2,000 Britons offer to keep refugees in their homes
More than 2,000 Britons have offered to house refugees in their own homes.
Zoe Fritz, who has set up an online database of people willing to give a bed to those fleeing conflict and persecution, said she has been moved to tears by the flood of responses.
Dr Fritz, 39, who works as a consultant at Cambridge University Hospital, said she set up the initiative after seeing shocking images of the wave of refugees risking their lives to come to Europe.
The mother-of-two, who lives with her husband, seven-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter in Cambridgeshire, said: "My heart has sung at the things people have written. It has been extraordinary the generosity people have had.
"From people who clearly have the space to people who have said 'I don't have much but I have more than a tent on a beach somewhere'.
"I have been in tears. I've been very, very heartened. We can all offer to help but we need to turn that into action."
Dr Fritz said members of her family fled the pogroms against the Jewish people in Ukraine and Belarus a century ago, while others found sanctuary in the UK as part of the Kindertransport programme to evacuate children from Nazi Germany.
"There is a precedent for...