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Churchill speech and Robinson chants as about 100 protesters gather at asylum hotel

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For the past few weeks demonstrators have marched to the Brook Hotel in Bowthorpe from the Norkie pub on a Sunday.

Flags and signs outside the Brook Hotel in Bowthorpe(Image: Peter Walsh, Newsquest)

But this week's protest was switched to Saturday (October 11) after organisers rescheduled the demonstration after participants were asked for their opinions.

About 100 protesters gathered to make their opposition known to the government's decision to use the site to house asylum seekers.

Protesters attending the demonstration(Image: Peter Walsh)

They listened to a recorded message from one of the organisers, Glen Saffer, who was not present, but thanked people from attending and telling attendees migrants at the Brook Hotel were still “coming out and committing crime”.

A vocal gaggle of demonstrators - many draped in Union Jack flags and St George's crosses - had arrived shortly before 3pm to the musical backdrop of "Rule Britannia" and chanting the name of British far-right activist Tommy Robinson.

Protesters arriving(Image: Peter Walsh, Newsquest)

The group, who were escorted by police vans, arrived to an array of Union Jack flags and........

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