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Exclusive: A gap in the Home Office’s evacuation rules means that high-school students with prestigious scholarships, like teenager Dania Alfaranji, have slipped through the cracks, reports Maira Butt

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ania Alfaranji should be well into her final year at a prestigious English boarding school. Like many teenage girls, she imagines what her dorm would look like and what clothes she might wear. The world should be full of possibilities.