{"id":80537,"date":"2026-08-21T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/80537\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:47:45","slug":"the-uk-town-trying-to-attract-migrants-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/80537\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK town trying to attract migrants | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"The UK town trying to attract migrants | BBC News\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ts_Ood78DPA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe UK town trying to attract migrants | BBC News<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGreenock, a Scottish town to the west of Glasgow, is losing residents quickly. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in Inverclyde, the population of which has fallen by 22,000 people since 1981, making it Scotland&#8217;s hardest-hit area for population decline.<\/p>\n<p>The issue has become so pressing that the council is implementing a repopulation strategy, part of which involves attracting migrants and people who have been granted refugee status. <\/p>\n<p>BBC Correspondent Michael Buchanan travelled to Greenock to hear from migrants, refugees, local residents and politicians about the future of a town trying to grow again.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews #Scotland #Immigration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK town trying to attract migrants | BBC News Greenock, a Scottish town to the west of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[176,234,236,65830,2324,65829,31,462,235],"class_list":["post-80537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bbc-news","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-greenock","tag-immigration","tag-inverclyde","tag-news","tag-scotland","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117133124742147119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}