Rocks and eggs were thrown at police as they tried to protect a hotel near London being used as accommodation for asylum seekers, prosecutors said Monday as a man arrested in connection with the incident appeared in court.

Protesters have gathered outside a hotel housing asylum-seeking families after the Home Office planned to change the occupants to single adult males. About 60 people shouting "we want our country back" gathered on the opposite side of the road to the hotel in Diss,