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This week: Where Can They Go?
They call themselves Gypsies - others call them tinkers, robbers, tax-dodgers, metal spivs, and a dozen other angry names. For centuries they drifted to the West Midlands to find winter quarters. But three years ago one local council decided that its people had had enough. The tinkers would have to go. Since then the council - Walsall in Staffordshire - has been fighting a running war. Now the council has decided to make a final stand. They voted 41-1 to reject a new parliamentary law ordering them and other authorities to provide sites for travellers. Other councils are coming to their support. Anti-tinker action groups have been formed. Now the government is considering action against the councils.
Man Alive brings both sides together in Walsall to ask the question - where can they go?