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All over England, all over the weekend, anti-migrant demonstrations have been held outside

hotels, housing asylum seekers, be it Wolverhampton, Portsmouth, Norwich, Leeds, Nottinghamshire,

Southampton, and of course Epping, which has kind of been the epicentre for these protests

over the last couple of weeks. I mean, they're just traitors to the country, to be honest. If they can't

understand that people are here just to demonstrate, to look after their kids, because they're frightening their kids being raped and abused,

then I think, well, there's something wrong with them. It is pitting local people against anti-racism

groups and the far left, who in turn are attracting the far right. Is it tearing apart our social fabric?

Or is it being much exaggerated?

We have a special report from Epping.

Welcome to the Newsagents.

The Newsagents.

It's John.

It's Emily.

And we are going to take you to a story

that we have been monitoring on and off for the last two or three weeks, and it all centres round what has been happening in Epping, where, as you've probably become aware, we have seen demonstrators and indeed counter-protesters facing off outside the Bell Hotel.

Now, over the last couple of weeks, it's been generally on a Thursday or a Sunday

that we've seen these groups start together.

Some of them have been local, some of them have very much been from out of town

and have come in to ferment more of a

protest. But the protests began around the Bell Hotel, which was housing asylum seekers,

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