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Behind the scenes at the RAF Museum Midlands, restoration work continues at the Michael Beetham Conservation Centre, where ...
Yvette Cooper facing fresh pressure to close ‘prison-like’ Wethersfield asylum camp. ... Sir Keir Starmer this month declined to set a date for when the former RAF station will be shuttered, ...
More than 70 refugee charities and human rights organisations have called on Yvette Cooper to shut a “prison-like” former RAF base housing asylum seekers in Essex.. Just weeks after the High Court ...
The Prime Minister has refused to put a date on when an asylum centre at a former RAF station in Essex will close. During the general election campaign Sir Keir Starmer said MDP Wethersfield ...
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 then-Conservative government announced plans to house migrants at Wethersfield, as well as RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, in March 2023. Migrants began to be housed at Wethersfield last July ...
An aerial view of RAF Wethersfield in Essex (Joe Giddens/PA) The Government acted “unlawfully” by accommodating four vulnerable asylum seekers at RAF Wethersfield, a High Court judge has ruled.
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 ...
Four former residents of RAF Wethersfield brought legal action against the Home Office. An aerial view of RAF Wethersfield in Essex (Joe Giddens/PA) PA Archive. Nina Massey. 14 March 2025.
RAF Wethersfield was once an historic airfield in a pretty village - now it's an asylum centre with almost as many migrants as there are villagers living next door. By Max Parry, News Reporter.