The clearance of 49 illegal pitches at Dale Farm in 2011 was the culmination of a 10-year battle between travellers, who bought a former scrap yard on green belt land, and the council.

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In 1981, she bought a small dilapidated building in Cicero, a Chicago suburb, to serve as United Scrap's headquarters.

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Whoever bought the final stake had to have delivered 700, 000 tons of iron ore or 400 tons of scrap metal to Zaporizhstal within the last year.

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