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Business class goes horribly, horribly wrongIn what started as a business studies class, one city teenager has found herself in a drugs bust involving thousands of pounds worth of heroin.

Wet blanket brigadeKids are yet again in for a rough time of it after they have been blamed for throwing water balloons at cars in Wimple on Saturday.

More lift shenanigansA family were stuck in one of the new Princesshay car park lifts on Saturday and had to phone for emergency services to come and rescue them.

And they let them drive buses?Almost half of all Devon bus drivers have needed to improve their customer relations and literacy or maths skills as the the dozens of foreign bus drivers and engineers in Exeter from Poland, Slovakia, India and Pakistan had difficulty understanding their customers.

Echo latest to fire KatieWhether you love to hate her, or just can't stand her, plain and simple, you'll be glad to hear that the latest person to fire poor Ms Hopkins is Echo editor Marc Astley.

Can you tell what's missing from this picture?The Echo are going to be up in arms over this one, I can tell already. They haven't run a story about Exeter City Council cutting down any tree's since Princesshay opened.

What a sell-outIt was bound to happen, but after tickets went on sale for only £10 to see the 19-year-old Kate Nash in concert at the Corn Exchange (or St. Georges Hall for normal people) the event has completely sold out.

City school failing our childrenHaving been released from 'special measures' by OFSTED last term, St. James' High is still failing to educate it's pupils to an adequate standard.