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    Council loses High Court fight over migrant plan for disused Dambuster airfield

    by Brian Farmer Dec 06, 2023 2 minutes
    Source: PA Wire

    Council bosses who argued that Government plans to use land which once formed part of a famous RAF base to house asylum seekers should be quashed have lost a High Court fight.

    West Lindsey District Council, in Gainsborough, , argued that a decision to use land at the disused RAF Scampton airfield, where the Dambusters were based during the Second World War, was

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