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<Slug>031 BUDGET MILIBAND</Slug>
<TEXT>At lunchtime the rumours can stop and the Budget will be unveiled.

The Chancellor's expected to raise the threshold at which people start paying
tax to around 9-thousand pounds.

And the controversial 50p rate is likely to be cut to 45p.

But Labour leader Ed Miliband says what's also needed is help for
"hard-pressed families".

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<Slug>gunman 10</Slug>
<TEXT>French police are negotiating with a gunman who claims connections to al-Qaeda and is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers.
         
Two police officers have been injured in the raid on a house in the southwest city of Toulouse.
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<Slug>HINKLEY 2</Slug>
<TEXT>Sedgemoor district council's gonna use it's own money - to look into plans for a new nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point.

They've agreed to fork out a quarter of a million pounds to examine the controversial application - after EDF energy only offered them 272 thousand to go towards it.

The council decided the investigation was needed because of the impact a plant will have on every local person.
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<Slug>LEGACY 1</Slug>
<TEXT>A 120 year old North Somerset cricket club is to get a funding boost through the Olympic legacy programme.

Blagdon Cricket Club's getting 42-thousand pounds from Sport England to completely renovate the uneven wicket - at the village's only sports facility.

It's part of nearly a quarter of a million pounds going to playing fields in the south west.
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<Slug>032 SHOWBIZ-APPRENTICE BRADY</Slug>
<TEXT>16 new candidates begin the race to be Lord Sugar's new business partner
tonight.

It's the return of The Apprentice.

In the first task, the teams have to make money from printing designs onto
blank bags, clothes and toys.

Lord Sugar's sidekicks Karen Brady and Nick Hewer are back too, and Karen says
watching the contestants make mistakes is hard work.

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<TEXT>Nova news - now you're up to date
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