Epping Forest District Council has voted unanimously to urge the government to shut down a hotel housing asylum seekers, after days of protests. Since demonstrations – some of them violent – began ...

Epping Forest District Council has asked for permission to take its case against a hotel housing asylum seekers to the Supreme Court. Thousands of people have protested outside The Bell Hotel in ...

A council trying to block a hotel from housing asylum seekers has confirmed its plan to appeal directly to the Supreme Court. Migrants were due to be moved out of The Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, ...

Nigel Farage has claimed that all councils controlled by Reform UK will "do everything in their power" to block asylum hotels being set up in their areas after yesterday's controversial Epping ruling.

Council chiefs have launched a new offensive in the battle to close a controversial migrant hotel in Essex. Epping Forest District Council is seeking to take its case to the Supreme Court as the ...

For weeks now, there have been protests near the Bell Hotel in Epping, which houses single male asylum seekers. So far this month they have largely been peaceful, but in July some descended into ...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Locals in Epping have welcomed an injunction to block ...

Jonathan Darling has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. He is affiliated with the No Accommodation Network as a trustee. Over recent weeks, the interim injunction to halt ...

Charges have been dropped against a woman who unfurled a Union flag from a council HQ during an Epping migrant hotel protest. Sarah White, 40, climbed the steps of the Epping Forest building after ...

A legal challenge against an Essex hotel housing asylum seekers will be heard at the High Court on 15 October. Epping Forest District Council secured a temporary injunction stopping The Bell Hotel in ...

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