Travellers move on after setting up home on car park of Leeds retailer

A group of travellers who set up home on the site of a well known Leeds home furnishings store have moved on.

Around a dozen caravans pitched up on the car park of the Dunelm store on Spence Lane, off Whitehall Road, in Holbeck on Tuesday morning.

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PIC: Robert Gledhill

But by late this afternoon they had left the site.

A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said: “We have been working with the landowner and the council to seek an eviction.”

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