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Travellers at Haldon Forest told to move to new site

A number of travellers are still living on an unofficial site near Exeter tonight - despite a deadline for them to leave the land. Many say they'll defy the authorities' efforts to move them to a new site next door.

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Haldon Forest travellers site to become permanent

A travellers site in the Haldon Forest near Exeter may become official after 11 years of illegal occupation.

A local housing association has a grant of more than a million pounds to develop a permanent camp.

The site is situated between the the A38 and the A380. But the plan is proving controversial with the travellers themselves, as well as more conventional local residents, as John Andrews reports:

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