Sixteen refugees have been given temporary housing in Oxford after they were discovered on a lorry in Hampshire.

One of the families found on the lorry at Aldermaston on Tuesday had temporary residence papers on them with an address in Oxford which is why they ended up here.

Mary Robertson, the director of Oxfordshire County Council's social services department, said they were having to spend £400,000 a year supporting asylum seekers in the county.

She said: "Some of that we are getting back in the form of central Government grant but the grant is for adults, not for children. A number of people who arrived here are in fact children."

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