A man who helped built a traveller site home to four families has hit back at locals who he claims have been verbally abusing them since they moved in.
Mark Lee is one of 16 people living on the site which was constructed over just two days late last month in Blackbrook, south-west of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire.
He told StokeOnTrentLive : "This is not an illegal campsite. As far as I'm concerned, you're allowed to live on your own land for 28 days before it becomes illegal. "We bought the land two-and-a-half years ago.
What we have done has been well exaggerated. We've just taken the top soil off and not drilled down. "The council has been down and put an injunction on us so we can't have any more caravans than are here already. "The