Eyewitnesses say police van set on fire and counter-protestors surrounded
Disturbances have broken out outside a hotel in the Knowsley area of Liverpool after the several hundred demonstrators from the far-right Patriotic Alternative protested against asylum seekers who have been housed in a local hotel by the Home Office.
Eyewitnesses said that the protest at the Suites Hotel turned violent when far-right supporters set a police van and its equipment on fire.
