Watch: A look at the former RAF ... a former RAF station to house asylum seekers. Braintree District Council said it would also be "seeking clarification" about any plans for MDP Wethersfield ...

Conditions are so bad at a former RAF ... to set fire to themselves, an alarming report says today. Ministers have been warned it is "only a matter of time" before someone dies at RAF Wethersfield ...

Government plans to use two former RAF stations to house thousands of asylum ... Council in Essex also challenged changes to ex-RAF Wethersfield, along with a resident. However, Mrs Justice ...

Four former residents of RAF Wethersfield brought legal action against the Home Office for their stay between July 2023 and February 2024. In a 136-page ruling today, Mr Justice Mould found there ...

The Home Office has been accused of using the Wethersfield airfield as a large ... of us six or seven people tried to set ourselves on fire, they didn’t let us in the camp and extinguished ...

Home Office officials say work to convert RAF Scampton, in Lincolnshire, and RAF Wethersfield, in Essex, is covered by the Class Q powers. West Lindsey and Braintree Councils however say it has ...

The Government acted “unlawfully” by accommodating four vulnerable asylum seekers at RAF Wethersfield, a High Court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Mould found that the Home Secretary had made ...

The Home Office have this week began housing adult male migrants at the UK's largest asylum accommodation centre at MDP Wethersfield ... use of the redundant RAF airfield. On Wednesday morning ...

The councils and a local resident in Essex claimed the government's plan to use RAF Scampton and MDP Wethersfield was unlawful Government plans to use two former RAF stations to house thousands of ...