Full list of projected change in population for local areas in England
The projections have been published by the Office for National Statistics.
The list is for 309 areas in England, based on 2021 local authority boundaries.
It reads, from left to right: name of local authority; projected percentage change in population between mid-2022 and mid-2032; estimated size of population in mid-2022 and projected size in mid-2032.
The list is ordered by the size of the percentage change, beginning with the largest.
City of London 48.6% (mid-2022 11,457; mid-2032 17,023)Tower Hamlets 20.4% (mid-2022 323,854; mid-2032 389,845)South Derbyshire 19.2% (mid-2022 111,145; mid-2032 132,463)Stratford-on-Avon 17.4% (mid-2022 138,573; mid-2032 162,678)North West Leicestershire 15.8% (mid-2022 107,666; mid-2032 124,628)South Norfolk 15.5% (mid-2022 144,617; mid-2032 166,982)Salford 15.2% (mid-2022 278,867; mid-2032 321,347)Tewkesbury 15.0% (mid-2022 97,032; mid-2032 111,619)Vale of White Horse 14.9% (mid-2022 142,335; mid-2032 163,566)Harborough 14.4% (mid-2022 100,550; mid-2032 115,004)Central Bedfordshire 14.3% (mid-2022 301,820; mid-2032 345,063)Preston 13.9% (mid-2022 151,869; mid-2032 172,921)Coventry 13.8% (mid-2022 352,889; mid-2032 401,655)East Devon 13.5% (mid-2022 154,374; mid-2032 175,154)Dartford 13.4% (mid-2022 118,810; mid-2032 134,718)Maidstone 13.4% (mid-2022 180,569; mid-2032 204,706)Islington 13.3% (mid-2022 219,594; mid-2032 248,818)Uttlesford 13.2% (mid-2022 92,675; mid-2032 104,867)Camden 13.0% (mid-2022 217,365; mid-2032 245,651)South Gloucestershire 13.0% (mid-2022 295,307; mid-2032 333,598)Cherwell 12.9% (mid-2022 164,189; mid-2032 185,337)Wychavon 12.5% (mid-2022 134,544; mid-2032 151,343)Eastleigh 12.5% (mid-2022 139,056; mid-2032 156,397) Cambridge 12.3% (mid-2022 147,813; mid-2032 165,929)Rugby 12.2% (mid-2022 116,461; mid-2032 130,712)Wokingham 12.2% (mid-2022 181,383; mid-2032 203,488) Ribble Valley 12.1% (mid-2022 63,140; mid-2032 70,790)Mid Suffolk 12.1% (mid-2022 105,726; mid-2032 118,492)Selby 11.9% (mid-2022 93,613; mid-2032 104,720)Rushcliffe 11.6% (mid-2022 121,765; mid-2032 135,855)Manchester 11.0% (mid-2022 566,778; mid-2032 629,326)South Cambridgeshire 11.0% (mid-2022 165,709; mid-2032 183,906)Bedford 11.0% (mid-2022 187,503; mid-2032 208,073)Welwyn Hatfield 10.9% (mid-2022 120,420; mid-2032 133,553)South Oxfordshire 10.8% (mid-2022 151,845; mid-2032 168,232)Westminster 10.7% (mid-2022 209,866; mid-2032 232,354)Tendring 10.6% (mid-2022 151,400; mid-2032 167,509)Horsham 10.6% (mid-2022 148,769; mid-2032 164,513)Colchester 10.5% (mid-2022 194,648; mid-2032 215,166)Cheshire East 10.4% (mid-2022 406,587; mid-2032 448,884)Wyre 10.4% (mid-2022 114,924; mid-2032 126,854)East Hampshire 10.3% (mid-2022 127,285; mid-2032 140,409)Fylde 10.3% (mid-2022 82,990; mid-2032 91,510)Charnwood 10.2% (mid-2022 185,266; mid-2032 204,246)South Holland 10.1% (mid-2022 96,964; mid-2032 106,724)Telford & Wrekin 10.0% (mid-2022 189,000; mid-2032 207,956)Bristol 10.0% (mid-2022 478,636; mid-2032 526,594)Newham 9.9% (mid-2022 357,147; mid-2032 392,601)Cotswold 9.9% (mid-2022 91,360; mid-2032 100,374)Ashford 9.8% (mid-2022 135,741; mid-2032 149,094)Liverpool 9.8% (mid-2022 495,849; mid-2032 544,336)Southwark 9.8% (mid-2022 311,492; mid-2032 341,900)Knowsley 9.8% (mid-2022 157,107; mid-2032 172,423)Test Valley 9.7% (mid-2022 132,924; mid-2032 145,794)Stroud 9.6% (mid-2022 123,225; mid-2032 135,033)West Oxfordshire 9.5% (mid-2022 116,978; mid-2032 128,137)North Devon 9.5% (mid-2022 100,455; mid-2032 110,027)Broadland 9.5% (mid-2022 133,885; mid-2032 146,627)Mid Devon 9.4% (mid-2022 83,812; mid-2032 91,713)Hackney 9.4% (mid-2022 261,632; mid-2032 286,214)Maldon 9.4% (mid-2022 67,568; mid-2032 73,903)Breckland 9.3% (mid-2022 143,459; mid-2032 156,779)South Hams 9.3% (mid-2022 89,808; mid-2032 98,156)Malvern Hills 9.3% (mid-2022 81,070; mid-2032 88,585)Sheffield 9.3% (mid-2022 564,702; mid-2032 617,015)East Cambridgeshire 9.3% (mid-2022 89,438; mid-2032 97,707)Newcastle upon Tyne 9.2% (mid-2022 306,402; mid-2032 334,700)Wealden 9.2% (mid-2022 163,122; mid-2032 178,108)Wakefield 9.1% (mid-2022 357,698; mid-2032 390,301)Warwick 9.1% (mid-2022 151,233; mid-2032 165,009)Blaby 9.1% (mid-2022 104,283; mid-2032 113,732)Swale 9.0% (mid-2022 154,598; mid-2032 168,458)Kensington & Chelsea 8.9% (mid-2022 146,392; mid-2032 159,403)Cornwall 8.8% (mid-2022 575,532; mid-2032 626,317)Lichfield 8.8% (mid-2022 108,337; mid-2032 117,842)Babergh 8.7% (mid-2022 94,287; mid-2032 102,522)Exeter 8.7% (mid-2022 134,811; mid-2032 146,558)Wandsworth 8.6% (mid-2022 329,358; mid-2032 357,770)Mid Sussex 8.6% (mid-2022 155,010; mid-2032 168,298)East Staffordshire 8.5% (mid-2022 125,692; mid-2032 136,395)Greenwich 8.5% (mid-2022 291,879; mid-2032 316,549)Teignbridge 8.5% (mid-2022 135,972; mid-2032 147,462)Bath & North East Somerset 8.4% (mid-2022 195,988; mid-2032 212,527)Bolsover 8.4% (mid-2022 81,541; mid-2032 88,416)Shropshire 8.4% (mid-2022 327,479; mid-2032 354,847)Stafford 8.3% (mid-2022 138,644; mid-2032 150,149)North Warwickshire 8.2% (mid-2022 65,947; mid-2032 71,349)Newark & Sherwood 8.2% (mid-2022 125,056; mid-2032 135,243)Southampton 8.2% (mid-2022 252,151; mid-2032 272,709)Hammersmith & Fulham 8.1% (mid-2022 185,506; mid-2032 200,590)Cheshire West & Chester 8.1% (mid-2022 361,799; mid-2032 391,136)Huntingdonshire 8.0% (mid-2022 184,096; mid-2032 198,906)Leeds 8.0% (mid-2022 820,802; mid-2032 886,763)Winchester 8.0% (mid-2022 130,597; mid-2032 141,012)Canterbury 7.9% (mid-2022 158,282; mid-2032 170,730)Milton Keynes 7.9% (mid-2022 292,517; mid-2032 315,470)Bassetlaw 7.8% (mid-2022 119,985; mid-2032 129,344)West Devon 7.8% (mid-2022 58,212; mid-2032 62,724)Bracknell Forest 7.7% (mid-2022 127,030; mid-2032 136,828)North East Derbyshire 7.7% (mid-2022 103,797; mid-2032 111,781)Chichester 7.6% (mid-2022 126,200; mid-2032 135,792)Arun 7.6% (mid-2022 166,381; mid-2032 179,004)Ryedale 7.6% (mid-2022 55,326; mid-2032 59,501)Reigate & Banstead 7.5% (mid-2022 153,674; mid-2032 165,213)East Hertfordshire 7.5% (mid-2022 151,717; mid-2032 163,069)Hillingdon 7.4% (mid-2022 310,894; mid-2032 333,958)Chelmsford 7.4% (mid-2022 183,414; mid-2032 197,011)Runnymede 7.4% (mid-2022 89,069; mid-2032 95,662)Chorley 7.3% (mid-2022 118,623; mid-2032 127,235)West Lindsey 7.2% (mid-2022 96,788; mid-2032 103,782)Cannock Chase 7.2% (mid-2022 101,144; mid-2032 108,413)Eden 7.1% (mid-2022 55,473; mid-2032 59,427)Somerset West & Taunton 7.1% (mid-2022 159,359; mid-2032 170,670)Lancaster 7.1% (mid-2022 144,561; mid-2032 154,797)Barnet 7.1% (mid-2022 390,346; mid-2032 417,948)Hinckley & Bosworth 7.0% (mid-2022 114,315; mid-2032 122,350)Hambleton 7.0% (mid-2022 92,076; mid-2032 98,519)Bromsgrove 7.0% (mid-2022 100,155; mid-2032 107,119)Basingstoke & Deane 6.9% (mid-2022 187,870; mid-2032 200,875)North Northamptonshire 6.9% (mid-2022 363,244; mid-2032 388,392)Wigan 6.9% (mid-2022 334,014; mid-2032 357,111)Tonbridge & Malling 6.9% (mid-2022 133,664; mid-2032 142,898)Nuneaton & Bedworth 6.9% (mid-2022 135,499; mid-2032 144,798)West Suffolk 6.8% (mid-2022 182,328; mid-2032 194,698)West Northamptonshire 6.8% (mid-2022 429,511; mid-2032 458,565)East Riding of Yorkshire 6.7% (mid-2022 346,316; mid-2032 369,673)Oadby & Wigston 6.7% (mid-2022 58,456; mid-2032 62,348)Rother 6.6% (mid-2022 94,221; mid-2032 100,462)North Somerset 6.5% (mid-2022 219,165; mid-2032 233,467)Havering 6.5% (mid-2022 264,675; mid-2032 281,854)Wolverhampton 6.5% (mid-2022 267,888; mid-2032 285,277)Buckinghamshire 6.4% (mid-2022 560,688; mid-2032 596,751)Amber Valley 6.4% (mid-2022 126,934; mid-2032 135,020)Rochford 6.3% (mid-2022 87,194; mid-2032 92,697)Northumberland 6.3% (mid-2022 324,286; mid-2032 344,717)North Tyneside 6.3% (mid-2022 210,512; mid-2032 223,735)North Kesteven 6.2% (mid-2022 119,689; mid-2032 127,155)Waverley 6.2% (mid-2022 130,329; mid-2032 138,426)Middlesbrough 6.2% (mid-2022 148,583; mid-2032 157,800)Braintree 6.1% (mid-2022 157,605; mid-2032 167,213)Dover 6.1% (mid-2022 117,546; mid-2032 124,720)Stockport 6.1% (mid-2022 297,191; mid-2032 315,310)Torridge 6.1% (mid-2022 68,664; mid-2032 72,852)Sedgemoor 6.1% (mid-2022 126,502; mid-2032 134,210)Rochdale 6.1% (mid-2022 226,950; mid-2032 240,756)County Durham 6.0% (mid-2022 527,704; mid-2032 559,573)Wiltshire 6.0% (mid-2022 516,107; mid-2032 547,220)Forest of Dean 6.0% (mid-2022 87,934; mid-2032 93,232)Harrogate 6.0% (mid-2022 165,906; mid-2032 175,892)South Somerset 6.0% (mid-2022 174,306; mid-2032 184,794)Thurrock 6.0% (mid-2022 176,788; mid-2032 187,436)North Norfolk 6.0% (mid-2022 103,223; mid-2032 109,392)Folkestone & Hythe 6.0% (mid-2022 110,356; mid-2032 116,921)Leicester 5.9% (mid-2022 372,495; mid-2032 394,638)East Lindsey 5.9% (mid-2022 144,400; mid-2032 152,966)Mendip 5.8% (mid-2022 116,924; mid-2032 123,646)Waltham Forest 5.8% (mid-2022 276,312; mid-2032 292,198)Craven 5.7% (mid-2022 57,812; mid-2032 61,124)Guildford 5.7% (mid-2022 146,378; mid-2032 154,739)Hart 5.6% (mid-2022 100,912; mid-2032 106,594)Dorset 5.6% (mid-2022 383,373; mid-2032 404,842)Worthing 5.6% (mid-2022 112,022; mid-2032 118,291)Oxford 5.5% (mid-2022 162,448; mid-2032 171,425)Lambeth 5.5% (mid-2022 316,700; mid-2032 334,170)Darlington 5.5% (mid-2022 109,413; mid-2032 115,436)Boston 5.4% (mid-2022 70,831; mid-2032 74,675)Kingston upon Thames 5.4% (mid-2022 169,082; mid-2032 178,237)East Suffolk 5.4% (mid-2022 247,083; mid-2032 260,436)Nottingham 5.4% (mid-2022 327,424; mid-2032 344,928)Barnsley 5.3% (mid-2022 246,448; mid-2032 259,520)Lewes 5.2% (mid-2022 100,679; mid-2032 105,936)Brighton & Hove 5.2% (mid-2022 278,370; mid-2032 292,790)Melton 5.2% (mid-2022 52,404; mid-2032 55,115)Tunbridge Wells 5.2% (mid-2022 116,175; mid-2032 122,174)Swindon 5.1% (mid-2022 235,652; mid-2032 247,716)Crawley 5.1% (mid-2022 119,700; mid-2032 125,763)Harlow 5.1% (mid-2022 94,444; mid-2032 99,227)Herefordshire 5.1% (mid-2022 188,696; mid-2032 198,232)Broxtowe 5.0% (mid-2022 112,395; mid-2032 118,005)Sutton 4.9% (mid-2022 210,293; mid-2032 220,550)Lewisham 4.9% (mid-2022 299,023; mid-2032 313,514)Harrow 4.8% (mid-2022 261,933; mid-2032 274,599)South Kesteven 4.8% (mid-2022 144,228; mid-2032 151,205)Tamworth 4.7% (mid-2022 79,639; mid-2032 83,416)Norwich 4.7% (mid-2022 144,957; mid-2032 151,793)Peterborough 4.7% (mid-2022 217,657; mid-2032 227,880)Burnley 4.7% (mid-2022 95,655; mid-2032 100,138)Tandridge 4.7% (mid-2022 88,884; mid-2032 93,030)St. Helens 4.6% (mid-2022 184,728; mid-2032 193,301)Brent 4.6% (mid-2022 341,183; mid-2032 356,957)Medway 4.6% (mid-2022 282,643; mid-2032 295,627)Redbridge 4.6% (mid-2022 311,515; mid-2032 325,803)Bexley 4.6% (mid-2022 247,754; mid-2032 259,053)South Staffordshire 4.5% (mid-2022 111,530; mid-2032 116,573)Tameside 4.5% (mid-2022 232,806; mid-2032 243,326)Carlisle 4.5% (mid-2022 111,350; mid-2032 116,328)Fenland 4.5% (mid-2022 103,002; mid-2032 107,604)Hounslow 4.5% (mid-2022 291,199; mid-2032 304,197)Hertsmere 4.3% (mid-2022 108,311; mid-2032 113,007)Dacorum 4.3% (mid-2022 156,167; mid-2032 162,920)Spelthorne 4.3% (mid-2022 103,658; mid-2032 108,126)Trafford 4.3% (mid-2022 236,651; mid-2032 246,832)Barking & Dagenham 4.3% (mid-2022 220,039; mid-2032 229,454)Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole 4.3% (mid-2022 402,559; mid-2032 419,652)Derbyshire Dales 4.3% (mid-2022 71,755; mid-2032 74,806)Sevenoaks 4.2% (mid-2022 121,173; mid-2032 126,280)Walsall 4.2% (mid-2022 286,218; mid-2032 298,293)Doncaster 4.2% (mid-2022 310,964; mid-2032 324,016)Ashfield 4.2% (mid-2022 127,101; mid-2032 132,431)South Ribble 4.2% (mid-2022 112,201; mid-2032 116,903)Gedling 4.1% (mid-2022 117,682; mid-2032 122,550)Gloucester 4.1% (mid-2022 133,530; mid-2032 139,055)Croydon 4.1% (mid-2022 392,610; mid-2032 408,837)King's Lynn & West Norfolk 4.1% (mid-2022 155,720; mid-2032 162,143)Cheltenham 4.1% (mid-2022 119,585; mid-2032 124,498)Rutland 4.1% (mid-2022 41,225; mid-2032 42,908)West Lancashire 4.1% (mid-2022 119,360; mid-2032 124,232)Havant 4.1% (mid-2022 124,839; mid-2032 129,921)Eastbourne 4.0% (mid-2022 102,364; mid-2032 106,457)Kirklees 3.9% (mid-2022 437,794; mid-2032 454,763)Halton 3.9% (mid-2022 129,008; mid-2032 133,986)High Peak 3.9% (mid-2022 91,106; mid-2032 94,626)Ealing 3.8% (mid-2022 370,129; mid-2032 384,268)Epsom & Ewell 3.8% (mid-2022 81,349; mid-2032 84,444)Mansfield 3.8% (mid-2022 111,070; mid-2032 115,247)York 3.8% (mid-2022 204,115; mid-2032 211,775)Luton 3.7% (mid-2022 227,298; mid-2032 235,786)Sefton 3.7% (mid-2022 281,039; mid-2032 291,470)Surrey Heath 3.7% (mid-2022 91,266; mid-2032 94,646)Elmbridge 3.7% (mid-2022 140,299; mid-2032 145,451)Plymouth 3.7% (mid-2022 267,063; mid-2032 276,830)Solihull 3.6% (mid-2022 217,784; mid-2032 225,719)Epping Forest 3.6% (mid-2022 135,009; mid-2032 139,866)North Hertfordshire 3.5% (mid-2022 134,161; mid-2032 138,912)Bolton 3.5% (mid-2022 299,153; mid-2032 309,657)Torbay 3.5% (mid-2022 139,409; mid-2032 144,296)Reading 3.5% (mid-2022 175,742; mid-2032 181,884)Basildon 3.5% (mid-2022 188,810; mid-2032 195,318)Portsmouth 3.4% (mid-2022 208,949; mid-2032 215,966)Slough 3.4% (mid-2022 159,387; mid-2032 164,739)Merton 3.3% (mid-2022 215,121; mid-2032 222,285)Derby 3.3% (mid-2022 263,620; mid-2032 272,298)Haringey 3.3% (mid-2022 262,413; mid-2032 270,988)Bromley 3.3% (mid-2022 329,689; mid-2032 340,449)Dudley 3.3% (mid-2022 324,931; mid-2032 335,488)Oldham 3.3% (mid-2022 243,993; mid-2032 251,928)South Lakeland 3.2% (mid-2022 104,821; mid-2032 108,216)Birmingham 3.2% (mid-2022 1,154,221; mid-2032 1,191,154)Gravesham 3.2% (mid-2022 106,870; mid-2032 110,252)Bradford 3.1% (mid-2022 553,044; mid-2032 570,100)Watford 3.1% (mid-2022 103,043; mid-2032 106,220)Isle of Wight 3.1% (mid-2022 140,779; mid-2032 145,083)Rotherham 2.9% (mid-2022 268,267; mid-2032 276,126)Brentwood 2.9% (mid-2022 77,348; mid-2032 79,567)Hartlepool 2.7% (mid-2022 93,847; mid-2032 96,386)Chesterfield 2.7% (mid-2022 104,104; mid-2032 106,912)Rossendale 2.7% (mid-2022 71,187; mid-2032 73,090)Pendle 2.6% (mid-2022 96,197; mid-2032 98,741)Mole Valley 2.6% (mid-2022 87,852; mid-2032 90,166)Wirral 2.6% (mid-2022 322,439; mid-2032 330,908)St Albans 2.6% (mid-2022 148,524; mid-2032 152,327)Great Yarmouth 2.6% (mid-2022 99,834; mid-2032 102,382)South Tyneside 2.5% (mid-2022 148,608; mid-2032 152,375)Sandwell 2.5% (mid-2022 344,582; mid-2032 353,269)Thanet 2.5% (mid-2022 140,683; mid-2032 144,179)Southend-on-Sea 2.5% (mid-2022 180,884; mid-2032 185,350)Hyndburn 2.4% (mid-2022 83,215; mid-2032 85,188)Wyre Forest 2.4% (mid-2022 102,306; mid-2032 104,735)Three Rivers 2.3% (mid-2022 94,179; mid-2032 96,373)Lincoln 2.3% (mid-2022 102,964; mid-2032 105,324)Sunderland 2.2% (mid-2022 277,512; mid-2032 283,728)Adur 2.2% (mid-2022 64,725; mid-2032 66,170)Bury 2.1% (mid-2022 194,590; mid-2032 198,669)Newcastle-under-Lyme 2.0% (mid-2022 125,404; mid-2032 127,922)Allerdale 1.9% (mid-2022 96,556; mid-2032 98,430)Scarborough 1.9% (mid-2022 109,055; mid-2032 111,159)Richmond upon Thames 1.9% (mid-2022 195,165; mid-2032 198,834)New Forest 1.8% (mid-2022 175,932; mid-2032 179,109)Stevenage 1.7% (mid-2022 89,616; mid-2032 91,169)Stockton-on-Tees 1.7% (mid-2022 200,112; mid-2032 203,515)Redcar & Cleveland 1.7% (mid-2022 137,168; mid-2032 139,447)Castle Point 1.6% (mid-2022 89,744; mid-2032 91,186)Windsor & Maidenhead 1.6% (mid-2022 154,869; mid-2032 157,280)Stoke-on-Trent 1.4% (mid-2022 260,008; mid-2032 263,647)Warrington 1.3% (mid-2022 211,797; mid-2032 214,642)Broxbourne 1.3% (mid-2022 98,999; mid-2032 100,315)Erewash 1.3% (mid-2022 113,073; mid-2032 114,574)Redditch 1.3% (mid-2022 87,129; mid-2032 88,279)West Berkshire 1.3% (mid-2022 162,397; mid-2032 164,506)Calderdale 1.3% (mid-2022 207,660; mid-2032 210,348)Hull 1.3% (mid-2022 268,677; mid-2032 272,124)Blackburn with Darwen 1.2% (mid-2022 155,823; mid-2032 157,734)Gateshead 1.2% (mid-2022 197,922; mid-2032 200,224)Rushmoor 1.1% (mid-2022 101,003; mid-2032 102,135)Worcester 1.0% (mid-2022 104,119; mid-2032 105,107)Blackpool 0.8% (mid-2022 141,648; mid-2032 142,706)Hastings 0.8% (mid-2022 90,621; mid-2032 91,303)Staffordshire Moorlands 0.4% (mid-2022 95,904; mid-2032 96,328)North Lincolnshire 0.3% (mid-2022 170,085; mid-2032 170,621)Woking 0.3% (mid-2022 104,290; mid-2032 104,577)Richmondshire 0.1% (mid-2022 50,108; mid-2032 50,141)Enfield 0.01% (mid-2022 327,426; mid-2032 327,472)Fareham -0.02% (mid-2022 114,562; mid-2032 114,536)North East Lincolnshire -0.5% (mid-2022 157,745; mid-2032 156,916)Ipswich -0.9% (mid-2022 139,295; mid-2032 138,113)Barrow-in-Furness -1.7% (mid-2022 67,354; mid-2032 66,197)Copeland -1.9% (mid-2022 67,425; mid-2032 66,174)Gosport -2.1% (mid-2022 82,277; mid-2032 80,533)Isles of Scilly -4.6% (mid-2022 2,281; mid-2032 2,177)
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A PEST control expert has revealed a simple way to keep rodents away from homes and gardens – and all it takes is a quick shake and sprinkle. With rat season about to begin, the advice arrives just in time. 4 4 The easy – and humane – method is unveiled in a social media post just weeks before cool weather arrives in the UK. That is the end of the breeding season for rodents and signals their arrival around homes and in gardens. This is when the little blighters are at their most active as they search for food and shelter ahead of winter If hungry they will take more risks such as raiding bird tables and bins. And they don't move in at night – they often seek food during the day, particularly if other rats are congregating in the same garden or porch. But fear not, help is at hand – literally. Monster '22-INCH' rat 'as big as a cat' is found in UK home - as locals warned more could be on the loose In a video posted to his Facebook account, Ceith Griffith unveiled a simple and effective way to keep rats from the door. "It's that time of year again, guys ... mice and rats are going to try and get inside your home but I'm going to show you how to keep them out by repelling them," he said in the video, which has received more than 2,500 likes. Ceith goes on to explain how attaching a spray nozzle to a vinegar, apple vinegar or pine salt bottle can turn into the ultimate repellent. "Pine salt works the best but I know a lot of people are allergic to it," he said. "Just take the spray and point it at your porch and anywhere you don't want the rats to come near. "You can use this around your garage or even inside your garage ... and it's going to keep all the mice and rats from coming around your home, or garage or RV." 4 Facebook users rushed to the post to comment and thank Ceith for his help. One person said: "Love UR videos. I watch and write them down. Thank u." A second person said: "Definitely going to try this." A third person, however, said they were looking for advice after encountering another type of pest in their home. They posted: "Hello, how do you get a raccoon or possum out of your loft? Please help." Other ways to repel rats Rats are a nuisance and can be difficult to get rid of but by using the pickled onion hack you can deter them, but other methods can help too, one of which is planting certain plants in your garden that rats hate. One home expert shared: "Plants such as lavender, mint, marigolds, daffodils, rosemary, sage and several others can be planted in your garden to disrupt the smell of a rat. 'If a rat can't smell inside of your home then it is far less likely to try.' For best results, plant these plants along fences, around sheds, and near compost bins or generally anywhere that rodents might be tempted to settle. 4
BBC News
41 minutes ago
- BBC News
New SEND centre in Tidworth for children under five to open
A new specialist centre is opening to support children under five years of age who have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).Wiltshire Council will be expanding its SEND support with the the District Specialist Centre in Tidworth, the fifth one in the will be run by national charity Dingley's Promise, with access usually arranged through referrals from relevant professionals or centre will offer dedicated support, such as play schemes, when the contract begins in September and it will welcome children from November at a site on Wylye Road in the town. The centres are designed to build children's confidence and support Jon Hubbard, cabinet member for education and skills at Wiltshire Council, said: "These centres play a vital role in giving children with SEND the best possible start in life. By working closely with families and early years providers, we can ensure every child has the opportunity to thrive." Lee Friend, from Dingley's Promise, said the charity is excited about the new centre."We look forward to using our vast experience of early years SEND intervention and support to help children in the early years with special educational needs and disabilities to thrive, to connect with the community and offer broader support to families and local early years settings and schools," he four centres already operating in Wiltshire include the John McNeill Centre in Salisbury, Stepping Stones in Trowbridge, Springboard in Chippenham and Devizes and District Opportunity Centre.
The Guardian
an hour ago
- The Guardian
At 19 I had to flee my country, afraid for my life – without even saying goodbye to my family
For three days, Mohanad had been lost at sea in an overcrowded wooden boat. Travelling across the Mediterranean from Libya to Europe, he and the other passengers had run out of food and water, were running out of fuel, and had mixed their remaining sugar with sea water to see if they could drink it. 'It was madness,' he says. Weak and exhausted, passengers began drifting in and out of consciousness. Mohanad kept waking up an Ethiopian man – who was nearer the edge of the boat – worried he might fall in. At night, there were large waves, and Mohanad slept for a while himself, but was woken by a loud splash. People began screaming the Ethiopian man's name. He had slipped over the side into the water. They turned the boat around to look for him, but he had drowned. On the morning of the third day, the sea was calmer, but no land was visible. A white object appeared on the horizon. It got bigger and bigger. When the people on the boat with Mohanad saw the letters MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) on the side, they got up to shout and cheer. 'I cried,' Mohanad says. He urged the others to calm down, and to think of the women and children on board, as their boat almost capsized in the excitement. The larger vessel was a search and rescue ship called Geo Barents, which was operated by MSF. On board, they were given nutritional supplements and water, before being taken to a migrant centre in Bari, on the coast of southern Italy. Mohanad was overwhelmed with relief, and says it was like being born again. 'I just kept remembering, I'm not going to go back to Libya.' His hope on arriving in Europe was simple: that he would start to be 'treated as a human'. Mohanad grew up in Darfur, in Sudan. His family are Zaghawa – one of the non-Arab ethnic groups in Sudan, targeted by both government forces and armed militia. 'In my country, there's a massive amount of discrimination,' he says, describing the persecution his people have faced. The Janjaweed militia, which evolved into the Rapid Support Forces, has carried out mass killings and ethnic cleansing in his region. 'They don't just murder people, it's the way they do it,' Mohanad says – describing rape, mutilation and other UN-documented atrocities. 'Wherever you go, they ask, 'What is your tribe?' That will determine what happens to you, and how you are treated.' Four of his uncles were killed by snipers in an attack on their village when he was a child. 'I witnessed a lot of horrible stuff,' he says. His family escaped on a lorry – he still remembers seeing swollen bodies by the road, and ransacked shops. From then they were often on the move, going from city to camp. He remembers a child who got sick in one of the camps where he lived. The child's mother couldn't afford to pay for basic medicine, so the child died. He also remembers visiting a large hospital, overflowing with patients, but with only one doctor to treat them all. He decided he wanted to become a doctor. Mohanad was clever; his mother had worked as a teacher before the family was displaced, and she encouraged him to attend school wherever they were. He continued to study while he worked to help support his family – selling food, drink, sometimes clothes. When he was 18, he was accepted into a medical school in a town near the camp where they lived. 'I was so excited,' he says. Those first weeks at university were the 'best of my life'. It was a big chance for him – very few people from the camp got to study at this level. But, like others on the course, he was disappointed by the poor teaching, the lack of basic services such as water or electricity, and the focus on subjects such as Arabic studies, at the expense of community medicine, which was covered in only a few days (in other parts of Sudan, the topic was taught over a whole year). 'We said, if they don't teach us properly, we can't help people, it will put lives at risk,' he says. He was threatened by the vice-chancellor, who told him to keep quiet, or he would be 'silenced', but he kept asking for improvements, sending messages to the university, and attending demonstrations with other students. He was arrested twice for taking part in protests in 2018, and, he says, treated more harshly because of his ethnicity. After being detained, 'some people disappear, no one knows what's happened to them, but they are probably dead'. He doesn't want to go into details about the prison he was held in, but says, 'the point is, you will be worried after that'. He knew, once he got out, that he had to leave immediately. He didn't dare to even say goodbye to his family. He was 19. Now the authorities had his details, he was worried he'd be caught at one of the many checkpoints and sent back to prison. 'You have to leave in secret, you have to choose an illegal route, just in order to leave the country. I would never, ever have been allowed to fly, the government would have arrested me.' Mohanad knew a truck driver, who transported sheep, okra, tomatoes and kidney beans. He hid among the vegetables and spent three days travelling from place to place via remote roads, heading north, hiding at every checkpoint, until he made it over the border into Libya. He was unprepared for what he found there. In Libya, Mohanad was kidnapped repeatedly – he lost count of how many times. 'We migrants call it hell on earth,' he says. 'They will capture people and call their family and ask for money.' The first time this happened was not long after he entered the country. He was in the middle of nowhere, in the desert. A man offered to help him, and he said yes, without hesitation – he thought he might die out there. The man took him to a farm, and locked Mohanad up, before transferring him to a place with many others. At this point, he was told he had to pay thousands of dollars to be released. He didn't have that kind of money. So they kept him, and he worked for free, for six months, barely fed, mixing concrete and carrying materials, on a series of building sites. Sometimes other people came on site, like engineers. 'They didn't know we were victims of human traders,' he says. He tried to ask them questions, to find out where they were, but had to do this out of earshot of the gang members. After six months, he escaped by asking one of the visitors for a lift to a nearby town, pretending he wanted to get some cigarettes. He had learned enough of the local dialect to get by, and after this he sometimes managed to evade capture for a few months, but it kept on happening. Sometimes he was caught travelling between cities, sometimes he escaped by bribing the police or jumping out of a car. The kidnappers often began by promising him work. 'Then when you get in their car, they start swearing at you, they show you their pistol, or their machine gun.' He was beaten hard and saw people shot in front of him. 'It's a sequence. If you get lucky you escape, or someone you know pays for you. If not, you may get killed, punished, burned with liquid plastic on your back, or they pull out your nails.' He spent three years in Libya – most of the time trying to get out. Some Sudanese people helped him for a while, offering him food and a place to stay. He applied to the United Nations to be resettled as a refugee. 'If they sent me to another safe African country, I would have gone,' he says. But he waited, and nothing happened, and then he was kidnapped again. After a while, risking the dangerous sea crossing to Europe began to seem like his only hope of escape. 'You have no choice. In Libya you will never be safe, and you can't go home – so going over the sea becomes the least dangerous option.' Mohanad had friends who had died trying to leave Libya – shot while they were trying to escape armed gangs, or drowning at sea. More than once, he was cheated by smugglers – he paid money for a place on a boat, but when he went to meet them, they tipped off another contact, and he was captured again. 'We were just victims of their business … They'd say on the phone, 'I have 70 heads' – they don't even call you people.' It took him a year to save up for that last boat trip. 'The guy, he was OK. He put us on the sea. It was a small boat but there were a lot of people, and it couldn't take us all.' After he arrived in Italy, he was taken to a huge, overcrowded migrant centre near Bari. 'They register you, and they say 'share this room', but there are only eight beds, and 16 or 17 people.' There were people who had been waiting there for months, so a group of them decided to leave – Mohanad took a bus to a border town, where a lot of people were sleeping rough. He spoke to others who hoped things might be better over the border in France. At the border, a French official asked him where he was going, and he said, 'I have no idea.' They gave him a piece of paper saying he had to leave France within three days, and one of the officials suggested going to Paris and on to Calais – he understood that there would be food and help there. At that point, he didn't even know that Calais was on the coast. By then, Mohanad was in a group of seven or eight people, from Sudan, Syria and Chad. They moved through France, sleeping on the streets, travelling on trains without a ticket, until the guard or the police threw them off. Between trains, they wandered around all night, freezing cold, in the rain, searching for shelter. They had a few biscuits from Bari, which soon ran out. In Dijon, the rain fell all night, but they met a kind Nigerian, who gave them food in his own home. 'If I had a chance, I would thank him now, it was an amazing thing that he did for us.' 'We had no idea about claiming to be a refugee or an asylum seeker. No one advised us,' Mohanad says. Other migrants directed them to Calais, where there were charities providing food, but he was sleeping rough – locals threw glass bottles at him and he says he experienced a lot of racism. He discovered that many people there were trying to cross the Channel. 'I just wanted a warm place, a safe place,' he says. French police confiscated any tents they had. Mohanad tried to help some younger Sudanese teenagers, but one of them was killed boarding a truck, and another was badly wounded in an attack. In September 2021, Mohanad crossed to the UK, hidden in a vehicle. He climbed inside, in the early morning – he couldn't see out, but knew when they started driving again that they'd reached England. They stopped in the late afternoon, when the driver began to unload his boxes at a factory near Birmingham. Mohanad jumped out and ran away, because he was worried the driver would be angry. 'The driver was very surprised.' It was a sunny day, and everything looked different – he noticed that people seemed friendlier than in France. He asked a couple of passersby for help, until a woman pushing a buggy showed him the way to the nearest police station. 'I said to them 'Hello, is this a police station?'' he says. 'They said, 'Are you alright? What's the problem, where did you come from?' I said I come from Sudan. I came by lorry.' The absurdity of it makes him smile. 'They were surprised. How did you come from Sudan, and end up in Birmingham?' He says the police were kind and offered him food. At first, he knew nothing about the system here, but after a month, when he was told about the option to claim asylum, Mohanad did so. He spent 15 months in asylum accommodation in Yorkshire, first in hotels and then in a shared house, waiting for a decision. At first, just having somewhere safe to stay and a bed to sleep in was a huge relief, but the uncertainty and not being able to work was unsettling. 'You have nothing to do,' he says. He had flashbacks, and was diagnosed with PTSD. Things improved when he started volunteering with the Refugee Council on a healthcare project, where he was trained to give advice and support to other refugees. This gave him a chance to speak to people, a bit of experience in how the NHS works, and also a sense of purpose. He says he's experienced less racism in the UK than in France or elsewhere. But he never felt fully part of the community until he was granted asylum, and was accepted as a refugee. 'When I got my papers, it was the same feeling as being rescued at sea. I thought, 'Yes, I can live.'' Mohanad found a room, and last year, thanks partly to his experience with the Refugee Council, he enrolled on an access to medicine course. He passed the science elements with a distinction, but struggled to reach the required level in English. For now, he's looking for work as a security guard or in a warehouse, but he still hopes to keep studying medicine, and has also applied to volunteer at a local hospital. Since he left Sudan, the war has spread, and he is worried about his family. 'I know war, it's not something new to me. But to see the whole of Sudan in that pain, you can't describe it. The same militia are killing and murdering and raping people. They took control of my whole region, except for one city. To see the same thing, ethnic killings, genocide …' He says he'd like the world to pay more attention to Sudan. Sudanese refugees who do make it to safety here, against the odds, face hostile policies. 'Now there's a plan to refuse citizenship to refugees,' Mohanad says. 'If I spend my whole life here, I will remain a refugee, a second class or even third class citizen. It feels as if they can just deport me. I started worrying again,' he says. 'They say we have to come here legally – so why don't you provide safe routes?' He says it would be better if there were a realistic way to apply for refugee status before travelling to the UK. There are no schemes to help people from Sudan, he points out, and getting an aeroplane, let alone securing a visa, is impossible for most. He didn't set out to come to the UK, he says – he wanted to stay in Sudan and become a doctor – but that wasn't possible, and he left to save his life. Making this journey is how he survived.
