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A once-quiet village in the Low Weald of Kent has been so bedevilled by crime and antisocial behaviour in recent years, it has been dubbed the Wild West. The large traveller community has been blamed for the problems and the police condemned for not acting. But are things about to change? Simon Finlay reports… A resident in his early 60s tells a story of the vaguely comical sight of a Headcorn shop owner shooing out two blond-haired lads from his premises with a broom, gesticulating as he did it. It isn’t clear what they had been up to but the boys, no older than 11 or 12, seem to think it is …

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