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Emigration and Portugal's ghost villages

Mass emigration to wealthier countries like France and Switzerland, high unemployment and poorly-paid local jobs, combined with falling birth rates, have caused some Portuguese parishes to lose about three-quarters of the population in the past few decades. Mia Reakes reports.