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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story: Her phone was hacked from

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the age of 16. A payout of �600,000 for Charlotte Church. Nothing was

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deemed off-limits for those who pursued my family, just to make

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money. Our other headlines: More than half the allegations made

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against teachers turn out to be false, malicious or unfounded.

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effect it had on my wife and myself was completely devastating,

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crippled had breakdowns and were both on medication. For something

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that in the end was found to be without foundation. We're waiting

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for test results that may prove a new virus affecting sheep and

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cattle has spread to Wales. Swansea will become the first city in the

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UK to divert traffic to reduce pollution. In tonight's sport: The

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ecstasy and the agony, Welsh fans live through 40 hours of drama as

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our teams experience the highs and Charlotte Church and her parents

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have agreed damages and costs of �600,000 with News Group Newspapers,

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publishers of the defunct News of the World. The High Court heard how

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her phone was packed when she was just 16 years old. She said she was

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sickened and disgusted by what the newspaper had done to get stories

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about her and her family. How are you coping with all this

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new-found fame? Wales Today back in 1998 and 12 year-old girl at the

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start of a meteoric rise to fame. It is really quite strange because

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I am on the side of buses in Cardiff at the moment! 14 years on

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and she's speaking outside the Royal Courts of Justice. Exposure

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in the press had helped her achieve success but today she launched a

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scathing attack on a section of that press that had gone too far.

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have also discovered that despite the apology that the newspaper has

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given in court, these people were prepared to go to any lengths to

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prevent any exposing their behaviour. Not just in the

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deliberate destruction of documents but also about trying to make this

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investigation into the industrial stage of their illegal activity in

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to an interrogation of my mother's medical condition. Forcing her to

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deliver the enormous distress they caster back in 2005. It seems they

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have learned nothing. In total, 33 articles have appeared in the News

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of the World due to her families voicemails being hacked. They said

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her privacy was violated on a number of occasions. She

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undoubtedly profited from the huge media interest but the papers

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appetite for stories about her was insatiable and in 2002 when she was

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just 16, the News of the World began hacking her phone. These

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students studying journalism in Cardiff agreed the singer's privacy

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was violated. The row over phone hacking by journalists has led to

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the closure of the News of the World newspaper and wider questions

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about press regulation and media ownership. It led to the ongoing

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Leveson Inquiry looking at the culture, practices and ethics of

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the UK media. Everyone and everything associated with people

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defined as celebrities become newsworthy. Charlotte Church in

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Wales and in Cardiff is an extremely big figure. But of course

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she is of interest earned a celebrity because of her

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considerable talent, a very fine voice. That doesn't give everyone a

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licence to preach her human rights by invading her privacy in this way.

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Other Welsh victims include Rhondda MP Chris Bryant, Ryan Giggs and

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Charlotte Church's former partner Gavin Henson. The couple once

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dubbed the Posh and Becks of Wales. Back at today's hearing, the court

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heard how Charlotte Church's mother was at her lowest ebb when her

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phone was hacked. Her legal team called it a gross intrusion into

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the life of an essentially private and ordinary individual at a time

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when she was suicidal.. More than half the accusations made against

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teachers and teaching assistants by pupils in Wales turned out to be

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false, malicious or unfounded. Figures for the last five years

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obtained by BBC Wales found 55% of allegations were later dropped.

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Teaching unions say more action should be taken against those who

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make a false claims. 18 months ago, this man, a deputy

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head teacher with 30 years' experience, was accused by three 10

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year-old boys of punching and kicking them and of drinking in the

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classroom. The police found there was no case to answer but how the

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allegations were dealt with, he says, was harrowing. The experience

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caused a nervous breakdown. couldn't be told what the

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allegations where or who had made those allegations. I was not

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suspended straight away, as expected to go in and teach those

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children on that day. This went on for a period of four or five weeks

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whilst the of Thirties made a decision on whether this should be

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pursued. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show

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that between 2006 and 2011 312 allegations were made against

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teachers and teaching assistants at Welsh schools. But 174 of those

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were later found to be either false, unfunded or malicious. 103 cases

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were investigated by police and two teachers or assistance were

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convicted of crimes. Here at Michaelston Community College in

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Cardiff, these pupils are working hard for French GCSE. The school

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policy of tolerance and respect is designed to maintain the

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environment they need for learning. In the classroom, you have children

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who have issues that often come from outside the classroom. The

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teachers in that classroom has to have a strategy tds delete those

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views. It is all about training and up Skilling the message for staff

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and students. It is David Brown's job to represent accused teachers

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and his union wants police to use their powers more to deal with

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pupils who make false allegations. This cannot be allowed to continue,

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it is simply unfair. The important thing is that people who are

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subject to allegations are given every opportunity to respond and

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understand exactly what those allegations are as quickly as they

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can. In 1986, the launch of Childline give children a voice and

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heralded the start of a new era in child-protection which has seen the

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appointment of a Children's Commissioner. He says he is

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concerned now about talk of criminalising children who falsely

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accuse. It's all about creating a safe environment in the classroom

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and in the school itself. Bold and respect between children and

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teachers and a right space is helpful in doing that because it

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fosters respect between children and teachers and that is much more

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significant a way of developing good practices rather than putting

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one against the other. The Welsh government says it is updating its

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guidance but that nothing should be done that would undermine a child's

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rights. The teacher I spoke to says he believes the system is out of

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balance. Teaching was his life, but he cannot wait for retirement.

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We have more on the story on our website.

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A 35 year-old man has been charged after a van and train collided at a

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level crossing in Powys two weeks ago. Daniel Bellis from Oswestry

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was charged with endangering safety on the railway without intent and

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dangerous driving. A small number of tests have been

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carried out on farms here for a potentially deadly animal virus

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already found in livestock in England. The Schmallenburg virus

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has mostly been found in sheep and causes miscarriages and birth

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defects. Tonight Wales' chief vet says it is likely we will see some

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cases here soon. Welsh lamb is an industry worth �119 million in

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exports alone. Our Environment Correspondent joins us from a farm

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near Bala. I am on a farm in a ballot. These

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sheep are about to start lambing sin. We know that this is an area

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where there are no concerns yet about the Schmallenburg virus and

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there is possibly two or three cases in South Wales. South Wales

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is an medium-risk area at the moment. But there are about 83

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cases in England and know the virus arrived in Britain last August so

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what is the response here in Wales? What could have happened is that

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the disease arrived in Applin midges from mainland Europe towards

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the end of last summer. If that is the case, looking at the

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Meteorological evidence, we would expect some of those images to

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arrived in Wales. We believe that South Wales at the moment is in a

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medium risk area for this disease. So it is possible but over the next

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few weeks, as we reached the peak of the lambing season, but we will

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find cases of this disease in Wales. With me now it is President of the

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Farmers' Union of Wales. How concerned should farmers be

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tonight? Obviously farmers are very concerned, especially after we

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heard what she has just said, that there may be a possibility that the

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virus has come into Wales. What would you say to farmers, what

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should they do and this is beginning to be the peak time for

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lambing, what should they be looking out for? For the next six

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week, this is the lambing time and when lambs are born with a

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moralities, the best thing is for the farmer to get in touch with his

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local vet so that tests can be done on that lamb. He how much do you

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know and you think most farmers know about this virus because it is

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new and was only find in Germany towards the middle of last summer?

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Obviously that is a big worry because nobody had heard about the

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disease until last August. Even the vets don't know enough about it and

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there is no vaccine against it, that is the biggest worry. What can

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we do if we have it on our animals, what we do about it? Does this

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remind you of a virus a few years ago which also came from insects?

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It is very similar but the difference is, one there was a

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vaccine for that, farmers could do something about it but with this

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new virus, there is nothing we can do but hope for the best that we

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will not get it in our ship. So far as scientists tried to learn more

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about this first, they say there is very little risk in terms of human

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health. Still ahead: I have tonight's sport.

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A triple crown and a boxing belt come home to Wales. Cardiff City's

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boss says yesterday's disappointment will help them push

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for promotion. The question of whether Wales

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should have a different policy to the UK government when it comes to

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Europe has been a hot topic today in Brussels. The First Minister

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told European commissioners he is keen Wales plays a constructive

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role on the European stage but the Conservatives have accused him of

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empty talk. Carwyn Jones was here in Brussels

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today with two messages. There are nine that he has said he doesn't

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want to see Scotland going it alone and bricking up the United Kingdom.

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Remember that before Christmas when the David Cameron excluded the UK

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from by new European treaty, Carwyn Jones said he was threatening the

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entrance of Wales in Europe. Today it was all about being seen to be

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doing it his way in Europe. First Stop, a meeting for the

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commissioner for regional policy where the message was that he wants

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Wales to be an active and constructive partner at European

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stage as part of the United Kingdom. I have had meetings with

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commissioners here so they know our view when it comes to European

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funding in the future for Wales and areas such as farming policy which

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are very important. A then on to this reception, all about promoting

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Welsh food, reminding people that Europe is Wales's largest trade

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destination. Remember how reliant we are on structural funds from

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Europe. No surprises that the message here from those who live

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and work in Brussels is that the Welsh voice, now more than ever,

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Wales is making itself understood a very helpful. After the party, time

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for more handshakes, this time with the Commissioner for financial

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programming. This was about making and maintaining links. The Welsh

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Conservatives has said Carwyn Jones would have done better to stay at

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home and make the record European firms we have been given in Wales

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work more effectively rather than coming here to Brussels. The

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purpose of the visits from Carwyn Jones point of view is entirely

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clear. The messages, I don't believe David Cameron or Alex

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Salmond have the best interests of Wales at heart. This is about

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showing them and Europe and us of course that he dares. That is a

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clear purpose of the meeting. The outcome, you will have to say is

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considerably less clear. Swansea is to become the first city

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in the UK to divert traffic away from a busy main road to stop it

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breaking European pollution levels. Monitoring equipment will measure

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traffic flow, air quality and weather on Neath Road in Hafod. If

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pollution levels are high, signs will tell drivers to use other

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routes. Motorists are used to seeing

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diversions for roadworks or accidents on a daily basis so a new

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sign like this in Swansea won't particularly stand out. But it's

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the first time in the UK that it's being used to try to lower

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pollution levels in one particular place - Neath Road. This road is

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very long and narrow and it is built up on either side with

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terraced housing and shops. It creates a canyon effect. It means

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at busy times like now, it is coming up to half past eight in the

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morning, the cars are bumper-to- bumper, the exhaust fumes are

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struggling to escape causing high levels of pollution.

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The air quality here has been monitored since 2001 because the

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pollution exceeds safe levels. It's a concern for local people.

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It is terrible, the Doune Road. The Liberty Stadium and the cars. We

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are worried about it. Are I have got to admit the fumes are burning,

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I am a non-smoker so once it hits me is terrible.

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The project is costing around �100,000 and the council is

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confident if it's successful the scheme can be extended further.

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This is part of a project we have developed with some people in

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Sweden. It has been tried in Gothenburg to a certain extent.

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We're trying it here, we are not the only place with the problem.

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This is a location where people could divert from the worst-

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affected roads. If we can give them the right information at the right

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time. Heavy goods vehicles have already

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been banned from driving on this road and buses have been diverted

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to another running alongside but local businesses worry any more

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diversions will lose them trade. rely on passing traffic. People can

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pollinate get a paper. If they go around a different way it will mean

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we have got less business coming in. First, it is not a good idea.

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Initially, motorists will be asked to use alternative routes but plans

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are in place to create a relief road in the next few years.

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Good evening. Elation, frustration, euphoria and sheer agony. That

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pretty much summed up what was an incredible weekend of Welsh sport.

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Fans all over the country cheered and cried as Wales won the Triple

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Crown at Twickenham, Nathan Cleverly defended his world title

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and Malky Mackay's men stood up and nearly toppled the mighty Liverpool.

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Williams leads the charge! A try for Wales. Still the WBO light-

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heavyweight champion of the world, Nathan Cleverly.

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Steven Jennings has put it wide. It will take a few days to get over

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what happened at Wembley. But when the raw emotion has faded away,

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Cardiff City will be able to reflect on how close they came to

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winning a major trophy. They'd matched Premier League giants

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Liverpool for 120 minutes, first taking the lead and then after a

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Liverpool fight back, showing character to snatch a late

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equaliser and take the match to penalties.

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Anthony Gerrard says he'll be haunted by that final spot-kick for

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the rest of his days. But he and his team-mates will also know they

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can match the very best sides in the biggest games, as they try to

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win promotion to the Premier League. Our team and our clubs have done

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the Carling Cup -- Carling Cup row this season. I think we played well.

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You lose with dignity and Rios today with a committee. Our boys

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are cheering the fans. It is the first time for some of them to be

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anywhere near somewhere like this. Their next test is a big one too,

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at home to Championship promotion contenders West Ham on Sunday so

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they'll need to recover quickly. This was boxer Nathan Cleverly on

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Saturday in his world title fight in Cardiff.

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It was his first fight in Wales for almost four years but he delivered.

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Cleverly comprehensively outpointed his durable opponent Tommy Karpency

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who'd never been stopped to make a successful third defence of his WBO

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title. Cleverly's promoter is now looking to line-up a big fight in

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Wales against the likes of Bernard After in the dressing rooms, there

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was plenty of mutual respect and it's left Cleverly feeling

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confident about the future. He came up to me at the final bell and said

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you can beat anybody in the world. He has got good experience. That is

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a good confidence boosters St from somebody who has been in the game

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for a long time. I was pleased about that. I would use that now to

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push me on to bigger and better fight.

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Of course, the weekend had got off to the most dramatic of starts at

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Twickeham. Scott Williams' late try proved to the decisive moment

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against England. The bounce of the ball went their way just when it

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mattered. The fans were delirious but the captain could barely watch.

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I it is looked up and saw him going through. I was praying that

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something would happen. He went over and above my head in my hands,

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I could not believe. It fell to lucky. We have a very grounded,

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mature bunch of players. They will keep themselves grounded, feet on

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the floor. All those quotes but Italy is another game, it is the

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next game. You're only as good as our next game.

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It's not yet clear whether centre Jamie Roberts will be fit for that

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game after injuring his knee at Twickenham nor the players who

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missed the England game including hooker Huw Bennett. He's the latest

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player to sign for a French club next season. He's leaving the

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Ospreys for Lyon. The Triple Crown celebrations will be put to one

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side later this week as the team refocus on their two remaining

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matches. The Grand Slam is still on Lifelong Cardiff City fan and Chair

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of Sport Wales, Professor Laura Mc Allister is here tonight. You were

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at Wembley. Have you recovered? was a tremendous day. It would have

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been wonderful to have brought home the Carling Cup but what a

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performance. A fantastic tactics by the manager. You had 24 caps for

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Wales and football. Malky Mackay is saying let's take this experience

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and push on for promotion. Do you think that will happen? I hope it

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will. As has such a wonderful team effort yesterday from the manager

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down to the players. It was very tough. If you ask the Cardiff City

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fans, this season is all about promotion. We have got to do it.

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Fingers crossed this is a big impetus for B-team. In your role as

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chair of Sport Wales, when there is a big sporting weekend like this do

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you see a surge of interest in sport's so if anybody needed

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convincing that Wales was a passionate sporting nation they

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would have been convinced this weekend. This is about winning and

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is a real sense that Wales as a nation can go and compete with the

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best nations in the world and when. This is all about providing role

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models for children so they see these fantastic Welsh Euros and one

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to emulate them. It is an opportunity for children to get

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involved in sport. As best we end Olympic year. When we see the Welsh

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athletes been chosen for the Olympic team, and hopefully we will

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get some medals, it will inspire a new generation of children to take

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part in sport. It is such a fantastic thing that defines us as

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a nation. Many thanks. I will talk too much more over the next coming

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months. Swansea City lost 2-0 to Stoke

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yesterday. Goalkeeper Michel Vorm was ruled out with illness giving

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Gerhard Tremmel his debut for the Swans. Both goals came before half

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time, the result taking Swansea down to 14th. Meanwhile Wales

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Captain, Aaron Ramsey will miss Wednesday's Gary Speed memorial

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match with Costa Rica at the Cardiff City Stadium. He hasn't

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recovered from the ankle injury. We were blessed with some lovely

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weather over the weekend. Catrin Walters took this picture looking

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across Swansea Bay towards Mumbles lighthouse. But of course it was a

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different story today with cloud bringing some rain. Over the next

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few days there's more cloudy and mild weather to come. But like last

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week some parts of the country will fair better than others. Flintshire

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drier and brighter with spring-like temperatures. Pembrokeshire cooler

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with some drizzle and sea fog. Tonight cloudy. Some patchy light

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rain and drizzle. Mist, hill and coastal fog. Parts of the north and

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east and the Marches becoming dry. And a mild night. Lowest

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temperatures eight or nine Celsius. Tomorrow's chart shows high

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pressure over France. The air over us will be mild but moist and full

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of cloud. So tomorrow morning a grey cloudy start for much of the

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country. Damp in places too with drizzle. Mist, hill and coastal fog.

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Some poor visibility. Dry and brighter in parts of the east and

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mild. At 8pm the temperature in Wrexham will be around 9 or 10

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Celsius. So plenty of cloud tomorrow. Some low cloud, drizzle

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and mist otherwise dry and in places it will brighten-up. A

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little sunshine on the north coast and Flintshire. Top temperatures 13

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or 14 Celsius. Nearer 10C on the south and west coast with light

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winds. In Wrexham tomorrow dry. Bright at times. Temperatures in

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Rossett rising to 14 Celsius. As for the outlook, not much change.

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Plenty of cloud. Spots of drizzle and mist otherwise dry. Sunshine

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for some and mild. On Flatholm, the water tanks need filling up before

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the start of the visitor season and we may see some rain over the

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weekend. By the way, it's a leap year. If it's your birthday on

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Wednesday then let me know and I will try and put where you live on

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my weather maps. Drop me an email or send me a message on twitter

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Charlotte Church and her parents have agreed damages and costs of

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six-under �1,000 with News Group Newspapers over claims that her

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phone was tapped. -- �600,000. Let's talk to the media commentator.

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Rupert Murdoch has treated in the last few minutes at his delight at

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the sales figures for his new paper, over 3 million new readers.

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Britain's appetite for tabloid is undiminished. Is anything going to

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change? The payments are not going to make much difference, honestly.

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You can see the story is distressing, you can see why

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Charlotte Church was second. The company have continued to seek to

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withhold information until the last minute, it does suggest they have

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learnt nothing. They are not sorry about anything apart from being

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caught. The thing that is making the big difference, the lover sent

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process and all these courts payments, it is changing the way

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the press works. Look at the Cern last Sunday, it was not the News of

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the World. X-Ray's coming up in half an hour.

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Here's Rhodri with a preview. Tonight on X-Ray, this street that

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is infested with rats, white dog mess is making life a misery and

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why some so first and only suitable for casual sitting. Find out more

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at 7:30pm. We'll have an update for you here

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