One, Alice Sturrock from Edinburgh, said: “I did not think at 22 I would be on fire patrol in a refugee camp. Earlier in the day, French police detained a number of young people amid continuing chaos, as new fires erupted in sections of the Calais camp. The Home Office confirmed that a bus-load of Calais children arrived in Croydon on Thursday, with more expected in the coming days. The teenager from DarfurFive of his 16 years were spent in a refugee camp in Darfur, but Hussein’s last five months have been spent in the Calais camp, where he hoped to obtain legal sanctuary somewhere. Despite the poor conditions, the Calais camp had been a better place to be: “The Jungle is better than Zamzam.

Source: The Guardian October 27, 2016 19:47 UTC