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Campaigners gathered this weekend for their regular demonstration outside Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre, to show support for the women held at the facility.

Festival held to celebrate cultures from around the world which are represented locally

Real Hope café, opened in october 2022, produces a safe space for refugees to learn new skills such as free barista lessons, and sessions to ease the volunteers into life in the UK, including conversations about their rights.Designed to be run by asylum seekers and refugees and aims to prevent exploitation and teach new skills,"The only job you can get is cleaning – I can do much more,” said H. Learning a skill such as Barista gives refugee volunteers a sense of pride, confidnece and skills to intergrate into new country.

Annual Festival of Culture celebrates the diversity of the district

The Red Dress has visited the North-east for the first time to showcases the stories of Stockton's refugees

The article reports on a petition which calls for people to condemn attempts to divide communities and create fear and hatred against people seekng refuge in the UK. This comes after a fireworks were launched at police and police vans during a protest outside a Hotel in Kirby where people seeking refuge in the UK were being housed.

The article cited lots of examples of contributions of migrants to the British culture - food diversity, sports personalities, artists

Cafe in Lancaster gives refugees the chance to give back to the community and let others sample their native food

Migrant Gloria Hanley dscusses her experience coming to leeds to train as a midwife discussing how leeds is constantly changing and thriving even in comparison to London.Her work is included in an exhibiton in leeds city museum that displays heirlooms that show the positive contributions of Jewish, Irish, Muslim and Sikh communities to the city.

Figures show nearly 40% of our top cultural figures come from migrant or minority ethnic backgrounds – but barriers still exist

The vast majority of business leaders in the UK believe that asylum seekers should be allowed to work, according to a survey that challenges the employment ban on people awaiting decisions on asylum applications.Campaigners say the status quo marginalises asylum seekers and allows the valuable skills of often highly qualified professionals to go to waste

Syrian Refugee Imad tells the yorkshire evening post his and his familites experiences of their tramatic jouney form the war in syria, displaying his amazement of his and his familites experiences with resettlement program in leeds. His children are hsppy getting to know their new surroundings and enjoying school and their newly leanred song 'Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’.

Residents of leeds have built lasting friendships with Syrian refugees,reciprocating kindness to one another.Leeds is credited one of the most welcoming cities for 315 people escaping war and persecution in their homeland.

Lancaster organisation is giving a voice to people from home and abroad whose stories have never been heard before.

Nobel winners' ‘super-material’ graphene is seen as a break-through for the future of science and medicine. Professors Sir Andre Geim and Sir Konstantin Novoselov – who developed the substance in the Manchester university lab – were at Manchester Town Hall for the honour. Sir Richard Leese, council leader, commented on the great contribution of immigrants to the city. The decision to honour the pair was made after a motion was submitted by Lord Mayor Coun Naeem ul Hussan, who praised the professor’s work for helping to secure additional research and collaborative contracts in Manchester

Professor Bogdanow left her fortunes to Manchester University which will use the money for projects, lectures around Holocaust memorial Day. The article praise Prof Bogdanow who overcame adversity to become a leading scholar in her field and who was much valued in her team