Three men have been arrested after police officers were injured during a protest outside the Epping hotel used to house asylum seekers yesterday. The protest took place on Friday outside the Bell Hotel in Essex.

Essex Police said one man was arrested on suspicion of violent disorder, a second man was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer, and a third man was arrested on suspicion of drink driving after a car was driven on the wrong side of the road towards a police cordon.

The force added that on Friday evening a group which came to Epping after attending a protest in Cheshunt “remain in the area” and that a dispersal order has been put in place until 6am the following day.

It comes after the Government won its appeal on Friday against a High Court ruling temporar

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