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Is Middlesbrough the UK's Germany? BBC News
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12:51Now PlayingMiddlesbrough is the only place in the UK that has more than one in 200 of the local population as an asylum seeker. Why is this?
This summer has seen one of the biggest movements of people across Europe since World War II . More than a million have fled the conflict in Syria and political instability in parts of Africa.
The number of people seeking asylum in the UK has risen by more than a fifth this year and those high levels are expected to continue. No more than one in every 200 of the local population should be an asylum seeker according to government guidance.
Jim Reed has been to Middlesbrough, the only place in the UK that breaks that limit, with one in 186.
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