REGARDING your story on travellers who have set up camp on a field off Shipton Road in York (The Press, July 30), one woman traveller was quoted as saying “it’s our culture” and that they regularly suffer harassment “for no good reason at all”.

I think there are plenty of good reasons why people complain:

1. They are illegally encamped.

2. They wrongly assume they can just move on to any field they wish, private or otherwise, and not pay camping fees – like the rest of us would have to.

3. They do not ask permission to use the field.

4. They do not take away their rubbish, and often leave sites strewn with debris.

5. These travellers have the audacity to ask for rubbish bags so that they can leave their rubbish piled when they move on – is this not called fly tipping? Why should someone else remove their rubbish?

When people go on a caravanning holiday they book a site, pay for it, and leave it tidy. Why do travellers think they are exempt from doing this? They admit they have permanent homes or caravans elsewhere in the country, so are in effect holidaying in Britain.

S Brown, Dunnington, York.