Designated protest areas are directly opposite the Bell Hotel ‘and will have their own designated entry and exit routes’, the assistant chief constable added. There will also be sites near the Civic Centre, and he said ‘if you move from the Bell Hotel to the Civic Centre, you will not be able to return’.

An Epping councillor has said tensions are reaching “boiling point” in the community amid ongoing anti-migrant protests over a hotel housing asylum seekers in the Essex town.

Essex Police said they need to speak to Martin Peagram, 33, and Philip Curson, 52, after clashes between protesters and police outside Epping's Bell Hotel.

The Labour leader said it was vital Britain’s ‘social fabric’ was healed amid a series of protests outside taxpayer-funded hotels housing asylum seekers

While Britain’s ship of state drifts serenely towards the rocks, the captain and crew are arguing about the precise order of the deckchairs. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Sir Keir Starmer’s spokesman have both said that the Government must address “concerns” over migration,

A council has unanimously voted to urge the Government to close a hotel housing asylum seekers following a series of protests around the site in Essex. Multiple demonstrations have been held outside the Bell Hotel in Epping since July 13 after an asylum seeker was charged with allegedly attempting to kiss a 14-year-old girl.

The head of the Police Federation, Tiff Lynch, said officers were likely to be taken away from neighbourhood duties

The father of a young girl who was allegedly targeted by an Ethiopian asylum seeker in Epping blamed the government for putting “children and grandchildren at risk” as a heavy police presence gathered in the town,