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Home Office ‘apologises’ for placing Afghan refugees in Salford with less than 24 hours notice

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Sign up to the MySalford newsletter to keep up with what's happening in and around the city The Home Office apologised to city leaders after more than 100 Afghan refugees were placed in Salford with less than 24 hours notice.

Despite this, the same thing happened again the following week, city mayor Paul Dennett has said. Wigan was also asked to accommodate a number of Afghan families at the last minute, the mayor said at a Salford Council meeting last Wednesday .

Mr Dennett says health officials have been faced with Covid-19 and TB outbreaks and public order instances at hotels being used to accommodate refugees and asylum seekers.

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