The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that drilling for oil in one family's back garden is becoming ever more common, then we learn that so-called new age travellers are terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack so-called new age travellers terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village was The deputy commisioner of the Metropolitan Police who today said the day of the yob is upon us.