The Home Office has more than doubled the number of asylum seekers at an army training camp in less than a month but is refusing to comment on an alleged knife attack.

Council bosses say male migrants in Crowborough, East Sussex, have increased from 27 to 80 since January 22, when the first group arrived under the cover of darkness.

At the Wealden District Council meeting this week members asked leaders for clarity on an alleged stabbing when a health worker was taken to hospital on February 5.

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