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Anger over fish stocks as Senegal village mourns boat disaster dead
Grieving relatives and friends of people who died in Cape Verde boat disaster say more will leave unless conditions improve.
Hundreds of motorised canoes decorated with swirls of green, red and blue line the beach of Fass Boye, a small fishing village in northern Senegal. The handpainted boats, known as pirogues, used to return to shore brimming with fish, residents say. But as fish populations began to ebb over the last decade, the boats assumed a new role. Instead of carrying fishers out to sea, now they take them to Spain's Canary Islands in search of economic opportunities.
On 16 August, one such boat that had departed from Fass Boye with 101 people onboard was found drifting off the coast of Cape Verde. It held only 38 survivors.
Fass Boye residents and environmental groups blame the Senegalese government for doling out fishing permits to industrial trawlers from Asia and Europe, which they say are responsible for the decline in fish stocks.
Fass Boye, Senegal. August 22, 2023.
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Anger over fish stocks as Senegal village mourns boat disaster dead
Grieving relatives and friends of people who died in Cape Verde boat disaster say more will leave unless conditions improve.
Hundreds of motorised canoes decorated with swirls of green, red and blue line the beach of Fass Boye, a small fishing village in northern Senegal. The handpainted boats, known as pirogues, used to return to shore brimming with fish, residents say. But as fish populations began to ebb over the last decade, the boats assumed a new role. Instead of carrying fishers out to sea, now they take them to Spain's Canary Islands in search of economic opportunities.
On 16 August, one such boat that had departed from Fass Boye with 101 people onboard was found drifting off the coast of Cape Verde. It held only 38 survivors.
Fass Boye residents and environmental groups blame the Senegalese government for doling out fishing permits to industrial trawlers from Asia and Europe, which they say are responsible for the decline in fish stocks.
Fass Boye, Senegal. August 22, 2023.
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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.
The Wetherfield 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
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 infrastructural 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.
(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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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'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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'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.
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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