Outside the Best Western Brook Hotel in Norwich around 300 anti-migrant protesters sang along to Sweet Caroline, Neil Diamond's song about good times never feeling so good, but that wasn't their message for the migrants living inside the hotel.

In a town where average rents have increased faster than the rest of England, and hospital waiting times are some of the worst in the country, many who turned out complained about the cost of housing asylum seekers.

Stuart, a Norfolk businessman holding a giant St George's flag, said: "I see my company paying north of a hundred thousand pounds a year in tax and the money is not going back into our system, back into our NHS, when it takes two million pounds a year to keep one hotel open."

In a theme that we've seen in protests across the count

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