Travellers halt eviction until Friday hearing

RESIDENTS of Britain’s biggest illegal Travellers’ site yesterday won a last-minute injunction temporarily halting moves to evict them from their homes.

About 200 protesters barricaded themselves inside Dale Farm in Basildon, Essex, as the local council prepared to remove them forcibly from the former scrap yard.

Bailiffs gave residents a final chance to leave voluntarily yesterday before they began the process of ejecting them from the site.