be for we start i would like to say 2 things one is i welcome you to the first Gypsy Traveller website second i would like to say some people mite be offended for what i have to say but i am only Telling the Truth and the truth hurts i am not out to offend Anny body just letting you in to my world. well where  do we start have lived in Leeds all my life and i can onisley say Leeds is home to me when i was a little girl we stayed on old waist land all over Leeds we never got stopping a round a area long enough for us to go to school i have 3 brothers and 2 sisters when we moved on to cottingley springs 1980 some of the younger  ones went to school .when they build the over caravan site next to one another it was to big the resident rejected strait away they said it was to big and they was write over the years i have see my community get bigger and they have still have not build nothing for the community so family's are road side no GP no water no baths no fusillades that people has got in 2007 no Education nothing when you are road side Traveller you are classed as homeless then the council has a jute to do a health report homelessness report but do they do it no because some   Travellers Gypsy don't no there writes a lot af Gypsy people will say that not true but if you are road side with or with out a caravan you are homeless because you should not be there and the council will move you on Health is a big thing in our community the average age is 50 they dune a study at a university and that's what the report said but i new it eny way i didnt know what age but i no it was young because i have whinesed young people dying so young why not getting access to local fusillades like the doctor we are not in the boundaries all the local GP says so we have to travel by bus to middleton surgery help Leeds Traveller Exchange is a big help for ow er community all so Travellers education .is a big help police all ways come on to the caravan site and gets families pulled out of bed with out a warrant many of times i have witnessed that and no aresed police not been professionnel on site calling names chasing kids up and down the site my community are getting sick of this and many workers have seen it to and report it but nothing gets dune          thank you for reading this God bless