First transmitted in 1992, 'Out of Site' highlighted the desperate state of some Council traveler sites just as the Government was introducing proposals to end roadside Gypsy encampments.

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Essex is one of the counties with the highest proportion of Romany people in Britain. The programme investigated the strength of feeling against the new proposals - described by some as 'ethnic cleansing' - and examined some of the misconceptions, racial prejudices and realities of life as a 'Gypsy' in the 1990s.  

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