Interviewed on BBC's Look East (and later on Newsnight), Heidi Allen, South Cambridgeshire's MP, reported on her first hand experience of seeing unaccompanied Syrian refugee children on the Greek island of Lesbos over the weekend. There's a longer interview with BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's Dotty Macleod, too.
And in the The Sun – which picked up on Heidi's plea for a greater international resource to help with vital administration matters on the island.
She was there as a guest of Save the Children and was moved to tears as she recalled the suffering she saw in the refugee camps.
"I was shocked by what I saw," she said. "Yes, they are being fed twice a day, but there is something awful about people queuing for food, hanging what few clothes they have out to dry on trees.
"I'll never forget one woman walking around with two children, her face so obliterated with bruises and wounds – we have got to do more to stop people making these journeys.
"On the ground, it is an administration thing – we need more processing and more people there to deal with this.
"There are families in Europe that are the homes for these children and it's right those children should find their families. The last resort must be to take those children to where they don't have any family member at all.
"I don't think I'll ever see things the same way again – it's about human beings, that's all it is. There's nothing more fundamental than caring for these people.
"And when you see the pride and the dignity they are trying to maintain – I remember on lady: a tiny bit of pink lipstick, that's all she had left, a little pink ribbon in her hair - 'I'm still a woman and I have dignity'.
"It needs an international response – and together we'll do it, I know we will."
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Heidi Allen MP
South Cambridgeshire
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