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Where have the UK's 10,000 Syrian refugees gone? By Mark Easton & Ben Butcher Home editor The UK has accepted more than 10,000 Syrian refugees in the past two and a half years - but analysis by the BBC shows large disparities in the numbers going to different parts of the country. Scotland has taken four times as many Syrian refugees as Greater London, while Northern Ireland has taken over 300 more than the whole of the east of England. Relative to their populations, northern England has taken over twice as many Syrian refugees as the South. Overall, almost a third of local authorities are yet to take any Syrian refugees. The BBC analysis looks at the  Home Office's  breakdown of local authority intake of Syrian refugees and weighs this against the population size. It was the pictures of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, his tiny body washed up on a Turkish tourist beach in September 2015, that changed the politics of Syrian refugees. Within days of the distress...