Outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told a congressional panel the sequester would hollow the U.S. military because it would give the Pentagon little leeway in deciding how best to spend the money.

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The police and crime panel is similar in make up to the outgoing police authority and has 20 members in Devon and Cornwall, taken from county, unitary and district councils, along with two independent appointees.

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