Travellers move onto three new city sites

Travellers who left a sick puppy and trail of mess behind at playing fields in Wolverhampton today set up camp in three areas of the city, including the former Royal Hospital site.

A convoy of 13 caravans used a sledgehammer to smash their way onto the car park of the former hospital site in All Saints.

Witnesses said they saw the travellers dislodge a bollard before taking out fence panels around the land, which has been earmarked for a £50million transformation by Tesco.

Another three caravans have moved moved onto private land at Greenway Road in Bilston and three are also now on land on Raglan Street in Graiseley.

The site is owned by Sainsbury's and Tesco. Council chiefs said today they were contacting the land owners.

Tesco spokesman Tony Fletcher said bosses would investigate any incursion and "take appropriate action to remove them".

Travellers jeered at residents of Lichfield Road in Wednesfield as they smashed their way through locked gates on council land on August 3. They left on Wednesday night.