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 ...

The UK is to start processing Syrian asylum claims again, more than seven months after decisions were paused following the fall of the Assad regime.Asylum minister Dame Angela Eagle ...

PAThe government is struggling to cut the amount of foreign aid it spends on hotel bills for asylum seekers in the UK, the BBC has learnt.New figures released quietly ...

Two companies that receive taxpayers' money to house asylum seekers in hotels have said they will hand back some of their profits to the Home Office.Under contracts signed by ...

Accommodation for asylum seekers will cost the taxpayer triple the amount the Home Office first claimed, according to new figures.Contracts signed by the Conservative government in 2019 were expected ...

BBCHussam Kassas, who fled Syria in 2016, says he is at risk of losing his jobAsylum seekers who have been waiting more than a year for an outcome to ...