RAF Wethersfield, near Braintree in Essex, is currently being used by the Home Office to house about 500 asylum seekers. However, Sir Keir Starmer pledged during the election campaign to shut down ...

"It's totally inappropriate - it's inhumane." Wethersfield was loaned by the RAF to the United States Army Air Forces during World War Two and the Cold War. There is no longer an RAF presence but ...

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 ...

open image in gallery Care4Calais called for the site to be closed immediately (Getty Images) Refugee charity Care4Calais called for RAF Wethersfield, opened by Suella Braverman and inherited by ...

RAF Wethersfield – a remote, 800-acre site in Wethersfield, Essex, surrounded by barbed wire fences – is the government’s latest answer to housing asylum seekers. In theory, residents can ...

Charities have warned of a “mental health crisis” among asylum seekers housed at RAF Wethersfield, with incidents of suicide attempts and self-harm at the site rising. There were between five ...

A former RAF base being used to house asylum seekers could become a battleground for Labour’s mega-prison building plans. RAF Wethersfield, near Braintree in Essex, is currently being used by ...

A result of this was that vulnerable asylum seekers with special needs or disabilities could be judged suitable to be accommodated at Wethersfield, the judge said. Four former residents of RAF ...