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Local campaigners deliver welcome packs for people transferred to Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland

At least 20 transfer orders reversed after legal letters, as charity triggers wider challenge against barge

Editorial: The Home Office is doomed to failure for as long as it insists on treating refugees like criminals

The use of the barge as housing for asylum seekers has been a controversial decision made by Home Secretary Suella Braverman

The barge, docked in Portland Port, Dorset, is the first procured by the Government to house asylum seekers while their claims are processed.

Human rights campaigners have condemned using the barge to house asylum seekers.

Several asylum seekers have NOT boarded the Bibby Stockholm barge after their transfers were “cancelled” by lawyers, according to charity…

First asylum seekers to be housed on floating accommodation in Portland, Dorset, have arrived

THE first asylum seekers have boarded the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset, it is understood, with hundreds more arrivals anticipated this week.

Up to 50 people could be moved to the Bibby Stockholm barge, docked in Portland Port, Dorset, as early as today. Ministers say this is a more cost-effective way of housing migrants, while refugee campaigners have condemned the policy as “cruel and inhumane”.

With bunk beds, metal fencing and cabins for six people, Lizzie Dearden reports from the controversial Bibby Stockholm