Hippies & festivals
These clippings are of festivals, mainly rave related,
hippies & travellers, and all kinds of stories about them.

(not really in any order)

Hippies plan illegal festival Holiday misery of illegal hippy rave Hippy army beats police blockade
Farmer forces action against hippie invasion Illegal festival foiled by police Peace on the hippy front
(22.06.92)
Travellers' midsummer madness Police on alert for travellers Police launch "hippie watch"
Clampdown bid to halt the bank holiday hippy invasion Village lobbies Parliament over £1m travellers' camp
(14.6.93)
Operation Nomad
Stop the hippy convoy Travellers' site causes concern
(25.08.94)
Axe set to fall on scroungers' dole
(1.7.93)
Police fury at £1/2 hippy bill New legislation to tackle travellers
(07.07.94)
"Stay away" warning to the hippy convoys
(1992)
£500-a-day to keep each hippy at bay
(04.03.93)
Summer in nomads' land
(14.06.93)
Council bid to shift travellers
(04.06.92)
Police foil hippy takeover
Villagers batten down the hatches
Waves and threat as convoy moves out
(25.06.92)
Grim warning from man behind misery of Castle Morton
(29.05.92)
The hippy front line
(10.06.93)
The dark age of travellers
(10.06.93)
       
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