The town that took on travellers and won: How, in the face of goading, security fences and intimidation, the defiant town of Sawbridgeworth spent 72 nerve-wracking hours fighting to stop diggers paving over their wildlife sanctuary

Residents in the sleepy town of Sawbridgeworth were looking forward to enjoying a relaxing August bank holiday weekend.

Many in the pristine commuter town in Hertfordshire, best known for being the site of David and Victoria Beckham‘s former £11.5million country estate, had planned walks along the River Stort and trips to many of its independent village pubs and cafes.

But rather they were forced to come together in their hundreds, camping overnight on the side of a road, in an attempt to defend their town from a brazen land grab by dozens of travellers hoping to catch the council and courts by

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