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Romany Gypsies and fortune-telling – by Sharon Heppell
Photograph above: Lementeni Smith and her fortune telling African Grey Parrott, on South Shore beach, Blackpool. Sharon Heppell, the author of this article, is Lementeni’s 2…
“You should not be confined to any box just because of your ethnicity”
Jimmy Doherty, a young Irish Traveller, talks to the Travellers’ Times’ Liza Mortimer about forging ahead with his career as an actor “I used to study the way the actors w…
“That’s the new law. The one where you can lose everything” – The section 60 police powers to evict Traveller roadside camps - two years on
Two years after the new anti-Traveller laws came into force, many Gypsies and Travellers; who still go out travelling and who regularly camp ‘roadside’ with their trailers,…