Lewis AdamsBBC News, EssexPA MediaTensions have been high over the housing of 138 asylum seekers at The Bell Hotel in EppingA temporary injunction that blocked asylum seekers being housed ...

David Wallace LockhartPolitical correspondent, BBC ScotlandAngus CochraneBBC Scotland NewsPA MediaRussell Findlay says the UK immigration system should be "fair"It is "understandable" that people are protesting outside of hotels housing ...

Iain WatsonPolitical Correspondent, BBC NewsPA MediaBorder Force officers processing the first small boat migrants detained under the UK's new "one in, one out" deal at the Manston Immigration Processing ...

Getty ImagesA record 111,000 asylum applications were made to the UK during the year to June, but the government is processing cases faster, new Home Office figures show.This is ...

BBCA third council in Northern Ireland has been asked to investigate the legal planning status of hotels housing asylum seekers.DUP and TUV councillors on Causeway Coast and Glens Borough ...

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is encouraging Tory-controlled councils to consider launching legal challenges against the use of hotels to house asylum seekers in their areas.Badenoch said Epping Forest District ...

Jayne McCormackBBC News NI political correspondentGoogleThe hotel has been the subject of some anti-immigration protests Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council has started an enforcement investigation into the legal planning ...

Dominic CascianiBBC News, Home and Legal Correspondent•@BBCDomCLewis AdamsBBC News, EssexPA MediaThe Bell Hotel has been at the centre of intense protests, and counter-protests over the summerAsylum seekers are due ...

Shivani ChaudhariBBC News, NorfolkRichard Knights/BBCHundreds of people are at the protest against the use of hotels to house asylum seekersHundreds of people have gathered for a protest outside a ...

Danny FullbrookBBC News, EssexPeter WalkerBBC News, EssexPete Walker/BBCPolice officers maintain a presence outside Epping Forest District Council offices as a meeting about the unrest takes placeA council is meeting ...

Stuart WoodwardBBC News, EssexReporting fromChelmsford Magistrates' CourtPA MediaMore than 1,000 people were estimated to have been at The Bell Hotel on SundayThree more men have been charged after alleged ...

Rob EnglandData Journalist, BBC VerifyJack FenwickPolitical correspondentEPAThe government spent nearly a third less on hotels to house asylum seekers between April 2024 and March 2025, according to newly published ...