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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 through her bank accounts – and an offence of possessing in excess of £3,000 worth of criminal propert...

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 installed at Burgh Island. The pair wreaked havoc throughout the Caribbean in the early 1700s. Some ...

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.