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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Ann Stenhouse & Benjamin Lynch

What is Windrush scandal as UK celebrates day for vital generation who rebuilt country

Brits are today celebrating Windrush Day, despite an ongoing scandal in which people were wrongly deported from the UK.

The day celebrates when black immigrants from the Caribbean migrated to the UK in search of work, filling the huge labour shortages left after World War 2.

This year's Windrush Day is marking 74 years since Caribbean immigrants arrived in the UK and a new statue, funded to the tune of £1 million, has been unveiled at Waterloo Station.

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