TRAVELLERS have descen-ded on sites around the county.

Around 10 caravans housing six families parked behind offices on Bromwich Road, Lower Wick, Worcester, opposite the Jet garage, on Friday night before moving to the old Worcester Royal Infirmary on Newtown Road, Ronkswood, late yesterday afternoon.

And on Sunday, caravans rolled on to the Berry Hill Industrial site in Droitwich.

John Higgins, a traveller from the Newtown Road site - which belongs to Robert Hitchins properties - told the Worcester News last night the families were hoping to stay until Sunday.

"But we'll be getting eviction notices in the morning I expect and then we'll be off," he said."

He added all six families were on a waiting list for the county council owned site in Offerton Lane, Warndon - but said the waiting list was 120 deep and three years long.

"We have nowhere to go after here - some of us will be going to London and some to Liverpool I expect," he said.

On Bromwich Road - which owners Morris Property are now intending to secure with fencing - nearby residents said they were kept awake by barking dogs and the noise of generators.

But yesterday residents in Ripon Road, opposite Newtown Road - were unaware the travellers had even arrived.

In Droitwich, around 10 caravans moved on to the Doidge Fastenings employee's car park, on the Berry Hill Industrial Estate, on Sunday evening or Monday morning.

"It's pretty dangerous because we have to park on the roads and verges and there are lots of heavy lorries around," said the firm's commercial manager Steve Morris.

"They have also been going to the toilet around the factory and it very unhygienic."

He also said travellers' children had been throwing stones at the factory but traveller Tommy Delaney, aged 15, stressed the group had been abused by town children calling them "pykie" and "gippo".

Wychavon District Council owns the land and issued a vacation notice yesterday, giving the travellers until noon tomorrow to leave.

Police have been monitoring the site during the day and the travellers, who say they are on their way to Scotland and have stopped to fix a Jeep, will move "in a couple of days".

Meanwhile, on Friday, the 11-family community of "Eckington Gipsies" will have reached the Government-ordered deadline to vacate the site on their outskirts of the Worcestershire village.