Border Syria

The 48-year-old says the 7.8 magnitude earthquake earlier this year did more damage in 80 seconds than cities flattened by months of military bombing.

Shireen, 21, moved to Carlisle with her mother but was forced to leave the rest of her family behind in Syria.

In the second part of our series, we met Sameer Al Assad who spent several years in a refugee camp with his wife and three children.