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Parents at rural and small schools across Dumfries and Galloway have formed an alliance to make the case for their retention A group of small and rural schools across Dumfries and Galloway is ...

Australia and Japan, once wartime enemies, now enjoy their closest ever ties in both trade and defense. A student-exchange program between two high schools -- one in a rural Australian town where ...