No to the Barge and Stand Up to Racism groups come together outside Dorset port gates where the Bibby Stockholm has docked

Police had to step in to separate two rival groups protesting against the arrival of a barge that will house 500 asylum seekers in the Dorset town of Portland.

Members of one group, No to the Barge, claimed women and children would be in physical danger from the asylum seekers and complained that local services would be overstretched.

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