Apparently, Lambeth Council have "take action" against as many as 400 squatters who were reported to have taken control of a south London housing estate called Limerick Close, emptied, but not secured, by the authorities. According to locals, the place had been turned into party central... music late into the night, bottles and bombfires everywhere. The news is that bailiffs with battering rams paid a visit to the site, and encouraged the squatter to leave. But when people leave one place, they have a habit of turning up elsewhere. It's physics. In this instance, they've turned up at William Gardens, in Putney, where they've taken control of a Ministry of Defence building, recently used by soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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