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WI to target newspaper sex ads

Updated on 25 November 2008

Source PA News

Members of the Women's Institute (WI) are being asked to help crack down on adverts selling sex in newspapers, it emerged.

A spokeswoman for the group, which has more than 200,000 members across the country, told Radio 5 Live that members would be encouraged to look out for adverts and write letters of complaint to editors if they found them.

She said: "There are an estimated 4,000 females currently living in the UK who have trafficked to work on the street and off the street as prostitutes."

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