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The Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge (L) is pictured moored to the quayside at Portland Port in Portland, UK.

Contentious barge docked on UK coast begins hosting first migrants

  • “Bibby Stockholm” accepted the first of up to 500 young, male inhabitants due to stay there, after a series of delays
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Accommodation barge the “Bibby Stockholm” will be situated in Portland Port in Dorset, southern England.

Barge to house migrants arrives off UK coast

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