An Essex town has been at the centre of protests over the use of a hotel to house asylum seekers. Police officers have been injured and several arrests have been made near the Bell Hotel in Epping. What do local people make of the situation that has thrust their town into the spotlight?

A town on the outskirts of London was rocked by protesters who descended on a hotel housing asylum seekers for the second time in four days on Sunday night amid anger about a migrant accused of sexual assault.

Anger has been sparked after police have said the cost of policing protests outside a hotel in Essex believed to be housing asylum seekers has reached £100,000.