In the run-up to New Year’s Eve celebrations, an Essex village is divided over the welcoming of asylum seekers from a nearby military base to festivities.
Hundreds of asylum seekers are accommodated at Wethersfield airbase, more than a mile outside the village of the same name. For those living within the base’s barbed wire fences, however, the picture-postcard village green, surrounded by Georgian and medieval cottages, is a world away.
