A number of protests and counter protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers will take place across the UK on Saturday.

Minister for local transport Simon Lightwood urged people to plan days out by bus ‘without worrying’ about the cost of travel.

The wife of a Tory councillor – who was was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers – was released from prison on Thursday.

The transcripts, published on Friday, show the convicted sex trafficker insisted she did not introduce the Duke of York to Jeffrey Epstein.