(AFP) The village of Linton-on-Ouse is usually a sleepy place, but its residents are up in arms at a UK government plan to house up to 1,500 asylum seekers, whose numbers will dwarf local residents.
In mid-April, 43-year-old Steve says he was walking his dog in the village in North Yorkshire when he learnt of the proposal from visiting reporters.
They “asked what I thought of what was going on,” Steve tells AFP.
It was then he found out that ministers want to open a centre for male asylum seekers in the heart of the village, in northern England.
The project is based on a similar one in Greece, which has seen a wave of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea land on its islands.
