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A YOUNG Syrian refugee was reunited with his elder brother on Thursday night, after a groundbreaking court ruling ordered that four young people stranded in the Calais refugee camp be brought to Britain.
The 17-year-old was overcome with emotion as he met his brother in London, who was smuggled into the country in a tomato lorry.
Refugee Aid campaigners said they were “delighted” with the development but said that the Conservative government still has a lot to answer for and criticised its slow response to the refugee crisis.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
