Travellers move on to fair site

TIME LIMIT . . . Travellers who set up camp at Manchester Cabins in Hollinwood were given two days to leave

TRAVELLERS have set up camp in Hollinwood, on the site of a future fun fair.

Caravans started to arrive at the Manchester Cabins site in Tweedale Way on Thursday. The land will be used by a visiting funfair — Blackpool Comes to Oldham — due to open on February 13.

Organisers de-Koning Leisure are planning to bring donkey rides, clowns and stilt walkers as well as roller coasters, a Ferris wheel and dodgems.

Frank Rothwell, owner of Manchester Cabins, said: “The police came on Thursday and gave the travellers two days’ notice to leave but they ignored this so we are in the process of obtaining a court order to remove them from the site. They should be gone by the end of the week.”