"I'm angry, I'm mad and I'm frustrated," Julie says, clutching onto her Union Jack flag with exasperation.

She is sat on a wall opposite the Cresta Court hotel in Altrincham with her friend Anne. They are surrounded by more than 100 fellow protesters, who are waving flags, chanting and with some hurling abuse at the people on the other side of the road.

Some of those people are refugees who are living in the hotel that was closed last year and repurposed as asylum seeker accommodation . In front of the hotel are counter-protesters, standing in 'solidarity' with its occupants.

They are also making a lot of noise, calling the protesters 'Nazis'. In return, they are called 'traitors' - as are the police.

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