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Exclusive: ‘They are destroying and taking away my life,’ says Nicholas Thornton, who remains trapped in an Essex mental health unit

The former foreign secretary, 54, jetted into Rwanda this week in his new role as the man in charge of bringing down Britain's record immigration levels. Katie Strick charts his career so far

Danny Macklin, who left his role at AFC Wimbledon in September, went missing in Essex

When 200 unaccompanied child refugees arrived in Harwich, Essex, in early December 1938, they did so through a new visa-waiver scheme. These children from Berlin were escaping Nazi persecution, and eventually more than 10,000 children – mostly from Jewish families – would arrive in Britain via the same process.