Appleby Ground Zero: Fighting in the street, urine through letter boxes and locals terrified into silence... FRED KELLY talks to the locals who are either fleeing or bracing for 10,000 travellers and their horses to descend

On a quiet residential street in a picture-perfect Cumbrian town, an elderly couple are hurriedly packing up their car. What on earth could have sparked such unease in this genteel couple?

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