Three men have been arrested after police officers were injured during a protest outside a hotel used to house asylum seekers in Epping.

The protest on Friday outside the Bell Hotel came after the government won a court challenge which means asylum seekers can continue to be housed at the Essex hotel.

Essex Police said one man was arrested on suspicion of violent disorder, a second man was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer, and a third man was arrested on suspicion of drink driving after a car was driven on the wrong side of the road towards a police cordon.

All three remain in custody, police said.

The force added on Friday evening that a group which came to Epping after attending a protest in Cheshunt “remain in the area” and that a dispersal order has been put in

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