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Article: Gipsies' curse on 'racist' Straw; 'He is lumping us with travellers who are only interested in drugs and loud music'.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
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- August 21, 1999
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Washing billowed in the wind and lamb was roasting over an open fire at a gipsy camp in West Bromwich yesterday.
But the gipsies were feeling far from nostalgic. They were angry that Home Secretary Mr Jack Straw had done their kind a grave disservice.
A forthright Mr Straw said during an interview on BBC Radio WM that many so-called travellers masqueraded as gipsies and traded on sentiment while committing crime and behaving anti-socially.
More than 200 travellers moved to fields off Ray Hall Lane, West Bromwich, earlier this week from a camp in ...