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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alexander Butler

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

Epping Forest District Council has applied for an interim High Court injunction in a bid to stop asylum seekers being housed at the Bell Hotel in the town.

Documents were lodged with the High Court in London on Tuesday, the council said in a statement, just weeks after it urged the government to stop using the establishment.

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