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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

Councils ask judge to stop plan to house asylum seekers on former RAF bases

Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up.
Wethersfield, near to the Wethersfield Airbase where a new centre for asylum seekers has been set-up. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Council bosses have called on the high court to quash government plans to use the land of two former RAF bases to house asylum seekers.

Lawyers representing West Lindsey district council in Lincolnshire argue that plans to use the disused RAF Scampton, where the “dambusters” were based during the second world war, are unlawful.

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