Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

UNCOVERED: Crowborough - Caught on Camera

Home Office eyes up three more military sites to house thousands of asylum seekers

Former military bases, Bicester, Barnham and Linton-on-Ouse, singled out for asylum seeker housing

The Independent UK

Housing asylum seekers in military bases will place pressure on local police forces, Home Office admits

Sussex Police in talks with Home Office about extra funding to manage pressures from Crowborough army base

The Independent UK

Resident group to file new legal claim over military camp housing asylum seekers

Crowborough Shield, a community interest company, began legal action against the Government last year.

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Legal challenge over plan to use East Sussex army camp as asylum housing dismissed

Judge rules that residents cannot challenge a decision before it has been formally made

The Guardian - UK

Home Office denies migrants sent to Crowborough secure camp in Sussex are leaving to move to London

Home Office minister Mike Tapp was asked about local reports that migrants were ‘checking out’ of Crowborough and coming back to London

Evening Standard

The lure of a guiltily accessible pinnacle

Brief letters: Bagging a Marilyn in Crowborough | Romeos ranked | Guardian footnotes | South Nesting | Bring back the eiderdown

The Guardian - UK

'Keir Starmer Is a Traitor!' Fury Erupts in East Sussex Town Over Plan to House 500 Migrants in Former Barracks

Thousands protest in Crowborough as PM Keir Starmer faces backlash over plans to house 500 asylum seekers at a former military camp.

International Business Times UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Thousands march in Crowborough over asylum plan for former military camp

Protesters walk to Sussex market town from base where Home Office plans to house up to 500 asylum seekers

The Guardian - UK

Three arrested after two incidents of disorder outside asylum seeker camp

Police say two men and a woman shouted abuse and struck vehicle outside Crowborough military site in East Sussex

The Guardian - UK

First migrants moved into East Sussex military camp despite protests

Residents said they felt ‘ignored and uninformed’ by the Home Office as more than two dozen men were moved into Crowborough Training Camp

Evening Standard

Protests expected as first asylum seekers arrive at East Sussex camp

Minister says use of former army barracks at Crowborough is part of plan to move people out of hotels

The Guardian - UK

First asylum seekers moved into former army camp under Labour push to shut down migrant hotels

First 27 asylum seekers moved into Crowborough military barracks in the early hours of Thursday morning

The Independent UK

First asylum seekers due at Sussex barracks in weeks as council joins legal action against Home Office

Crowborough military base is understood to be being prepared for 540 male migrants to arrive in the New Year as part of the Government's bid to reduce the use of asylum hotels

Evening Standard

First asylum seekers expected to arrive in East Sussex barracks in new year

Government has vowed to end use of asylum hotels and plans to send first men to Crowborough site within weeks

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

‘Not in our village’: asylum camp rumours prompt fear and night vigils in East Sussex

Crowborough on edge as unconfirmed plan to house asylum seekers in training camp spurs street patrols and pre-emptive protests

The Guardian - UK

Sussex group begins legal challenge over plan to house asylum seekers on military site

Government plans for Crowborough training camp in east Sussex will be challenged in high court

Evening Standard

Hundreds take to the streets over plan to house asylum seekers at barracks

Campaigners marched through the streets of Crowborough carrying signs and flags, many wearing plain white T-shirts and chanting: ‘Send them home.’

The Guardian - UK

Quelling public disquiet is worth extra cost of barracks asylum housing, says No 10

Government defends prospect of paying more for barracks, saying people ‘don’t want asylum seekers in hotels’

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

The best-value commuter towns under 90 minutes from London

While a three-hour round trip might be a step too far for daily commuters, these towns could be just the ticket for hybrid workers

Golf Monthly

I've Played All The Best Courses In The UK&I... These Are My 10 Recommendations Just Outside The Very Top Tier

Jeremy Ellwood chooses ten of his favourites from the Golf Monthly Next 100, the courses that sit just beyond the Top 100 in our biennial UK&I rankings

The Guardian - UK

Open doors, free meals and British borscht – is this the Ukraine-friendliest town in the UK?

Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have been welcomed to Britain – but nowhere more so than in the leafy town of Crowborough, East Sussex. How are the new arrivals settling in?

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.