Great news by Virginia

We were delighted by yesterday's news that Alan Johnston was released yesterday. Kidnapping innocent bystanders seems to be an unpleasant feature of war situations these days, and so we are pleased that this time there was a happy ending. We hope that Mr Johnston will be able to return to his reporting once he has recovered, the world needs more journalists like him.

But whilst we celebrate we remember all the kidnap victims in Palestine, Iraq,Nigeria and elsewhere who don't always make the world headlines, and who suffer as much. May they have a similar happy ending to their stories.