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.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) began closing the base at RAF Linton on Ouse in 2020, with just a handful of military personnel now remaining on site. In March this year it offered the base to the ...

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace today confirmed he had 'withdrawn' an offer for a disused RAF base in Linton-on-Ouse to accomodate up to 1,500 male asylum seekers. Local residents had expressed ...

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 ...

Uncertainty still surrounds whether the former RAF Linton on Ouse base will become a processing centre for asylum seekers. The Home Office announced in early April that the base would be used to ...

Angry protests aren't something you'd associate with the pretty North Yorkshire village of Linton-on-Ouse - until now ... Office's announcement that the former RAF base there will soon become ...

The Home Office intends to move 60 asylum seekers into a disused North Yorkshire RAF base by the end of the month ... amid opposition from residents in the village of Linton-on-Ouse. Ministers ...

A former RAF station in a North Yorkshire village is to become a reception centre for asylum seekers. The Linton-on-Ouse site, which closed in 2020, is set to become the first new bespoke centre ...

The Government has plans to create a new centre for asylum seekers in Linton on Ouse near York. Thirsk and Malton MP Kevin Hollinrake now says the plan is for the RAF site to be used as an asylum ...

Mr Hollinrake said: "I have recently met with the Immigration Minister following the announcement the RAF site at Linton-on-Ouse will be used as an asylum seeker accommodation and processing centre.

RAF Linton-on-Ouse, near York, closed in 2020 as part of a Ministry of Defence cost-saving drive, bringing an end to a military presence which had existed in the village since 1937. Last year the ...