Monday 3 February 2014

Travellers' champion Lord Avebury in running for award

From the Travellers' Times

ERIC Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury has been shortlisted for a diplomacy award for his work with Gypsies and Travellers.

The Grassroots Diplomat Initiative Award, now in its second year, recognises the work of UK- based politicians and diplomats who fight for civilian interests at the highest level.

Lord Avebury has been fighting for Traveller rights for half a century. He is best known amongst Britain's Romany and Traveller people for his work on the 1968 Caravan Sites Act, which made it law for Councils to provide proper sites for Gypsies and Travellers and their caravans. The 1968 Act was repealed by the Conservatives in 1994, and since then very few new sites have been built.

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