There was something on Maddie but I stopped caring waaaaay back then, so here's a story on invading gypsies:
HORRIFIED families watched helplessly yesterday as their rural idyll was PAVED OVER — by gipsies working flat out with JCBs.The army of travellers had
SEVENTY trucks of hardcore delivered as they raced to bury rolling fields over the Bank Holiday.
Last night they were continuing to toil with military precision — digging drains, installing a septic tank and fencing off permanent plots for a dozen caravans complete with car parking.
The eyesore camp is on green-belt land in a cul de sac overlooked by picture postcard homes worth up to £1million.
The aim is to have it finished before council penpushers get back to their desks tomorrow to halt the construction site under planning laws.
Frantic residents alerted police after the gipsies swooped on Saturday in a fleet of expensive BMWs and 4x4s to begin work at the crack of dawn.
But cops were powerless — because the travellers had secretly
BOUGHT the four acres of land on the edge of Newent, Gloucs — one of the prettiest towns in the Forest of Dean.
One couple living in the sleepy lane — in their 80s and away on holiday — recently had an application to build a humble car port vetoed.
A neighbour said: “It makes you sick. We play it by the book and can’t build a thing. This lot have their own rules and get away with murder.”
Almost two dozen men were working with two JCBs and two heavy rollers.
Another resident, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, said: “When we opened the bedroom curtains on Saturday morning we couldn’t believe our eyes.
“It looked like a scene from TV’s Challenge Anneka.“They know to strike on a Bank Holiday because they have an extra day before council planners are back at their desk. By then it will be too late.
"The travellers will be sitting pretty. It will be years — if ever — until the local authority gets them off the land.”
The camp mirrors one built over Easter last year next door to where the estranged husband of Government minister Tessa Jowell lives.
It recently won retrospective planning permission.