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Tensions in village over plans for refugee site as posters go up

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Several signs have been placed around Badersfield opposing the bid to temporarily house 200 Afghan migrants at the former officers' mess at RAF Coltishall.

The posters, stuck to lampposts using tape over this weekend, read: "We don't want any illegal immigrants in Badersfield."

Jaguar House in Badersfield(Image: Brittany Woodman/Newsquest)

The plans submitted to Broadland Council are for the Grade-II listed Jaguar House to be used to house Afghan families, who have refugee status and are eligible to relocate and resettle in the UK.

The families who would move there are not asylum seekers or illegal immigrants but........

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