ANGRY villagers formed a human barricade in a dramatic bid to prevent a convoy of travellers setting up camp on their playing field, reports the Clacton Gazette. 

Plucky councillors lay down in front of travellers’ vehicles as they tried to get on to the field at Weeley on Monday night.

The astonishing show of people power unfolded as a parish council meeting was due to start.

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