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By Elizabeth Hunter Villagers blocked two fly-tippers as they unloaded waste on a country lane. Quick-thinking locals used their cars to block the vans as they unloaded waste on the Packington Estate near Meriden, Warwickshire. Pictures show officers from Warwickshire Police seizing a white van after piles of rubbish were dumped on a country lane on the edge of Meriden. This comes 12 years after residents tried to stop an illegal traveller site by camping on the road for more than 600 days. Last Wednesday’s blockade, just one mile from their last protest, lasted less time and saw police arrive…

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