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<TEXT>There's a warning that overcrowding in prisons has reached "crisis point" - and could lead to riots.

The Prison Officers' Association says the government needs to take urgent action.

The union also claims staff shortages and budget cuts are putting officers and inmates in jeopardy.
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<Slug>011 corr-ITALY REBELLO</Slug>
<TEXT>(amends number missing) 

Salvage experts will begin work on the Costa Concordia later - and face a race
against time because storms are expected to move in.

There are fears a large sea swell could send the liner plunging 100 metres to
the bottom of the sea.

A specialist team will concentrate on pumping oil off the wreck - with hopes
fading of finding any of the 21 missing alive.

But relatives like Kevin Rebello aren't giving up:

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<TEXT>Wildlife's being gradually moved away from Junction 21 of the M5 - ahead of the road improvements planned around Weston this winter.

North Somerset Council says fences have been put up on the verges to stop badgers and reptiles coming back to the area for the time being...

The project will see the highway widened, a dedicated lane for the A370 added and new signals installed.
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<TEXT>A 37-year-old man is due in court this morning charged with the murders of a couple found dead at their home in Birmingham. 

The bodies of Avtar Kolar and his wife Carole, were
discovered at the property in Handsworth Wood last Wednesday.
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<TEXT>Somerset should have its own timezone.

That's according to one of the county's MPs, Jacob Rees-Mogg... who says it should be 15 minutes behind the rest of the UK.

He claims it was standard practice up until the year 1840 because of the position of the sun - and wants it included in a bill being debated tomorrow, about the country keeping to British Summer Time all year round.
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<TEXT>Irish model Georgia Salpa has been evicted from the Big Brother house.

She became the third person to get the boot - after getting fewer votes than Michael Madsen.
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