Tuesday - August 17, 2010

Village in lockdown as religious festival is over-run by 1,000 travellers ..

FIRST:  Hello Nashville.  Hope all recovered by now and things pretty much back to normal.

Now then ..... this is fairly interesting and may not be the usual thing I rant on about.  Of course, we’ll have to wait and see what Friday brings.  If anything.

Perhaps this is really on the square and there won’t be any trouble.  Not holding breath mind you, but also holding my usual harsh opinion.  We’ll see.

STAY TUNED ....  There has to be a follow up on this.

Village in lockdown as religious festival is over-run by 1,000 travellers
By Daily Mail Reporter

A picturesque village has gone into lockdown after an empty field was invaded by 200 caravans and 1,000 people for a born-again Christian festival for Irish travellers and gipsies.

Stunned shopkeepers complained traveller children have been running amok and one pub landlord has locked his doors after the caravans descended on Swavesey, near Cambridge, on Saturday.

Angry villagers claimed yesterday they were duped into granting permission for a small six-day religious festival with a dozen caravans to be held on the 30-acre field.

Instead a large convoy of travellers descended on the village and set up toilets and a marquee in a 30-acre field yards from homes and a church.
The event has been organised by the Life And Light group, a born-again Pentecostal Christian organisation, which is made up of Romany Gipsies and Irish travellers.

Dozens of angry villagers held showdown talks with councillors in Swavesey yesterday demanding the travellers are removed but they are not due to leave until Friday.

Minister Abraham Howard, of the group running the Life and Light Festival, said: ‘We have come here to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

‘We have paid for the field from Saturday until Saturday but we will be gone and the field will be returned to its previous state by Friday.

‘We are meeting to talk about the word of Jesus Christ. We haven’t come to do any harm we’re just here to save the “lost ones” from hell.

‘People have nothing to fear - we are Christians.’

Despite complaints from villagers the campsite is entirely legal because the travellers obtained legal permission for a Christian festival to be held on the field.

Sue Ellington, South Cambridgeshire district councillor for Swavesey, said: ‘We have a field that has been used for steam engine rally this summer and other relatively small activities and I understand someone approached the landlord to hold a small religious festival.

‘I think everyone in the village was then a little stunned to find more than 200 caravans arrive.
Despite complaints from villagers the campsite is entirely legal because the travellers obtained permission for a Christian festival to be held on the field

Despite complaints from villagers the campsite is entirely legal because the travellers obtained permission for a Christian festival to be held on the field

‘Nobody in the village knew this was happening until the caravans came traipsing through the village.

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Posted by peiper     on 08/17/2010 at 01:37 PM   
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