Fired-up campaigners are planning to take a packed battlebus to Westminster and demand a Government investigation into the illegal Dale Farm traveller site.

Politicians and residents from Crays Hill and Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, are joining forces to talk with Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State for local Government.

They believe she must now look into travellers' claims about having nowhere else to go, their land ownerships and finances before announcing her decision over the camp's future next month.

The move has been triggered by our three-part special investigation - Travellers: The Truth - which revealed links between the site and others across the country and included claims from the book, the Outsiders, which alleged the camp was a UK business base for mega-rich travellers from Rathkeale, Ireland.

Members of Crays Hill Residents Association, Ramsden Crays Parish Council and Billericay Tory MP John Baron, who has promised to ask questions in Parliament, are all backing the fight.

Tory councillor John Dornan (Laindon Park), who lives in Oak Avenue, Crays Hill is now arranging the coach-trip demo, where protesters plan to hand Mrs Kelly copies of our investigations and the book, by Irish journalist Eamon Dillon.

Mr Dornan said: "We demand a Government inquiry even if it means delaying the decision again.

"If it doesn't investigate now, we may as well throw in the towel and hand over the green belt.

"This is an absolute conspiracy. The revelations show the inadequacies of this Government."

Mr Baron added: "This clearly suggests the travellers own land elsewhere and are seeking to develop it. It throws severe doubt over claims they have to stay at Dale Farm because there is no where else to go.

"The latest information reinforces my argument that we need a nationwide investigation.

"I am writing to Mrs Kelly."

Len Gridley of Oak Road, who says he recognises travellers in the book said: "It is the biggest land grab since the Wild West.

"It's a money making scam to turn cheap green belt into housing. It is being properly organised by people with serious amounts of money."