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<TEXT>Over 200 off-duty Dorset Police officers will join colleagues from across the country later in a march against government cuts.

They're heading to London to protest against budget reductions of twenty percent, which Dorset Police Federation says will impact on frontline services and therefore public safety.

Chairman Clive Chamberlain says the force could lose 300 officers over the next four years:

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<TEXT>Meanwhile - Up to 400 thousand public sector workers will strike today in protest at changes to their pensions.

Workers are walking out at job centres, courts, and airports.
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<TEXT>A Wimborne man's been jailed for five and a half years for a violent robbery at a Ferndown hotel.

40 year old Steven Williams admitted to his part in attacking a staff member at the Premier Inn on Ringwood Road last July - and stealing a hundred pounds from an office safe.
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<TEXT>45 firefighters spent the night tackling a fire at a derelict school in Christchurch..

It broke out just after 8 at the former Homefield School site on Salisbury Road.

The cause is being investigated.
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<TEXT>Singer Sam Kelly and Welsh dance group Nu Sxool have become the latest two acts to win a place in the final of Britain's Got Talent.
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<TEXT>It'll be Blackpool against West Ham in the Championship play-off final.

The Seasiders drew 2-2 and went through 3-2 on aggregate against Birmingham last night.
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