The next time I hear anyone singing the praises of the travellers who keep moving from site to site in Brighton, I think I will scream.
One day last week, I was driving up the Falmer Road from Falmer to my home in Woodingdean.
In front of me was a traveller with a hand-written number plate on his caravan which was unreadable.
Behind me were three others.
On reaching the brow of the hill just before Bexhill Road, two young girls on horseback were trying to cross the road.
With nothing coming up the hill, I stopped to let them cross. As I stopped, the travellers behind overtook me.
I put my hand out of the window indicating they should stop but they overtook me at speed. Two of the caravans had no number plates at all so I could not report them if I had wanted to.
I presume these travellers were the ones being evicted from Stanmer Park. If so, I imagine the police were involved, so how were they allowed to drive without number plates?
The two young girls could easily have been killed, along with their horses, through the ignorance of these people.
Still, they have got their rights, haven't they?
They are a law unto themselves.
-Mrs L Barber, Sutton Close, Woodingdean
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