Border World

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.

Almost 71 million people are now classed as refugees - up 2 million in a year - the United Nations has revealed.

In the first of the series, meet Walaa who left Syria with her family when war broke out.

An estimated 5.7 million people have fled the Syria, according to the United Nations.

World leaders joined the Queen as she marked the momentous events on the beaches of Normandy in June, 1944.

The project will highlight the extent of damage being done to land and oceans through plastic pollution.

Some of our region's skygazers were awake bright and early this morning to catch a glimpse of the rare super blood wolf moon.