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Live News,19 Aug 2025,30 mins

Epping asylum seeker hotel to close

Newsnight

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Epping Forest District Council are triumphant after a legal victory over the Government means asylum seekers must leave the Bell Hotel. Will other councils now follow in their footsteps? Plus, former head of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks to Newsnight about Trump’s efforts to end the Ukraine war. And is the government doing enough to tackle dementia? Scott Mitchell, widower of Eastenders star Barbara Windsor - who died with Alzheimer’s - says more investment is needed. With Paddy O’Connell.

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