Travellers visit Appleby despite postponement of annual horse fair
By Press Association 2021 Appleby Horse Fair 2019 Police have urged people not to travel to Appleby after dozens of Travellers turned up despite the annual horse fair being postponed. Photographs posted online show visitors lining the banks of the River Eden in the centre of the Cumbrian town on Saturday, with some riding horses and sitting on carts. The annual event, which normally draws in around 10,000 Travellers and Gypsies from across Europe in the first week of June, was postponed until August this year due to Covid-19. An empty Ri...