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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nina Massey

Housing asylum seekers in Essex hotel causing ‘very serious problem’, court told

The Bell Hotel has been at the centre of several protests in recent weeks (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

Housing asylum seekers at an Essex hotel is becoming a “very serious problem” which “could not be much worse”, a council has told the High Court.

Epping Forest District Council is seeking an interim injunction stopping migrants from being accommodated at the Bell Hotel in Epping, which is owned by Somani Hotels Limited.

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