Ukrainian teenager faces deportation from Cornwall

The community in a Cornish town has rallied round to help a 14-year-old girl who faces deportation. Iryna Mynich has been living in Bodmin for three years after the death of her mother in Ukraine. But the Home Office says she must return.

Her foster parents have set up a shop and are selling produce donated by local traders to help raise the money they need for legal fees to fight Iryna's deportation.

Iryna's only close relative is an elderly grandmother with dementia, but the Home Office is insisting she is sent back to an uncertain future in Ukraine.

Firms from the Bodmin area have donated clothes, books and toys. One of those who helped to set up the shop was Roisin Morris.

The Home Office says it doesn't comment on individual cases.

A temporary charity shop has been opened in Bodmin by the foster parents of a Ukrainian teenager facing deportation.

Terence and Heather Voysey brought 14-year-old Iryna Mynich to the UK after her mother was murdered. But Iryna now faces being deported back to the Ukraine. Her foster parents say she has nowhere to go. They've opened the shop to raise money for legal fees to fight to keep Iryna in the UK.

Today is the last day of trading for the shop. Most of it's products have been donated by local traders.

The Home Office has written to a 14-year-old Ukrainian girl living in Cornwall to tell her she's being deported.

Teenager Iryna Mynich was brought to the UK by Terence and Heather Voysey after her mother was murdered.

But the Government says she must go back to live with her elderly and infirm grandmother.

The Voyseys are campaigning to keep her with them at their home in Bodmin.