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#TheJourney: ITV News follows refugees as they travel through Europe

The huge numbers of refugees willing to spend weeks crossing land and sea to reach Europe are showing no sign of letting up.

For the next week ITV News will be following the vast tide of people sweeping out of the Middle East and across Europe.

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Border agency: 1.2m refugees entered EU in first 10 months of this year

efugees walk from the railway station in Sentilj to refugee center on the border with Austria, accompanied by police. Credit: PA

Some 1.2 million refugees and migrants entered the European Union in the first 10 months of this year, the border agency Frontex said.

This is four times more than in the whole of 2014.

However, the total number is lower than that because many people, especially refugees who reach Greece then leave the EU again by crossing into Macedonia and re-cross the EU external border into countries like Hungary, are counted twice.

150,000
refugees made the journey from Turkey to Greece in October

Frontex said in a statement that more than 150,000 people made the journey from Turkey to Greece in October, bringing the total arriving on Greek islands to more than 540,000 in the January-October period.

140,000
the number of refugees that have crossed from Libya to Italy by boat so far this year.

However, the number of people crossing by boat from Libya to Italy was just 8,500 in October, half the level of a year earlier. Some 140,000 have made that crossing so far this year, compared with nearly 155,000 in the same period of 2014.

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