Long Croft News Today

A MAN has been jailed after being caught driving while banned and without insurance.

A pensioner who has spent 11 years fighting to keep a £500,000 home he illegally built on greenbelt land near Bournemouth has been ordered to pay more than £10,000 - and he still has to demolish it.

A GROUP of Travellers who set up camp in Barrow have been ordered by a court to move on from a site.

A BMW driver from Yate has been left with a bill of nearly £600 after being caught with no insurance.

The travellers that have set up an encampment in Brimsham Park, Yate, have until Wednesday to move on according to a post by local South Gloucestershire councillor Ben Nutland. Residents first spotted camp being set up on the land owned by South Gloucestershire Council last Tuesday, when there were two caravans and three other vehicles. Over the weekend a further 13 caravans and a number of other vehicles descended upon the site in Long Croft and South Gloucestershire Council confirmed ea...

Weve rounded up the latest appeals that were sent out from this week Workington Police are investigating an incident of criminal damage that occurred outside a Pizza shop on Campbell-Savours way, Workington, on May 5. It is reported that at about 9.35pm, two males have approached a parked vehicle and smashed the rear windscreen before running into a nearby building site and through the tunnel leading towards Brow Top car park. One of the males was wearing a black jacket with the hood pu...

Residents first spotted the caravans on the land owned by South Gloucestershire Council on Tuesday evening. More vehicles arrived on Wednesday. SGC officers visited the site on Wednesday morning and delivered black bin bags to the people on the unauthorised site. A small group of travellers were spotted on Tuesday and on Wednesday morning another vehicle had joined the camp in Brimsham Park on land which is owned by South Gloucestershire Council. Five vehicles including two caravans a...

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