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County Durham: Growing concerns about proposed immigration detention centre for women


City of Durham MP Mary Kelly Foy and Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys, who are among the signatories speaking out against plans for an immigration centre at Medomsley
PET Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant has joined hundreds of public figures in an outcry over plans to use the site of a notorious former detention centre to house illegal immigrants awaiting deportation.
Over 200 people have written to the Home Secretary today to express concerns about the plans for the centre for women at the former Hassockfield Secure Training Centre, in Medomsley, County Durham – previously the Medomsley Detention Centre.
Among the signatories are City of Durham MP Mary Kelly Foy and several more MPs, along with playwright and scriptwriter of Our Friends in the North, Peter Flannery and Rabbi Sybil Sheridan of the Newcastle Reform Synagogue. ....

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