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 ...

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace today confirmed he had 'withdrawn' an offer for a disused RAF base in Linton-on-Ouse to accomodate up to 1,500 male asylum seekers.

Plans to turn a former RAF base into an asylum seeker centre have been withdrawn, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said. In April, the Home Office announced plans to turn the site at Linton-on ...

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 ...

Plans to convert former RAF base in a North Yorkshire village into a reception centre for asylum seekers have been put on hold.. The site at Linton-on-Ouse, near York, which closed in 2020, is set ...

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Officials were greeted with boos by opponents of the scheme, which will see a former RAF base, where Prince William once trained, become home for up to 1,500 asylum seekers.

RAF Linton-on-Ouse had been in operation for almost a century and was most recently used as a fast jet training facility. The Duke of Cambridge trained there in 2008. Tyne Tees.

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 ...

Residents in Linton-on-Ouse, North Yorkshire, were not briefed or consulted on the plans, it is believed. The UK migrants will be held in "Greek-style reception centres", including the one at the ...

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.