Legacy of Dale Farm: Nine months after £7m battle to remove travellers, the site that was meant to be green belt has become a fly-tippers' paradise
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Industrial waste, rotting food and discarded furniture cover what used to be Europe
Industrial waste, rotting food and discarded furniture cover what used to be Europe's largest illegal travellers' site. Rats and foxes now roam across the six-acre plot.
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Grim pictures show decaying remains of infamous traveller camp Dale Farm
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Traveller camp Dale Farm now £7,000,000 dump after years of fly-tipping
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Gypsy family take fight to keep mobile homes with fake brickwork and slate roof on countryside beauty spot to High Court
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Legacy of Dale Farm: Nine months after £7m battle to remove travellers, the site that was meant to be green belt has become a fly-tippers' paradise
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Traveller camp Dale Farm now £7,000,000 dump after years of fly-tipping
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Fly-tippers forced to abandon truck after vigilante farmer and two sons trap dumper with tractors
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Plan to bring Mennonite farmers to Suriname sparks deforestation fears
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Legacy of Dale Farm: Nine months after £7m battle to remove travellers, the site that was meant to be green belt has become a fly-tippers' paradise
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A massive injustice': 10 years on from Dale Farm evictions, pain and trauma remain, Dale Farm
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Fly-tippers forced to abandon truck after vigilante farmer and two sons trap dumper with tractors