Three arrests at Epping asylum hotel as protesters prepare to hit the streets

Three men person been arrested successful Essex aft unit erupted astatine the latest protestation implicit lodging asylum seekers astatine the Bell Hotel successful Epping.

Essex Police said 3 men were arrested connected Friday connected suspicion of convulsive disorder, assaulting a constabulary serviceman and portion driving respectively.

The protestation coincided with the effect of a ineligible situation by the government, which successfully overturned a impermanent injunction which would person blocked asylum seekers from being housed astatine the hotel.

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Despite the Court of Appeal decision, astatine slightest 13 different councils are considering pressing up with ineligible enactment implicit the usage of asylum hotels successful their areas, according to The Times.

They see astatine slightest 4 Labour-run authorities, specified arsenic Wirral, Stevenage, Tamworth and Rushmoor councils.

Meanwhile, protests and counter-protests are planned crossed respective towns and cities connected Saturday, including Braintree, Luton, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Stockport and Barry, among others.

In a Facebook post, the Devon and Cornwall Anti-Fascist Network said a counter-protest was scheduled to instrumentality spot successful Exeter to reason anti-asylum demonstrations.

"We indispensable outnumber them, power the streets, demoralise them. And support refugees against their racist hate," the station said.

Another Facebook connection by Stand Up To Racism (North East) called for supporters to rally successful Newcastle against what they called "far-right and fascist thugs".

"We request to beryllium determination to amusement them their hatred is not welcome," the station read.

In contrast, Sky News has spoken to protesters who stock a consciousness of choler astir the outgo of lodging asylum seekers successful hotels and feel they are ignored by the government. They powerfully cull being identified arsenic "fascists" oregon "far-right thugs".

Warnings person been issued by immoderate forces up of the demonstrations.

Deb Smith, adjunct main constable of Wiltshire Police, said they had a "proportionate policing cognition successful place" up of a planned protestation successful Swindon.

"We volition ever facilitate lawful protestation - but we volition not tolerate transgression behaviour," she said successful a statement.

Judgment was 'seriously flawed'

On Friday, 3 judges astatine the Court of Appeal described the High Court's interim injunction arsenic "seriously flawed successful principle" and said the edifice could proceed to beryllium utilized to location migrants.

Conservative person Kemi Badenoch urged Tory councillors seeking akin injunctions against asylum hotels to "keep going" contempt the ruling.

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"Local communities should not wage the terms for Labour's full nonaccomplishment connected amerciable immigration," Mrs Badenoch said.

"Keir Starmer has shown that helium puts the rights of amerciable immigrants supra the rights of British radical who conscionable privation to consciousness harmless successful their towns and communities.

Reform UK person Nigel Farage besides criticised the ruling, claiming that "illegal migrants person much rights than the British radical nether (Keir) Starmer".

Epping: Legal 'battle is not over'

Epping Forest District Councillor Ken Williamson said helium was profoundly "disappointed by the outcome" but insisted the "battle is not over", suggesting their ineligible situation could proceed astatine the Supreme Court.

There person been weeks of protests successful Essex aft an asylum seeker housed astatine the Bell Hotel was charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl. He denies the allegations.

Essex Police enactment successful spot 2 dispersal orders to guarantee protesters near the country connected Friday, arsenic good arsenic an bid to forestall demonstrators from concealing their faces.

Another dispersal bid was subsequently imposed, which extended into Saturday morning.

Reacting to the ruling, Home Office curate Dame Angela Eagle said the authorities was committed to closing each asylum hotels by the extremity of this Parliament.

But she added that it appealed against the High Court ruling truthful that edifice usage tin beryllium ended successful a "controlled and orderly way".