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Lord Alf Dubs on stage addressing the crowd during a rally in Parliament Square, London, after taking part in the Refugees Welcome March in a bid to urge the Government to take more action on the migrant crisis, in September 2016
LORD DUBS urged the British government today to take in child refugees from Greece after a devastating fire ripped through Europe’s largest refugee camp.
The Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos was destroyed after fires ripped through the sprawling network of tents, containers and makeshift structures on Tuesday and Wednesday night, leaving 13,000 people homeless.
Most of the camp residents, including 4,000 children, are now sleeping on the street with little access to food and water.
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RON JACOBS welcomes a book that tells the story of the far right in Greece from the perspective of migrants