Leased as part of the UK government’s cost-cutting asylum strategy, the vessel became a symbol of wider debates on ...

Now the barge has sailed out of Portland Harbour in Dorset for the final time after the contract expired this month. While the Bibby Stockholm ... more than £2m for housing the Bibby, refused ...

Protests outside asylum accommodation and rising right-wing extremism in Britain were used in a Government campaign to reduce ...

open image in gallery Leonard Farruku died on the Bibby Stockholm barge in December 2023 (PA) All asylum seekers were moved off the Bibby Stockholm barge by the end of December last year ...

and the barge itself departed from Portland Harbour on January 31 after the government chose not to renew a Home Office contract. The Bibby Stockholm was capable of housing up to 500 people and ...

The Bibby Stockholm has left Portland Port. The controversial barge, has been there for a year ... Tory government in a bid to cut the cost of housing migrants in hotels. But Labour has said ...

The travel firm behind the controversial Bibby Stockholm migrant barge has been handed another £150m government contract, just months after Labour shut the vessel down following a litany of issues.

As news emerged on Thursday that tugboats were taking the Bibby Stockholm out of UK waters, the tagline "Bye bye Bibby" started popping up on social media - but how do people in the Dorset town ...

The barge first arrived in Dorset in July 2023 ... it was announced in July 2024 the vessel would stop housing asylum seekers from January 2025 as part of the new government's overhaul of the ...

The travel firm behind the controversial Bibby Stockholm migrant barge has been handed another £150m government contract, just months after Labour shut the vessel down following a litany of issues.