Gipsies say they want to stay put (From Swindon Advertiser)

Gipsies say they want to stay put

8:58am Thursday 8th May 2008 in

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MINETY gipsy Donna Stevens has broken her silence to speak out against her community's proposed move to Wootton Bassett.

In the first interview given on behalf of the 60-strong gipsy community, Donna says the gipsy families are sickened and saddened at the prospect of moving again.

"We aren't a herd of animals," she said.

"We won't be snatched from somewhere we have come to call home just to be shoved where we are not wanted, where we'll be loathed by neighbours and where our kids will be shouted at in the street."

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