article_snippet: The protesters, who have been occupying the site for two-and-a-half years, have been threatened with eviction .
article_snippet: Make-shift towers have been used before by protesters to hinder bailiffs. 
article_snippet: More than 1,100 people have signed an online petition backing the group, who appear to be chaining the gates to the site closed .
article_snippet: More than 1,100 people have signed an online petition backing the ‘community farm’.
article_snippet: By the time it came to finally evict the group in October 2011, protesters had turned Europe's largest illegal traveller site into a fortress.
article_snippet: Protesters had strapped Protesters to buildings and scaffolding and some were chained by Protesters necks to ruined vehicles filled with concrete.
highlights_snippet: But activists posted a message warning that activists 'will not leave quietly'
  