Final demonstration to Tinsley House detention centre at the end of the Noborder Camp at Gatwick airport, September 2007. [ 13:18 min ]

"Welcome demonstration" on the first day during the Noborder Camp at Gatwick Airport, September 2007.

Protest at the Arora Hotel in Heathrow against the companies plans to convert a Hotel at Gatwick Airport into an "Immigration Centre".

Protest against WH Tours , Crawley, a company which hires coaches for mass deportations, used to transport detainees from detention centres to airports.

IMMIGRATION CENTRE PLANNING PERMISSION REFUSED

Last night Crawley Borough Council Development Control Committee rejected by 14 votes to 1 the planning application by Arora International Hotels Ltd. for permission to convert the 254 bed Mercure Hotel in Povey Cross Road, Crawley into an immigration detention centre.

The "Aurora Campaign" was a campaign by various NoBorders groups against the plans of the Aurora Hotel Group to turn their four star hotel at Gatwick into a detention centre.

On Monday 25th January 2010 Arora's planning application was defeated by 14 votes to 1 at Crawley Council's Planning Meeting, and the Hotel Group dropped their plans.

No Border activists held a demo outside Crawley Town Hall before the meeting and a number went into the meeting.

More articles on Arora : 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Radio Interview on Arora | Press Release 26 January | Indymedia report 26th January| Crawley News report 27th January

Radio Interview (by Radio Free Brighton) with people from NoBorders Brighton about the planned conversion of the Gatwick Arora Hotel into an "Immigration Removel Centre" (25 January 2010)

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