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First occupants of Bibby Stockholm barge taken onboard

First asylum seekers to be housed on floating accommodation in Portland, Dorset, have arrived

The Guardian - UK

First asylum seekers arrive on Bibby Stockholm barge

THE first asylum seekers have boarded the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset, it is understood, with hundreds more arrivals anticipated this week.

The National (Scotland)

OPINION - The Standard View: Gimmicks won’t help clear the asylum backlog

Up to 50 people could be moved to the Bibby Stockholm barge, docked in Portland Port, Dorset, as early as today. Ministers say this is a more cost-effective way of housing migrants, while refugee campaigners have condemned the policy as “cruel and inhumane”.

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Bibby Stockholm: What life aboard ‘quasi-prison’ barge will look like for asylum seekers

With bunk beds, metal fencing and cabins for six people, Lizzie Dearden reports from the controversial Bibby Stockholm

The Independent UK

First asylum seekers arrive on Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset – as it happened

No 10 backtracks on ministers claim 500 asylum seekers could be on barge by end of week

The Guardian - UK

First asylum seekers expected ‘imminently’ on Bibby Stockholm barge

Home Office minister Sarah Dines said people arriving in the UK via unauthorised means ‘can’t expect to stay in a four-star hotel’.

The Independent UK

Bibby Stockholm: Inside ‘quasi-prison’ barge as first migrants set to go on board

With bunk beds, metal fencing and cabins for six people, Lizzie Dearden reports from the controversial Bibby Stockholm

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Bibby Stockholm: First asylum seekers arrive on barge as ministers accused of ‘disastrous failure’ to stop boat crossings

Government pushes on with plans to use Bibby Stockholm in Portland Port despite safety fears and local opposition

Evening Standard

Asylum seekers could be housed on Bibby Stockholm barge as soon as Monday despite safety concerns

Government hopes to get 500 male migrants on the barge in Dorset by end of this week, minister reveals

The Independent UK

Bibby Stockholm barge could accept asylum seekers as soon as Monday

Ministers are pushing on with plans to use the vessel in Portland Port, Dorset, despite safety fears and local opposition.

The Independent UK

Bibby Stockholm move-ins planned for Monday despite outbreak warnings

Internal document warns ‘large numbers’ could be affected if disease breaks out on barge planned to house asylum seekers

The Guardian - UK

Asylum seeker who escaped from Iran says Dorset barge will be another ‘jail’

Human rights lawyer says he has been unable to sleep in anticipation of move to Bibby Stockholm

The Guardian - UK

First asylum seekers set to be housed on barge 'in coming days'

The first asylum seekers will go on to the Bibby Stockholm barge “in the coming days”, the immigration minister has said after a series of…

The National (Scotland)

Russia spreading false claims about Qur’an burnings to harm Nato bid, says Sweden

Defence agency says Moscow is using the protests in Stockholm to stir tensions between Arab countries and the west

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No full-time firefighters near Bibby Stockholm asylum barge prompts ‘real concerns’ over emergency response

Exclusive: Firefighter’s report calls for government to abandon plans amid ‘major life risk’

The Guardian - UK

Dozens injured after protesters storm Eritrean festival in Stockholm

Opponents of Eritrean government tore down tents and set cars on fire, with ‘around 100’ people arrested

The Independent UK

Protesters against Eritrea's government set fire to booths at cultural festival in Sweden

Swedish media are reporting that an Eritrea-themed cultural festival in Stockholm took a turbulent turn when about a thousand anti-Eritrean government protesters stormed the event

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‘It’s a racism crisis’: call for action on Qur’an burnings in Sweden

As the debate rages about freedom of expression, soundings from Stockholm suggest many feel the limit has been reached

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Oliver Dowden suggests Fire Brigades Union’s concerns over asylum seeker barge politically motivated – as it happened

The FBU had said the Bibby Stockholm could be a floating ‘death trap’ for asylum seekers

The Guardian - UK

Bibby Stockholm will be housing people within weeks, says Oliver Dowden

Deputy PM ‘confident’ asylum barge will soon be used and that fire safety concerns will be taken into account

The Independent UK

Asylum seekers will go onto barge in ‘coming weeks’, says Dowden

The Deputy Prime Minister said migrants would be housed on the Bibby Stockholm at Portland soon.

The Guardian - UK

Thursday briefing: Is the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge a disaster waiting to happen?

In today’s newsletter: From overcrowding to fire safety concerns, the government’s floating facility in Dorset has been plagued with problems, and now faces a delay. What’s behind the Home Office’s latest debacle?

The Guardian - UK

Firefighters demand meeting with Braverman over asylum barge safety fears

Fire Brigades Union questions large numbers kept on Bibby Stockholm and lack of exit points

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak, beware: the Bibby Stockholm is becoming a monument to your incompetence

A vacant barge, no flights to Rwanda … beyond a certain point, even Tory supporters will grow tired of empty politics, says civil liberties writer Diane Taylor

Evening Standard

Migrant barge Bibby Stockholm ‘not a deathtrap’, Cabinet minister insists

Pictures showed a food delivery being unloaded at the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland, Dorset, on Wednesday

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