Epping Forest District Council leader Chris Whitbread described the Essex town as a ‘powder keg’ after violent demonstrations outside the Bell Hotel on Sunday

Four men have been charged with violent disorder after protests outside a hotel in Essex believed to be housing asylum seekers, police say.

One Metropolitan police van sped through an improvised blockade on Epping High Street ‘making contact’ with a protester who appeared to fail to move out of the way. Staff at the hotel told Metro on Thursday that the car park was a no-go zone after the riot as they feared the protesters would return in force.

ESSEX Police have revealed the alarming cost of policing protests outside a 'migrant hotel' in Epping as a man is due to appear in court today.

The glamorous area in Essex where Sir Rod Stewart calls home is making headlines as protestors call for migrant hotel, The Bell, to be closed for good

COPS have arrested six more after “mindless thuggery” unfolded outside a migrant hotel in Epping. Chaos erupted outside The Bell Hotel in Essex last week after an asylum seeker

Violent anti-migrant protests in Epping, Essex, have cost police £100,000. Eight police officers were injured following what started as a peaceful protest outside the Bell Hotel in Epping on Thursday evening. The latest protest, on Sunday, saw more than 100 demonstrators assemble outside the hotel with some chanting “save our kids”.

Two members of staff at The Bell Hotel were left seriously injured as anti-immigration protesters clashed with counter-demonstrators

VIOLENT protesters were seen clashing with police outside a migrant hotel on Thursday evening. The tense demonstration outside The Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, came after an asylum seeker appeared