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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Brian Farmer

Council fights plans to house migrants at former Dambusters airbase

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Council bosses have told a High Court judge that Government plans to use land which once formed part of one of England’s most famous RAF bases to house asylum seekers should be quashed.

Lawyers representing West Lindsey District Council in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, argue that a decision to use land at the disused RAF Scampton airfield – where the Dambusters were based during the Second World War – is unlawful.

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