must make is that this is the issue of military families is not an issue which involves braintree district councilan district council. but i can confirm that the home office and the ministry of defence have beenin the ministry of defence have been in touch with local families, local military families, local military families currently on that site to move them to new accommodation , which they say accommodation, which they say will be closer to their duty to where they carry out those dufies. where they carry out those duties . but the actual removal duties. but the actual removal of those families is not not an issue which braintree district council has paid any part in. >> no, no, i understand that. >> no, no, i understand that. >> absolutely. and you're right to make that clear. i don't think anyone saying think anyone is saying for a single second this is your fault think anyone is saying for a sirthis second this is your fault think anyone is saying for a sirthis is cond this is your fault think anyone is saying for a sirthis is thei this is your fault think anyone is saying for a sirthis is t

west lindsey district council opposed the use of raf scampton in lincolnshire. braintreefirst migrants began arriving at wethersfield, former manchester city footballer benjamin mendy has been found not guilty of rape and attempted rape at chester crown court. the france international was accused of raping a 24 year old woman at his home in cheshire in october 2020. he was also charged with the attempted rape of a 29 year old woman. two years earlier, mendy had denied both charges, saying the encounters had been consented , able to. british men consented, able to. british men have been sentenced for smuggling . seven indian smuggling. seven indian migrants, including women and children, into the uk in the boots of cars. one man who was stopped in dover in 2018 has been given three and a half years for assisting unlawful immigration. three indian nationals claiming to be afghan sikhs were found in the boot of his hire car . sikhs were found in the boot of his hire car. his co—accused, who had four indian nationals in his, has been jailed for three years and two months. als

west lindsey district council opposes the use of raf scampton in lincolnshire. braintree council is challenging the use of wethersfield airfield in essex. the two day hearing began on wednesday as the first migrants began arriving at wethersfield. well, former home secretary priti patel has told us here at gb news that laws cannot be disregarded . cannot be disregarded. >> braintree district council have worked incredibly hard and all credit to them and their legal counsel for getting to us where we are with this judicial review. it's important that local and our local local people and our local councils and statutory service bodies, that their voices are heard. we have laws in place . heard. we have laws in place. the nationality and borders act . you know, we have the new plan for immigration in place. you know, we for years to get know, we work for years to get those in place and that those policies in place and that legislation place. you can't legislation in place. you can't just it and try to just discard it and try to supersede it with new policies . supersede it w

west lindsey district council opposes the use of raf scampton in lincolnshire. braintree airfield in essex. the two day hearing began on wednesday as the first migrants began arriving at wethersfield. well, former home secretary priti patel has told us here at gb news that laws cannot be disregard added. >> braintree district council have worked incredibly hard and all credit to them and their legal counsel for getting us to where we are with this judicial review. it's important that local people and our local councils and statutory service bodies, that their voices are heard. we have laws in place . heard. we have laws in place. the nationality and borders act . you know, we have the new plan for immigration in place. you know, we worked for years to get those policies place and that those policies in place and that legislation place. can't legislation in place. you can't just and try to just discard it and try to supersede it with new policies . supersede it with new policies. >> police say no criminal offences were committed in relation to the deaths of two people off

west lindsey district council, which represents rf scampton and braintree district council, which representsaf wethersfield, wethersfield , wethersfield, wethersfield, they're locked in this legal battle and tomorrow the decision will be made on if they can go to the bigger judicial review, where there'll be that full investing session into whether the government has acted lawfully in their plans to house asylum seekers at places like scampton town council roger patterson you're the scampton councillor . thanks for talking councillor. thanks for talking to gb news tonight . how are you to gb news tonight. how are you feeling? right now on the eve of this big decision ? is it going this big decision? is it going to be a sleepless night for you? no it'll be to get a good night's sleep . night's sleep. >> i'm confident. i've always been confident. but think been confident. but i think we're the right plans. we're we've got the right plans. our our case is lawful. the home office is acting unlawfully in what they're trying to do , what they're trying to do, overlooking a £300 million investment

west lindsey district council, which represents rf scampton and braintree district council, which represents wethersfield, wethersfield , wethersfield, wethersfield, they're locked in this legal battle and tomorrow the decision will be made on if they can go to the bigger judicial review, where there'll be that full investing session into whether the government has acted lawfully in their plans to house asylum seekers at places like scampton town council roger patterson you're the scampton councillor . thanks for talking councillor. thanks for talking to gb news tonight . how are you to gb news tonight. how are you feeling? right now on the eve of this big decision ? is it going this big decision? is it going to be a sleepless night for you? no it'll be to get a good night's sleep . night's sleep. >> i'm confident. i've always been confident. but think been confident. but i think we're the right plans. we're we've got the right plans. our our case is lawful. the home office is acting unlawfully in what they're trying to do , what they're trying to do, overlooking a £300 million investment de

west lindsey district council opposes the use of raf scampton in lincolnshire. braintreehersfield airfield in essex. the two day hearing began on wednesday as the first migrants began arriving at wethersfield. well, former home secretary priti patel has told us here at gb news that laws cannot be disregard added. >> braintree district council have worked incredibly hard and all credit to them and their legal counsel for getting us to where we are with this judicial review. it's important that local people and our local councils and statutory service bodies, that their voices are heard. we have laws in place . heard. we have laws in place. the nationality and borders act . you know, we have the new plan for immigration in place. you know, we worked for years to get those policies place and that those policies in place and that legislation place. can't legislation in place. you can't just and try to just discard it and try to supersede it with new policies . supersede it with new policies. >> police say no criminal offences were committed in relation to the deaths of two pe

west lindsey district council opposes the use of raf scampton in lincolnshire . braintree council is challenging the use of wethersfield airfield in essex. the two day hearing began on wednesday as the first migrants began arriving at wethersfield. well, former home secretary priti patel has told us here gb news that laws cannot be disregarded . disregarded. >> braintree district council have worked incredibly hard and all credit to them and their legal counsel for getting us to where we are with this judicial review. it's important that local people and our local councils and statutory service bodies that their voices are heard. we have laws in place, nationality and borders act. you know, we have the new plan for immigration in place. you know, we worked for years to get those policies in place and that legislation in place. you can't just discard it and to just discard it and try to supersede with policies . supersede it with new policies. >> junior doctors in england say they're in it for the long run on day two of their five day strike. that's despite the government's

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so let's just repeat that to clarify that both west lindsey district council up in lincolnshire and braintreefull judicial review to argue against the home office plans to house asylum seekers at the scampton base. a former dambuster base in lincolnshire and former raf wethersfield, now an mod site down in wethersfield, which is near braintree. that's braintree district council that we're bringing, bringing that particular case as well as a local resident , three people local resident, three people altogether are bringing claims against the home office here, asking for those claims to be explored in a fuller high court hearing, a judicial review. so mrs. justice thornton, who over a couple of days listen to the arguments from all three parties, has decided that, yes, indeed, they should go to a judicial review. so another setback of sorts for the government in the sense is that, you know , they are going to have you know, they are going to have to continue to fight this, especially given that we got the news that on wednesday of this week, the first 46 asylum seekers , all young males , were

west lindsey district council opposes the use of raf scampton in lincolnshire. braintree council is challenging the use of wethersfield airfield in essex. the two day hearing began on wednesday as the first migrants began arriving at wethersfield. well, former home secretary priti patel has told us here at gb news that laws cannot be disregarded . cannot be disregarded. >> braintree district council have worked incredibly hard and all credit to them and their legal counsel for getting to us where we are with this judicial review. it's important that local people and our local councils and statutory service bodies, that their voices are heard. we have laws in place . heard. we have laws in place. the nationality and borders act . you know, we have the new plan for immigration in place. you know, for years to get know, we work for years to get those place and that those policies in place and that legislation place. you can't legislation in place. you can't just discard it and try to supersede it with new policies . supersede it with new policies. >> almost 1000 workers at g

west lindsey district council opposes the use of raf scampton in lincolnshire. braintree council is challenging the use of wethersfield airfield in essex. the two day hearing began on wednesday as the first migrants began arriving at wethersfield. well, former home secretary priti patel has told us here at gb news that laws cannot be disregarded . cannot be disregarded. >> braintree district council have worked incredibly hard and all credit to them and their legal counsel for getting us to where we are with this judicial review . it's important that review. it's important that local people and our local councils and statutory service bodies, that their voices are heard. we have laws in place . heard. we have laws in place. the nationality and borders act . you know, we have the new plan for immigration in place. you know, work years to get know, we work for years to get those in place and that those policies in place and that legislation in place. you can't just try to just discard it and try to supersede it with new policies . supersede it with new policies. >> police s

west lindsey district council opposes the use of raf scampton in lincolnshire . braintree. the two day hearing began on wednesday as the first migrants began arriving at wethersfield. well, former home secretary priti patel has told us here at gb news that laws cannot be disregard . disregard. >> did braintree district council have worked incredibly hard and credit to them and their legal counsel for getting us to where we are with this judicial review? it's important that local people and our local councils and statutory service bodies, that their voices are and jenni trent benjamin luckman and jenni trent hughes, and i'll be asking them, should we make foreigners pay to fund public sector pay rises? plus, the imf has finally admitted covid lockdowns then packed out a generation of learning for our beleaguered children . then we expose the children. then we expose the shocking size of the multi—million pound critical race theory industry that's invaded british schools. and the crucial question is this are you the taxpayer, paying for charities to tell your kids that they'

the high court. >> you'll find west lindsey district council, which is of course the lincolnshire council where scampton is, and you'll find council find braintreere raf wethersfield is, and their fighting that battle because ultimately they're trying to get a judicial review . a judicial review. >> what's happening right now is a permissions hearing just to get to that final stage . but get to that final stage. but here at scampton, that's i suppose, where the regular average joe people are, people like gary. gary, you're not from scampton , you're from about ten scampton, you're from about ten minutes down the road along the very noisy a15 towards lincoln. why does it matter to you to come up here quite often to protest the asylum seeker plans for scampton? >> because i saw it on the news and i just thought it can't happen here. so i had to do something. so i just thought, i'll sit at the gates, make a start doing that, see where that goes.i start doing that, see where that goes. i can't just sit at home doing nothing. it's i just can't i >> -- >> what is bum >> what is it about this place and this plan that you think should not. >> go ahead.

west lindsey district council opposes the use of raf scampton in lincolnshire. braintreeld in essex. the two day hearing began on wednesday as the first migrants began arriving at wethersfield , began arriving at wethersfield, the department for transport has approved plans to build a two mile road tunnel near stonehenge . it's part of plans to turn the a303 into a dual carriageway. the transport secretary has granted a so—called development consent order. a previous dco was overturned by the high court in 2021. that's after campaign has raised concerns for the unesco world heritage site . unesco world heritage site. junior doctors in england have said they're in it for the long run on day two of their five day strike. that's despite the government's offer of a 6% pay rise, which the prime minister says is final. the british medical association says more strikes are possible. they want an offer closer to the 12.4% given to junior doctors in scotland and almost a thousand workers at gatwick airport, including baggage handlers and check in staff, will stage eight days of st

so we've got this underway high court, underway in the high court, braintree council braintree districtgal action against the home office over the proposed that raf proposed use of that raf airfield accommodate up to airfield to accommodate up to 1700 asylum seekers, male asylum seekers for 180 days each . seekers for 180 days each. that's ongoing. we'll have an update with our correspondent catherine forster from outside the high court shortly. stay with us. >> the temperature's rising . >> the temperature's rising. boxed solar power sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello , i'm alex deakin and >> hello, i'm alex deakin and this is your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. more heavy showers to come today . there'll be some come today. there'll be some blue sky at times , a fairly cool blue sky at times, a fairly cool breeze continuing to blow. we've still got low pressure dominating . it's only slowly dominating. it's only slowly pulling away to the north—east and around. it's bands of showers feeding in showers continually feeding in some hea

district council. that's in lincolnshire and also braintree council in essex.ision trying to challenge a decision to house asylum seekers at former military bases. to house asylum seekers at forrwell, ilitary bases. to house asylum seekers at forrwell, our ry bases. to house asylum seekers at forrwell, our east ses. to house asylum seekers at forrwell, our east midlands >> well, our east midlands reporter will hollis more on this . this. >> for months now, no aircraft has flown in or out of raf scampton, but soon hundreds of asylum seekers could start landing here. >> residents like jason live on the camp's edge. he says government proposals sideline the people living here. it feels like we don't matter here, like nothing that we've got to say matters at all. >> realistically , although they >> realistically, although they say temporary, i would guess many, many years . we would be many, many years. we would be the community that essentially picks up the pieces once they've gone. >> the home office risks being overwhelmed by the backlog of asylum claims in marc

district of braintree . of course, we know the local residents braintree council have been going for a judicial review .ment have chosen not to wait for the outcome of that legal process and today 46 cross—channel migrants were moved into that former raf base . how extraordinary that that when the law says is you can't deport people. we obey. but when it comes to filling up former raf bases , as the government can raf bases, as the government can ignore the law , what is not ignore the law, what is not being reported is that two dozen families , us service families families, us service families have been removed from the base to make room for what is going to make room for what is going to be a very large number of cross—channel migrants moving in. and i think we talk so often about the 6 or £7 million a day cost of housing, migrant and all the rest of it. i don't think we talk enough about the human effect on people who lose their jobs and people who get moved and lose their homes. jobs and people who get moved and lose their homes . and and lose their homes. and joining me now is a resident who doesn'