Fears of overcrowding and crime have once again forced shops and restaurants to close for the six day event which attracts around 10,000 travellers.

Hundreds of Travellers have been seen arriving in Appleby today in their horse-drawn wagons ahead of the historical horse trading event which begins tomorrow and will run until…

Every year in the first week of June, videos begin cropping up online showing Travellers riding in their horse-drawn wagons as they prepare to descend on the market town for the…

Fears of overcrowding and crime have once again forced shops and restaurants to close for the six day event which attracts around 10,000 travellers.

Pictures show caravans in a long queue of traffic in the market town where travellers will spend the next six days showing off their horses and trading them for cash.

I am standing on a stone bridge in the quaint - and, for 51 weeks of the year, blissfully quiet - Cumbrian town of Appleby as a tracksuit-clad child walks past pulling a tiny,…