Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing A Home Office plan to use a Bolton hotel to house asylum seekers has been reversed after the local council intervened.
Bolton’s acting council leader, Martyn Cox, said the council had fought off the intention of Home Office, through Serco, to procure the Britannia Hotel to house asylum seekers.
Serco have provided housing and support for asylum seekers in the UK since 2012 while they await news on their immigration status. Read more: Conservative group leader Coun Cox is set to be elected leader of Bolton Council on Wednesday, August 25, following the passing last month of Coun David Greenhalgh, who died while in office.
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