WELCOME to the grey, sloppy mud of the Grande-Synthe refugee camp, located to the west of Dunkirk.

It is only 170 miles from Petersfield by road yet 3,000 people live in these shocking conditions, waiting for the chance to find a way across the Channel to start a new life in the United Kingdom.

The true scale of the refugee problem came to light when we delivered the aid donated by Post readers from across East Hampshire to the camp.

More articles online in the coming days about the aide donated by Petersfield residents delivered to Grand Synthe refugee camp near Dunkirk by The Post editor Graeme Moir, reporter Lewis Brown and photographer Innes Marlow.