Residents of Dale Farm comfort each other as they watch the eviction of the traveller site in Essex unfold. In the background, protesters occupying a house look on.

Protesters occupy a house in Dale Farm during the eviction of the traveller site in Essex. In the foreground, caravans and barricades set up to try and prevent the eviction burn.

A protester with a crucifix in front of a burning barricade lit to try to prevent the eviction of 86 families from the Dale farm traveller site in Essex.

Police on a cherry picker move in to evict a protester at the Dale Farm traveller site in Essex.

A resident of Dale Farm carries a statue of the Virgin Mary to safety during the eviction of the traveller site in Essex.

Police stand guard as demonstrators sit on a roof during the eviction of Dale Farm traveller site in Essex.

A protester with a crucifix in front of a burning barricade lit to try to prevent the eviction of 86 families from the Dale farm traveller site in Essex.

Protesters occupy a house in Dale Farm during the eviction of the traveller site in Essex. In the foreground, caravans and barricades set up to try and prevent the eviction burn.

Protesters light barricades on fire to try to prevent the eviction of 86 families from the Dale farm traveller site in Essex.

Dale and Lynn Harlock of Newtons Farm, which they feel has been blighted by Wind Energy Turbines, in Warboys, Cambridgeshire.

Dale and Lynn Harlock of Newtons Farm, which they feel has been blighted by Wind Energy Turbines, in Warboys, Cambridgeshire.