Residents in the villages of North Somerset have spoken of how their year and their lives have been changed by a decision by the Home Office to house people seeking asylum in the UK in hotels in their local area.
People living in communities from Weston-super-Mare to Blagdon began 2022 with wars, migrant crises and refugee issues on their TV screens rather than in their daily lives.
But now they are ending it with new friends from across the world and in their own villages, and a regular calendar of events and projects to get involved with, in a remarkable story of how one rural corner of the West Country responded when a large group of people turned up, almost literally, on their doorstep.
