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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
(l to r) Sandie Roser, Nick Godley, Mair Godley + Donna (Roser?). Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
(l to r) Sandie Roser, Nick Godley, Mair Godley + Donna (Roser?). Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
(l to r) Sandie Roser, Nick Godley, Mair Godley + Donna (Roser?). Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
(l to r) Sandie Roser, Nick Godley, Mair Godley + Donna (Roser?). Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
(l to r) Sandie Roser, Nick Godley, Mair Godley + Donna (Roser?). Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
(l to r) Sandie Roser, Nick Godley, Mair Godley + Donna (Roser?). Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
(l to r) Sandie Roser, Nick Godley, Mair Godley + Donna (Roser?). Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
(l to r) Sandie Roser, Nick Godley, Mair Godley + Donna (Roser?). Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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DUKAS_158443753_EYE
'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
21/7/23.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
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'Like a stalag': local people condemn asylum seeker housing on Essex airbase
Residents of nearby village say water mains and sewers cannot cope with large numbers of arrivals at RAF Wethersfield.
People living in the village of Wethersfield in Essex have described the newly opened asylum seeker accommodation on the military base there as a "stalag".
The Home Office's controversial plans to accommodate some asylum seekers on military bases - RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire along with Wethersfield and the Bibby Stockholm barge that has docked at Portland in Dorset - has distressed residents who say their areas do not have the infrastructure to cope with the new arrivals.
Human rights and refugee campaigners have told the Home Office it is cruel to hold asylum seekers in conditions of "quasi-detention" in remote areas far from communities and support networks.
But the Home Office says the move is essential due to the spiralling costs of accommodating asylum seekers, who have arrived on small boats, in hotels.
A total of 1,334 people have arrived in the last four days the government has published figures for - although officials have not published a breakdown of comparative costs of military base and barge accommodation compared with hotels, which are now accommodating more than 50,000 asylum seekers.
Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. 44 asylum seekers have been moved to the facility this week. The home office intend for up to 1700 people to be housed here once building works and infratstructural upgrades are complete. Wethersfield, Essex.
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75 years of Britain’s Caribbean food shops
Pictured is Colin Mitchell, owner of Mitchell’s Supermarket in Nottingham which has supplied Jamaican and Caribbean foods since 1959. Colin took over the business from his father Clifton in 1978 who opened the shop in 1959.
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75 years of Britain’s Caribbean food shops
Wenty (Mr. Wentworth) and Laverne Newland from Wenty's Tropical Foods
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75 years of Britain’s Caribbean food shops
Darren Richards - Montego
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'I'd leave too if I could': Tunisian club whose footballers all left for Europe
In five years Ghardimaou has lost 65 players, in exodus from country blamed on political instability and lack of jobs.
If Ghardimaou football club's players had been there to take to the pitch last week, the Tunisian town's stadium would have been packed with fans, many of them children, waving the teams's blue and white colours. The club, which plays in the fourth division of the national league, was due to face the third-placed El Battan. It would not have been an easy game but Ghardimaou FC's president, Jamil Meftahi, believes his players could have won.
The match did not take place. The club has all but ceased to exist after more than 30 of its players left the country, trying, like thousands of their compatriots, to reach Europe.
In 2022 alone, about 15,500 Tunisians reached the Italian coast, according to an advocacy group, Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES), in what has been described as a significant exodus blamed by human rights groups on the north African country's high unemployment, rising inflation, financial stress and political instability.
Jalila Taamallah from Bizerte has lost two sons who have tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea in November 2019.
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'I'd leave too if I could': Tunisian club whose footballers all left for Europe
In five years Ghardimaou has lost 65 players, in exodus from country blamed on political instability and lack of jobs.
If Ghardimaou football club's players had been there to take to the pitch last week, the Tunisian town's stadium would have been packed with fans, many of them children, waving the teams's blue and white colours. The club, which plays in the fourth division of the national league, was due to face the third-placed El Battan. It would not have been an easy game but Ghardimaou FC's president, Jamil Meftahi, believes his players could have won.
The match did not take place. The club has all but ceased to exist after more than 30 of its players left the country, trying, like thousands of their compatriots, to reach Europe.
In 2022 alone, about 15,500 Tunisians reached the Italian coast, according to an advocacy group, Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES), in what has been described as a significant exodus blamed by human rights groups on the north African country's high unemployment, rising inflation, financial stress and political instability.
Sider Miled, one of the Ghardimaou Football Club trainers, in the changing room of the football field.
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'I'd leave too if I could': Tunisian club whose footballers all left for Europe
In five years Ghardimaou has lost 65 players, in exodus from country blamed on political instability and lack of jobs.
If Ghardimaou football club's players had been there to take to the pitch last week, the Tunisian town's stadium would have been packed with fans, many of them children, waving the teams's blue and white colours. The club, which plays in the fourth division of the national league, was due to face the third-placed El Battan. It would not have been an easy game but Ghardimaou FC's president, Jamil Meftahi, believes his players could have won.
The match did not take place. The club has all but ceased to exist after more than 30 of its players left the country, trying, like thousands of their compatriots, to reach Europe.
In 2022 alone, about 15,500 Tunisians reached the Italian coast, according to an advocacy group, Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES), in what has been described as a significant exodus blamed by human rights groups on the north African country's high unemployment, rising inflation, financial stress and political instability.
Some of the football players of Ghardimaou young club during a training
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'I'd leave too if I could': Tunisian club whose footballers all left for Europe
In five years Ghardimaou has lost 65 players, in exodus from country blamed on political instability and lack of jobs.
If Ghardimaou football club's players had been there to take to the pitch last week, the Tunisian town's stadium would have been packed with fans, many of them children, waving the teams's blue and white colours. The club, which plays in the fourth division of the national league, was due to face the third-placed El Battan. It would not have been an easy game but Ghardimaou FC's president, Jamil Meftahi, believes his players could have won.
The match did not take place. The club has all but ceased to exist after more than 30 of its players left the country, trying, like thousands of their compatriots, to reach Europe.
In 2022 alone, about 15,500 Tunisians reached the Italian coast, according to an advocacy group, Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES), in what has been described as a significant exodus blamed by human rights groups on the north African country's high unemployment, rising inflation, financial stress and political instability.
The headquarter of the Ghardimaou Football Club which was previously a church during the French occupation in Tunisia. Today it’s closed because it needs funds to be restored and to be used.
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'I'd leave too if I could': Tunisian club whose footballers all left for Europe
In five years Ghardimaou has lost 65 players, in exodus from country blamed on political instability and lack of jobs.
If Ghardimaou football club's players had been there to take to the pitch last week, the Tunisian town's stadium would have been packed with fans, many of them children, waving the teams's blue and white colours. The club, which plays in the fourth division of the national league, was due to face the third-placed El Battan. It would not have been an easy game but Ghardimaou FC's president, Jamil Meftahi, believes his players could have won.
The match did not take place. The club has all but ceased to exist after more than 30 of its players left the country, trying, like thousands of their compatriots, to reach Europe.
In 2022 alone, about 15,500 Tunisians reached the Italian coast, according to an advocacy group, Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES), in what has been described as a significant exodus blamed by human rights groups on the north African country's high unemployment, rising inflation, financial stress and political instability.
A graffiti in the border town of Ghardimaou depicting the Club Africain footbal Club, one of the strongest in the main league in Tunisia.
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'I'd leave too if I could': Tunisian club whose footballers all left for Europe
In five years Ghardimaou has lost 65 players, in exodus from country blamed on political instability and lack of jobs.
If Ghardimaou football club's players had been there to take to the pitch last week, the Tunisian town's stadium would have been packed with fans, many of them children, waving the teams's blue and white colours. The club, which plays in the fourth division of the national league, was due to face the third-placed El Battan. It would not have been an easy game but Ghardimaou FC's president, Jamil Meftahi, believes his players could have won.
The match did not take place. The club has all but ceased to exist after more than 30 of its players left the country, trying, like thousands of their compatriots, to reach Europe.
In 2022 alone, about 15,500 Tunisians reached the Italian coast, according to an advocacy group, Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES), in what has been described as a significant exodus blamed by human rights groups on the north African country's high unemployment, rising inflation, financial stress and political instability.
Jamil Meftahi (second on the left), Ghardimaou Footbal Club President, in a cafe? together with his colleagues from the association and the club, looks at the list of all the football players who left. In the list, they are divided in different categories: those who left Tunisia crossing the sea (the large majority), those who went to Europe with a student visa or with a work permit, those who went to the National Guard or the Army.
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Tunisian cemeteries fill up as hundreds of dead refugees wash up on coast
Hospitals, morgues and burial grounds under pressure, with more than 300 bodies found this year in just one region.
Authorities in Tunisia are considering building new cemeteries, as the country runs out of space to bury the dozens of refugees washing up every day on its shores.
The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest for people attempting to cross the central Mediterranean since 2017, according to the UN, with an increasing number of boats carrying asylum seekers wrecked at sea.
Bodies, including those of children and pregnant women, often turn up on the beaches of Tunisia, where they are collected and buried.
Last year, according to the Tunisian Red Crescent, more than 800 bodies were recovered in the Sfax region alone, and more than 300 have been found since the beginning of 2023. As a result, funerals are held almost every day to reduce the pressure on hospitals, local morgues have exceeded their capacity, and burial space in many municipal cemeteries to bury refugees, especially from sub-Saharan Africa, is running out.
New spaces are made for the new coffins after a record of 210 corpses were recovered from the sea in the past ten days at the Cemetery of Essada, near Sfax, where tens of migrants are buried. The morgue of the Habib Bourghiba Hospital in Sfax is exceeding its capacity
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Tunisian cemeteries fill up as hundreds of dead refugees wash up on coast
Hospitals, morgues and burial grounds under pressure, with more than 300 bodies found this year in just one region.
Authorities in Tunisia are considering building new cemeteries, as the country runs out of space to bury the dozens of refugees washing up every day on its shores.
The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest for people attempting to cross the central Mediterranean since 2017, according to the UN, with an increasing number of boats carrying asylum seekers wrecked at sea.
Bodies, including those of children and pregnant women, often turn up on the beaches of Tunisia, where they are collected and buried.
Last year, according to the Tunisian Red Crescent, more than 800 bodies were recovered in the Sfax region alone, and more than 300 have been found since the beginning of 2023. As a result, funerals are held almost every day to reduce the pressure on hospitals, local morgues have exceeded their capacity, and burial space in many municipal cemeteries to bury refugees, especially from sub-Saharan Africa, is running out.
Tombs of migrants buried in 2022, with bricks instead of gravestones, in the cemetery of Essada, near Sfax, where tens of migrants are buried.
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Tunisian cemeteries fill up as hundreds of dead refugees wash up on coast
Hospitals, morgues and burial grounds under pressure, with more than 300 bodies found this year in just one region.
Authorities in Tunisia are considering building new cemeteries, as the country runs out of space to bury the dozens of refugees washing up every day on its shores.
The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest for people attempting to cross the central Mediterranean since 2017, according to the UN, with an increasing number of boats carrying asylum seekers wrecked at sea.
Bodies, including those of children and pregnant women, often turn up on the beaches of Tunisia, where they are collected and buried.
Last year, according to the Tunisian Red Crescent, more than 800 bodies were recovered in the Sfax region alone, and more than 300 have been found since the beginning of 2023. As a result, funerals are held almost every day to reduce the pressure on hospitals, local morgues have exceeded their capacity, and burial space in many municipal cemeteries to bury refugees, especially from sub-Saharan Africa, is running out.
Northern Sfax coast from where thousands of Tunisians and Subsaharan migrants left Tunisia to Italy. In the first months of 2023, for the first time, the number of people crossing from Tunisia has surpassed those from Libya.
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East Sussex migrant site in Bexhill-on-Sea, UK.
29/03/2023. Bexhill-on-Sea, UK.
Broken woodwork and other debris is seen at Northeye, a former prison and training centre near Bexhill-on-Sea look run-down. Robert Jenrick, Minister of State for Immigration, has announced that four new sites are to house migrants who are waiting for their asylum application to be granted including this site in East Sussex.
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East Sussex migrant site in Bexhill-on-Sea, UK.
29/03/2023. Bexhill-on-Sea, UK.
A chair sits next to a line of broken windows on a roof at Northeye, a former prison and training centre near Bexhill-on-Sea look run-down. Robert Jenrick, Minister of State for Immigration, has announced that four new sites are to house migrants who are waiting for their asylum application to be granted including this site in East Sussex.
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