A former RAF station in North Yorkshire is to become an asylum seeker processing centre under new plans. The Linton-on-Ouse site, which closed in 2020, would be a bespoke asylum reception centre ...

Plans to turn a former RAF base into an asylum seeker centre ... In April, the Home Office announced plans to turn the site at Linton-on-Ouse, in North Yorkshire, into an asylum centre for up ...

The plans for an asylum centre in North Yorkshire were opposed by villagers and Hambleton District Council A proposal to house asylum seekers on a former North Yorkshire RAF base would have cost ...

Home Office plans to turn an ex-RAF site into a centre for up to 1,500 men were scrapped in August. Plans to turn the site at Linton-on-Ouse into a centre for up to 1,500 men were announced in April.

A former RAF squadron leader has told of his despair ... an offer on the home he shared with his late wife Hazel in Linton-on-Ouse shortly before the Home Office’s plans for the new asylum ...

A view of RAF Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire. He said: “What we were told four to six weeks just before Easter has suddenly become two weeks’ time. “I’m in no doubt about how much worry ...

A quaint North Yorkshire village has been turned into "a ghost town" following the Ministry of Defence's decision to close its RAF base at Linton-on-Ouse. Primary schools numbers have dropped by ...

Opened in 1937 in the run-up to the Second World War, RAF Linton on Ouse, between York and Easingwold, was initially a heavy bomber base. It has conducted flying training continuously since 1957 ...

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In 1952, as a Civil Servant Radar and Radio Technician, I was fortune at being employed at R.A.F Linton-on-Ouse near York ... for 25 years (a record by RAF standards) a celebration took place ...