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Gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and snatched at least 30 students in the latest of a string of such kidnaps.

Radio Exe Mum and son brothel owners convicted By Radio Exe News She ran eight of them in Devon A mother and son have been convicted of running brothels in Exeter and Torquay. They profited from the unusual - and illegal - family business that exploited women in the county as well as handling criminal property. Edwina Kalay, 59, admitted managing eight brothels, plus a joint offence of money laundering –relating to the transfer of more than £98,000 throu...

Radio Exe Little support for Burgh Island pirates By Daniel Clark, local democracy reporter 13 objections to statue Objections have been raised against plans for a statue of two real-life female ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ overs fears it would glamorise "violent criminals who contributed nothing to the local heritage." Plans were announced last month for 2.4 metre tall sculptures of two of Britain’s forgotten pirates, Anny Bonny and Mary Read, to be i...

Heavy snow and strong winds have led the Netherlands to issue its first code red nationwide weather alert in nine years.

Public Health England (PHE) officials are resisting senior doctors' calls to halve the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.

European countries are growing increasingly frustrated with delays in the delivery of COVID-19 vaccinations.

The US and UK have condemned the harsh tactics used against protesters and journalists in Russia - as more than 3,000 people have reportedly been arrested at rallies in support of the jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny.

Radio Exe Whipton Barton school desks heading for Africa By Radio Exe News Children in The Gambia will soon have desperately-needed desks and chairs thanks to an Exeter primary school. Whipton Barton Federation is undergoing refurbishment and is renewing its old furniture. Rather than send to landfill, it is planning to send nine classrooms worth of furniture to a school in the Yundum Barracks area of The Gambia, West Africa. Youngsters from the Exeter school will be wr...

He may be behind bars, but the Kremlin has not succeeded in silencing Alexei Navalny.

A Thai ex-civil servant has been jailed for a record-breaking 43 years and 6 months for sharing audio clips on social media said to defame the country's monarchy.