Around 100 people gathered outside a hotel housing Afghans on Saturday (Sep 13) including on a boat with the banner 'deport all foreign criminals'.

The Tickled Trout Hotel, near Samlesbury, in Lancashire, is currently housing people who supported British troops during operations in Afghanistan.

It is also home to those who have had to flee their homeland as they would be 'at risk of murder or persecution by the Taliban'.

Many protesters held England flags and banners and two people were also spotted sitting in a dinghy in the River Ribble, unfurling a banner stating 'ban foreign criminals'.

It comes as more than 110,000 people took part in a far-right street protest organised by the activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson in London.

A counter protest near the Trickled Trout Hotel saw four people put up signs outside on the fence to the hotel.

It attracted some of those at the anti-asylum seeker protest who wanted to share their views and explain why they were at the hotel.

One of the pro-migration demonstrators explained that people should be just as bothered about the convictions of Donald Trump as about other alleged crimes of people who were travelling to the country.

Both protests took place peacefully during the afternoon.

Later a number of speakers took to a small stage to address the gathered crowd.

One speaker told the audience that studies had shown that 'diversity did not work as the cultures were different' - in particular reference to Islam.

At the same time, he called for unity and said one per cent of the elites wanted us to 'hate on one another'.

Speeches tended to be based around how British culture was incompatible with other cultures and how the nation is being invaded.

Some of the speakers were keen to share unfounded claims such as the notion there would ‘be a civil war in the country in five years' or other depressing scenarios for the country.

One speaker introduced as Leo warned the audience of an 'ISIS terror plot to invade primary schools, nurseries, pre-schools and chop the heads off our children'.

He would later tell the audience that Nigel Farage was a charlatan, if the party he was representing was in power, they would 'deport five million illegal immigrants' and those with visas.

One man who did not wish to be named said he would still have been here if the hotel was made up of Ukrainians: "If there was a threat to my children, then I would be here."

He added: "It is not just them guys but all over the country."

He did not believe the residents had been vetted and 'you didn't know who they are'.

Another man known as Ste, from the Christian Constitutionalists Alliance of Nations, said: "Am I OK with immigration? I don't mind immigration. The meeting of minds is a wonderful thing."

"However, what I am not in favour of is someone breaking into my house I don't know. That bothers me."

He added: "Any person who comes to this country who commits a crime should be deported. Regardless of where they are from."

Police were on site for much of the afternoon but kept a low profile and distance.