I CAN remember covering a planning story for my local newspaper where the owners of a luxury house in the green belt were “ordered” to remove garden gnomes from their garden… Apparently it offended the locals and made the pretty little village look tacky. I lambasted the idiocy of the planning laws and indeed wrote a tongue in cheek piece

Gypsies First off if they really are “travellers” then why the hell do they need to buy land and build static sites..? I guess it’s because plush static caravans are difficult to “park-up” overnight OR country folk “don’t understand their way of life…” Well as a man who lives in suburbia I can tell you first hand what happens when