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False online rumours spark protests outside Canary Wharf hotel earmarked for migrants

Protesters gathered at the site in London after posts claimed migrants were being moved there from the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex

The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2025

Police dismiss claims they bussed anti-racists to Epping asylum hotel protest

Essex force describes allegation, repeated by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and others, as ‘categorically wrong’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2025

Farage claim that police drove protesters to demo is not true – senior officer

Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington, of Essex Police, denied an accusation made by the Clacton MP.

The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2025

Five men charged after violent protests outside Essex hotel

There have been a series of protests outside the Bell Hotel in Epping.

Evening Standard · Jul 22, 2025

‘A crisis boiling over’: The Essex community divided over violent migrant protests

IN FOCUS: While the violent protests have subsided, Epping remains split over the events that sparked the unrest that has plagued the community for the past 10 days, as Holly Evans and Nicole Wootton-Cane report

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2025

'It's a powder keg': Government warned UK faces another summer of riots after Epping migrant hotel violence

Epping Forest District Council leader Chris Whitbread described the Essex town as a ‘powder keg’ after violent demonstrations outside the Bell Hotel on Sunday

Evening Standard · Jul 22, 2025

Rayner warns Starmer UK faces another summer of riots if Labour fails to deliver

The deputy prime minister makes a dramatic intervention over the need for the Labour government to ‘show it can address people’s concerns’

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2025

Farage defends protesters outside Essex asylum hotel as ‘concerned families’

Reform UK leader claims UK will see ‘civil disobedience on vast scale’ unless migrants stop arriving in UK on small boats

The Independent UK · Jul 21, 2025

Cost of policing protests outside Essex hotel ‘housing asylum seekers’ reaches £100,000

There have been six arrests, while eight police officers were injured

The Independent UK · Jul 21, 2025

Cost of policing protests outside hotel ‘housing asylum seekers’ hits £100,000

The latest protest, on Sunday, saw more than 100 demonstrators assemble outside the Bell Hotel in Epping.

Evening Standard · Jul 21, 2025