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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blackpool Council has been urged to take decisive action to try and end the use of the Metropole Hotel to house migrants – instead of ‘downplaying’ the issue. Cllr Paul Galley says the Labour-run ...

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22:14, Wed, Feb 12, 2025 Updated: 22:16, Wed, Feb 12, 2025 A 240-year-old seaside hotel has been used to house aslyum seekers for over three years - and one MP has had enough. The Tory Government ...

Cllr Paul Galley says the Labour-run authority should take a leaf out of Conservative run-Epping Forest District Council and instigate court proceedings to remove the asylum seekers in the Metropole.

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.

An MP has again urged a hotel chain and the Home Office to stop housing asylum seekers in a seaside hotel Blackpool South MP Chris Webb said "the location and the facilities" of the Metropole Hotel ...

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 ...

Chris Webb said the Metropole was only supposed to be used as accommodation for asylum seekers for a few months Blackpool South MP Chris Webb has called for an end to using the Metropole Hotel to ...