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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story: Pickaxe in administration,

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shocked staff leave the headquarters tonight not knowing if

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they have a job tomorrow -- Peacocks in administration. Quite

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shocking, we are formally in administration and we will find out

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tomorrow if we have a job. It is very sad, we come back tomorrow and

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leave the company, and that is it, Tonight's other main news: An

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investigation is underway after two people died in a light aircraft

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crash near Welshpool. A jury hears that Nikitta Grender was raped then

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stabbed in the neck and stomach, killing her and her unborn baby.

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Lorries carrying turbines cause traffic problems in Carmarthenshire.

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Now fears in Newtown that similar hold-ups could it businesses.

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And another chance for Henson, he is named in the Wales training

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Good evening. Nearly 10,000 jobs are at risk after the clothing

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chain Peacocks announced it had gone into administration. The

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company employs more than 400 people at its headquarters in

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Cardiff. Staff there were given the news by the company's chief

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executive this afternoon and many will find out tomorrow if they

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still have jobs. Nick Servini is outside Peacock's headquarters for

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us tonight. You have been there this afternoon. What have staff had

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to say? This is 4 o'clock this afternoon, when 400 staff here at

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the headquarters went into that meeting, and the chief executive

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Richard Kirk told them the news, that the company was going into

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administration, despite, he said, his efforts to try to come up with

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a deal to regain control of the business. We are told he was then

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given a round of applause in a very emotional meeting with their staff.

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It is obviously going to be a very difficult time. The workers here

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are left in a very unenviable position, going home tonight with a

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view to going back to work tomorrow, the expectation as many of them to

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put it bluntly will find out if they have a job tomorrow. A

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significant announcement also from a wider perspective. This will be

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the biggest retailer collapse across the UK since the downfall of

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Woolworths and number of years ago, and in the context of Wales, the

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biggest corporate collapse of any company in many years. This is what

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some of the staff had to say when they came out of the meeting.

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I think the directors worked very hard to try and save the company,

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but I think in the end, it will come back as a different company

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wants the administration has gone through. Some people will stay on

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to run the business, but many people will lose their jobs

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tomorrow. The staff are very sad. This is the place we have been

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working so long, love so much, it is really sad. What will happen to

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the business now? They are going to try to sell it as a going concern,

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so fingers crossed. Nick, what hope is there for staff, what happens

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next? Well, at a lot of those pretty dire

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predictions from a couple of the staff you heard there, they may not

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necessarily come true. I have spoken to the administrators KPMG,

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and they have said they will try to sell it as a going concern, the

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stores and the business will continue to trade as normal, but as

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we know, Lucy, in an administration situation, generally speaking parts

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of the business will be closed or sold off. In a statement KPMG also

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said they believed there is a surplus of stores and it is

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difficult trading environment, but the point about this businesses,

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the difficulties are not necessarily the profitability of

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the stores. The real problem is historic debt, hundreds of millions

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of pounds worth of debt that stemmed from a management buyout

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made in 2006, and since then, despite the stores doing reasonably

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well, the overall financial performance of the company has been

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weighed down every year by the cost of the interest payments on that

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debt. That may give some hope at least to the workers that part of

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the business may be sold on as a going concern. This is what the

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administrator had to tell me. We are trying to find an answer to

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a buyer by in this business. If we get your commitment and Co

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operation, we will work as quickly and efficiently as possible to

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ensure that as many stores go forward and there is a Peacocks in

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the future. Me while, in contrast to what has

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been going on at Peacocks -- meanwhile, unemployment figures

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released today were quite encouraging. Yes, reasonably

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encouraging, Lucy. I think these monthly figures can be erratic, but

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on the quarter it has come down 1000 to 130,000, an unemployment

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rate of 8.9 per cent compared to the UK average of 8.4 per cent. You

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have to say, though, the overall trend at the moment is pretty

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gloomy, not only have we had the news here at Peacocks which will

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affect the entire country, we also had no announcement this afternoon

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from Lloyd's that 200 job losses are due to take place in Cardiff

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and Newport -- an announcement. will hear more tomorrow. Thank you.

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An investigation is underway after two people were killed when a light

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aircraft crashed in Powys. It happened near Mid Wales Airport in

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Welshpool. Emergency services were called around lunchtime following

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reports the plane had crashed into a mountain. Our reporter is near

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the scene for us tonight. I am standing on Long Mountain near

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the border between Montgomeryshire and Shropshire. It is just a mile

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or so from here on the brow of the hill behind me that earlier today a

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light aircraft came down leaving two people dead. Since then

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emergency vehicles have been coming to and fro from this spot and

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residency police are still here this evening.

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The emergency services leave Long Mountain this evening after

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spending most of the day at the scene of the incident. We were

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called at midday from Welshpool airport as a twin-engined aircraft

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has crashed after a short flight. The wreckage of the aircraft was

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found and unfortunately two people are were there. We are can be

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preserving the scene overnight for investigation and inquiries in the

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morning. Tonight one of those who has lost

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his life has been named locally as Bob Jones, the local farmer was one

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of the founders of Mid Wales Airport, which was built in his

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Land -- on his land in the early 1990s. Bob was a local farmer who

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loved flying, it was his liberation. He decided to convert the grass

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strip on his land. I became involved because I was chairman of

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the local development agency at the time, and I was one of his

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instruments in delivering his vision, and he inspired me as well.

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The airport wouldn't be there. There are companies in mid-Wales

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who wouldn't be there except for Bob Jones. The airport is located

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just outside Welshpool. Local companies use it regularly to

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travel between Mid Wales and other parts of the UK and Europe. The

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airport was closed this afternoon as the local community comes to

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grips with what has happened. Knight has now fallen on the

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Montgomeryshire hillside. Air Accident investigations will begin

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their work in the morning. Dyfed- Powys police say the next of kin

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have been informed of this tragic Muse, which has shaken the local

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community and left friends and relatives of those who have died in

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grief -- tragic news. As I say, investigations will begin in the

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morning. Thank you. Around 40 business owners from Mid

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Wales met in Newtown earlier to discuss the possible impact of wind

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farm developments in the area. They wanted to know how Powys County

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Council and other raw authorities would deal with traffic when 15 you

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wind farms are built in the area. They are concerned that an increase

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in lorries carrying parts for wind turbines will create more traffic

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and affect their businesses. He is Iolo ap Dafydd.

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During the busiest times of the day Newtown is already congested. The

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road from Welshpool runs through the town towards the south.

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Possible traffic disruption has become an important issue as local

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companies become aware of planned new wind farms in Mid Wales.

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Some concerns were raised at a meeting in Newtown this morning.

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lot of problems have been highlighted like the potential

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damage to walk all the buildings, the five-seven years it is

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estimated that every other day there will be one of these huge

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convoys going through, plus 50 HGV lorry movements a day for the

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duration. All of those things make this an absolutely enormous impact.

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There was much talk about this being one of the greatest

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investments in Wales, infrastructure projects in Wales,

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for what -- for very long time, and with that it will bring significant

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employment opportunities. My company, for one, has many people

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employed in the wind industry. Campaigners in Montgomeryshire had

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taken over an empty shop in Newtown to publicise maps showing how the

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proposed turbines could affect parts of Powys. If up to 50 new

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wind farms are built in Powys, county officials say over 4000

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vehicles like this one, filmed in Carmarthenshire two years ago

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carrying part of a tower for a wind farm, could be seen on the roads in

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Montgomeryshire. The draft agreements between local

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authorities, wind developers and the police are still being

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discussed to try and minimise as much as possible congestion in

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future. Many in Mid Wales would argue that

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traffic at busy periods is already problematic, and with 15 new

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proposed wind farms for Powys, there would be an increase in heavy

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and abnormal loads. But the developers would argue that that

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busy periods would only last for a short period of time during

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A man has gone on trial accused of the rape and murder of a heavily

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pregnant teenager in her Newport home. The body of 19-year-old

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Nikitta Grender was found in her burnt-out flat last February. 27-

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year-old double-glazing salesman Carl Whant doesn't -- denies

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stabbing her and killing her unborn baby.

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Emergency services were called to this estate in Newport on 5th

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February last year after the downstairs neighbours not smoke and

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heard a constant alarm from the flat above -- smelt smoke. The body

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of 19-year-old Nikitta Grender was discovered in the bedroom of the

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home she shared with her boyfriend Brian May's. They were expecting

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their first child within weeks and had already named their unborn

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daughter Elsie May. Four days later police arrested Carl Whant. Today

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any critic Brenda's family were in court to see him sentenced --

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Nikitta Grender's family. The prosecution told the court she

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should have been safe in her own flat but someone entered that flat,

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murdered her and raped her. He described how she was stabbed in

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the stomach, killing her and her unborn baby, then, he said, the bed

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on which she was lying was deliberately set on fire. Ladies

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and gentlemen of the jury, he said, the man who did that was Carl Whant.

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Fire experts say the blaze was started in three separate parts of

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the bedroom with a match or lighter. They are due to give evidence about

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what time the fire was started in the early hours of Saturday morning.

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At the time Carl Whant and Ryan is were together at a house party on

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the other side of Newport where they drank vodka and took cocaine.

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The court heard how Carl Whant went missing from the party between 5am

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and 6am. The prosecution say that is when he drove to Nikitta

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Grender's has have committed the crimes. They say they have evidence

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leaking -- linking the defender to Nikitta Grender, but added there

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was no question of him having consensual sex with her. It was

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common knowledge she disliked him and considered him a bad influence

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on her boyfriend. 27-year-old Carl Whant denies all four counts of

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rape, murder, child destruction and arson. The case continues. Still to

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come: Gavin Henson is in the Wales Six Nations training squad, so who

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The man in charge of a charity helping military veterans says more

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should be done to encourage them to seek help. General Sir Kevin

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O'Donoghue from the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families

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Association has been visiting Wales to see the charity's work and meet

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Assembly of members. Earlier I spoke to him and asked why ex-

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service personnel are not coming The I think they are taught to be

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self-reliant. That is part of it. Another part of it is perhaps they

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don't like asking for charity. I think this is mistaken. Part of the

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reason I am in Cardiff today is to spread the word that we are here to

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help. Do you think you're people could be

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coming to you because there are more high-profile charity out there,

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like help 4 euros? -- help 4 euros. They have awakened the nation's

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feelings for ex servicemen and women. I don't think that is the

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reason. Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association has been

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going on for years. It helps soldiers, sailors, airmen and

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families and it has 426 years. We need to reach out to those who have

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retired a week and those who have retired 50 years ago and help their

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families. I don't think it's other high profile charities, it is a

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lack of awareness of what we can do. What about help for servicemen

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suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder? We heard about the

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death of lance-corporal Dan Collins, who took his life on New year's

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Day? We can signpost servicemen and

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women with those conditions to the clinicians who are professionally

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qualified to help. What we went to, what we are not credited to do is

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to give that specific help. Those who have a problem or think they

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may have a problem, should contact us if they don't know where to go

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and we can point them in the right direction.

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The neonatal unit at Swansea's Singleton Hospital has been closed

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to new admissions. The health board says the situation is being

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reassessed as the conditions of the newborn babies changed.

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Staff at two Unilever sites in Wales have joint strike action over

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pensions. The company makes Pot noodle at his factory and has IT

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workers in Flintshire. They are striking over proposals to end the

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company's final-salary scheme. Wales must not be sidelined in

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debates about the future of the United Kingdom's constitution, that

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is the warning from a new body set up to look at Wales's position

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within the UK. Forum on the changing Union will spend three

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years looking at issues such as what would happen if Scotland backs

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independence. Cardiff council is planning to offer a same-day burial

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service. It's aimed at meeting the religious needs of the city's was

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numb and Jewish communities. The new arrangement means a burial

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booked by 10:30am could happen as early as 230 that afternoon. --

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2:30pm. Since the late 1930s, Cardiff's

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Muslim community has buried its dead here at Western Cemetery.

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There is also a section for Jewish graves. Both faiths believes a

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person must be buried as soon as possible after death and a swift

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burial is a mark of honour and respect. Muslim leaders in Cardiff

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have long argued for a same day burial service in the city and now

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the council says it hopes to provide exactly that.

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I am pleased, to be honest, this step has been taken. I hope other

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councils will take it up. It is a fundamental core of the Muslim

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faith and the Jewish faith, to have the burial as soon as possible.

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Some councils in England already offer a same-day burial service but

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plans for Cardiff mean that a burial booked by 10:30am could be

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held as early as 2:30pm. It won't cost the taxpayer any more and it

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is available to anyone of any faith but only if the legal procedures

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and paperwork are on time and in order.

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Obviously, when people come to us, it is at the last stage of the

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bereavement. There are other procedures that have to go through

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before involving the coroner or the health board and a Funeral

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Directors. As a council, we will do all we can to meet the cultural and

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religious needs of our communities. Cardiff council will make its final

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decision tomorrow as to whether or not to offer same-day burial

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services in the city. If it gets the go-ahead, they will be

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available from 1st April. The Six Nations training squad has

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been announced. Who is in and out? We got 35 mins to get through.

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Stand by. Good evening. One name stands out. Gavin Henson has been

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picked in Wales's squad for the Six Nations after playing just three

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games this season. He is one of 35 players heading to Poland on Sunday

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for a week-long training camp. Also on the list is Ashley Beck and a

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surprise call-up, 18-year-old blues wing, Harry Robinson.

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Warren Gatland called Gavin Henson and a cut today. His three matches

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for the Blues have been more steady than spectacular. Not helped by

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playing two of them out of position at full-back. The Wales coach feels

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that even a half-baked Henson is worth a look.

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It is an opportunity for us to have him in the camp and to see where he

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is that. We can all have a look at games but really it is for the

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coaches to get hands-on with Gavin Henson and see where years,

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physically and mentally, and look at him again.

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It is a squat build on the players It is a squat build on the players

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that did so well in the World Cup. There are four uncapped players in

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the backs. 18-year-old Blues When Harry Robinson is a product of the

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Wales has -- Wales Sevens team. There is competition for places,

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that is the important ingredient. When you want to create that

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competition, it you want to have the numbers, to put those players

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under pressure, whether it is in under pressure, whether it is in

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would be your training. It is important that we get that balance

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right and that is why we have decided to get a bigger squad with

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to cover the depleted lock position. Their reward for selection is the

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Their reward for selection is the chance to pop in and out of the

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freeze in chambers of the training camp in Poland.

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I think it's about minus 10 degrees out there. I'm not really one for

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the cold but you get your head down and get on with it.

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Six players, including James Hook and Mike Phillips, who play in

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France or England, will only be released for three days at the Cup

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Polish camp but Wales are confident it won't affect preparations for

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their first match against Ireland on February 5th.

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A home match against Newcastle is the prize on offer for Wrexham if

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they win the replay against Brighton tonight. The match goes

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ahead after it was called off yesterday due to a frozen pitch. A

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crowd of more than 9,000 is expected at the Racecourse, among

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them former dragons manager, Dixie McNeil, who joins me now. I'm just

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hearing that we can't hear from him at the moment so let me tell you

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that you can hear commentary of that game on BBC Radio Wales

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tonight and 7:15pm. Tomorrow, Chris Coleman is expected

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to be unveiled as the new Wales football manager. The Fulham boss

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has been holding talks with the Football Association of Wales this

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week and we will bring new developments on that appointment in

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tomorrow's programme. The frozen pitch frustrated Wrexham

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last night. No worries this evening because I think it is a bit warmer,

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The pitch has thawed out this evening but what a difference a day

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makes. Yesterday in Wrexham, the temperature really struggled to

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reach six Celsius. Today much milder, up to 12 Celsius. That is

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about five degrees above the January average. The good news is

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it should be dry for the game this evening but I wouldn't rule out a

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little rain after the final whistle. Temperatures at the moment about

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seven Celsius. Elsewhere this evening, cloudy and damp in the

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south and west. Mist and fog patches and poor visibility. During

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the night, the rain will become more widespread. Lighter rein in

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the far north-east and temperatures staying well above freezing at

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seven Celsius in concrete. The reason for the rain is this front,

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here. That will move away with colder air following along behind.

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This is the picture for 8am. Not a great start to the day. Rain for

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most of the country but not too cold with temperatures in Welsh

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:23:21.:23:22.

ball around six Celsius. -- in Llandudno. During the morning, the

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rain will clear away and the visibility improving. A better

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afternoon, dry with some sunshine but a few showers are likely in

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parts of the north and west. The wind light at first but picking up

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during the afternoon, becoming strong on the coast by the evening

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and turning colder with temperatures between 7 and 10

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Celsius. In the Vale of Glamorgan, a wet start tomorrow morning but

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that will clear, leaving a dry afternoon with sunshine in

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Cowbridge. Temperatures in buried nine Celsius. Tomorrow night is

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cold and windy with showers in the north. A bit of snow on the hills

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and mountains with rain later in the night. Friday is breezy with

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most of the rain in the mid-Wales and the North. It should brighten

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up for a time with temperatures up to 10 Celsius. Saturday will be

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windy that strong to gale force winds, making it feel chilly.

:24:16.:24:21.

Sunday should turn out better, less windy and brighter, with a few

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showers and a little sunshine. Our picture is from Judy Gaskell.

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Visibility was poor at today but the weather will brighten up

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Sorry about the technical problems we had earlier trying to talk to

:24:37.:24:41.

Dixie McNeil but I'm pleased to say we can now speak to the format

:24:41.:24:46.

Wrexham manager about tonight's game, the third round FA Cup match

:24:46.:24:49.

against Brighton. What chance do you give Wrexham tonight?

:24:49.:24:54.

They've got to get out there and enjoy themselves. It is a great

:24:54.:24:58.

opportunity for them to beat a championship side. Looking forward

:24:58.:25:00.

to playing Newcastle in the next round.

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Given the recent financial problems of the club, how much will it mean

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for Wrexham to have a full house tonight and the prospect of a

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televised match in the 4th round if they get through? I don't think

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people want to talk about money in that sense that I think you are

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right. The perfect thing tonight would be a draw against Newcastle

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and a mammoth pay day at the replay. We want to get through tonight and

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concentrate on what we are doing. It will be a full house and I think

:25:30.:25:36.

there will be a lot of support from the crowd. Their role wheezes. We

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should seek what awaits them after the game this evening.

:25:39.:25:46.

And the spirit of 1992 will loom large over the match? People will

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hope they perform another giant- killing?

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There has been a lot of giant- killing accounts over the years. 20

:25:53.:26:00.

years ago, Mickey Thomas against Arsenal. We beat Newcastle 4-1

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before that. We look forward to doing that again. It has been a

:26:06.:26:10.

long while since the crowd has had something to cheer about and today

:26:10.:26:15.

is a chance to move forward. Finally, promotion is the goal. Do

:26:15.:26:19.

you ever worry that Wrexham could be distracted from the bigger

:26:19.:26:22.

picture? That is always an easy thing to say

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but I think if you are a player, you look forward to breaking away

:26:27.:26:30.

from the League and there is nothing like winning, they are

:26:30.:26:36.

having a fantastic run at the moment and I don't think they will

:26:36.:26:39.

pick up many injuries. When you of winning, you don't. It is something

:26:39.:26:44.

to look forward to. The League is the priority, everybody knows that.

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It went to the club any harm to carry on in the FA Cup.

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Thank you for joining us tonight. Our main news again: The clothing

:26:54.:26:58.

chain Peacocks has announced it has gone into administration.

:26:58.:27:02.

The company employs 400 people at its headquarters in Cardiff. The

:27:02.:27:12.

news was issued this afternoon. A devastating day in the history of

:27:12.:27:15.

this company, which has really been one of the stand-up performers for

:27:16.:27:20.

the Welsh economy over the past 15 years. It has grown hugely and

:27:20.:27:24.

transformed himself -- itself. Staff are left in limbo and would

:27:24.:27:28.

know whether they have jobs for the future. Administrators say they

:27:28.:27:31.

will try and sell this as a going concern.

:27:31.:27:36.

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