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Police escort 149 migrants after £350,000 anti-migrant protests
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- Police escorted about 149 migrants from a small boat at Fort Blockhouse to Dover coaches.
- Council leader Zoe Huggins said protest and clean-up cost at least £350,000, seeking Home Office reimbursement.
- Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones said each anti-migrant protest costs police around £150,000.
- Twelve people were arrested during the protest.
- Demonstrators set resident bins on fire, scattered nails on roads and tipped portable toilets onto streets.