Claims that a hotel near Exeter Airport have one floor entirely full of young asylum seeking men have been denied by the hotel.

The party’s annual accounts show they may never pay former chief executive Peter Murrell back for his outstanding £60,000 loan.

The number of asylum applications in the UK has reached a new record high while the backlog in cases has dropped below 100,000 for the first time in four years, official figures show. A total of ...