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Subject: Record number of people leave UK
Written By: Philip Eno on 08/23/07 at 7:19 am
From BBC News Online:
More people left the UK last year than in any year since current records began in 1991, statistics show.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicate that some 385,000 people left the UK for the long term in the year to mid-2006.
Many of those leaving were "long-term migrants" and not British citizens.
Long-term migration into the UK, meanwhile, was 574,000. The figures show the UK population grew to 60,587,000 - an increase of 349,000.
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