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<TEXT>Nearly 50 schools in North Somerset are shut today, as teachers join more than 16 thousand public sector workers on strike in Somerset...

They're angry over the government's planned changes to pensions...which will make them pay more and work longer...

Nancy is a teacher from Worle - she says the strike is about the long-term, not just today:

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Libraries in Weston, Banwell, Congresbury and Nailsea are shut today and there could be problems at Bristol Airport as immigration officials there join the strike...

It's not just in Somerset that workers are striking either - this is happening across the country...

Nigel Costley is from the TUC in the South West

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Chancellor George Osborne maintains the government's proposing a decent pensions deal for public sector workers:

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<TEXT>Chancellor George Osborne maintains the government's proposing a decent
pensions deal for public sector workers:

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<TEXT>Michael Jackson's brother says the four year jail sentence handed down to the star's former doctor is "not enough".

Conrad Murray was given the maximum sentence yesterday for the involuntary manslaughter of the singer.
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<TEXT>There has been another arrest in the phone hacking investigation.

A 31-year-old woman was detained in Northumberland earlier.

Officers say she was held in connection with conspiring to intercept communications.
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<TEXT>Filming for Channel Four's teen drama Skins is being done on Berrow Beach today.

The company were looking for a sand and dune based location close to Bristol - and apparently 'Berrow ticked all the boxes'.
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