http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article952861.ece

Those of you who don't read the British gutter press may have missed this -- I only saw it because of another internet forum I post on.

It seems that members of the Brazil family (one of the great traditional song-carrying families of these Islands) have bought a field near NuLabour's Tessa Jowell.

As the story says: -

'Tom Brazil, a 30-year-old father of three, said: "This has been a big rush job and we purposely chose the Easter holiday weekend so that we could get more done before anybody tried to stop us.

"There are 16 families here, each with up to three caravans, and we banded together to buy the land 12 months ago.

"We didn't let on that we were gipsies – nobody would have sold it to us if they'd known.

"I can understand that people living nearby will be upset, but they have got to appreciate that we have got children who need to go to school to get on in life.

"We are part of one big family who have been evicted thousands of times while on the road together over the past seven years.

"We just want a permanent home and have been looking for the right place to buy – and this is it.

"We did not know that an MP lives next door, but I would like her and her husband to come down and have a chat.

"Nobody here has a criminal conviction and 90 per cent of us are Christians. We just want to be good neighbours."'

Good on 'em, I say.

Those of you unfamiliar with the singing of the Brazil family could do worse than have a hunt around on the MT Records website, read the reviews and the booklet notes, and invest some of your hard-earned.

Lovely stuff.