Sitting behind 15ft metal fencing and two sets of guarded gates, the 222 tiny cabins on the Home Office’s first asylum seeker barge await the imminent arrival of their occupants. The three-level Bibby ...

Standing behind a 15ft metal fencing and two sets of guarded gates, the Bibby Stockholm - the Home Office’s first asylum seeker barge - has stood empty since it arrived in Dorset three weeks ago. But ...

FILE - A view of the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge, which would have housed up to 500 asylum seekers, at Portland Port in Dorset, England, on July 21, 2023. The British government said Tuesday, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The UK is set to start housing hundreds of asylum seekers in a barge moored on the Dorset coast. The barge looks eerily like a ...

In the damp December cold, a blue bus stops near Weymouth town centre in southwest England. A few men get off, relieved to be spending a few hours away from what they call their "prison" -- a barge ...

LONDON — The British government said Tuesday it will scrap the controversial use of a barge to house asylum-seekers off the south coast of England as part of its immigration system overhaul. The ...

This is the Bibby Stockholm, a bleak floating accommodation block that the British government is renting to house hundreds of asylum seekers. The 222-cabin barge is moored on the southern coast of ...

LONDON — The British government said Tuesday it will scrap the controversial use of a barge to house asylum-seekers off the southern coast of England as part of its immigration system overhaul. The ...