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Bibby Stockholm barge could accept asylum seekers as soon as Monday

Ministers are pushing on with plans to use the vessel in Portland Port, Dorset, despite safety fears and local opposition.

The Independent UK

Bibby Stockholm move-ins planned for Monday despite outbreak warnings

Internal document warns ‘large numbers’ could be affected if disease breaks out on barge planned to house asylum seekers

The Guardian - UK

Asylum seeker who escaped from Iran says Dorset barge will be another ‘jail’

Human rights lawyer says he has been unable to sleep in anticipation of move to Bibby Stockholm

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First asylum seekers set to be housed on barge 'in coming days'

The first asylum seekers will go on to the Bibby Stockholm barge “in the coming days”, the immigration minister has said after a series of…

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Russia spreading false claims about Qur’an burnings to harm Nato bid, says Sweden

Defence agency says Moscow is using the protests in Stockholm to stir tensions between Arab countries and the west

The Guardian - UK

No full-time firefighters near Bibby Stockholm asylum barge prompts ‘real concerns’ over emergency response

Exclusive: Firefighter’s report calls for government to abandon plans amid ‘major life risk’

The Independent UK

Dozens injured after protesters storm Eritrean festival in Stockholm

Opponents of Eritrean government tore down tents and set cars on fire, with ‘around 100’ people arrested

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Protesters against Eritrea's government set fire to booths at cultural festival in Sweden

Swedish media are reporting that an Eritrea-themed cultural festival in Stockholm took a turbulent turn when about a thousand anti-Eritrean government protesters stormed the event

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‘It’s a racism crisis’: call for action on Qur’an burnings in Sweden

As the debate rages about freedom of expression, soundings from Stockholm suggest many feel the limit has been reached

The Guardian - UK

Oliver Dowden suggests Fire Brigades Union’s concerns over asylum seeker barge politically motivated – as it happened

The FBU had said the Bibby Stockholm could be a floating ‘death trap’ for asylum seekers

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Bibby Stockholm will be housing people within weeks, says Oliver Dowden

Deputy PM ‘confident’ asylum barge will soon be used and that fire safety concerns will be taken into account

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Asylum seekers will go onto barge in ‘coming weeks’, says Dowden

The Deputy Prime Minister said migrants would be housed on the Bibby Stockholm at Portland soon.

The Independent UK

Thursday briefing: Is the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge a disaster waiting to happen?

In today’s newsletter: From overcrowding to fire safety concerns, the government’s floating facility in Dorset has been plagued with problems, and now faces a delay. What’s behind the Home Office’s latest debacle?

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Firefighters demand meeting with Braverman over asylum barge safety fears

Fire Brigades Union questions large numbers kept on Bibby Stockholm and lack of exit points

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Rishi Sunak, beware: the Bibby Stockholm is becoming a monument to your incompetence

A vacant barge, no flights to Rwanda … beyond a certain point, even Tory supporters will grow tired of empty politics, says civil liberties writer Diane Taylor

Evening Standard

Migrant barge Bibby Stockholm ‘not a deathtrap’, Cabinet minister insists

Pictures showed a food delivery being unloaded at the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland, Dorset, on Wednesday

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Grant Shapps forced to insist Bibby Stockholm migrants’ barge is not a ‘death trap’

‘There’s no reason why it wouldn’t be absolutely safe,’ energy secretary says amid ongoing concerns about scheme

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Housing refugees on barge risks retraumatising them, says charity chief

Steve Smith, CEO of Care4Calais, also said the Bibby Stockholm barge was ‘an accident waiting to happen’.

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The Independent UK

Migrant barge ‘not a deathtrap’, Cabinet minister insists

Pictures showed a food delivery being unloaded at the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland, Dorset, on Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

Bibby Stockholm asylum barge is ‘potential deathtrap’, say firefighters

FBU to write to Home Office with overcrowding concerns after first group’s arrival delayed due to safety issues on Dorset-based vessel

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak confirms delayed opening of Bibby Stockholm asylum barge amid safety checks

It comes after reports that the barge could be a ‘floating Grenfell’ due to fire safety concerns

The Guardian - UK

Bibby Stockholm delay adds to disarray of Sunak’s ‘stop the boats’ pledge

As with the Rwanda plan, the PM has been frustrated in his attempts to house asylum seekers on a giant barge

The Guardian - UK

Home Office delays moving asylum seekers to barge over fire safety fears

Exclusive: Officials carry out last-minute inspections after reports Bibby Stockholm could become ‘floating Grenfell’

The Independent UK

‘What is the Bibby Stockholm?’: Home Office not telling asylum seekers they are being moved to a barge

Exclusive: Lawyers reviewing one-page notices arriving in hotels, amid confusion and concern

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First asylum seekers to move on to UK’s migrant barge despite fire warnings

‘It’s the getting down off it that’s the issue - everybody panics when there’s a fire,’ local councillor warns

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