The battle over the Bell hotel: how a year of asylum protests tore apart a pretty, prosperous Essex town

W hen Sherzod* moved to Epping in 2025, he was dreaming of a little garden, long dog walks in the forest and more space to breathe. At 20, he had moved from Uzbekistan to the UK to study law, then lived in north London for decades. In his mid-40s, after establishing himself in a media job, he began...

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