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Sleepout event helps homeless young people

A mass sleep-out's taking place in Exeter tonight to highlight the problem of youth homelessness - and raise funds to tackle it.

Two hundred people will be sleeping outside in the main square of the Guildhall shopping centre.

Among those taking part is the Assistant Chief Constable Paul Netherton, along with one of the force's financial managers and the High Sheriff of Devon.

The annual event is organised by the local YMCA which supports and accommodates young people in danger of losing their homes - last year it raised thirty thousand pounds for the charity.

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