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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kevin Rawlinson

Judge urged to shut down hotel housing asylum seekers in Epping

Police outside the Bell hotel in Epping
The judge ordered the owners of the Bell hotel in Epping not to take in any new asylum seekers before his judgment next Tuesday. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images

A high court judge has been asked to shut down a hotel housing asylum seekers amid concerns about violence and disorder seen at far-right protests at the site.

The local council applied for an urgent injunction against the owners of the Bell hotel in Epping, Essex, that would immediately prevent them from housing asylum seekers – having repeatedly called on the Home Office to close it down.

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