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Migrants unlawfully housed at government’s flagship asylum site Wethersfield

Refugee charity Care4Calais calls for RAF Wethersfield to be shut down

The Independent UK

RAF bases are hotspots of ‘forever chemical’ groundwater pollution, MoD documents show

Sampling results show ‘extremely concerning’ concentrations of PFOS and PFOA at sites across UK

The Guardian - UK

First the Rwanda scheme, now Labour scraps plan to hold asylum seekers on RAF site

No migrants were ever housed at the base but the policy still cost taxpayers £60m

The Independent UK

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US airman denies raping UK citizen at RAF base

Keiran Lee Bogstad will face trial in September 2024

The Independent UK

Legal challenge to plan to house asylum seekers in airbases gets go-ahead

Two councils and a local man say home secretary should not use ‘emergency’ planning rule at RAF Scampton and Wethersfield

The Guardian - UK

Council loses appeal over plans to use RAF site to house asylum seekers

Braintree District Council brought legal action against the Home Office over the proposed use of Wethersfield Airfield.

The Independent UK

Plan to house asylum seekers in shipping containers on RAF runway slammed

A council's plan to house asylum seekers in shipping containers on an RAF runway has been slammed as 'inhumane'. A councillor told a packed public meeting that the new proposal for housing would see existing MoD accommodation refurbished. CounRicha

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Queen Elizabeth II makes final return to England before lying in state

The late monarch has been flown to RAF Northolt from Edinburgh

Wales Online

MKM Building Supplies to join ASDA, Lidl and B&M at new Gloucester business park

Hull-based MKM has been announced as the latest tenant on a huge mixed-use development on the former site of an RAF airbase

Birmingham Post

Police smash car windows to free dogs trapped inside in record heatwave

One owner reported for animal cruelty after pet found left in car outside RAF museum

The Independent UK

Still the Top Gun? Boris Johnson visits RAF base as Tories vote on his replacement

Johnson donned military uniform as he strode out to a Typhoon fighter just like actor Tom Cruise’s character Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell

Evening Standard

Missing RAF airman Corrie McKeague ‘developed binge-drinking problem as teenager after finding friend’s body’

First day of inquest hears how parents’ divorce and death of female friend on railway line when he was 15 shaped gunner’s life before disappearance on night out in September 2016

The Independent UK

Corrie McKeague faced binge-drinking problem after friend’s death, inquest told

The RAF gunner was 23 when he vanished in the early hours of September 24 2016 after a night out in Bury St Edmunds.

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