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Plans to let more circus workers live in a West Berkshire hamlet should be dropped according to the parish council. And villagers have vowed to fight the plans with a judicial review if West Berkshire Council grants them. The applicant wants to put 24 plots on fields at Long Copse Farm. The site in Enborne is the Zippos Circus headquarters. But locals say the village would not be able to cope with the increase in size of up to 100 people. The row has been rumbling for nearly 25 years, with the villagers winning the last bout – after retrospective plans were submitted for hard standings and tem…

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