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Housing asylum seekers in Essex hotel causing ‘very serious problem’, court told

Epping Forest District Council is seeking an interim injunction stopping migrants from being accommodated at the Bell Hotel in Epping.

Evening Standard

Epping asylum seeker hotel 'feeding ground for violent unrest', says council in High Court bid to shut it down

The Bell Hotel has been at the centre of violent protests over its housing of asylum seekers

Evening Standard

Epping asylum seeker hotel has become ‘feeding ground for unrest’, says council seeking ban

Epping Forest District Council has applied for High Court injunction in bid to stop The Bell hotel housing asylum seekers

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Council’s bid to block hotel housing asylum seekers to be heard on Friday

Epping Forest District Council is seeking an interim injunction stopping migrants from being housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex.

Evening Standard

A new way of thinking about empathy could cool Britain’s migration rows

Recent protests at asylum hotels in Epping, Essex, have prompted calls from the hotel’s residents for something rare in UK migration debates: understanding. This is something that has been clearly lacking in the conversations fuelling anti-immigrant protests, from Southport in summer 2024 to Ballymena in Northern Ireland and Essex this…

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Migrant residing at Epping asylum seeker hotel is charged with sexual assault

The 32-year-old Syrian has been charged with sexual assault, two counts of common assault and four of assault by beating.

The Independent UK

Asylum seeker charged with sexually assaulting male while staying at protest-hit Epping hotel

Mohammed Sharwarq has been charged with seven offences and has been remanded into custody

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Another migrant living at controversial Epping asylum hotel charged with sexual assault

The Bell Hotel has been at the centre of a series of anti-migrant protests

Evening Standard

Interim High Court injunction lodged by council in bid to stop asylum hotel

Documents in relation to the Bell Hotel in Epping were lodged with the High Court in London on Tuesday, Epping Forest District Council said.

The Independent UK

Epping Council goes to High Court in bid to remove migrants from asylum hotel

Essex council applies for an interim High Court injunction in bid to stop asylum seekers from being housed at hotel that has been at the centre of protests

Evening Standard

Anti-migrant unrest erupts despite UK's tightening of migration policy

Protests over asylum seeker accommodation have intensified in England, coinciding with the launch of a new UK-France deal to return migrants crossing the Channel on small boats.

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Council seeks High Court ban on asylum seekers being housed at protest-hit Epping hotel

It comes after a series of protests in recent weeks outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex

The Independent UK

Badenoch suggests migrants held in ‘camps’ as crossings near 50,000 under Labour

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch warned that some communities ‘don’t feel safe’ during a visit to Epping in Essex.

Evening Standard

Kemi Badenoch suggests 'camps' to house asylum seekers instead of hotels in visit to Epping

The Tory leader met anti-migrant protesters in Epping as the number of English Channel small boat crossings nears 50,000

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Epping residents divided over Kemi Badenoch visit

The town has been the focal point of demonstrations and counter-protests over migrants.

The Conversation

As protesters and politicians call for the closure of asylum hotels, what are the alternatives?

Anti-migration protesters and counterprotesters have clashed in recent weeks outside of hotels housing asylum seekers. While the protests have not reached the violent scale of the riots in summer 2024, a number of people have been arrested on charges related to violent disorder. Councillors in Epping have called for the…

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Thursday briefing: How the far right is being allowed to shape the immigration debate in the UK

In today’s newsletter: On pavements outside hotels, in viral social media posts, and through a volatile mix of misinformation and local tensions, a dangerous movement is gathering momentum

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Two more men charged over Epping migrant hotel disorder

Nine others have already been charged by the CPS.

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Peaceful protest outside Epping asylum hotel

Essex Police said a group of people protesting against The Bell Hotel formed at about 6pm on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Police put dispersal order in place ahead of planned protest outside hotel

The Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, has already been the scene of several demonstrations.

Evening Standard

Essex politicians call for meeting with Home Secretary over asylum-seeker hotel

Essex Police said 14 people have been charged in connection with protests at the site and there have been 23 arrests.

The Independent UK

Two more men appear in court after protest outside asylum-seeker hotel in Epping

Essex Police said the tally of people charged in connection with protests at The Bell Hotel in Epping now stands at 14.

The Independent UK

A year after anti-immigrant riots in Britain, many worry it could happen again

The killing of three girls at a summer dance class in England a year ago Tuesday, by a teenager misidentified as a migrant, triggered days of street violence directed at newcomers and minorities

Evening Standard

Two more men charged after protest outside migrant hotel in Epping

Phillip Curson, 52, and Martin Peagram, 33, are due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Inside the Essex town at the forefront of the migrant protests

Ben Lucas attended a protest in July to find out that the Epping unrest was a little more complicated

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