Residents’ fears over migrant barge
"People are worried about these young blokes," Mr Richards says.
Representatives of the town and county councils, the local NHS and Dorset Police face angry residents, joined on a temperamental video link by officials from the Home Office.The barge has previously been used to house homeless people, asylum seekers and offshore workers Then the discussion turns to the state of Portland's public services. "It can take four weeks to see a doctor," a woman complains. There is no dentist and the pharmacy's overrun, the meeting hears.
As the chair struggles to wrap up the debate another man shouts one final comment: "Where is your duty of care to us? We should come first."
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