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Labour councils scupper government attempts to house asylum seekers on barges as they block plans to dock them at ports around Britain - leaving taxpayers saddled with £6m-a-DAY hotel bill

Plans to use two giant cruise ships to tackle the Channel boats crisis were in tatters last night after Labour councils were accused of blocking efforts to find a port where they could be docked.
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MP and furious locals in desperate last-ditch bid to stop Bibby Stockholm barge that will house 500 male asylum seekers for 18 months off the Dorset coast - with migrants given free mobiles, healthcare and an hourly bus service into the seaside town

The Bibby Stockholm - a three-storey and 300ft-long accommodation vessel - was pulled by a tug into Portland in Dorset this morning after setting sail from Falmouth in Cornwall yesterday.
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Cruise ships set to house 1,000 asylum seekers 'returned to their owners' after they were blocked from docking in Liverpool and Edinburgh - as MP and furious locals launch last-ditch bid to stop Bibby Stockholm migrant barge in Dorset

The return of two cruise ships set to house 1,000 asylum seekers marks the latest blow to the Prime Ministers plans, while residents in Wales blocked off access to a luxury hotel tipped for 240 migrants.
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Multi-million pound tugboat named after Portland Port boss Rupert Best

PORTLAND Ports operations and services have been boosted with the introduction of a new multi-million pound tugboat - which has been officially named in honour of a former director who died earlier this year. Portland Port director and decorated Royal Navy commander Rupert Best, who retired from duty in the early 1990s, was instrumental in persuading Langham Industries to buy the port from the MOD in 1996, and worked tirelessly to grow the operation. Mr Best died aged 76 in February, and ...
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