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more coverage of UKIP Independent MEP Nikki Sinclaire in defence of her constituents exposing EU involvement in British planning permissions designed to favour itinerant gypsies/Roma & so called travellers versus the indicinous community.
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The gypsy king of the village green
They've been defending themselves against an invasion of caravans for over 300 days. Clive Aslet meets the people of Meriden - and their most unlikely enemy.
A metal plaque next to the cross on Meriden’s village green proclaims it to be the ''CENTRE OF ENGLAND’’. A few miles from Coventry, it once made bicycles (hence an obelisk commemorating cyclists killed during the First World War), then Triumph motorbikes. By the 1970s, these heavy machines, with their throaty roar and air of untamed masculinity, had lost ground to cheaper, more sophisticated imports from Japan. To keep the factory going, that patron saint of lost causes, Tony Benn, then industry secretary, funded a workers co-operative, which struggled along for eight years before going bust. But what is this? A Jensen Interceptor draws up; somebody still appreciates British automotive design in the golden age. Out of the silver classic springs Noah Burton, Meriden’s gypsy king.In jeans, striped shirt and dark jacket, Mr Burton could easily be mistaken for something else: more dashing than a solicitor – a racehorse trainer, perhaps. He’s the sort of affable chap, full of tales,
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