#local-protests

#local-protests

Crowborough training camp received 27 men in the early hours of Thursday morning, a statement said, which will be scaled up to 500 over several months. It is one of two military camps identified by ministers to house 900 people the other being in Inverness. Using language that reflects the home secretary's hardline stance on housing asylum seekers, Shabana Mahmood said the move was part of a plan to move claimants out of hotels and into large scale accommodation.

The tech behemoth was planning to rezone the acreage for the data center, but then withdrew the plans at a raucous Monday meeting where the Indianapolis City Council was expected to vote on whether to approve the rezoning, according to NPR affiliate WFYI. Cheers reportedly broke out among the overflowing crowd when attorneys from Google said they were pulling out.

The delay is a blow to the administration of Mayor Eric Adams, who announced the project next to Governor Kathy Hochul last spring, and a victory for the local politicians and residents who wanted to send the project back to the drawing board.