3+ hour, 8+ min ago  (533+ words) The Home Office is routinely overruling Norfolk councils that object to the placement of asylum seekers within their districts. Nearly three quarter of complaints lodged by Norfolk's authorities over asylum housing have been overruled by the government in the past…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (599+ words) Hundreds of protesters took to a Suffolk military base in a bid to prevent more than 1, 000 asylum seekers being housed on-site. Last month, the government said RAF Barnham, near Thetford, was one of three sites that could house a total…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago  (62+ words) Recap after hundreds protested plans for asylum seekers at former airbase EDP24 Protest against asylum seekers at RAF Barnham - live updates Our live feed has now finished. - People are protesting outside RAF Barnham, a former airbase in Suffolk - There are plans…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (616+ words) Officials are "looking at every route" to deport the Rochdale grooming ringleader set to be released from prison on Thursday, a minister has said. Shabir Ahmed, 73, known to his victims as Daddy, has served 14 years in jail since his conviction…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (697+ words) Nigel Farage has criticised the government's plan to house asylum seekers at an RAF base on the Norfolk border, saying it will leave locals living near the site "very worried and very scared". The Reform UK leader said the plan…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (916+ words) Asylum seekers will be made to pay up to "10, 000 towards the cost of their accommodation and support once they start earning, Shabana Mahmood has announced. They must pay off the full amount before they can be eligible for settled status…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (239+ words) A protest has been planned after it was revealed a former airbase near a Norfolk town could be used to house asylum seekers. RAF Barnham, on the Norfolk and Suffolk border near Thetford, is one of several Ministry of Defence…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (315+ words) Two men who posed as government contractors to gain entry to a Norfolk property housing asylum seekers will face no police action, it has been confirmed. The pair filmed themselves walking into one of two properties in Watton housing asylum…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago  (709+ words) Ministers will do "whatever it takes" to close asylum hotels as the Government braced for battle over plans to move migrants into former military barracks. Planning permission is being sought at Ministry of Defence sites in Bicester in Oxfordshire, Barnham…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago  (736+ words) The Ministry of Defence has confirmed it is planning to use one of its bases on the Norfolk border to house asylum seekers. The government has named RAF Barnham as one of three military sites in East Anglia where it…...