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We can't move the gypsies, says council

VALE Royal Borough Council has admitted there is nothing it can do legally to move the gypsies from land at New Road, Winsford.

Three caravans returned to the car park behind American Fried Chicken last week.

They have pitched their caravans on the land just weeks after Winsford Town Council, Vale Royal Borough Council and the leaseholder of the land had cleared the site of rubbish and debris left by previous travellers.

A spokesman for Vale Royal said: "Legally there is nothing we can do to move them because what we have to do is to go to county court to obtain a posession order but we have to prove that we are legally entitled to obtain posession.

"Because the land is leased for us, we do not have the legal right to apply for possession."

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