Court bid as travellers move onto IKEA store car park

A GROUP of travellers have set up camp in an IKEA car park – for the third time.

Caravans, along with cars and vans, have been parked outside the IKEA store at Braehead, Glasgow, for more than a week.

The travellers, along with their babies and children, are camped at the car park on an industrial estate, only yards from a busy roundabout.

IKEA is making moves to evict them but the travellers argue they have nowhere else to go.

IKEA has a court date f or Wednesday to obtain a possession order to move on the travellers. However, it is understood they are likely to move of their own accord on Tuesday night.

One 46-year- old woman, who did not wish to be named, said: ‘There is nowhere else for us to go. All the traveller sites are full. There is a site at Dumbarton but there is no space there.

‘IKEA have been quite nice about it. They’ve given us a skip for us to put our rubbish in – not all people do that.

‘We don’t know where we’re going to go when we have to move on – we’ll have to wait and see.

‘We want to head up to Aberdeen but we’re waiting for the snow to clear. The [council] there is a lot better than down here. They give us bin bags and take away the rubbish.’

A spokesman for IKEA said: ‘The travelling community group have been asked to vacate the site and we are continuing to follow the official procedures in order to secure this happens as soon as possible.’