TUESDAY UPDATE - one group leaves, but second camp remains 

TRAVELLERS have set up at a second site in Abingdon, just hours after a group was told to leave a school playing field.

Caravans appeared on land near Long Furlong Primary School on Sunday afternoon.

The school tweeted just before 5pm that they were aware of travellers on the playing fields off Boulter Drive, adding: "The police are involved and are working with the council to obtain warrants to move them on.

"However, we would advise your children avoiding the area as vehicles are being driven down the cycle and footpath."

Residents have suggested it is the same group that left nearby secondary Larkmead School's fields on Sunday, where a Shetland pony which went missing from Surrey was recovered from the site off Faringdon Road.

Oxfordshire County Council spokesman Martin Crabtree confirmed the authority would be visiting the site to issue a landowner's notice for trespass on land owned by Vale of White Horse District Council.

He added: "This is the first step in returning the site to normal and, while we would hope that the travellers move on shortly, an application will be made for a court order which would set a date for when the site must be vacated."