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<TEXT>Four and a half thousand jobs have been saved after a buyer's found for the struggling High Street firm Clinton Cards - including the Weston and Bridgwater branches.

Administrator Zolfo Cooper says the deal with Ohio-based American Greetings will preserve the remaining 397 UK stores.

However, the ones in Nailsea and Portishead will close.
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<TEXT>The U-N Secretary General says a monitoring team has been shot at while trying to reach the site of the latest massacre in Syria.

Ban Ki-Moon has called the killing of more than 70 people - including many women and children -an 'unspeakable barbarity':

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Officials in the country deny pro-government militiamen were responsible.
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<TEXT>UN monitors in Syria say they've been shot at, while attempting to reach the
site of a new reported massacre.

It's claimed around 80 people, including women and children, have been killed
in Hama province by forces loyal to President al-Assad.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is condemning the reported massacre as "an
unspeakable barbarity".

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<TEXT>Defence Secretary Philip Hammond's defending what he's called 'difficult decisions' ahead - after announcing the army will have to rely more heavily on reserves and private contractors - to meet spending targets.

Labour's slammed plans to sack thousands of personnel...

while Conservative MP Colonel Bob Stewart, a former Army commander, has also criticised the scale of the cuts.
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<TEXT>A gang of six people, who lured police officers to a fire at a pub during last summer's riots in Birmingham, before shooting at them, have jailed for a total of more than 120 years. 

The judge said around 12 shots were fired at officers and a police helicopter from at least four handguns.
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<TEXT>A cowboy roofer has been told to expect jail after pleading guilty to swindling pensioners - including in Somerset - out of one hundred thousand pounds.

Phillip Small - who's 41 has admitted overcharging 13 elderly people across the South West and Wales, and then carrying out shoddy work.

The traveller from Herefordshire - who used a series of false names and claimed to be working for a national company - could get up to four years behind bars when he's sentenced in August.
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<TEXT>The UK government's decided to boycott England's three Euro 2012 group games in Ukraine.

It's in response to the country's treatment of the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

The Foreign Office says attendance of matches beyond the group stage is under review.
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