Michel Soules on the site where new homes for the Gypsy community ... which originated in Germany and Eastern Europe and are referred to as Roma. The southern Gypsies speak Catalan at home ...

gypsies tend to be extremely hostile to outsiders, or gaje, and often ostracise those Roma that choose to assimilate into the countries they adopt as their homes.

The Gypsy and Traveller Council said authorities ... which evicted 80 families from their illegally-built homes at Europe's largest traveller site at Dale Farm in 2011. Basildon was among those ...

Originally from Hungary, she is just one of the estimated 250,000 Romany gypsies to relocate to the UK from Eastern Europe over the last decade. But with the influx of people has come their ...