A young girl has been sent back to Ukraine after being unable to secure a UK visa despite having a sponsor.
Alika Zubets, aged four, was considered to be an 'unaccompanied minor' under Home Office regulations, as she was travelling with her grandmother Tanya, rather than her parents.
Alika fought to come to the UK to join her extended family in Newcastle, after she and Tanya fled to Poland with her parents' written consent in March, Stoke-on-Trent Live reports.