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Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's top story:

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The worst storm of winter wreaks widespread disruption. Roads closed

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and damaged power cables send people fleeing their homes.

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Somebody not on the door and said we had better get out because next

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door looks like it is on fire. Tonight, 10 flood alerts are in

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force. Bond with more rain on the way, the Environment Agency is

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Our other headlines tonight: Who wants to lead Plaid Cymru? The

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four candidates stake their claim as nominations open.

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Karen Arthur is one of the patients with faulty breast implants. The

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clinic tell her she'll have to pay to have them removed.

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And after this first away victory in the Premier League, Swansea

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start the new year on the right Good evening.

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Winds of almost 100mph and heavy rain have caused disruption across

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the country as people headed back to work after the Christmas

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holidays. Fallen trees led to road closures up and down Wales, while

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some train services were severely disrupted. There's a warning that

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heavy rainfall forecast for tomorrow might could lead to

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further flooding. Let's join our correspondent Colette Hume in the

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Neath Valley tonight. Behind me is the meeting point of the two rivers.

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Bill Elliott today, the water and they went across the aqueduct at

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around four ft higher than usually. Fortunately, it did not break. The

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Environment Agency is warning that with heavy rain tomorrow, they

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could be a risk of flooding. The weather today has brought parts of

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wares on was to a standstill. Rivers nearly overflowing after the

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worst storm of the winter so far hit the country. Torrential

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downpours have left the ground saturated and water levels rising.

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The River Conwy's spilling onto the road. One flood warning is still in

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place for the Lower Dee Valley, along with numerous flood alerts.

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There is no clear break in the weather. But the next few days, we

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are not going to get fairly frosty evenings. We will have a lot more

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wet weather. As people returned to work after

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the holidays, there was disruption on the roads and rails. This

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waterfall near Rhondda gushing its excess water right onto the nearby

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railway line. Services had to be halted for hours.

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But it wasn't just the rain. Stormforce winds have swept the

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country. No walkers were braving the gales on this Carmarthenshire

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beach. And in Bala, the winds were strong

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enough to lift this trampoline onto a car. At their worst, they reached

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93mph in Gwynedd overnight. Gusts that were simply too strong

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for the power cables on this street in Dolgellau. 12 people had to be

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evacuated from their homes after an electric box short-circuited.

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5:30am, there was a bigger bang. Then there was smoke and sparks.

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The street was alight. Somebody knocked on the door and told us to

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get out because next door and looked like it was on fire. When we

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got out, we saw that the electrical was sparking.

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Tonight, the Environment Agency is warning more heavy rain and strong

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winds are forecast for tomorrow, which could lead to further

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flooding. Phil Pickersgill is from

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Environment Agency Wales. Good evening. But let's just talk

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through the flood alerts. How many of enforced tonight? At the moment,

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we have got 10 flood alerts in place and one flood warning. This

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has come down from 29 flood alerts in total that we had earlier today.

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The -- the river has peaked at around 11am. We have been

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monitoring the situation ever since. Some good news that we have gone

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down to 10, but the Environment Agency is warning that there is

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more rain on the way tomorrow. Where are you most concerned about?

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Tomorrow, we have got a frontal system coming in tomorrow afternoon

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which will extend through till Thursday morning. We have been

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advised that the main areas will be made and the North Wales. People in

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those areas, be vigilant tomorrow. What should people do if we go from

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a flood alert to a flood warning and a live near an area at risk?

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The Environment Agency issued warnings. One of those is a flood

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warning. On the issue a flood warning, it means that somebody

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will be flooded. If you are on our flood warning service and you get

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that warning, please be prepared. Make sure your Obama bulls are

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upstairs, your pressures of possessions are put away with you.

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-- valuables. Keep an ear out for the year local radio for the latest

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news. But take those things that mean a lot, if you get a flood

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warning, just take those things to higher ground. Absolutely. The

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anything I would say is that you can ring hour direct line and you

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will get the latest information. have more rain coming tomorrow.

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People are being told that if they get a flood warning, to take it

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very seriously. If you live in a flood risk area, look after your

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possessions. You do not want to be mopping up those things so precious

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to you. Nominations have opened to become

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the new leader of Plaid Cymru to succeed Ieuan Wyn Jones. So far,

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four Assembly Members have declared their intention to stand. The

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winner will be announced in March, a week before the party's spring

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conference. Whoever wins faces an uphill struggle, following

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disappointing results at last year's Assembly election. Here's

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our political reporter Aled ap Dafydd.

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Plaid Cymru kick off the new political year with a fixture they

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don't play very often. It's the game of picking a new leader. Ieuan

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Wyn Jones has held that position for over a decade, but after a

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disappointing showing at May's Assembly election, he's about to

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stand down. There are four Assembly Members

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currently in the race to succeed him. Elin Jones is the member for

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Ceredigion and former Agriculture Minister. She's the bookies'

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favourite to win. I want us to focus on the future and to ensure

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that as a party, that we are opening up our doors for every

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person to feel that if they are ambitious, then they cannot share

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that ambition with Plaid Cymru. If they have never voted Plaid Cymru

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in the past, they can vote in the future.

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Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas represents Dwyfor Meirionydd and has vast

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political experience as a Member of Parliament, House of Lords and as

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the Assembly's Presiding Officer until May of last year. He's

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waiting to be nominated formally by his local branch before commenting.

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Simon Thomas is also a former MP and was a Welsh Government advisor

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prior to winning a seat representing Mid and West Wales.

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think we need to ensure that the next leader is somebody who can

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work with a wide range of opinions and bring people together. There

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are different signs of leadership. You can read from the front or you

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can Leeds in a different way. That is the style of leadership I am

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putting forward. South Wales Central AM Leanne Wood

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is the latest to join the contest. She's a staunch republican from the

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left wing of the party. We need to turn around the Welsh economy and

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put the economy at the forefront of our political agenda. I think that

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we have been less than clear as a party as to what we mean by

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independents, what we wanted for and how we would get there. I think

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now is Ieuan Wyn Jones' successor will

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begin a period of renewal for the party, armed with the findings of

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an internal review after falling to third place in the Assembly

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election. What I am seeing is a party and a membership quite

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excited about the future, seeing an opportunity to set the direction

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for the years ahead and provide that leadership. I think this is a

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really exciting time. The phones at Plaid HQ have been

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hot over the Christmas period. A membership drive has seen an

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increase of 10% and every new member has a vote in the upcoming

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election. Leadership contest have many of the elements you often see

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in a football match. Often a few own goals along the way. We will

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find out what will become the new leader on March 15th.

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Our political editor Betsan Powys joins us from the Senedd. Paul is

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the front-runner? There is a favourite, an early favourite, that

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is Elin Jones. The hot favourite it would be Leanne Wood, the favourite

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amongst those who want to see an experienced pair of hands at the

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helm would be Lord Dafydd Elis- Thomas. But it is not just about

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deciding on your favourite, you have to have a first and second

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preference. That sort of process and it is a difficult game to

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predict who will win. Is a change of personality really going to

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change the party's fortune at the polls? I think what you saw this

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morning was Plaid Cymru trying to tell you that alone, no, they are

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aware that by involving a team of party workers and supporters to

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decide on tactics that it is much more fundamental than that. They

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have some big decisions to make about party policy and the economy.

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What could Plaid Cymru do? And on independence, a key battleground,

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no doubt is they take on independence. Does the party

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supported? What we did look like? What we did cause to happen? Those

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are the sort of debate he would year of the coming weeks.

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Incidentally, that is not just Plaid Cymru who have had a busy

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start to the year. The Welsh Liberal Democrats have appointed a

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new chief executive. Their former chief executive has gone off to

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work in Downing Street. Their new chief executive is the former head

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of communications. No doubt, the other parties are already promising

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that they have a busy few weeks and next week, they will be kicking off

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with some ideas. The families of two women killed in

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a car crash on New Year's Day have paid tribute to them. Sasha Jarvis,

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who was 19 and from Llanberis, and 21-year-old Sian Gwenllian Lloyd

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Davies who lived near Bangor, were killed when their car hit a wall in

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Llanrug. Their families said Sasha was, funloving and warm, and Sian

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was delighted by her sister's engagement announcement only the

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day before. Two wards at Wrexham Maelor

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Hospital are still closed after an outbreak of Norovirus at Christmas.

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Seven patients are thought to currently have the winter vomiting

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bug. A ward at Mold Community Hospital in Flintshire has also

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been shut after patients showed symptoms of Norovirus.

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A mother from Pontypridd, one of thousands of women fitted with

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breast implants that used unauthorised silicone, has been

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speaking of her desperation to get them removed. Karen Arthur says

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she's had medical advice to get the implants, which have now ruptured,

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taken out. But the private clinic where she had the original surgery

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want to charge for the operation, which she says she can't afford.

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Karen Arthur and her son enjoy the last days of the school holiday,

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but she is in considerable pain. Over the past year she has

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developed lumps under her arms, an ultrasound showing her implants had

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ruptured. My surgeon said they should come out and be replaced. I

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spoke to the clinic manager who said, not into the pay �2,600, so

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we are back where we started. No one is prepared to take the fault.

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The breast implants in question were made by French company PIP,

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which has since gone into administration. The French

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government has recommended they be removed as a preventative measure,

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at the state will foot the bill, but today, the BBC has learned that

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the UK government is not preparing to change its advice to women. It

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has found no evidence to routinely remove the implants. I am prepared

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to take this all the way. I will not sit back and wait for someone

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to say it is the NHS's fault. In my eyes, I paid them the money and

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they should replace it so where am taking legal action. Her solicitor

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represents a hundreds of women across the UK suing over the

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implants. It has been a real roller-coaster ride for our clients.

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It began just before Christmas with cancer alerts and we have been

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clear there is no cancer riskier. We have always said the problem is

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the industrial grade so good -- silicone which is itself an

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irritant. The PIP insurers wont indemnify them. The clinics gave

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clear guarantees or induced the clients to purchase the implants,

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and now they have gone wrong, we said that pulls under the contract

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they have to honour. But taking cases through the courts will take

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time. For Karen Arthur, any delay only adds to the uncertainty and

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confusion she feels. You are watching Wales Today from

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the BBC. Much more to come before 7pm including giving hope to

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couples wanting a baby, the welsh scientists at the cutting edge of

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IVF. And after putting 3 past Reading,

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Cardiff City step up their promotion chase in the Championship.

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First, stop pouring Welsh Government money into Cardiff and

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spend it instead in the South Wales valleys, that is the call tonight

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from a leading charity. The Bevan Foundation says thanks to

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investment, Merthyr Tydfil has achieved an economic miracle in the

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last 10 years, with unemployment now at a level similar to Cardiff.

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The charity says it's a model for what could be achieved across the

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valleys. Caroline Evans reports on how the town is faring in the

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downturn. Have you got any fans? Feathered

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once? Times may be hard but here in the centre of Merthyr, this fancy

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dress and cosmetics company is doing very well. Capitalising on

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what they will tell you here is the town's new-found confidence, they

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have gone from market stall to shop. We started the business of with �80,

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that was nearly 80 -- nearly eight years ago. Just one member of staff

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at the time and now eight years on we are turning over half-a-million

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Pounds this year, and we employ it 14 people now., and in the shopping

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centre, there is not a single shop vacant. The manager says there are

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more -- more than �60 million is currently being invested in the

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town, and that, in turn, is attracting interest from private

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investors. There is an air of optimism about the future.

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Currently we are going through difficult times just like everybody

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else, but definitely, a man's businesses there is a hope for the

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future and plans to regenerate the town. There are discussions about

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improving the facilities and the range of shops in the town, and the

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hope is that Merthyr Tydfil will become the regional capital and the

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heads of the valleys in future. Investments have bought a leisure

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park, cinema and restaurants are springing up, and the Bevan

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Foundation says this is evidence of how investing in the valleys is the

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best way forward. If you look around Cardiff you can see lots of

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examples of fairly large amounts of public money going into

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developments such as Cardiff Bay, many facilities, the development of

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the town centre and so on and so forth, and although there has been

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some money going into the heads of the Valley's area, there has been

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nothing like the same amount or the same intensity of effort gone in.

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We think it is time now to switch the focus a little bit. And the

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figures do look promising. The latest show unemployment in the

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town is up 18 per cent. The unemployment rate has fallen, and

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at 12.32 -- 12.3 per cent, is hovering at the same levels as

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Cardiff, where it is 9.8 per cent. Huw Lewis is the minister

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responsible for regeneration. He told me he agrees that investment

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like the �3 million which has gone into this chapel conversion in

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Bargoed is great value for money. But he says it is a mistake to

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think about choosing between Cardiff and the valleys. I don't

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think we should get into this argument about valleys this has

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Cardiff, and so on. I think we have to get to a point where we realise

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and accept that the valleys and Cardiff are joined together. Their

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futures are linked, and we have to think about that region has been a

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whole if we are to get a good outcome tomorrow investment in the

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communities. There was government has committed �114 million over 15

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years to regeneration and the heads of the valleys -- the Welsh

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Government. If the strategy pays up -- pays off, by 2020 that money

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should have attracted a further �360 million from the private

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sector, and ministers hope that the valleys will no longer be a poor

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relation but a thriving regional centre once again. Back in Merthyr,

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they are confident that they are already on the road to greater

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prosperity. They are just beginning what they say here is a watershed

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moment in the town's regeneration, restoring the historic town hall.

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The court, Council, nightclub and finely derelict, it reflects the

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fortunes of the town itself. After a �6 million facelift it will

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become a centre for cultural and creative industries.

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Fertility scientists at Cardiff University say they may have found

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a way of selecting the embryos most likely to result in pregnancy. The

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technique developed in mice looks at tiny movements inside the cells.

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They hope patients from Wales could be part of clinical trials.

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Fertility science as a fast- changing and highly competitive

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field. Teams around the world are all trying to improve the success

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rate of treatments like IVF, and the team here in Cardiff think they

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have found a way of selecting the best entry of three years. I am

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pleased to say I am joined by a professor from the University. What

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we are looking for in mouse embryos? We are looking at the

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early events of fertilisation, when the sperm fertilises the egg. With

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the team from Oxford and Cambridge we have found pulses in the

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cytoplasm when the sperm fertilises the egg. So we are looking at a

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mouse embryo on the screen, but you can see similar movements in human

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ones as well. Yes, we have detected these movements in the human egg

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when it is fertilised or artificially stimulated, so we can

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see this movement pattern in mice also occurs in human. In mice, this

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correlates with which is the best embryo, so we think we can use this

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technique to predict the best embryo in human IVF. The next step

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will be to try it with humans. What are your thoughts on how this could

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help patients who you see? This is a major discovery in that it will

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enable us to choose the best embryo and implanted back into the woman

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and maximise the chances of getting pregnant, and that would enable us

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to avoid multiple pregnancy. has avoiding twins and triplets

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important? Multiple pregnancy is problematic in that pre-term

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deliveries are danger, and therefore babies are born at 30, 28

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weeks, and may be admitted to intensive care units and Arabic

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train on NHS resources, so the sooner we can get more information

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through collaboration with the IBS unit that -- unit at the University

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of Wales, the better -- IVF unit. That means that was patients could

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be part of a clinical trial. If they get funding the team hope they

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can move to that stage within 18 months-two years.

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In football, our top 3 clubs have made the perfect start to the new

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year. Cardiff and Wrexham were in free-scoring form as they stepped

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up their chase for promotion while Swansea collected their first away

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win in the Premier League at Aston Villa, as Ashleigh Crowter now

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reports. They arrived at Villa Park with the

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worst away record in the top four divisions, still looking for the

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first win on the road in the Premier League. But with the new

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year came the result, and Swansea grabbed the first game of 2012 by

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the scruff of the neck, Nathan Dyer capitalising early on a defensive

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mistake. And the result was put beyond doubt just after half-time,

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Wayne Routledge providing the inspiration, and eventually the

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finish, to wrap up a 2-0 wins. was just the experience, we have

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had some difficult games away from home, I feel, against all the big

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clubs, and we have gone to other grounds and been in front and

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thrown away the lead, so today was always going to be, we were 2-0 up

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again, and we can learn from the lessons. They are very honest group

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of players, this group. Swansea are now 11th and the Premier League,

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having just passed the halfway mark of the campaign. The gap between

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them and the bottom three is now eight points. Elsewhere, Cardiff

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City are right on the tails of the Championship leaders after a

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comprehensive 3-1 victory over Reading. The Bluebirds it will

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damage in the first half, scoring three times before the break, and

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are now third, just two points of the top. It has been a tough

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weekend, we have had duffed -- two tough games, and to come as a bit

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with six points is very pleasing. Today was always going to be tough

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and we have a team in form on fire who have won five of the last six.

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So we knew it would be a tough one if we didn't start well, but we did

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start well and they thought they were fantastic. Wrexham's red-hot

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form continues. The leaders consolidated their position with a

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win over Telford, and tonight, Newport County who are hovering

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above the relegation zone, face Bath City.

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Boxing, and Nathan Cleverly will defend his WBO world light-

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heavyweight title against the American Tommy Karpency in Cardiff

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next month. Cleverly's promoter Frank Warren says he made offers to

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WBC Champion Bernard Hopkins and also to be be a champion burbot

:23:59.:24:03.

shaman off. If he wins, Cleverly is looking for a fight against one or

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the other title holders. The weather is our top story

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tonight, let's see if the worst is I think the worst is over, but

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there is a sting in the tail. The north and west is at risk of severe

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gales for some time this evening. The height of today's storm saw the

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wind reaching force 11 on the Llyn peninsula with a gust of 93 mph

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recorded at Aberdaron, 71 mph at Mumbles Head in Swansea. Maggie

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Thomas from Porthcawl cent in this picture of a huge wave crashing

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over the harbour wall, while Steve Porter took this one, massive waves

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crashing on Bardsley -- Bardsey Island. River levels are smaller --

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falling but some remain swollen. There is one of flood warning in

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force in the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Chester and seven

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alerts. The reason for this weather is a deep area of low pressure

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which is now moving towards Scandinavia. So for this evening,

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very windy, still, especially on Irish Sea coasts, blustery showers

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as well and hailstorms in places, snow on the mountains, less windy

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and clearer after midnight. The lowest temperatures 2-6 Celsius, so

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no frost. Tomorrow morning, then, a better start compared to today. Not

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as windy and drier too bar a few showers, for example England have.

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Temperatures well above freezing at 8 am but it will feel cold with a

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strong westerly wind blowing. You may see a glimpse or two of

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sunshine tomorrow but make the most of it because the weather will go

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downhill during the afternoon. More rain spilling in, turning pretty

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wet, I think, in North West and Mid Wales. Highest temperatures around

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nine Celsius, 40 it Fahrenheit, and windy, the wind, if anything,

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increasing during the afternoon, forecast gusts of over 56 mph by

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the evening. Tomorrow night looks wet and windy, strong to severe

:25:58.:26:03.

gale force winds, and heavy rain, another 40-50 mm, 2 inches expected

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on high ground in Mid Wales and Snowdonia, and given the ground is

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already saturated, that brings a risk of more flooding. Beyond that,

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Thursday drier and brighter, some welcome sunshine, a few showers,

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strong to gale force winds slowly easing. Beyond that, Friday less

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windy after a dry and cold start, turning milder with a little rain.

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Still no sign of really cold weather and significant snow this

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winter so far. It has been driven by a strong jet stream bringing

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abounds of heavy rain and gales in Tonight's main story from the BBC,

:26:42.:26:47.

which contains flash photography. Two men, Gary Dobson and David

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Norris have been found guilty of the murder of Stephen Lawrence 18

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years ago. Today the Lawrence family led by his mother called the

:26:55.:26:59.

original police investigation a miserable failure. Despite these

:26:59.:27:05.

verdicts, today is not a cause for celebration. How can I celebrate

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when my son lies buried? Had the police done their job properly, I

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would have spent the last 18 years grieving for my son rather than

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Get his killers to court. Tonight's other headlines, heavy rain

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forecast for tomorrow might lead to further flooding, the Environment

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Agency has warned tonight. Winds of over 100 mph and heavy rain caused

:27:28.:27:32.

disruption across Wales. We will have an update for you here

:27:32.:27:37.

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