Sawbridgeworth, East Hertfordshire was the latest area to be targeted by developers who arrived on Friday morning with huge lorries, fences going up and roads being blocked.

In the last 24 hours, a ten-foot wooden fence has been erected and excavation work has begun on a 0.9 acre site in Irby, Merseyside.

Sawbridgeworth, East Hertfordshire was the latest area to be targeted by developers who arrived on Friday morning with huge lorries, fences going up and roads being blocked.

Residents of quaint Willows Green, in Essex , watched in horror as the travellers concreted over a field only hours after the local council closed on May 1.

Hundreds of protesters, many of whom had camped overnight, clapped and cheered as vans and diggers left a field this morning in Sawbridgeworth, in East Hertfordshire.

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