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Article: Asylum seekers offloaded on rural towns Fury as thousands of inner- city refugees are found rented homes in Peterborough
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- February 2, 2003
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INNER-CITY councils are dumping thousands of asylum seekers sent
to them by the Home Office in privately rented houses or flats in
rural towns and cities.
The towns concerned - which have no way of preventing the refugees
staying in such accommodation - say that they are being swamped by
the asylum seekers. In some cases, smaller councils in rural areas
now have six times the number of refugees that they have been
officially allocated.
Haringey council in north London is required to house 1,200
refugees but has now started renting houses for them in the seaside
resort of Hastings, East Sussex, and in Luton, Bedfordshire. The
authority has even sent asylum seekers to Birmingham and ...