This is a rather absurd article. Has to do with the class conflict that exists in the UK. Golf club officials worried about people camping on their course with their caravans. Ever see the movie Snatch? In that movie Brad Pitt lives and belongs to a caravan community. To quote from the article:
Golf club officials have dug a trench to prevent an influx of travellers on to their championship links course.
The measure was taken after scores of travellers set up camp in a council car park next to the practice ground at Conwy Golf Club on the north Wales coast.
The action was similar to that taken in August at Poundbury, the Prince of Wales’s village in Dorset.
Then, contractors employed by the Duchy of Cornwall dug a 400-yard ditch to prevent travellers gaining access to land.
At the privately-owned, 1,200-member Conwy club, which has views across the sea to Anglesey and is due to host the Welsh Ladies’ Golf Union closed championship next month, a 2ft deep trench has been dug as a “precautionary measure”.
Duncan Brown, the secretary of the 115-year-old club, said: “We had travellers on land next to our practice ground. The only thing between us was a very poor wire fence. It was thought prudent to put this trench in because if they moved from the car park, which the council told them to do, it would have been easy for them to come across to us.
“The trench was purely to protect our interest to save us having to go through all the bother of getting orders if they pitched up on our land.”
Last month about 40 caravans moved on to the Beacons car park, yards from the course. Travellers stayed 15 days until the council evicted them on Thursday.
The group left behind a substantial mess and some have moved to another illegal site a mile away. The council has served notice again.
Mr Brown said: “Some of the children came on to the course on quad bikes, including one of the greens.”
The council began a clean-up operation in the car park yesterday, which it estimates will cost £3,000.
Rubbish was dumped on grassland, fences were smashed, bushes uprooted and there were tyre marks across the grass.
Source: Telegraph
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