On Friday last week, around 300 Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers and supporters marched through the streets of Manchester to protest an outrageous act of discrimination and attack on democratic ...

Benedict Cumberbatch is to star in Gypsy Boy, a movie based on Mikey Walsh's memoirs growing up in the Romany/gypsy community in the 80s and 90s. It is likely to draw controversy as the word "gypsy" ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man pictured on a Romany caravan at the Appleby Horse Fair (Owen Humphreys/PA) (PA Archive) (the_independent_577) A report has ...

“WE ARE THE white blacks,” declares Joseph Jones, a Romany gypsy who is vice-chair of the Gypsy Council, a civil-rights group, and has been campaigning for the rights of gypsies and travellers since ...

In early June, every year, for many generations, Gypsies and Travellers have travelled to the Appleby Horse Fair in Cumbria in their thousands, crossing the moors and fells on their journey in old ...

A 'proud' Romany gypsy great-grandfather of 19 has hit back at critics who believe his community is 'dirty', 'stinking' and 'troublesome'. Oldy Herring, 67, the elder of the family unit, said a number ...

Kent has historically had a high population of Gypsy Travellers because the fruit and vegetable farms in the Garden of England needed a large mobile workforce, providing Travellers with an ideal way ...