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Ambulances called 166 times to asylum site with ‘alarming mental health crisis’

Ambulances were called to one of the Government’s flagship sites for housing asylum seekers around three times a week last year, The i Paper can reveal.

Many of the 999 calls to RAF Wethersfield – a former military base in Essex – are believed to be related to mental health issues among people living at the site, according to charities working there.

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Mental health crisis unfolds at RAF Wethersfield Mass Containment Site: Doctors of the World and Médecins Sans Frontières call for urgent si

Doctors of the World and Médecins Sans Frontières are issuing an urgent call to the UK government to close mass asylum camp, due to severe m

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Wethersfield Airbase Asylum Seeker Numbers Set to Rise 50% Soon

Wethersfield airbase in Essex is expanding from 580 to 800 single adult males with surge capacity up to 1,700. Managed by the Home Office un

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Migrants unlawfully housed at UK’s flagship asylum site Wethersfield, court rules

Refugee charity Care4Calais calls for RAF Wethersfield to be shut down

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Asylum seekers wrongly housed at ‘prison-like’ former RAF base, High Court told

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Councils drop proposed legal action over asylum seeker plans for RAF bases

The Home Office announced plans last year to accommodate asylum seekers at RAF Scampton and RAF Wethersfield.

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Hundreds of migrants moved out of Bibby barge and controversial RAF base

Exclusive: Hundreds of asylum seekers have left or been moved out of RAF Wethersfield and the ‘Bibby Stockholm’ already this year as costs s

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Home Office’s flagship migrant centres not suitable for 1,000s of asylum...