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hello and welcome. starting with our starting with our headline starting with our headline stories. the high court has been hearing a council s bid to block government plans for an asylum centre at an raf airfield. braintree district council is bringing legal action over the proposed use of raf wethersfield in essex. with more on this from our correspondent dominic casciani. he is in the newsroom for us. take us through it. he is in the newsroom for us. take us through it us through it. yes, this is crunch time for one us through it. yes, this is crunch time for one of us through it. yes, this is crunch time for one of the us through it. yes, this is crunch time for one of the home - us through it. yes, this is crunch - time for one of the home secretary s key strategist to try to deal with what she says is a genuine emergency situation with regards to managing the flow of migrants coming across the flow of migrants coming across the english channel. the vast majo ....
Secretary has an obligation to house them. in effect, the home office has run out of accommodation over the last year or so. critics say that is because it does so badly managed, there are enormous numbers and hotels costing about 6 million a day and the home secretary has got to find another solution. one solution you can see behind me here on our story on the website is to start using this used raf land. in the centre of today s cases wethersfield airfield, that is north of braintree, about nine miles north of the essex town. it s in the middle of lovely rural countryside and the plan is to put 1700 asylum seekers there while their cases are being assessed up to six months. in practical terms, that was more people than the people who live in a nearby hamlet in the village of the same name. about 1200, 1300 people. this there are an awful lot of people there who are absolutely furious about this, their local area ....