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<TEXT>Jobs are at risk, as North Somerset Council meets today to decide on a draft four year plan to plug a forty-seven million pound budget gap.

Proposals include making services more efficient, delivering them through other providers, and even letting residents and community groups take responsibility - but two hundred and eighty posts are expected to be slashed.

A two-month public consultation follows today's meeting.

Council Finance Director Phil Hall admits public services could also suffer:

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<TEXT>Plans are being announced later that'll see the number of MPs being cut by 50.

We don't yet whether MP's in North Somerset will be affected as the boundaries of the UK's constituencies are re-drawn ahead of the next general election.

The idea is to make them more equal in size.
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<TEXT>It's reported a man's been arrested over the murder of a British tourist and the kidnap of his wife in Kenya.

David and Judith Tebbutt from Hertfordshire were staying at a luxury beach resort near the border with Somalia.
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<TEXT>Three people from Weston have been arrested, as part of  a Somerset-wide operation targeting metal thieves.

Three hundred officers were involved in yesterday morning's simultaneous raids of fifty scrap dealerships across the force area - which has seen sixteen arrests in total.

The theft of metals like copper and lead, from pipes, cable and rooves, is on the rise - as global metal prices increase.
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<TEXT>David Walliams says a bath is the only water he wants to see for a while -
after swimming 140 miles along the River Thames.

The star completed his gruelling eight-day journey last night, raising more
than one million pounds for charity.

Thousands gathered to welcome him at Westminster Bridge.

David says support on the river banks really helped:

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