My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding site resident admits £63k benefits con

A MOTHER of nine yesterday admitted conning £63,000 in benefits while living on the ­travellers’ site from My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. Chavelle Price, 33, claimed to be a single mum while staying with husband Patrick and said she had a shoulder injury so she did not have to work. A member of the public tipped off investigators and she was caught when she submitted planning applications for a site in Wolverhampton in her and her husband’s name. At the city’s crown court, Price admitted making fraudulent benefit claims between June 1999 and December 2010. She was freed on bail and will be sentenced on October 12.

Plans for new council Gypsy and Traveller site - Crewe

A council is putting together a planning application for a new Gypsy and traveller site in Crewe. Cheshire East Council's cabinet carried out an assessment of various pieces of council owned land to choose the "most appropriate" site. A plot off Parkers Road, in the Coppenhall area of Crewe, has been chosen because it is near to schools and shops and has "good road access". If approved the site would house 12 pitches and an amenity block. The block would contain washrooms, a kitchen, a dayroom and a laundry.

Land in Coppenhall in Crewe earmarked for Gypsy and Traveller site

GYPSIES and Travellers could soon be pitching camp in Coppenhall as the council presses on quickly with plans for another permanent site. Cheshire East’s Cabinet is understood to have earmarked land off Parkers Road and Kent Lane as a suitable plot, just a week after announcing it was on the lookout for sites throughout the area.

Langham Gipsies “are integrated”

A GIPSY family has fought back about claims that they do not integrate. The Romany family who live at The Paddocks, Langham, were shocked to read that Langham Parish Council does not feel they are integrated in the village. They have recently been given extended permission to stay on the land. A spokesman said: “I speak for the whole gipsy community. We are integrated. Our children go to school and nursery and are invited to parties. “We attend street fairs and village events and have many good friends. “The only places we do not socialise are the pub because we do not drink and the village church because we are born-again Christians.”

Travellers vow to fight any relocation moves - Cardiff

GYPSIES and Travellers say they will resist any attempts to have them moved from one of the biggest permanent camps of its kind in Cardiff. Rover Way caravan site, in Splott, is home to about 80 residents – many of whom are Cardiff born and bred – and is one of only two Gypsy Traveller sites run by Cardiff council. The council will this week launch an evaluation into the future of the site after a report by a committee of councillors found it was in poor condition and “unsustainable”.

New Pitches - Lewisham

CONTROVERSY over using a former school as a home for Gypsies and Travellers has reignited this week. Tomorrow (Oct 4), Mayor of Lewisham Sir Steve Bullock is set to agree to consult on using the former Watergate School in Church Grove, Ladywell, for up to nine pitches for travellers. Lewisham currently has no home for its Traveller community after their pervious site in Thurston Road made way for the Lewisham Gateway development.

Traveller site planning refusal appealed - Watford

A family of travellers who were refused permission to build two pitches in Langleybury have appealed against the decision. The scheme, which attracted a petition of more than 500 signatures, was refused by Three Rivers District Council in August. The plans for two pitches, submitted by Jimmy Cash, show two “double unit” mobile homes, two touring caravans and a utility outbuilding situated between the two pitches.

Meet the Travellers facing eviction - Warwick

She says: “We have got nowhere else to go. It’s not an option to just go. I don’t want to live on the side of a road or anything like that.”

Plans in place for new Gypsy sites in Black Country and Staffordshire

PLANS are in place for almost 100 new plots for Gypsies and Travellers in the Black Country and Staffordshire.

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Dale Farm Travellers ‘could move to Kent’

“There’s every possibility they could come to Kent,” said Joe Jones, director of the Canterbury Gypsy Support Group and chairman of the international Gypsy Council. “It’s only a short hop over the bridge after all, unless the police decide to blockade everywhere like they’ve already done in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. Who knows what’s going to happen? They might even park up on the M25 and block that off.