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Downturn hits Romania's tinkers

Scrap metal was once a lucrative trade for Eastern European Gypsies but this has been devastated by the global economic crisis.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7833138.stm

2009-01-17

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Rome to dismantle illegal camps

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7893536.stm

The authorities in Rome have begun dismantling illegal camps amid an outcry over three rapes last weekend that have been blamed on immigrants. Mayor Gianni Alemanno supervised the demolition of about 30 camps, home to many Roma, or Gypsies, from Romania.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7893536.stm

2009-02-16

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'Lessons learned' on race attacks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8116102.stm

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Here lies the difference

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/651099.html

2005-11-29

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Howard sets out traveller plans

"If you want to build a new home you have to get planning permission first. But if you are a traveller you can bend planning law - building where you like thanks to the Human Rights Act." ... unveiled plans to make trespass by travellers a criminal offence. He said the issue had nothing to do with racism - it was about "standing up for the right values" and common sense.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4365287.stm

2005-03-21

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