While the Bibby Stockholm was touted as a cheap method to house migrants - which was costing the taxpayer £8m to put thousands of migrants up in hotels - it also garnered a lot of criticism.

The 222-bedroom barge arrived in Portland Port in ... Dorset Council has been opposed to the siting of the Bibby Stockholm at Portland Port from the outset. 'The council actively considered ...

An asylum seeker who was living on the Bibby Stockholm barge when he violently assaulted a fellow immigrant last summer has appeared in court wearing a pair of trainers worth £185. In a hearing ...

Some 39 people had been housed on the large Bibby Stockholm barge on the southern coast of the UK in a move that human rights campaigners had already called inhumane. Ministers said the barge was ...

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 ...

2 migrants on Bibby barge arrested for 'sex attack on woman in club' THE pair aged 24 and 27 were held after the alleged assault four miles from where the floating accommodation block is moored.

THE Bibby Stockholm barge is set to begin a new life elsewhere after its time at Portland comes to an end. The barge, which has been at Portland Port for a year-and-a-half, had up until recently ...

I haven't been imprisoned in my entire life, but now when people ask I say 'yeah, I've been on the Bibby Stockholm,'" he added. Local opinion in Portland was mixed and tense. Most months there ...

The Bibby Stockholm was capable of housing up to 500 people and was billed as a cost-effective solution to the migrant housing problem by the Tory government after its commission in April 2023.

Plans to start moving asylum seekers on to the Bibby Stockholm barge have been delayed amid fire safety concerns. The Home Office had been planning to send the first 50 migrants to the barge ...