A PROTEST against plans to lock hundreds of asylum seekers out of their homes is to be held in Glasgow.

After the shock move was revealed in today's Evening Times, campaigners rallied in a bid to halt the eviction of 300 people from their city homes.

A Facebook event has been set up to organise the demonstration, with 200 people already planning to attend, on Buchanan Street at 6pm tomorrow.

The site reads: "The mass eviction of 300 refugees is set to take place across Glasgow city over the next week. Serco who are the private housing firm who deal with accommodation for refugees have deployed beyond disgusting tactics to displace people from their homes. Serco will issue "lock change" notices on Monday giving residents a week to get out with nowhere else to go.

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"With the night shelter and housing schemes already massively stretched, hundreds of people in Glasgow will be facing street homelessness and will be extremely vulnerable."

As previously reported, private housing firm Serco will issue "lock change" notices today to families they have been told cannot stay in Britain, giving them a week to exit the property.

Jenni Halliday, who manages the firm's refugee housing project, said: "Whilst we are sympathetic to their plight, we believe we have been more than supportive of these individuals by providing them with an additional period of housing in which to make alternative arrangements but we cannot continue to provide free housing indefinitely.

"As they no longer have any right to continue to live in the property we provide, we have therefore started legal proceedings to repossess our properties."