UK Hotspot OVERRUN and Becoming a SHANTY TOWN

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This world famous town in the UK has been hit by a wave of negative headlines over recent years. I investigated Glastonbury, Somerset to see if this negative media attention is warranted. In this documentary we spend time with the locals of Glastonbury, the homeless encampments, residents of the caravans, the van life community, and we gain exclusive access into one of the UK's largest alternative communities inside what once was an abandoned building. This has now grown into one of the UK's most infamous alternative communities. With rural homelessness and poverty statistics in the UK currently at the highest they have ever been, with the south west of the United Kingdom being the worst affected area does this explain the huge influx of people into this small British town. How is life in this UK town, does it live up to the headlines? In this UK documentary we find out...

With alarming headlines about the area such as:

Hippies have set up shanty town next to our homes with hundreds of caravans and van lifers, its destroyed our area:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/27537676/hippies-shanty-town-caravans/

Inside Derelict building 'overrun' and turned into a 'shanty town':
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13391733/Inside-derelict-Glastonbury-factory-overrun-hippies-shanty-town.html

'Shanty Town' of caravans infuriating locals:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1896099/glastonbury-caravan-shanty-town

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