53 m. ago Fury as Scots barracks chosen to house asylum seekers despite being secured by 'modest fence'

Two barracks in Scotland and England will be used to accommodate around 900 asylum seekers as the UK Government ends the use of hotels for refugees.

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87 m. ago How and where are asylum seekers given accommodation in the UK?

Most asylum seekers are placed in privately managed houses, flats or rooms in properties of multiple occupancy.

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1 hour ago Keir Starmer 'tells Home Office to shut down asylum hotels within a year' as ministers suggest more military bases could be used to house migrants

The Cameron Barracks in Inverness and the Crowborough army training camp in East Sussex have already been lined up to house 900 male asylum seekers.

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2 h. ago Asylum seekers to be moved into military barracks in bid to end migrant hotels

The Home Office said around 900 men would be housed across two sites as the government tries to get a grip on the asylum accommodation crisis

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3 h. ago Scottish military barracks to house asylum seekers as hotel scheme comes to an end

The Home Office confirmed on Monday that Cameron Barracks in Inverness would be used as part of new plans to house about 900 men temporarily.

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3 h. ago Cameron Barracks: Hundreds of asylum seekers to be housed at Inverness military base

A military barracks in Scotland has been chosen to house asylum seekers

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4 h. ago Revealed: The two military sites in Scotland and Sussex that Labour will use to house 900 migrant men

The Cameron Barracks in Inverness and the Crowborough army training camp in East Sussex are at the centre of government talks on where to house 900 male asylum seekers.

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4 h. ago Asylum seekers to be moved onto military barracks in bid to end migrant hotels

The Home Office said around 900 men would be housed across two sites as the government tries to get a grip on the asylum accommodation crisis

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4 h. ago Housing asylum seekers in army barracks may cost more than migrant hotels, admits defence minister

Men to be housed at Cameron Barracks in Inverness and Crowborough Training Camp in East Sussex will be the first of up to 10,000 migrants who the Home Office want to place at military sites

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4 h. ago Prison officer 'unfairly suspended' over asylum seeker release says union chief

Mark Fairhurst, the national chairman of the prison officers' union, said a male worker had been suspended after the accidental release of Hadush Kebatu at HMP Chelmsford on Friday

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4 h. ago This hotels saga isn’t really about asylum seekers: it’s a window on to a far bigger scandal | Gaby Hinsliff

A blistering new report tells a tale of billions wasted and vulnerable people left traumatised, while companies profit from a blundering stateA young man lounges under a beach umbrella in shorts, the sunny Dubai skyline visible over his shoulder. You, too, he tells his followers, can live the millionaire lifestyle plastered all over his social media accounts; the secret is housing vulnerable people at the taxpayer’s expense. The TikToker Luigi Newton, who says he started out working in a call centre and now manages a string of mostly social housing properties remotely from overseas, is just one of a new breed of landlord influencers boasting about the supposedly rich pickings to be made from buying up and renovating cheap housing to rent to social housing providers, ensuring a steady, hassle-free stream of government-backed income dropping into their accounts.In one video, Newton admits he’s had flak online because one of his main clients is the outsourcing giant Serco, which mostly...

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4 h. ago Hundreds of asylum seekers to be sent to barracks under plan to end hotel chaos

The Home Office is looking to send hundreds of asylum seekers to Cameron Barracks in Inverness and Crowborough Training Camp in East Sussex while their claims are processed to get people out of hotels

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6 h. ago Asylum seekers to be housed in barracks in bid to end use of migrant hotels

Men to be housed at Cameron Barracks in Inverness and Crowborough Training Camp in East Sussex will be the first of up to 10,000 migrants who the Home Office want to house on military sites

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6 h. ago Yes, Keir Starmer is Britain’s most unpopular PM ever. That could liberate him | Polly Toynbee

Forget the public vitriol and use the next four years to get things done – first and foremost, whatever it takes to stop ReformWhat hell is the life of politics. Look around that cabinet table: each person is confronted with near impossible-portfolios without the means to do what they know is needed. After another nightmare week, many in the dark watches must ask themselves why the hell they gave their lives to this brutally thankless task.Their inheritance was even more ruinous than feared: they were bequeathed landmines, dishonest traps and gaping holes. Brexit is emerging as even more economically crippling than expected, now losing the exchequer £80bn a year. They are blighted by bad luck: the Trump destroyer landed on their watch. What worse mishap than a prison officer setting free a refused asylum-seeker sex offender? Small boat arrivals feel unstoppable. An unfortunate deputy leadership election right now was bound to give Keir Starmer a bruising. The 11% vote share at the C...

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11 h. ago DANIEL HANNAN: Every single twist in the story of the migrant wrongly freed from jail proves the Home Office is beyond incompetent

The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee has issued a blistering report into what it calls the 'failed, chaotic and expensive' system whereby the Home Office houses asylum seekers.

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11 h. ago Asylum seeker allowed to stay in UK is jailed for trafficking Channel migrants in a gang run by his gun

Anjan Ahamdi, 26, was jailed for five years and seven months for his role in helping two migrants to illegally enter the country with people smuggling kingpin Amanj Hasan Zada, 35.

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12 h. ago Nearly 1,000 asylum seekers to be housed in two army barracks from next month as govt tries to beat hotel crisis

NEARLY 1,000 asylum seekers are set to be housed in two army barracks from next month as the government tries to beat the migrant hotel crisis. Plans will see the use of two barracks in Scotland and southern England that will temporarily house 900 men from next month. The Home Office confirmed on Monday that...

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14 h. ago Asylum seekers to be moved into barracks in plans to end hotel use

Two barracks are to be used to temporarily house around 900 men

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14 h. ago Asylum seekers to be housed in barracks in bid to end hotel use

The plans will see men housed at Cameron Barracks in Inverness and Crowborough Training Camp in East Sussex.

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19 h. ago 'Human error' by a prison officer led to Epping sex offender Hadush Kebatu being wrongly freed, says Lammy

The Ethiopian asylum seeker was recaptured on Sunday after being mistakenly released from HMP Chelmsford on Friday

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