Sue Reid

Last week, the disgruntled 31-year-old ran away from his home in Devon to the ferry port of Dover in Kent, from where he happily returned to France, hidden by smugglers in the back of a lorry.

At 11am yesterday, the Border Force vessel Ranger drew into the Kent port of Dover carrying 64 migrants. One will go down in history as the 200,000th migrant to reach these shores.

The Daily Mail has tracked the young man to the £134-a-night Crowne Plaza in Basingstoke. He arrived there on a Home Office coach on Saturday afternoon, 32 hours after reaching Dover.

Manchester has the third highest rate of homelessness in the country - after Birmingham and London - according to housing charity Shelter.

Soon after his illegal arrival at Dover, Sami was sent by the Home Office to a hotel where, he insists, he was sucked into a perilous world where drug-taking among the male migrants was rife.

Seared into Trijntje's memory is the click of the front door closing as her 14-year-old daughter, Tamar, crept out of the house in the middle of the night.

Hamburg's famous City Park is a glorious place. Yet it was here, six years ago, that a hideous gang rape took place which shook citizens of the German port to their core.

As a child, Jessica would go back to her family's smart home for supper with her father Jim, a successful property developer, mother Jennifer, and her sister Maryon.

In horrific scenes never witnessed in the post-apartheid era, black foreigners are being chased from their homes, beaten up and having their lives threatened.

Sue Reid is the Books Editor for the Times-Age's weekly page on Wednesdays. In 2026 publishers have created the year for foreign correspondents to pen their memoirs.