Travellers who camped at the Oxford Retail Park at the weekend kept their promise to leave -- but moved less than a mile along the ring road.

After being served with eviction notices by bailiffs on Monday requiring them to leave the Cowley site by 9am yesterday, the group hitched up their caravans and left, only to take up temporary residence in the car park of the Homebase store off Horspath Driftway.

The store's manager James Reynolds said legal action was already being taken to have them removed from the site.

He said: "They came in last night about 7.30pm.

"We've notified our head office, and hopefully they should be gone by tomorrow.

"In the brief time they've been here there's been no trouble whatsoever, except for kids running around inside the store who we've had to escort off the premises because they were not accompanied by an adult."

A group of travellers -- some from southern Ireland, and others from the Bristol area -- arrived at the Cowley site on Friday night for a church service for traveller Martin McDonagh, who was killed on the M40 near Oxford last autumn.

The memorial service was held at Corpus Christi Church, Headington, on Sunday.

But over the weekend and again on Monday there were complaints from customers using the park about the presence of so many large vehicles in the car park.

The travellers first took over spaces near the Tesco store, but moved to the area near Mothercare after being moved on by bailiffs, believed to have been employed by Tesco.

New eviction notices were served on Monday requiring them to leave by 9am the following day.

Insp Geoff Robinson, manager of the Oxfordshire Traveller Management Unit, said the police had not been asked by either store to get involved.

Travellers camped at the car park of the Focus DIY store on the Thorney Leys Park in Witney, were also ordered to move on.

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