At the heart of a seaside town on Lincolnshire's east coast, three big Victorian houses stand just a few yards from each other on the same long road.
Until recently, they contained flats for Skegness people of all ages who paid £500 or so a month to live in them.
Today all that has changed. The former renters are no longer there.
The new residents, we have discovered, are 21 young Somalian and Afghan men, some fresh off the Channel boats, who told the Daily Mail – as they smoked cigarettes in the gardens – of their delight at having a free roof in their newly adopted country.
If this sounds an extraordinary reversal of fortunes for Skegness locals, it is a microcosm of what is happening across the country.
