And for Mayme it's a sharp reminder of a

previous eviction. What it like to suddenly see all this stuff, all

this apparatus? It's nervous, Richard, because we have been

through it, we know what's going to happen. We are going to be dragged

out of our homes like dogs. Because you have been to evictions before?

Yeah, bother ham wood - - Borehamwood. This is going to be

bigger. This is going to be a very rough eviction, Richard, honest to

God, it is. This is not yours. These are ours. You understand? Get

Six years ago, Mayme and her family were evicted from a site in

Borehamwood in Hertfordshire. They owned the land, but like Dale Farm,

it's green belt and they didn't have planning permission to live on

Look at the security written on their backs. We know all them faces

from Borehamwood. From the last eviction? That's Constant and Co.

They're not staoup, all they do is take off them orange jackets for

the eviction and put on the other ones. It's Pearl's granddaughter's

first birthday. Family celebrations are a big part

We are hoping that it won't be our last get-together but at the moment

it seems - it's looking that way but we hope it don't because these

celebrations is very important to us. We are a very close community

and when it comes to parties, birthday parties, christenings,

weddings, we like to gather together and celebrate it. It would

Cracks are beginning to appear. Some of the travellers have decided

to move their chalets off the site. Are some people wanting to leave or

starting to leave? Some people, what they're doing is taking their

big chalets, you know the big chalets, that the bulldozeners is

going to come in and break to the ground, well they're selling them

and putting a small trailer instead, so when the bailiffs come in and

they get them out they have to move them alongside the road, Richard.

Every chalet here have memories, memories of the babies, when they

were born, coming out, setting up prams and cots. The girls getting

married. Children's christenings. Every yard here have memories in it.

They're bad memories, good memories, people that have died in the yard.

That's what I am saying, we won't see our children any more. It's

breaking my heart, I am crying for days. It's heartbreaking. Because

everyone is going to be separated. It's like the end of the world,

Maudie, that's what it feels like. Everybody is feeling it, we are

getting angry with each other. That's exactly the way we are. We

are getting angry with each other. I am too old to be doing this.

stressing us out to see you moving. But some of the travellers have

given up the fight and are taking their caravans and leaving Dale

Farm. Mayme's 14-year-old great-niece is

sorting through the chalet where she grew up. You're not going to

fit them into a caravan. You are not going to fit any of these into

a big caravan. We have to leave our whole life behind us and start from

scratch. We are not going to fit any of this stuff in. It's really -

I can't, I don't know, it's kind of like a stinging bee flying around

my heart and stinging in the middle. Look at that now, it's not the same

I grew up in, because there's all these kind of signs and barricades

and bailiffs, police. Activists are blocking up the gate

at the end of Len Gridley's garden. They're worried he will let the

bailiffs use it to get on to the site. And to aggravate him further,

they put up a tarpaulin to block his view.

Len decides to strike back. I am smelling it now and it clearly

isn't pleasant. He runs raw sewage down to the gate. Then he tries to

set light to the tarpaulin. They carry on building, I will

carry on setting fire. If you want to go around the other side and

tell them to stop, I will stop. police stand by and watch until Len

gets out a shotgun and they're forced to act. I have asked you to

stop filming now. He's detained for a couple of hours,

then released on bail without charge.

I was shocked. I couldn't believe that - I I always thought he was a

harmless man, I didn't think he was violent. He always used to give us

threats but we always - until he came out with a gun yesterday we

realised this man was dangerous. They took all my firearms away from

me and my brother's air air rifles and replica guns that weren't mine.

They took everything away and gave me no no protection at all knocks

police. Now I have to somehow protect myself. How are you going

to do it? I was considering getting a tank and doing it. Put a tank at

the bottom of the garden and be armed myself. An advanced party of

bailiffs are probing for for weakness. Have you not got a better

job? Bunch of losers. They're looking for an alternative way in,

avoiding the main gate. You are not wanted around here!

Tensions are rising on both sides of the fence. With fears of the

eviction turning violent, the travellers' local Catholic priest

has come down to say mass. Behold, Jesus, the lamb of God, who

takes away the sins of the world. Happy are those called to his

supper. Body of Christ. The blessing of Christ.

Don't know whether you have heard of a man called Mahatma Gandhi.

Gandhi was an Indian, lived in India at a time when India wasn't

independent, when it was under British rule. Gandhi pioneered non-

violent resistance and he emphasised throughout his life that

he was never going to do anything that was violent. In fact, he said

this: I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the

good is only temporary. The evil it Facing being forced on the road

again, Mayme's sorting out precious memories. It's three years since

her daughter died and she's still got all of her possessions. They

say sometimes you got to let go and let life go on. But that's easier

said than done. A lot easier said than done. Has it not got any

easier in the three years since she passed away? No, Richard, no. I

suppose it would if I let go, Richard. Can you not let go? I am

one of these people that can't let The McCarthy sisters are worried

about the stress of eviction on their mother. We are getting our

mum out of here now now, because it's gone from everything else.

She's moving out because we are expecting the bailiffs in soon.

did you decide to move her out? She's too old. She's over 70 years

of age and it's too stressful, Then a surprise visit. Ray Boxing

shows up, he was the one who sold the land to the travellers. It

turns out for the previous 30 years it had been run as a scrapyard.

you can see from that, it was full up with cars. Look, look at them

all, you know. All over, and this bit here with cars. There was cars

everywhere. Listen, this is forever been, as far as we are concerned,

this is brown belt land. The council is trying to pull the wool

over the media's eyes and everyone's eyes. Let the whole

world come in here and see, see those maps and listen to this man

speak. The council opened this up as a scrapyard. They get this man,

they asked this man's permission, did they or did they not? Oh, yeah.

Part of Dale Farm was an authorised scrapyard. The council used it as a

dumping ground for abandoned cars. When the travellers moved in, they

cleaned it up and paid for the wrecks to be removed. Tony, can you

see from the travellers' perspective, when they moved on in

2001, although it was and is a green belt, the site, it looked and

felt very much like a brokers' yard? No, I don't accept that at

all. There's been a lot of talk about human rights, but with rights

comes responsibilities and it's everyone's responsibility to check

the status of land and to apply for the permissions or check they have

the permission to use that land within the law. The travellers did

not do that. Gratton and the travellers are awaiting the final

word from the High Court. They've asked for an emergency injunction

on the basis that the old and the infirm are at risk. This is their

last hope for a peaceful solution. Now, what this really is, now. The

application was refused today, but we can re-apply on Monday. We are

allowed to get a second chance to go to the judge on Monday. OK?

REPORTER: What was the reason? don't know. They turned us down for

a hearing today, an application, but it can go back on Monday.

is no good, they are coming in on Monday.

We have to stop them. We have to fight for time now.

So, the eviction is on of the the travellers and activists will have

to strengthen defences and try to hold off the bailiffs until they

can get back to the High Court for another potential injunction.

Our families bought this place and came into it good and proper and

took up the contamination and cleaned it and made it presentable

to live to make homes here. And now we're being put out of it. We can

fight. It's like it is nobodys, it's like

it is a piece of flesh, but not know to whose souls. Do you know

what, we should have vandalised Basildon, everywhere we went and we

would have got staying here, but we were too soft, too quiet, too good!

We are getting nobody to say it, but this is what they have done to

does. -- They have done to us.

Everyone's getting rid of the trailers.

They are getting rid of the frailers and everyone is going to

fight then after that. Marie and Margaret are moving their

caravans on to a yard on the legal side of the site. It's a safe place

for the caravans, and also for the children.

Len is renting out the end of his garden to news crews.

Sky, ITV and BBC, I have put them down here, they are putting their

machines in place. The film crew is set up for tomorrow. They are going

up and down there with photographers on it. They are

taking their photographs. Look at him! Look at them out of

Len's yard, filming. Look. No matter what circumstances you ain't

coming back in here. OK? Yeah, I don't think that they like our

machines going in here, but it's my garden. I do what I want. Not what

they want. It makes a change for me to do something in the garden and

pee them off, than for me to go down in the garden, them giving me

abuse and I have to walk away. Now they have to walk aKray. That is

kids throwing. That's the kids throwing stuff. You can see them in

the yard, they're throwing it. That's the gypsy kids throwing it.

It's the 18th of September. They're expecting the bailiffs in the

morning. # We go down to Nelly's, to the

crown # His engine runs on diesel

# It will never let him down # Etake it is to Basildon Council

# But Tony Ball is on the back, hey. Dale Farm is in lock-down.

I think we're being tampered with, whatever way you want to put it.

They have sabtooj Tajed two our -- they have sabotaged two of our Sky

machines. It seems that they are up to it at the minute.

All of these cables here... seems that the activists have cut

the cables for the hydraulic machines.

Your machines are not working, the other two have been tampered with.

They have cut the cables. Have they? Yeah. Really? Yeah.

The bailiffs could move in at any time today. No-one knows when.

Do you know what we are so grateful for them people. Look at the state

of them. Just look at the state of them. Look there, Richard. That is

an elderly woman. She is locked down. There is a girl there to the

gate. She has a chain around her neck! So, we're just grateful for

these people's support. We've never had this in our entire life,

Richard. Outside of the gate, it's a media

scrum with reporters and photographers from across the world.

500 police, bailiffs and security are moving into position.

Everyone is waiting for the eviction to begin.

The protesters behind there are determined that they will not leave

their homes. As you say, we've been waiting for ten years to happen

here. Now it has hopefully, it is hopefully going to happen. I expect

reprisals for what is going to happen if it happens, it will

happen. But I will make sure that if this never happens, the gypsies

will never get away with anything else. I will persecute them as they

have persecuted me. At 3m, the bailiffs advance. As

they approach the gate one traveller recognising one of the

men from the Borehamwood eviction. I know you. I do know you! A group

of maybe 20 bailiffs accompanied by the police.

Get a load of bricks and fire it at them.

Calm down! There is a herd of police and bailiffs coming towards

us. In the interests of health and safety... Is there anything that I

can say or do that will persuade you to remove yourselves in an

orderly American? Go home! Go home! Having issued a verbal warning, the

bailiffs return to the council- controlled area to regroup and

weigh up options, before poten shael -- potentially mounting the

main assault. They are not going to get a lot

done, Richard. Then at 5pm, dramatic news from the

High Court. Did you all hear that you on the TV,

everything is stopped until Friday. Yeah! Thank you, everybody!

injunction has delayed the eviction for five days. The judge is worried

that the eviction will be too heavy handed. He has asked the council to

For now, the caravans that left a week ago return.

APPLAUSE Over the next four weeks, the

delays are extended as the travellers' lawyers ask for three

judicial reviews. I think that the gypsies are

getting another injunction and they'll win again. We'll be back.

Thank you very much for coming in today. What's the last two weeks

been like for you? It's been very stressful. Really a very stressful

situation. They have won all the way down the

line. The law is only in this country for one person, the Irish

traveller. But on October 12th the time runs

out. The judge in the High Court gives the final go ahead for the

eviction. As for the travellers having

engaged in the legal system, they must now abide by the law. They

have reached the end of the road. I would therefore... We shall not

be moved! We shall, we shall not be moved! We have lost.

We're going to have to fight now. It will be a good fight.

We're going to have a good fight with them all. Then we're going to

have to leave. REPORTER: Are you going to go to

school tomorrow? I don't know. I might do. It's my last day.

It's the night before the eviction. The travellers have one last plea

to make. God, if he think it is is necessary

to have us left here, if it is in his power, we will be left here,

right? Glory be to the Father and to the Holyy Spirit. Hail, Mary,

the Lord is with thee, blessed is thou without r among women and

It's 7.00am. After ten years of waiting the

eviction has finally begun. The police have found a weak point

at the back of 9 site. -- at the back of the site.

Get away! Put is back! Taser. They deploy Tasers.

Here! Here! 150 police in full riot gear.

Stand back! Stand back! Stand back! You get back now! I have a legal...

I don't care! Get back now. Anyone comes near me! Stand back now!

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds

The protesters are trying to keep Get back! One of the travellers

make as plea to the police. There are children down there!

There are babies down there. Officer, the children are down

there. Normally the evictions are led by

bailiffs, the police are there to keep the peace. The travellers are

taken by surprise at this morning's approach.

Where are they? You know you are wrong! Please, do not come nearer.

I will - you will break their arms. That's the whole point of having us

here! The activists throw stones and whatever else comes to hand.

Diane, there are children here. Please, go back. There are children,

mate. Away from the cameras, Mayme says

she's been attacked. A policeman with his hand around my

throat. Knocked me down by the side of the trailer. This is all

completely unnecessary. It is insane, but we can stee is going on.

I'm looking over Dale Farm now. We have the helicopters in the sky on

top of the hill. There are so many police riot vans covering the field

in case they attempt to break in through the back of the travellers'

sites. At the front we have police in riot

shields and vans. The protesters and their home-made

defences are no match for the overwhelming number of of the

There's babies in there! Leave her alone! It's her home! Chill out.

Nora, don't get hurt. Her kids are in there! Her children are in

there! Leave her alone! The council leader, Tony Ball, is on site

supervising the operation. He explains the decision to send the

police in first. From this morning it was decided it was a police -

going to be a police-led operation to secure the site so that the

council's bailiffs could go about the lawful business of carrying out

Within half an hour, the police have reached this wall. But it

belongs to a licensed yard and This is private property! Get out!

This is private property. That's Wupbg young travel -- one young

traveller sees her mother caught newspaper the fray.

This is the house, Richard, this is the house. Private property! Look

Honest to God, I never seen the likes of it in all my life. What

are you going to do now, Mayme? Take the stuff out of there,

Richard, put it in the car. Richard, honest to God, my heart is doing

100 mile an hour, thinking of what they've done to me. Where are we

going to go? Please tell me where The bailiffs is nothing compared to

them. On the top of the hill I have more police riot vans than I have

ever seen. The only way to describe it, it's worse than the riots in

London. The police have gone round this site every way possible and

broke in. We have had bottles thrown and everything else,

missiles and everything else. It's like World War II down there.

Go back you two-legged BLEEP We're human beings. And they're

beating people up like we're dogs. This country's turned into a war

zone, no peace. Only anger and hatred. The council say the

travellers left them with no choice but to evict with force.

I am absolutely clear that after ten years of negotiation to try and

find a peaceful solution to this, that actually what we're doing is

Meanwhile, the protesters have set light to an old caravan.

What's going on, Mayme? Richard, will you look at me, I am cut

opened. Trying to get out, they're pulling and dragging at you.

police came in this morning? Yeah, it's bad. You have to see outside.

Half the women got beatings, you I just want to get the message out

to you, where is the bailiffs? Where is the bailiffs that's moving

us out of our home, making us homeless? Where are they? Riot

police! It took riot police to come here and treat us like this? Shame

on you! You didn't promise this. You cheated us. You said you were

coming in peaceful. By the end of the day 34 arrests

have been made. How long it's going to take them to

remove the protesters from the barricades now, and from under the

vehicles on the entrance to the gates, until they get them people

removed then move the vehicles, For the next 24 hours police with

cutting tools slowly extract the protesters who are still locked on.

But they put up barriers and won't let us see what's going on. The

council say it's to protect their dignity, but the protesters say

Six years after the scaffold was first put up, this symbol of

resistance at Dale Farm is torn down. Victory. Victory. It's being

removed from the bottom of my garden. The bailiffs have moved in

and can now turn their attention to the yards. The few remaining

protesters prepare for a last stand. Then the travellers have a change

of heart. The traveller residents just decided that enough is enough,

Richard. They don't want any more people getting hurt. Enough has

been hurt yesterday that wasn't publicised. We did invite you, you

are a long time with us and we are so grateful and thankful to you, we

make a stand together when everybody is here and we will leave

peacefully, activists and travellers together and show them

we are proud people. But we're walking with the activists to say

thank you, showing them that we respect them and we appreciate what

they've done for us, but enough is enough. Save Dale Farm! Save Dale

Farm! I am protecting Marina and all the

rest. We're proud to be travellers. We're very proud to be travellers

and we are not ashamed of it. Save Dale Farm! Save Dale Farm!

After two months of living on Dale Farm, the protesters leave.

I feel sad because all these are Some of the traveller families are

also leaving. But after ten years of conflict,

their neighbour Len is hardly triumphant.

Wait until they've all gone, when the last one goes out. You don't

feel... You are always going to get some that will make martyrs of

themselves. The question remains: Will where the Dale Farm travellers

go? The council have offered houses, but the travellers want to hold on

to their traditional life in a caravan. They're not allowed to

live on the roadside any more. But with 18,000 gypsy caravans in

Britain, there aren't enough sites to go around. Travellers in the

past have gone for green belt sites, it's obviously not suitable for

development and it's very hard to get planning permission for. So I

really think there's an opportunity for the travellers now to move on

and act within the law, as well. The McCarthy family is splitting up.

It's goodbye time now, Richard. But don't worry, we will get to meet

one another again. All right, thanks very much. Pearl is going to

stay 50 miles away on a friend's yard. It's only a stop-gap for a

couple of weeks. The High Court has ruled that

Margaret's chalet can remain so she can actually live on Dale Farm, but

she can't live in a caravan and the bailiffs will be digging up her

road. I am supposed to be living in there

with two small children for God's sake! They're taking all this, all

the front of the road, the drive and dumping me in there, they're

assholes everyone of them, should be ashamed of themselves! And Marie

will continue to stay on her relative's yard on the authorised

side. But when he comes back she will have to find somewhere else.

have no car, no caravan. This is my valuables, so I washed out the

dustbins and put in all my stuff. Your stuff is in the dustbins?

I had to put all my stuff in the dustbins and I have to try and find

somewhere to put it, so I am going down the front yards and put it up

somewhere. With the eviction over, the world's

media have gone. The village of Crays Hill is getting back to

normal. Len is waiting to see if the

council turn Dale Farm into a proper green field. And he says he

will sue them for their maladministration over the years.

After �18 million, and a ten-year battle, most of the Dale Farm

travellers have left. But Mayme's staying with her cousin in the

legal property where the police demolished the wall. There's not

much space here so she can't stay long. Travellers will never have

rights. That's how life is for the traveller, Richard. People don't

stop to see us as human beings. We're just dirty gypsies. That's