Elderly resident loses appeal

ELDERLY Traveller Mary Flynn lost her appeal yesterday to challenge her eviction from Britain’s biggest illegal Travellers’ site.

The case was heard as hundreds of residents, bolstered by supporters, barricaded themselves inside Dale Farm in Basildon, Essex, to resist the clearance of the site.

Flynn, 72, suffers breathing problems and uses an electric nebuliser and has been a crucial protagonist in the bid to stop the clearance.