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<Slug>budget 9</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.

And the controversial 50p rate is likely to be cut to 45p.
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<Slug>gunman 9</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>SCHOOLS 1</Slug>
<TEXT>Plans to create more than four hundred extra primary school places in Bournemouth by 2013 are set to be approved by the Council today.

They're needed because of a rise in demand, due to a baby boom in the town.

The plans will see extra spots being created at about a dozen local schools by September 2013 - by using current space differently, building temporary or new classrooms - and even possibly building new schools.
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<Slug>CROC 1</Slug>
<TEXT>A pre-historic crocodile discovered in Swanage has been declared a new species.

The 130-million year old specimen has been named Goniopholis Kiplini - after Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling.

A Jurassic Coast Heritage team based at Dorset County Council found it's skull in 2009.
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<Slug>one 8</Slug>
<TEXT>One Direction have made history as the first UK pop group to debut at No 1 on America's Billboard album chart.

Up All Night has gone straight into the top spot on the 200-album chart.
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<Slug>CHERRIES 1</Slug>
<TEXT>and Cherries beat Brentford 1 nil at the Seward Stadium last night - their first win in 8 games.

The result sees Bournemouth move up to 10th in the league.
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