Travellers move onto Hereford Racecourse

10:57am Monday 20th August 2012 in Local News

A group of travellers have moved on to Hereford Racecourse.

The mobile homes and caravans are parked on the western end of the site, near the road to Highmore Street.

Jackie Mumford, from First Holmer Scouts, said they arrived on August 9.

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Lukio says...
12:54pm Mon 20 Aug 12

Ah so that's the new plan for the racecourse :)

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Herefordian says...
1:00pm Mon 20 Aug 12

My grandsons bike got nicked yesterday from a busy carpark, lock cut through, dodgy white van seen nearby
Makes yer think.
Poor chap had to walk 3 miles home
But theives have no consideration for others either

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ArmadilloSackRace says...
3:55pm Mon 20 Aug 12

Since 9th August? Finger on the pulse, as always

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jd1950 says...
7:37pm Mon 20 Aug 12

Again, these people can do what they want, all authority is too frightened to do anything to them, in case it offends human rights, what about the ordinary persons human rights, or do you only get them (human rights) if you break the law?

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fmrbill says...
8:41pm Mon 20 Aug 12

well with travellers now on racecourse and hereforshire being taken over by eastern europeans from what it appears people have said on here some would say we ARE DOOMED !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( not my opinion I hasten to add ))))

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RogerLFC says...
10:21pm Mon 20 Aug 12

ArmadilloSackRace wrote:
Since 9th August? Finger on the pulse, as always
My thoughts! They may even have gone but I ain't checked! Crazy story! #timelagofimmensepro
portions

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bobby47 says...
11:07pm Mon 20 Aug 12

Cynics all of you. We've been waiting for a lucky break like this. This is excellent news for our impoverished economy and another option as to what we might do with the Racecourse now we no longer can or want to race horses. With thought, goodwill and some imagination, we can build a top class, state of the art 'pitch' for the good people of the travelling community. It can be the best in our Country This investment will bring into our good City,Tarmac'ers, block paving engineers, tree surgeons, scrap metal recycler's and a whole raft of other things that will benefit the entire legal profession. What a boost!

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leftofmoorfarm says...
7:38am Tue 21 Aug 12

It seems the one thing Hereford racecourse is not used for is racing horses. Someone may as well be using it.

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ArmadilloSackRace says...
8:43am Tue 21 Aug 12

RogerLFC wrote:
ArmadilloSackRace wrote:
Since 9th August? Finger on the pulse, as always
My thoughts! They may even have gone but I ain't checked! Crazy story! #timelagofimmensepro

portions
Why the hashtag? Firstly, this isn't Twitter. Secondly, they're meant to tag a tweet so that it can be found when searching for tweets on a certain subject, not to cram a short statement with no spaces in at the end of a tweet

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Gillian1961 says...
7:59pm Tue 21 Aug 12

I hope there paying council tax water rates, and electric there probable connected to the nearest lamp post more shop lifters and thieving warning do not let them take you into having your drive tarmac or any other cow boy jobs

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Churchill78 says...
10:46am Wed 22 Aug 12

Herefordian wrote:
My grandsons bike got nicked yesterday from a busy carpark, lock cut through, dodgy white van seen nearby
Makes yer think.
Poor chap had to walk 3 miles home
But theives have no consideration for others either
Sorry to pick on you 'Herefordian', lots of other ignorant (and grammatically poor) comments posted here too.
Nice to know we aren't all jumping to conclusions about the gypsies. Of course, nobody else commits crimes in our fair county…whoever nicked my car last year notwithstanding. Or was that those accursed Eastern Europeans? We Brits wouldn’t go oversees to work would we! Europe, North America, the Middle-East, Australasia, S. America and Africa not withstanding (and me included for a year)…..about 7 million ex-pats last time I looked I think. Similar to the number of non-UK residents working in the UK? But it’s okay for us to do it; our Empire made the world what it is today didn’t it! They should be grateful (this is sarcasm).
Statistically gypsies and travellers are no more likely to commit crimes than any other social group. They pay tax, either directly (Council Tax, ‘rates’ etc on legal sites) or indirectly – unless they have their own oil refinery somewhere I haven’t heard about (it’s not them drilling off the Falklands and upsetting the Argentinians is it?)? And make or steal their own clothes? Or grow all their own food?
They have a different way of life which is threatening to some but maybe if we provided an adequate number of decent quality sites for gypsies and travellers that would be a good first step? Not all angels I'm sure, and clearly the occupation of the racecourse is unacceptable, but let's try to be a little bit more level-headed here.
As an aside, some also did a cracking job on my drive last year – cheap too, it was cash in hand :-)

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Churchill78 says...
10:49am Wed 22 Aug 12

Sorry. Got carried away there. Back to work now. Carry on with your lives. Nothing to see here, Move along.

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nickt2635 says...
5:58pm Wed 22 Aug 12

Actually they have gone now much to the relief of Highmoor st, Westfield st and Bobblestock residents who have had to put up with the music of their party's until 3am every day, music that you could actually hear from the Bobblestock Co-Op store!!! Much to the relief of the little girl on Highmoor st who had her bike stolen by two gypsy girls, and much to the relief of the many residents of Bobblestock that had washing stolen off their clothes lines at night time!!!
They may be gone but they won't be forgotten for a while by the regular users of the pathway from fakenham drive to Highmoor st because they've churned it all up to a mud bath with all of their vehicles and caravans, vehicles such as the £80,000 2012 registered Porche Cayene turbo that was pulling one caravan!!! Piles of rubbish everywhere including mountains of old tarmac from peoples drives whom they've ripped off during their stay!!! And they wonder why they're not welcome!!!

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leftofmoorfarm says...
8:29am Thu 23 Aug 12

The scapegoating in Herefordshire reminds me of a certain European country in the 1930s. Just saying. Who's next for the wrath of the masses I wonder?

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billyb83 says...
8:55am Thu 23 Aug 12

Why when somethings stolen you have to point towards travellers??? Herefords the worst place in midlands for heroin use and dont you think there more likely to steal?? Most travellers are very wealthy people. Also the travellers at the racecourse were really nice people doin security there they brought us over hot drinks and cooked a bbq. Why be prejudice towards them there not doing any harm there there for a few days if you wanna blame anyone blame the racecourse for not closing the gates.

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Gillian1961 says...
10:02am Thu 23 Aug 12

billyb83 wrote:
Why when somethings stolen you have to point towards travellers??? Herefords the worst place in midlands for heroin use and dont you think there more likely to steal?? Most travellers are very wealthy people. Also the travellers at the racecourse were really nice people doin security there they brought us over hot drinks and cooked a bbq. Why be prejudice towards them there not doing any harm there there for a few days if you wanna blame anyone blame the racecourse for not closing the gates.
most travellers are wealthy because they do not pay council tax water rates Income tax etc thats just half of what they get up to, they drive around in brand new four wheel drives they do not come cheap.

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billyb83 says...
4:58pm Thu 23 Aug 12

Yeah well we are the idiots for paying it not them, there clever people we are the mugs. Good luck to them.

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Herefordian says...
8:01pm Thu 23 Aug 12

Good riddance to them. I actually had some machinery stolen by travellers that parked on land where PC World etc is now built upon. The same travellers that moved out of Leominster after trashing the place and threatening customers & staff at one of the Supermarkets. And as for giving them somewhere to live look at how they trashed the camp at Redhill
These are not normal beings they are scum preying everywhere and on vonurable people. The burger van was targeted on B&Q's car park and gas cyclinders stolen. The very type of gas to power their stolen generators and tarmacing equipment
Sorry no time for them
Oh by the way I am self employed and have to pay my taxes something they don't know the meaning of

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Herefordian says...
8:03pm Thu 23 Aug 12

And to all the do-gooders, go steal a caravan and join them

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billyb83 says...
8:25pm Thu 23 Aug 12

I bet your such a role model Herefordian!!!!! As for travellers they wouldnt steal gas bottles they would go for bigger stuff ie the burger van itself. Take a look on your own doorstep in Hereford and see the smack heads walking the streets there the ones you should watch out for.

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Herefordian says...
8:45pm Thu 23 Aug 12

Role model I am. At least I can walk down the street and walk through High Town to be greeted by my customers and friends, something the travellers can't do or wouldn't know how to

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billyb83 says...
7:01am Fri 24 Aug 12

see again prejudice towards travellers, Your the fool for paying your taxes you see there the ones driving round with £100000 trailers and £75000 cars good luck to them i say. I got alot of traveller friends and there hard working honest people more than i can say about the herefordian people, Smackhead city i should say!!!!!

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Herefordian says...
7:47am Fri 24 Aug 12

Morning Billy,
Up early today? Hitched up ready to go to the Dale Farm Reunion?

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billyb83 says...
1:20pm Fri 24 Aug 12

No it's called work pay my taxes. Plus if they did I would go over your predudice party's

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Herefordian says...
9:38pm Fri 24 Aug 12

Hi Billy, Friends of yours?
Metal thieves caused damage estimated at up to £10,000 when they took pipes from a disused hospital.

A bungalow on the site of Lea Castle Hospital in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, flooded when copper water pipes were removed during Wednesday night.

A West Mercia Police spokesman said the site belonged to the NHS and any cost to it was a cost to the public purse.

Anyone with information is urged to contact the police.

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Gaynor Williams says...
9:20pm Sun 26 Aug 12

And some of us manage to have taken Smack and Crack in the past, yet still manage to pay our taxes, bills, own our own house and have never stolen off anyone!

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billyb83 says...
2:13am Mon 27 Aug 12

smackheads dont deserve the good air we breath end of convo. Keep up the good work travellers your doin well in your 50 grand car and trailers, Word jealousy springs to mind :)

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trucking says...
9:21am Mon 27 Aug 12

i worked next to a travellers site for years, when the romany travellers were on there it was kept clean and we had very little trouble, then they left and the irish moved on. The council run site was torn to peices, doors riped off utility blocks, scrap cars turned upside down hunderds of old gas bottles. They refused to pay the rent so the council had to go with police escort on rent day, the police had to go in with a van load of them. Working next to them we had constant abuse, diesel stolen, botles and a knife thrown at us. When they left it cost tens of thousands of pounds to clean up the rat infested site all to the cost to the tax payer not the pikeys.

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billyb83 says...
7:29pm Mon 27 Aug 12

Thats it trucking romany travellers are good honest people its the irish tinkers who are the one who give all travellers a bad name. I got family friends who live on the site down rotherwas and there place is so clean you could eat of the floor. This people on here aint a clue about much they just brandish all travellers the same.

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