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‘WE HAD JUST FOUR DAYS TO PREPARE FOR THEIR ARRIVAL’

Basma Gale, 41, is a holistic health coach and lives in Canterbury with her husband Tom, 41, their children, eight and six, and a Ukrainian family of four.

When my father-in-law, an MP, called us from Calais this month, I wasn’t prepared when he asked if we could take in a family of four. The Ukrainian family were fleeing their home city of Lviv, where the bombs and bullets of the Russian Army had rained down around them.

My husband of 20 years Tom, 41, and I

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