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<TEXT>Nearly 50 schools in North Somerset will be closed today, as teachers join more than 16 thousand public sector workers on strike in Somerset...

They're angry over the government's planned changes to pensions...which will make them pay more and work longer...

Nancy is a teacher from Worle:

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Libraries in Weston, Banwell, Congresbury and Nailsea are shut today and there could be problems at Bristol Airport as immigration officials there join the strike...

Nigel Costley is from the TUC South West

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It's not just in Somerset that workers are striking either - this is happeneing across the country...

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury - Danny Alexander - has been leading the pension reform negotiations with Unions on behalf of the government.

He believes they should have allowed the talks to continue before taking action.

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<TEXT>Nigel Costley from the TUC South West told us what'll happen in North Somerset:

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The Chief Secretary to the Treasury - Danny Alexander - has been leading the
negotiations on behalf of the government.

He believes unions should have allowed the talks to continue before taking
action.

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<TEXT>Michael Jackson's brother Jermaine has said the four-year sentence handed to the star's former doctor is "not enough".

Conrad Murray was given the maximum jail term yesterday for the involuntary manslaughter of the star...after he was found guilty of giving him a fatal dose of anaesthetic propofol.
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<TEXT>Wales football manager Gary Speed has described his wife and children as the thing he "cherished the most" in an interview given shortly before his death at the weekend.

Speaking to FourFourTwo magazine, the 42-year-old dad-of-two said his family meant "everything" to him.

He said they were more important than any medal he had won during his lengthy career.
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<TEXT>Channel Four's teen drama Skins is being shot on Berrow Beach today.

Sedgemoor Council says 'having returned from filming in Morrocco, the production company needed a sand and dune based location close to Bristol' - and 'Berrow ticked all the boxes'.
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