A Dumfries family has opened its home to two Ukrainian relatives after finally getting the green-light on entry visas at the weekend.
Mike Dear and his Ukrainian-born wife, Elvira, travelled across Europe to collect her sister, Krystyna Sin and 12-year-old nephew, Den, in the Czech Republic where they had fled from their home in Odessa.
They took them to Amsterdam to collect their visas and hoped to board a ferry home last week. But the short time they expected to be in the Netherlands turned into more than a week as they tried to cut through British red tape.
