A PROTEST group has hit back at the Home Office after plans for an asylum seekers centre have failed to be delivered.

PACT (Protest at the Asylum Centre at Throckmorton) is calling on the Home Office to come clean over its plans.

Wychavon District Council has not received a planning application to build on the site although it received a letter from the Home Office to say Throckmorton had been chosen as one of the sites for an asylum seekers centre.

"It's been four months since the news leaked out and still there is no official word about the actual plans," said Steve Mitchell, one of the organisers of the residents protest group PACT.

PACT has said that when the Home Office does decide to come to Worcestershire, PACT can guarantee them a warm welcome.

"We're holding a meeting at Pershore School on Friday, June 14 and we still have no idea whether Home Office officials will have the decency to attend and listen to people's concerns," said Tom McDonald, chairman of Hill and Moor Parish Council.

More than a thousand people gathered to show their opposition to the centre at