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Gavin Blackburn

UK government wins appeal over ruling that would have blocked migrants staying in Epping hotel

Britain's Court of Appeal overturned a ban on asylum-seekers from being housed at a hotel northeast of London on Friday that has become a political flashpoint across the country.

The three-person panel backed the Labour government's appeal against the temporary injunction granted by a High Court judge last week that would have required the 138 asylum-seekers currently staying at the Bell Hotel in Epping to leave by 12 September.

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