It's funny how the rest of society can act.

A good few years ago, at a public meeting I was being questioned (I chaired the local health authority at the time) by members of a Parish Council over our attempts to send health visitors into a nearby traveller camp, their beef being spending public money on them.

Despite all the positive reasons I (with support from our director of public health) gave, the saddest part for me was that nobody was interested in the health of the children at the camp, but seemed satisfied with our action when we pointed out the prevalence of TB in the traveller community and that they share pubs and supermarkets with local people.

Whatever views are of individual traveller contact, and when in business I have had a factory unit broken into and tools stolen, later recovered in a police raid on the site next to the industrial estate, and no, I wasn't a bit surprised.. People are people are humans.

Humanity is important, or should be.