The community in a small town north of Belfast has driven out Roma migrants after two 14-year-old boys from the ethnic group were charged with attempted rape.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing mounting pressure from weekly rallies outside houses sheltering asylum seekers, as over 100,000 protesters attended an anti-immigration march organised by anti-Islam campaigner Tommy Robinson.
ABC Foreign Correspondent’s Barbara Miller visits the Northern Irish town of Ballymena to speak to the locals and the migrants who were forced to leave.
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