The Latest Breaking News from Epping

Police have issued pictures of two men they want to speak to.

COMMENT: Protesters outside a hotel housing asylum seekers have accused the local force of ‘bussing in’ anti-racism campaigners, a fallacy repeated by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and which has taken hold on social media. But it’s not the police stirring up trouble, says Sean O’Grady

Council leader Chris Whitbread said: ‘Repeated warnings to the Home Office about the unsuitability of both sites have gone unheeded’

The head of the Police Federation, Tiff Lynch, said officers were likely to be taken away from neighbourhood duties

Jonathan Reynolds says ‘I understand the frustrations people have’, as police brace for further unrest

Two members of the Homeland Party have been identified as administrators of the Facebook group organising the protests

The three sole administrators of the Facebook group, Epping Says No are believed to be members of the far-right political party Homeland

There have been a series of demonstrations outside the Bell Hotel in Epping since an asylum seeker was charged with sexual assault.

Essex Police have already spent £100,000 policing unrest in Epping as they’re forced to draft in support from neighbouring forces after the protests turned ugly

Protesters gathered at the site in London after posts claimed migrants were being moved there from the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex

Essex force describes allegation, repeated by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and others, as ‘categorically wrong’