Villagers 'held to ransom' by travellers: Family set up illegal camp after buying plot of land 'for £15,000'

Many of the 800 residents of Dinton, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, fear they have fallen victim to a 'land grab scam' over a tennis-court sized plot of land on a greenfield site (pictured) in their village.


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