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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story: Yvonne Briscoe from | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
Flintshire has rented a flat in England so she can access the | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
cancer drugs unavailable in Wales. I have paid my taxes for as many | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
years as I can think of so why should some people get this drug | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
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Our other headlines tonight: Kate was brain damaged at birth after | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
being misdiagnosed. The cost of medical negligence | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
cases has doubled over the last three years. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
A tale of two head teachers working either side of the border and what | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
An exhausted Matthew Maynard arrives at the Oval after cycling | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
from Cardiff in memory of his son Tom. And 70 years ago tonight, the | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
young Second World War pilot from Carmarthenshire who crashed in the | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
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Good evening. Does where you live affect the treatment you receive? A | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
woman from Flintshire says she's become a health refugee in order to | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
access a drug that could prolong her life. Bowel cancer patient | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Yvonne Briscoe has rented a flat in Stockport in Greater Manchester so | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
she can receive the drug Cetuximab, which isn't routinely available in | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
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She is an unlikely looking refuge you but that is how Yvonne Briscoe | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
says she feels. She has fled Wales on paper at least in order to get a | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
drug that might hold her cancer at bay. They would rather be focusing | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
on their dogs, getting them ready for shows, but she says that she is | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
backing the system and so has the answer is renting a flat over the | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
border in land -- in Manchester. They said the funding wasn't | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
available for Cetuximab in Wales. How did you react to that? | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
I thought, well I'm going to have to try and get this another way. | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Bristol the consultant at Christie's. He told me that I've | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
got to get my MP on side to help me fight for funding in Wales. He said, | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
you're only other alternative is to move to England. Ought to win the | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
property in England and try and get the funding that way. -- or to rent | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
a property. Christie is the largest cancer | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
centre in the UK. Until now, Yvonne Briscoe's treatment has been done | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
at the Ann Clwyd's much smaller centre. -- Ann Clwyd Hospital. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
Doctors they don't have access to the cancer drugs fund. It pays for | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
treatments that are not fully approved by regulators. | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
I want to prolong my life for as long as I possibly can. | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
And you don't believe that without it, you will be able to? | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
Probably not. Because it is a big step to take, | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
is under it? Yes. It is a big step to take but | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
anybody in my position, I think you would go all-out to fight. To | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
prolong your life for as long as you possibly can. | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
In a statement, the nine macros as regulators found the drug could | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
potentially cost tens of thousands of pounds. The Welsh government | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
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All Yvonne Briscoe knows is that specialists in Manchester think it | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
is worth a shot and there, unlike in Wales, they are able to try. | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
Earlier I spoke to Andrew Wilson, the chief executive of the Rarer | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
Cancers Foundation in London. I asked him if we really suffered | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
from a postcode lottery in Wales when it comes to cancer. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Absolutely. We produced a report earlier this year which shows that | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
a patient in England is five times more likely to obtain the drug that | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
there clinician wishes to prescribe than a patient in Wales. | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
In a statement, the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board said that regulators, | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
not just in Wales but in England and Scotland, found this stroke | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
could potentially cost tens of thousands of pounds but then only | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
delay the cancer by a matter of weeks. That's true, isn't it? We | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
are buying a matter of a few weeks, here. | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
We may be buying a few months or a few years. Real Life data is | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
completely different in a lot of cases than trial data. This has | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
actually been proven in a vast number of cases. Not specifically | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
for bowel cancer but for other cancers. So it is a very difficult | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
answer -- question to answer. In terms of cost, yes, the cost is | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
high. We all really have the right, I suppose, to the best drugs that | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
are available for our illness and the time. | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Which is like saying, let's write a blank cheque to the pharmaceutical | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
companies? It's not because don't forget that | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
again, we are talking about end of life drugs. These drugs are third | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
line at the moment, they are used at the end of life, later on, if | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
they are proven to be successful, would then be used in the second | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
and first line. It is an improving situation which changes. | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
This isn't a drug that is approved by the National Institute of | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
Clinical excellence. It is approved for use but not | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
approved by a nice, that is correct. In England we have the cancer drugs | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
front. This was set up in 2010 with a budget of �200 million a year. | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
This fund was set up exactly for this purpose, for goods which are | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
being used which are either and licensed or used when a licence has | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
been granted but baby used for a different indication. | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
And this is the critical difference between England and Wales? We don't | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
have that funding Wales? That is correct. It has helped over | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
16,000 patients in England since it started. That is a lot of people. | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Thank you. The body of a soldier from | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
Llanharan was one of three to be flown back to the UK today. 20- | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
year-old Jamie Shadrake died from gunshot wounds while serving with | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
1st Battalion Grenadier Guards in Helmand Province last week. His | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
family described him as a Over 100,000 fewer passengers flew | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
from Cardiff Airport in the first half of this year - compared to the | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
same period last year. The airport says the drop in passenger numbers | :07:27. | :07:36. | |
is down to the decision made by BMI The cost of medical negligence | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
payouts by the NHS in Wales almost doubled over the past three years, | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
rising by �18 million. Figures obtained by BBC Wales show failures | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
such as botched operations and misdiagnoses cost taxpayers �38 | :07:46. | :07:55. | |
million in the 12 months to April 2012. The rise has led the Welsh | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
government to put aside an extra �16 million to cover possible | :07:58. | :08:07. | |
compensation claims. Nick Palit Kate Pierce was nine months old | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
when she developed pneumococcal meningitis but was wrongly | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
diagnosed. A junior doctor at Wrexham Maelor hospital said it was | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
tonsilitis but that mistake left her severely brain damaged. | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
She has problems during a steep -- during her sleep which means that | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
she stopped breathing so we need to be awake for watching her | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
physically, 24 hours a day. It is a massive strain, seeing how poorly | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
she is. At six-years-old, she needs round | :08:38. | :08:48. | |
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the clock care, both at home, and at school. Figures provided to the | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
BBC for a Freedom of Information request showed cases settled by | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board more than doubled in the last three | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
years and totalled �22.8 million - by far the largest of all Welsh | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
health boards. But the increase is nationwide and across Wales more | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
than 1,100 cases have been settled in the last three years by six out | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
of our seven health boards. Abertawe Bro Morgannwg is still | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
collating its statistics but more than �84 million was paid out by | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
all the remaining health boards, that's a rise of more than �18 | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
million. I'm very concerned that the Welsh | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
government's record-breaking budget cuts are having an impact on the | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
increase in cases of these sort. It can't be a coincidence we have seen | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
a doubling over the last few years over the amounts paid out whilst at | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
the same time, these record- breaking budget cuts. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
The Welsh Government has had to set aside an extra �16 million for | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
clinical negligence into a fund known as the risk pool. That works | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
as insurance for health boards who are reimbursed for claims exceeding | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
�25,000. They also say 'no win, no fee' solicitors have made claims | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
larger. But one solicitor specialising in the field says | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
costs have gone up for a variety of reasons. | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
Life expectancies are changing and increasing significantly so | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
obviously, these annual payments are made for longer. Added to that | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
the cost of nursing and specialist care on a year-by-year basis. Those | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
care costs have gone up and also the cost of specialist equipment, | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
those costs have gone up. Meanwhile the amount of compensation Kate | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
receives is still to be decided, but the family's solicitor said it | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
is likely to be a seven figure sum. Clinical negligence costs the NHS | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
dear but it's the victim that Patients needing emergency or | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
unplanned medical care won't be able to get treatment at Neath Port | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
Talbot hospital from midnight. People dialling 999 or those | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
referred by their GP will instead be taken to hospitals in Swansea or | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
Bridgend. The local Health Board says it's making the changes | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
because there aren't enough sufficiently experienced doctors | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
GCSE results are out on Thursday and all this week, we're taking an | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
in depth look at the qualification system here and over the border. | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
There's talk of scrapping GCSEs in England and discussions about | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
whether Wales should go its own way. Our Education Correspondent, Nicola | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
Smith has been to meet one couple with a unique perspective about | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
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what's on offer right now and what Meet Paula and Craig Dickson. | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
They'll both headteachers but every morning, they leave home to run | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
daily different secondary schools. Greg is in charge at a typical | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
Welsh comprehensive, performing well with just under 1,000 pupils. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
Paula Dixon runs a girls' school on the Wirral. It is an academy and | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
not controlled by a local authority. Different schools united by the | :11:53. | :12:03. | |
fact that their pupils study GCSEs. Critics and's wary. Been -- | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
although he is clear he would rather be part of the Welsh | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
education system, he is uncomfortable with the idea being | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
discussed right no of Wales only qualifications. | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
For Wales to go completely it's a way would be high risk. High risk | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
for our learners, particularly in the context where we are. We have | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
got to make sure that they leave us all they leave their Fe college | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
with qualifications that are recognised and with the same value | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
that other learners are requiring across the border so I would urge | :12:33. | :12:43. | |
60 miles away, Prenton High School for girls is already in the middle | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
of significant change. Since converting to academy status, it | :12:46. | :12:56. | |
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has more freedom to opt in or out of the national curriculum. | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Headteacher Paula Dixon welcomes the new freedoms but doesn't | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
believe in changing GCSEs as well. She argues they are still the best | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
judge of every child's ability and is uncomfortable with the idea of | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Michael Gove to scrap the and. At the moment, we are losing our | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
way a little bit. We have to go back to what it used to be like | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
with O-levels, perhaps, and sees it -- and CSC's. I think that was a | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
soundbite that shouldn't have happened. Everybody is being led | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
off down that path and maybe it won't happen. I think they are | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
changing things quickly in the English system. | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
The Department for Education says fundamental reform for GCSEs is | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
needed so they match the best in Back in Wales, I meet this family. | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
Chloe is doing her GCSEs, Sophie has just finished her first year. | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
Lee and Helen are happy that the decisions the what government is | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
making on qualifications and think it is right to keep modular | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
assessment at GCSE. England is dropping it for courses starting in | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
September. They welcome the policy to offer at least 30 subject to | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
each pupil at GCSE. Despite that support, it is funding they really | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
want to talk about. Very disappointed with the funding | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
available to Welsh schools. It is quite a significant amount, over | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
�600 per people. There is a lot of benefits for that extra money, | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
facilities available to for the children and also to go to the | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
school itself. The was government serves it is | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
encouraged -- it has encouraged local authorities to dig -- to | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
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dedicate 85% of its budgets to School funding is a subject the | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
Pierce family from Birkenhead have pretty strong views on, too. They | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
are aware of the funding gap with Wales, describing the shortfall as | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
grossly unfair. Holly has just finished her GCSEs but she could | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
have gone to the local grammar school or comprehensives and Wales | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
surprised Wales doesn't offer its peoples more choice of school. | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
I think children should have a choice, not just to sort of plot | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
along, thinking, I'm going to go to this or that school, when they | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
should be saying, I could be going to that school but I'm going to | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
look at going to another school. I think that motivates or might | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
motivate the children. The Welsh government says it is | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
committed to the developments of the comprehensive system, which it | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
believes can ride -- provides for the needs of everyone. Two | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
different governments and four viewpoints on the situation now in | :15:51. | :16:00. | |
the future. Will GCSEs be part of Tomorrow night, I'll business | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
correspondent will be finding out if GCSEs are preparing young people | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
for the world of work. Back to tonight and much more to | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
come. And 70 years ago tonight, the second world war pilot from | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
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Carmarthenshire who lost his life in Scotland. | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Seven years ago Rob Davies broke his back during a rugby match in | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
his home town of Brecon. The accident left him permanently in a | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
wheelchair. While he was in hospital, he discovered table | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
tennis and has gone on to represent Great Britain around the world, | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
most recently at the European Championships where he won silver. | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
This will be the 28-year-old's first Paralympic Games. Carwyn | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
Jones went to see him in action. It requires speed and stamina and Rob | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
Davies have them both in spades. Five days a week, every week, you | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
will find in training at the table. He makes it look effortless but at | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
every turn, Rob is pushing his body to the limit. He even has to stop | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
the racket to his wrist. Sat at a table in the wheelchair, | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
you have to control the wheel chair back and forth and you have the | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
skill level to use your wrist, if you can. I can only use it a little | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
bit. Just using what you can, really, to play the best you can. | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
And it is that defiance and perseverance that has led to a | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
glittering medal tally. He has competed in the world and European | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
Championships but there is one trophy in the Cabinet that gives | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
you a clue to where his sporting career could have led. In his teens, | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
he played rugby for his home town of Brecon and it was during a home | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
match in 2005 that his life was to change forever. | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
I caught my neck on the other front row's neck and felt a tingling all | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
down my body. I was still holding onto the shoulders of the front row | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
when it happened and I was burnt -- about to go back down into the | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
scrum but I was gasping for air. They thought, something isn't right. | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
Rob had broken his neck and was airlifted to hospital. In a twist | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
of fate, the air ambulance had already been called to his twin | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
brother, Richard, who had had a car crash just half-an-hour earlier | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
while on route to Brecon to watch Rob play. Richard made a full | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
recovery but his brother spent nearly a year in hospital. | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
It was bad the first few months. Intensive care and things like that. | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
He was fighting for survival to start with. He did really well. | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
At the time, I wasn't sure what the outcome would be. I probably | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
thought I was going to walk again, to be honest. I probably thought | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
that for months and months after. Probably when I left drivers still | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
in hope that I would walk again. It is not the case. | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
Rob was first introduced to table tennis through Welsh table tennis | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
medal winner, Sarah head. He took some persuading. | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
He laughed at me and was like, table tennis? I was like, OK, fair | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
enough. Can you not stand losing to a girl? That was it. | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
And there was no turning back. A robber is now at the top of his | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
game and although this will be his first Paralympics, he says he have | :19:29. | :19:39. | |
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got the medal podium squarely in his sights. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Yesterday they set off on a bike ride of a 150 miles from Cardiff to | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
the Oval, a journey in memory of cricketer Tom Maynard. This | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
afternoon his father Matthew led the 29 cyclists onto the field just | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
ahead of a memorial match in honour of his son. | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
A clearly emotional and exhausted Matthew Maynard. After cycling 160 | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
miles, he received his son's county cap and show it. He and another -- | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
a number of other people from the cricketing community, joined him on | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
the bike ride. They left Cardiff yesterday and arrived at the Oval | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
this afternoon before a memorial match got under way. | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
The reason we were doing this to create the Tom Maynard Trust, | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
particularly in the last hour coming into the ground, the reality | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
at home and the emotion was palpable. Matthew has found this | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
very challenging. Done an incredible job. Most of the | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
cyclists, none of us will really cyclists. Navigating our way | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
through London was a bit hairy. The cyclist rate money for a trust | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
set up in Tom Maynard's main, to help aspiring and disadvantage | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
cricketers. The 23-year-old was found dead at a railway track in | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
London's Wimbledon station in June. He started his career at Glamorgan | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
and later joined Surrey. Today his former counties met. As a tribute, | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
they both for shirts bearing his squad number and name. | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
He was such a great lad, it was an opportunity to put something back | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
and do something in his memory. Tattooed on his arm, Matthew | :21:20. | :21:30. | |
Maynard now has his son's name and the words, forever in our hearts. | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
Surrey have just finished they innings, scoring 219 for 9 after 40 | :21:35. | :21:45. | |
overs. Glamorgan have scored a run without loss. | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
There will be no test cricket in Cardiff next year but the Swalec | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
Stadium is to host the opening game of the prestigious Champions Trophy | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
between holders India and South Africa. The limited-overs | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
competition is being held in June 2013. Five matches will be played | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
in Cardiff including England versus New Zealand. | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
It is I it -- it is a high six- figure sum and coupled with the | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
one-day international next year, six international days next year, | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
it will be an important part of our projections. | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
This weekend's race meeting in Tregaron is the latest casualty of | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
the wet summer. The three day trotting event draws thousands to | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
mid Wales every year. Friday's action has been cancelled | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
altogether. Saturday and Sunday's races will take place in the Amman | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
70 years ago today a group of Second World War airmen set out on | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
a training flight that was to end in tragedy, their plane crashing in | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland. At the controls was pilot Sergeant | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
John Llewelyn from Carmarthenshire. Surprisingly, much of the wreckage | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
is still on the mountain. Kevin Keane has been up Ben Macdui, the | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
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Uks second highest peak, to 4,000 ft high, on a windswept | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
Cairngorms mountain-top and aircraft wreckage litters the | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
landscape. Look at the bald. The thread is | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
still there. It has been in these elements. That is incredible. This | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
is an engine. There were two on the aircraft. There is another further | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
up the hill. Amazing it is still here, still in the river. | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
Over a large area, hundreds of small fragments from this crash | :23:28. | :23:37. | |
remain where they fell, many of them still recognisable. It was an | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
Avro Anson like this that crashed in the dark in 1942. Thousands were | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
made and hundreds lost in similar circumstances. Many through pilot | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
in experience and many through mechanical failure. | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
There is literally hundreds of aircraft crashes or over Scotland, | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
from the borders to Sky, to the far north. We lost so many a true, it | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
was incredible. These were young plants, joining the air force and | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
learning to fly. They had to fly very quickly. | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
Piloting the plane was a young man from Carmarthen. John Llewelyn had | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
been a successful fighter pilot but was on a training flight. His | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
nephew, who studied the crash, believes many of the planes were | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
not sufficiently maintained. The priority were frontline | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
aircraft. Training aircraft were used a lot. They had a lot of | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
accidents with them. That is the irony. It was a training accident | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
that cost him his life. This is one of the few flights -- | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
sites in Scotland with a memorial to mark what happened here. Five | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
people died in this crash alone. All that was recovered with the | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
bodies. All across the UK, there are hundreds of sites just like | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
this one, each with their own unique story to tell but each being | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
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Sue Charles is down by the river Sue Charles is down by the river | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
It is a lovely evening to be by the river. River levels quite high | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
across Wales because we have had so much rain fall over the past couple | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
of days. Today was a day of sunshine and showers and bravely it | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
is more of the same tomorrow. If we take a look at the radar picture, | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
we can see the showers today. Running diagonally from | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
Pembrokeshire to Wrexham. Some sharp showers was thunder. Some of | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
us avoided the showers completely. This evening, the showers should | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
peter out. Just a few lingering. It will remain cloudy overnight and | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
the clout acts like a blanket, holding up the temperatures. | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
Staying in double figures right across Wales. A muddy night to come | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
but not as muddy as recent night. Tomorrow morning, it's the story of | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
sunshine and showers developing through the day but fewer shares | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
than today and they will be lighter as well with more in the way of | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
sunshine in between the showers. Quite a breezy day, particularly | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
blustery along the coast. Strong south-westerly winds along Cardigan | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
Bay. Top temperatures between 17 Celsius on Anglesey and 20 selfless | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
in Cardiff. -- 20 Celsius. Thursday, another dry start to the day. It | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
should stay fairly bright for much of the day but cloud encroaches | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
from the West through Thursday and that is a sign of what is to come | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
because if we take a look at the pressure charge for Friday, we see | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
an angry area of low pressure pushing in from the Atlantic. That | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
is holding wet and windy weather for the start of the bank holiday | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
weekend. Wet and windy at times in the outlook for the weekend. Not | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
looking particularly promising for Friday and Saturday. It is not | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
looking like a complete washout for the bank holiday weekend but | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
certainly worth making the most of any sunshine over the next couple | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
of days for rowing or any other outdoor activities because it is | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
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There is further pressure on the Chancellor George Osborne after new | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
figures show a surprise increase in government borrowing this July. | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
There was a deficit of �600 million at a time of year when there is | :27:32. | :27:38. |