Muammar Al Khadafi

Todays enriching news on South West Nationalists is brought to you thanks to the sponsorship of the Community Relations Advancement Program (CR....they're in the process of rethinking that one).

Riverside valley Park, near Countess Wear, has become the latest place in the South West to benefit from the culturally enriching and environmentally reshaping attentions of those quaint and lovable people whom we know as travellers.

In what could have been a textbook operation in enriching the local community and improving the landscape and lives of all, approximately 60 travellers swooped on Riverside Valley Park, on the outskirts of Exeter, and remained for a week before moving on.

Ever misunderstood by a hostile public and a prejudiced officialdom, the travellers left after the Environment Agency - who owned the land - took legal action to move them on.

However, in a glorious testament to the rich reshaping of the landscape and the visual enhancements which travellers can bring to an area, and leave in their wake as a reminder of their presence, caring and considerate travellers left much modern art scattered about the picturesque landscape, much to the joy of locals.

Dozens of shopping trolleys made up the eyecatching sculpture titled "We stole these from Lidls to get the £1 from the slot" - a moving comment upon consumerism and the human condition as a receptacle for groceries and the surplus baggage of life if ever there was one.

Countless bin liners and bags of rubbish were strewn about to create the modern art masterpiece "Your land, my trash, so what?". The team of artists involved have created a deep social commentary on the throwaway society, and the hostility and discrimination inherent in planning laws which will not allow random strangers to decide that your property is now their home.

Sorry Community Relations Advancement Program, the sponsorship fee just ran out there.

People are sick of travellers who flout the law, encamp where they want, leave a nightmarish mess in their wake, and who seem to be able to operate without reference to the legal system.

Between an army of do gooders telling us what a persecuted group travellers are, and laws which are open to exploitation and manipulation - even when the authorities bother applying them - too many beauty spots and nice areas are being turned into sprawling encampments and left as rubbish dumps.

It's not travellers who need the protection of the law, it is the local residents, and the wildlife which inhabits some of these beautiful areas which are reduced to refuse tips, who need the law on their side.