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Hello. Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's top stories:

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A hard price to pay - 40 per cent more of us are turning to loan

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sharks. One victim tells us her experience almost drove her to

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suicide. It was horrific. I was worried my children would be better

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off with someone else. I thought I should end it all. It was

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Also tonight: Sprinklers will soon be fitted in

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all new homes. Developers say the cost will mean fewer houses will be

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built here. Just 30 places on the plane - it's

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time to impress for a world cup spot. Warren Gatland names his side

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to face England on Saturday. I will be getting the summer sales

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as sailors take part in a major competition.

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We're onstage as the Modern National Eisteddfod celebrates a

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special birthday. We've been delving into the archive, looking

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Good evening. Many families here are struggling in these difficult

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financial times and for some, it means taking drastic measures to

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get money. More of us in Wales than ever before are turning to loan

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sharks. The number of people using them has risen by a staggering 40%

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in the last four years. And more families are going to them as a

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last resort. The figure's jumped from 15,000 to 25,000. Carwyn Jones

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has been speaking to one victim. There is no paperwork, no Inbox,

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just fear. As more of us stuck -- struggle with debt, it is a boom

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time for loan sharks. This is Katie. It is not her real name as she does

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not want to be identified. A single mum with two small children, she

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was drowning in debt and turned to a loan shark. She borrowed �3,000

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but had to pay back five and a half 1000. He was a very big man. I knew

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what he was capable of doing. I knew -- I made sure I always had

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money to pay them back. I was worried that my children would be

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better off with someone else. That I should just end it all. It really

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was horrendous. The loan shark who was lending Katie money it was

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eventually arrested and jailed. That was down to a team of Trading

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Standards in forces and police officers who together make up the

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Wales illegal money-lending unit. It was set up in 2007 to tackle

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money-lending in Wales. During that time, it has seen the amount of

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people using loan sharks rise by 40%. In other parts of the UK,

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quite often it can be around drugs or gambling debts or alcohol. We do

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find that, but more than anything the picture in Wales is that people

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want to provide for their families and sometimes that tries them to go

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to a loan shark. The unit has identified the areas in Wales they

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see as loan shark hot spots. This includes Cardiff, and the North

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Wales coast. This credit union in the City is advising people to use

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their services, not those of a legal moneylenders. They know that

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they're always be someone prepared to cash in on people's debt.

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issue you have is that they have someone has been using that as a

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source of credit, and credit is taking away, they have nowhere else

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to go and there will be another illegal moneylender who will come

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in and takeover that patch. Some stories, like Katie's, have a happy

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ending. Years of living in fear though have proven hard to forget.

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You saw Stephen Hay in that report, he's head of the Wales Illegal

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Money Lending Unit and is here with me now to go through this in more

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detail. Talk us through the process of how

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you work. It is twofold. The first is to take strong enforcement

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action against loan sharks. If we have a 24 hour hotline. We work

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with the police to identify potential loan sharks and victims

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and then be provide Abbas -- as a poor service. How successful have

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you been on clamping down? What are the figures? It has been successful.

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Around two-and-a-half million of a legal money lender's loan books

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have been identified. Huge figures. We never managed to eradicate

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around half-a-million pounds of the legal debt and identified 1,700

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victims. The figures are large and we feel like there is a lot of work

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to do. What is left to do? How can you improve what you're doing? If

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people are watching and they are in trouble, can get in touch with you?

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They can. There is a 24 hour hotline. Have trust and faith in

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what we can do. Come forward in confidence. In no action will be

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taken before we have met you. you very much.

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Leading housebuilders are warning that fewer houses will be built in

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Wales because of a new law that will make fire sprinklers

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compulsory. They are not something you would

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notice necessarily unless they go off. But little sprinklers like

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this are something that is getting housebuilders rather hot and

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bothered. There is no doubt that they save lives and in April and

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new Welsh law was passed making it compulsory to install fire

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sprinklers in all homes being built here. But developers say it is

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going to cost them around three- and-a-half �1,000 per house, and

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this, coming on top of new energy efficiency regulations, means that

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in certain parts of north-east Wales and the south-west valleys,

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where housing prices are lower, it will not be cost-effective to build.

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Acosta involving -- involved has fallen. It is going to be unviable

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to develop properties in some of those areas, if not in all of them.

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Last year a report commissioned by the Welsh Government find that to -

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- around 14,000 a year at new homes are needed in Wales. The rate of

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them being built has been falling and releases 2007. Redrow is one of

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the UK's biggest development -- developers. Now it says it will

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have to pull out of the areas that it has always build homes in the

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past. Its chairman told the BBC that the new lock added to their

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new regulations on energy efficiency could prove -- Bridge

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Wales in two at housing crisis. The Government representative says this

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is a cynical threat. He is trying to protect his profit margins. This

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is about safety of homes. The home is probably the biggest investment

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you make, surely you want to know it is safe? En 1998, Caroline

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Tucker was bad be burned in a house fire as she tried to rescue her

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sister. Since then she has campaigned for a sprinklers to be

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installed in all homes. If the sprinklers had been installed in

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1998, I would not have been scarred for life. The flames would have

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been confined to that one room. Welsh Government says it is waiting

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for our report into the costs and has no timetable for bringing in

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are the regulators. One its economic targets, it will continue

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to consult with the housing industry over the coming months.

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With me now is Anthony Newman who install Springer's. What you make

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of the comments by Redrow? cannot put a price on somebody's

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wife. I know I can do an installation for up around one-and-

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a-half �1,000. For a new house, you can do it cheaper. I must ask you,

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how sensitive are these? Will it go off if I buy my toast? They are a

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lot of misconceptions. The cover plate, the outside cap, will drop

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off at 57 degrees. Underneath the cat you have the sprinkler head

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which looks like that. At 60 degrees, that will activate. To

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give you an idea, if you think of some of the hot as parts of the

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world, they are 40 degrees. You were 28 degrees higher before that

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black kid -- battle at a rate. you ever see a time when it will be

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a law for all houses? I would love to see at a loss for the whole of

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the UK. -- a law. You cannot put a price on people's wife. In certain

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states of America they argue the point as well. They are saying that

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Wales is leading the way. Hopefully the UK will be totally covered with

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We are backstage for a special birthday bash. Celebrating 150

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years off their Modern Eisteddfod. As you can hear, they are squeezing

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More than 150,000 people in Wales are living with diabetes. Our

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reporter has recently been diagnosed with Type 2, a condition

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commonly associated with obesity. He is trying to reverse his

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condition through diets and exercise.

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I wanted to press quick starter then it will count down. I have

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been going to the gym on the GP referral scheme and as you saw last

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month, I have been enjoying it. Funded by the Welsh Government it

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has proven successful in helping adults with chronic conditions.

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have had a lot of people use a -- lose a lot of weight. One gentleman

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has lost nine-stone through falling our advice. -- falling our advice.

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But it is not all about turning into a fitness fanatic. But

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research has shown that even a moderate amount of exercise can

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vastly improve health. This women is a PhD student. She has been

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running a study on people who walk briskly just three times a week.

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want to encourage people to do more physical activity. Just be a bit

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more active in their everyday lives. 40 minutes of walking, three times

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a week. It is not very taxing but changes have been fantastic. I have

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just had a baby and so I am trying to keep fit. It is getting easier

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and easier. I am really improving my health. They have been studying

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the blood of people taking part in their experiment and the lab

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results have unearthed some interesting data. It seems a

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regular exercise can prevent against or even delay the onset of

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type 2 diabetes. We have find that cholesterol levels have adjusted

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during exercise. An increase in good cholesterol and a decrease in

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bad cholesterol. This is very beneficial. We have also looked as

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certain genes and it has shown that some genes are regulated upon

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exercise and these have been shown to be beneficial in Type 2 diabetes,

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in the risk factors and the complications associated with the

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disease. Armed with the results of this

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study, had been following their advice. I took part in a charity

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what along the beaches of Normandy. Being in France had his own

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tranches on the doubt front. I am in the land of gourmet food but it

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is really annoying. I have to boycott the baguette. Small steps

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often lead to bigger achievements. High in the countryside, a man who

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refuses to let his condition role was life. He and his training

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partner are on a regular Trek, but Paul has had type 1 diabetes since

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he was a small child and has bigger mountains to climb. Despite being

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attached to an insolent pomp, he is tuning -- training for the Three

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Peaks Challenge. -- insolent pump. The added complication of diabetes

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means he has to eat extra food for My carbohydrate intake it goes up

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for three days. Which is counter- intuitive to what you would

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normally consider doing but I have to build up a go course store and

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my muscles and lover so why can rely on those stores when I am

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walking. -- my muscles and my lover. -- liver.

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F I continue to choose healthy options then the way it should

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continue to drop and my diabetes should remain under control. -- the

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It has been a sad day at Glamorgan Cricket Club. Allan Watkins has

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died following a short illness. He was 89 and one caps for England as

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well as being the first Glamorgan player to score essentially.

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Her one regret was that he would come back as the coach but that was

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not to be. He got all sorts of accolades and it would have been

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nice if they work with Glamorgan but he will never be forgotten as a

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true all-rounder. Day three of the game it against

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Essex. Glamorgan have lost an early wicket. They were 118 for one a

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short while ago. In a rugby, Wales face South Africa

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in Wellington in just a few days. Twickenham on Saturday first.

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Preparing to face England is something which Stephen Jones has

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done many things -- many times before. He will win as 101st cap, a

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Welsh record. One of his team-mates will be starting for just the very

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first time. Up front, there is the same as to corner the Barbarians

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the last time out. -- took on. The character is a World Cup spot.

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We will not be holding anything back. -- the carrot. There is a

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huge amount to play for and there will be no lack of motivation.

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The players know just how important these games can be in terms of

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realising ambitions. We know how important it is as

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players and as a team collectively. Exciting times and you always want

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to be involved in these games. With just a 30 places on the plane

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to New Zealand this will be a last chance to impress.

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Some are Sella's as young as only eight years old and in Pwllheli

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this weekend to take part in the Open and British Optimist

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Championships. Optimists are small dinghies. Ben Ainslie started his

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career ceiling in one. This might look like a regatta but it is more

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like an are madder. -- armada. My father is involved in the

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America's Cup. He thought I should give this a try one day. I have

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been coached by a world champion who I got this bought off in 2007.

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Matthew has been sailing since the age of eight and enjoys the

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international flavour. I have made friends with people

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from all over the world. It is very good because you do not normally

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see people from those countries. These are water's in these types of

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boats have been proving grounds for some of Our Olympic hopefuls. These

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are young sailors are optimistic of following in their wake. Hanae

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graduated from optimists after becoming the world junior champion.

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-- Hannah. You get confidence in your own

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sailing ability. It is a tough class with a lot of tactical

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knowledge on offer. Pwllheli is making the most of its

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time as host of a major event. We are always delighted to hold

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these events. It showcases Pwllheli and it showcases Wales. We have a

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programme of international events over the next four years and the

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more that will spread work across the world.

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By the time these youngsters outgrown their boats many will

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board a new vessel to chart a course for success.

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Lex now joined the team at the Eisteddfod. Yes, we are a few

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moments away from the Gallagher concert. -- gala. This place will

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be absolutely packed. First, we have been delving into the archives.

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150 years of Eisteddfod. This in 1948 was one of the first to be

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filmed. Many of the previous traditions live on. But the

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Eisteddfod as we know it today would be unrecognisable from the

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original. It is now much more of a festival. But organisers are keen

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not to forget the past. The Welsh National Archive has been busy all

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week collecting people's memories. She won a prize at the 1917 Jan she

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was in the pavilion. -- the 1917 Eisteddfod.

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There are lots of interesting stories, and memories associated

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with this. Even if it is just the mascot so who were here for 20 or

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30 years ago. This person had very special

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memories of 1933. Alan Davies was chosen as a page boy and his

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picture alongside Lloyd George. -- here as his picture.

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It came right up to your lower regions and was very hot!

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Why no hundred and 50 years later there are new challenges. -- 150

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years. But the organisers are determined never to forget the past.

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I am joined now by the organiser. Tell us about this concert.

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Ed is a celebration of the 150 years. We started in 1861 and we

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will go back to Victorian times to begin at the beginning, as Dylan

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Thomas would save. Can you give us a taste of what

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people can expect? We will move through the evolution

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of Welsh music during that 150 years. From the first ever win a us

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and finishing with a modern event like this. -- the first ever winner

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A very busy day. Back to Thomas. Members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith

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Gymraeg, the Welsh Language Society to date called on S4C to be

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protected from cuts. The BBC as a due to take over most of its

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funding from 2013. Individuals were encouraged to get in touch with a

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Jeremy Hunt to make their opposition clear. Now, the drama

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medal was awarded today and it went to a play dealing with when the

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promises of youth are not fulfilled. The winner was Rhian Staples. The

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Welsh learner of the year when two K Holder. She began learning last

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year. She has become fluent within one year.

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It was frustrating because I expected it to fit in with the

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language of other European languages. It did not. But once I

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got the hang of some of the mutations I realised that that was

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the beauty of the Welsh language. Two young singers living 150 miles

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apart who could only celebrate on the Internet were celebrating

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tonight after winning in the duet competition. Are rehearsing from

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opposite ends of the country was not easy for Jessica Robinson and

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Meilir Jones. They decided to their hairs over the Internet and had to

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overcome the inevitable glitches. But it was all worth it as they

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clinched first prize. The distance caused a problem so we

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came up with the idea of practising on line. There is a delay so it was

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difficult. We finish the phrases are at different times. But it was

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a laugh and it all came together in the end.

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To begin with people were wearing wellies but it has all changed now.

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Yes, we started off with a drop of rain but lose skies and sunshine

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now. Fine weather. That is what we want. 25 is Celsius in Wrexham

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yesterday. Fresher today, with a bit of a breeze. More the drier

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weather on offer tomorrow. Perfect weather on offer tomorrow. Perfect

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for walking around. A mixture of clouds and sunshine in places this

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evening. Just the odd shower. Rose at 11 is Celsius. -- Lows, 11

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Celsius. The order a light shower possible but sunny intervals

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tomorrow. -- the odd light shower. Generally dry and for the weekend

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