Councils ask judge to stop plan to house asylum seekers on former RAF bases
by Diane Taylor from World news | The Guardian on (#6G0RX)
Local authorities argue that Home Office would act unlawfully by moving refugees to RAF Scampton and RAF Wethersfield
Council bosses have called for the high court to quash government plans to use the land of two former RAF bases to house asylum seekers.
Lawyers representing West Lindsey district council in Lincolnshire argue that plans to use the disused RAF Scampton, where the dambusters" were based during the second world war, are unlawful.
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