Five arrested as more than 1,000 protesters gather outside Essex asylum hotel

Demonstrators chant send them home' and save our kids' as bottles and flares thrown at police blocking entrance

Five people have been arrested after more than 1,000 demonstrators gathered outside a hotel in Essex believed to be housing asylum seekers, police said.

Demonstrators, some of whom appeared to be drinking alcohol, chanted send them home" and save our kids" as bottles and smoke flares were thrown towards police vans blocking the entrance to the Bell hotel in Epping on Sunday evening.