This week, the BBC revealed that Wethersfield was one of the sites that was being considered for an extension. A Home Office ...

These are the first pictures of a former RAF airbase being turned into asylum seeker accommodation for 1,700 people in Essex. The first 50 asylum seekers who arrived on Wednesday to Wethersfield ...

An organisation that provides medical assistance in warzones is supporting migrants held at a UK asylum centre for ... into the ex-RAF base in Wethersfield, Essex, that houses over 600 male ...

The Home Office wants to place 1,700 adult male migrants at MDP Wethersfield, which would make it the UK's largest asylum ... Office said it was working with Essex Police, which had been in ...

Migrants have been at former air base MDP Wethersfield in Essex since July and the government ... conditions to being in a prison. How is the UK stopping Channel crossings? Protest at airbase ...

A FIRE in an Essex village took almost four hours to extinguish earlier today, with 100 tonnes of waste "fully alight" ...