British councillor David Simmonds, from the Local Government Association, says councils in the UK must have the resources to deal with any new influx of migrants. 

"It costs around £50,000 a year to support a child in the care system. It costs around £30,000 to provide a school place. 

"And with the pressure we already have on UK public services, the key question is making sure the resources are there to ensure that communities that are receiving new arrivals recognise that's not an unfair burden on them." 

The Hungarian government had been criticised for preventing thousands of people, many of them Syrian refugees, from leaving the country.

On Friday night, the Hungarian authorities changed tack and laid on buses to take people to the Austrian border.

Throughout the night, the BBC's Matthew Price has been travelling with some of the families and documenting the trip on his smartphone.

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Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila says he is ready to open his house for migrants and refugees, and they can move in on 1 January 2016. He told Finnish broadcaster YLE on Saturday that his family has a house in central Finland that they no longer use since moving to Helsinki.

Welcome to our live coverage of the migrant crisis. Follow the latest updates from across the continent as thousands of migrants continue their attempts to reach Europe.