It follows a High Court ruling last Wednesday on asylum seekers in an Essex hotel, in which a district council obtained a temporary injunction to stop the hotel being used to house asylum seekers.

Blackpool South MP Chris Webb has called for an end to using the Metropole Hotel to accommodate asylum seekers. The housing of families in the seafront hotel – the only one in Blackpool to be sited on ...

Blackpool Council has issued grim pictures of inside the Metropole Hotel in Blackpool after it was slammed for poor food hygiene. The hotel, on Princess Parade, has been accommodating asylum seekers ...

A High Court ruling on asylum seekers in an Essex hotel is being "carefully reviewed" by Blackpool Council in regard to the resort’s Metropole Hotel, the authority says. The Blackpool authority issued ...

The decision to house more than 200 asylum seekers in a seaside resort is "disproportionate and damaging", an MP has warned. About 220 people will be relocated to the Metropole Hotel in Blackpool from ...

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Exclusive data commissioned by ITV News suggests opposition to immigration is on the rise. John Ray has been to Blackpool for the first of our reports on Britain: Inside The Divide.Additional ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ministers are under mounting pressure to close an asylum hotel on one of the UK’s best-known seafronts, after a ...

Blackpool Council has issued grim pictures of inside the Metropole Hotel in Blackpool after it was slammed for poor food hygiene. The hotel, on Princess Parade, has been accommodating asylum seekers ...

The decision to house more than 200 asylum seekers in a seaside resort is "disproportionate and damaging", an MP has warned. About 220 people will be relocated to the Metropole Hotel in Blackpool from ...