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<Slug>POLICE 1</Slug>
<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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<Slug>pensions 9</Slug>
<TEXT>There'll be disruption to public services across the UK today as up to 400-thousand workers go on strike in protest at the changes to their pensions.

Picket lines will be mounted outside jobcentres, courts, airports and Government buildings across the UK.
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<Slug>HOTEL 1</Slug>
<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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<Slug>FIRE 1</Slug>
<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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<Slug>vidal 9</Slug>
<TEXT>Vidal Sassoon - the man who invented the 'bob' haircut - has died after losing a battle with leukaemia at the age of 84.
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<Slug>sport 9</Slug>
<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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