Paper presented in the PopGRG’ssession ‘The geographical dimension of population ageing’at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 31 August-2 September 2005 Migration’s role in producing regional and local population ageing in England Tony Champion Centre for Urban & Regional Development Studies University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU Tel: +44 (0) 191 222 6437, Email: tony.champion@ncl.ac.uk