One arrest has been made as protesters gather outside a hotel in Essex believed to be housing asylum seekers.Dozens were outside The Bell Hotel, Epping, on Thursday evening, and shortly after 7.30pm police said the protest had “so far been peaceful”.

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’.

POLICE have arrested 16 suspects in a crackdown after disorder broke out over taxpayer-funded asylum seeker hotels. Essex Police released bodycam footage of one arrest, where they demanded the man