An asylum seeker who has been living at The Bell Hotel in Epping for four months has told the BBC "let them close all the hotels and let's get people work". Mohammed, from Somalia

More than 10,000 asylum seekers were housed in hotels in London in June - down 2,000 on the number in March, new figures show. The number of asylum seekers in hotels dropped in 17 London boroughs between March and June, the Home Office has revealed.

Officials from the Epping Forest District Council asked a judge to issue an order to temporarily block migrants from being accommodated at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, due to “unprecedented levels of protest and disruption” over asylum-seeker accommodation.