A row is growing over a Romany Gypsy family, which has illegally set up home in open countryside, seeking permission to stay there permanently because life on the official traveller site is ...

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 ...

She belongs to the Roma (Gypsy) community, Italy's largest ethnic minority that numbers up to 180,000. But lately the whole idea of what it means to be Italian for people like her has been called ...

Romany Gypsies started to live in caravans, which they call vardoes, in the 1850s. Before this they travelled by horse or foot and camped in tents made from hazel rods covered with tarpaulin.