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<TEXT>Nova's been speaking to some of the workers who've gone on strike today - over changes to public sector pensions.

Nurses, job centre staff and teachers are just some of the staff who've walked out in North Somerset today..angry that the government want to make them pay more for their pensions and work longer.

Nancy's a teacher from Worle. She says the average teachers will be over a thousand pounds a year worse off under the proposed changes:

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Dozens of schools have had to close - and many staff are at a rally in Bristol this lunchtime...one of a thousand taking places across the UK..as they try and get the governemnt to change their mind.

Health secretary Andrew Lansley says negotiation remains the route to a satisfactory outcome though.

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<TEXT>Health secretary Andrew Lansley says negotiation remains the route to a
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<TEXT>Former Downing Street press secretary Alastair Campbell says he has direct knowledge of phone hacking and other dubious practices.

He's told the Leveson inquiry into newspaper standards that he's woken up in the night to find people going through his dustbins.
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<TEXT>A 31-year-old woman has been arrested by detectives investigating phone hacking at News International.

Bethany Usher is a lecturer in journalism at Teesside University.
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<TEXT>A drug-dealer from Burnham - has been ordered to pay back more than 2 thousand pounds he made from his crimes...

Eric Freeman who's 47 was jailed for a year in September...after he was caught with loads of amphetamine and weighing scales.

If he doesn't stump up the cash - he could face more jail time.
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<TEXT>George Michael is slowly getting better after he fell ill with pneumonia.

The 48-year-old is being treated at a Vienna hospital - Doctors say the singer had been in intensive care because of the "severity" of the illness.
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