Stood in his neat and modern kitchen, Dere Amo cooks a pan full of pasta to last him several days.
Next to the hob a Ramadan decoration hangs down from a cupboard door, across from a microwave and an old Panasonic 40-inch TV that sit atop a jet-black worktop.
The room looks out onto a sparsely-decorated living area with bare white walls against which are two black two-seater sofas and a dinner table on which two wooden chairs are stacked.
Dere, 23, who is fleeing from armed militia and religious fanatics in Iraq, lives with three other men from Kuwait, Afghanistan and Sudan in a four-bed Victorian end-terrace in Burnley.
Once the capital of the cotton weaving world during the Industrial Revolution, the former mill town – along with its neighbours of Accrington and Blackburn – has become a golden triangle for asylum seekers.
