The Home Office's bid to challenge the decision to temporarily block the owner of the Bell Hotel in Epping from housing asylum seekers is due to be heard at the Court of Appeal on Thursday.Last week, Mr Justice Eyre granted an interim injunction to Epping Forest District Council, stopping the hotel's owner, Somani Hotels, from using the Essex hotel to accommodate asylum seekers beyond September 12.

The Home Office's bid to challenge the decision to temporarily block the owner of the Bell Hotel in Epping from housing asylum seekers is due to be heard at the Court of Appeal on Thursday.Last week, Mr Justice Eyre granted an interim injunction to Epping Forest District Council, stopping the hotel's owner, Somani Hotels, from using the Essex hotel to accommodate asylum seekers beyond September 12.