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headlines. The former head of a Wrexham | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
children's home, John Allen, in court charged with 32 serious sexual | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
offences relating to allegations of historical child abuse in North | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
Wales. The scheme that could see people in | :00:18. | :00:27. | |
some rural areas paying less at the pumps. We have had to think about | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
whether we will drive to somewhere or whether we will not go. It has | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
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that much of an effect on the budget. The former education | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
minister refuses claims that the Welsh government was authoritarian | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
and incompetent. The miners strike of the 1980s. Now | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
secret documents reveal just how far the Thatcher government would go to | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
deal with the protests. Good evening from the Liberty | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Stadium, An historic night for Swansea City, back in Europe after | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
more than 20 years. Speculation continues surrounding | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
Gareth Bale's future. Real Madrid confirm the club are in talks to | :01:03. | :01:13. | |
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Good evening. The former head of a Wrexham children's home has been | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
remanded in custody charged with 32 sexual offences against children. | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
John Allen set up the Bryn Alyn Community in the late '60s.. He | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
appeared before Flintshire magistrates this afternoon. Matthew | :01:36. | :01:44. | |
Richards is at Mold Law Courts. Thanks. Mr Allen was the first | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
person to be arrested as part of a new police operation into claims of | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
past abuse at children's homes here. He's now the first to be charged. He | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
faces a long list of serious charges dating back almost 50 years. John | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
Allen was arrested in April by officers from Operation Pallial | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
which has been set up to investigate allegations of historical abuse at | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
children's homes across North Wales. It was ordered by the Home Secretary | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
after claims that physical and sexual abuse was more widespread | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
than had previously been thought. John Allen is the fourth person to | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
be arrested since those inquiries began. Three other men are on police | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
bail. Now 72 and living in Ipswich in Suffolk, Mr Allen established a | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
cluster of homes in Wrexham under the name of the Bryn Alyn Community | :02:30. | :02:40. | |
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in the late 1960s. He faces a total of 32 charges. His alleged victims | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
are 14 boys and a girl aged between seven and 15 at the time. They are | :02:52. | :03:02. | |
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now in their late 50s to early 50s. -- late 50s. He was remanded in | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
custody by Mold magistrates and his case was sent to the crown court. | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
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He'll appear before a judge at Caernarfon next week. | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
The former leader of the Conservatives in the National | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Assembly, Nick Bourne, is to become a working peer in the House of | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Lords. Mr Bourne lost his seat in the 2011 Assembly election. He'll be | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
joined by Christine Humphreys, the former Liberal Democrat AM who's the | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
party's president in Wales. Immigration officers are continuing | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
to raid premises across Wales this evening as part of a UK-wide effort | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
to tackle illegal working. There have already been arrests here | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
following operations in Swansea, Cardiff and parts of North Wales | :03:41. | :03:51. | |
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throughout the day. Illegal working as a problem in Wales and across the | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
UK. We are attempting to provide a very visible deterrent to the | :04:02. | :04:12. | |
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public. We are looking to target people who have illegal workers on | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
their premises. Voters are going to the polls on | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Anglesey to elect a new Assembly Member. Polling stations will be | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
open until ten o'clock tonight, with the result expected in the early | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
hours of tomorrow morning. It comes after the former Plaid Cymru leader | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
Ieuan Wyn Jones stood down last month to lead the new Menai Science | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
Park. Here's the list of the six | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
candidates standing in the by-election, which is the first to | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
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be held for the Assembly in seven In 1984, miners across Wales and the | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
rest of Britain went on strike against threatened pit closures. But | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
documents released today by the National Archives reveal that | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
Margaret Thatcher secretly considered using the army to break | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
the looming strike. The Government papers from 1983 reveal the extent | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
of the planning by the Conservative government for the showdown with the | :05:05. | :05:15. | |
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miners. The magistrate views defined a decade. Nearly 50 years on, the | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
strike still casts a long shadow over the premiership of Margaret | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
Thatcher. Tens of thousands of Welsh miners took to be baited lines. The | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
Conservative government was already drawing up plans on how to counter | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
the strike in 1983. Documents have been released by the National | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
archives. They show a government thrashing out contingency plans for | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
an eventual strike. The documents reveal that as early as January | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
1983, cabinet members were warning that the government must be ready to | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
face a decisive showdown. The energy secretary said we must do everything | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
in our power to defeat Arthur Scargill. A Whitehall working group | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
prepared in secret to move coal stocks to power stations. It was | :06:13. | :06:23. | |
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predicted that this would need 5000 lorry movements in a week. It would | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
have cost �70 million but when the strike eventually came one year | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
later, that figure to indulge into insignificance. It cost �11 billion | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
to beat us. They spent less probably on the Falklands war. That is crazy | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
with your own people. The documents show a government prepared for a | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
long conflict. Margaret Thatcher was aware of the political stakes at | :06:53. | :07:03. | |
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involved. The miners had overthrown Edward Heath before. Margaret | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
Thatcher was simply determined to avoid those previous defeats. She | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
was absolutely determined that the miners would not succeed. These | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
papers show how vigorously the government planned for the dispute. | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
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A couple of years later and the dispute was over. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
At the pumps across Wales you'll pay an average of 136 pence a litre for | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
unleaded, and 140.7 pence for diesel. But when it comes to the | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
actual price on the forecourts, it all depends on where you are. Today, | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
we've seen prices of up to 143.9 for unleaded, almost 8p more than the | :07:52. | :08:02. | |
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average price, and 146.9 pence for diesel, almost 7p more. It has been | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
going up for years. Despite larger fuel bills at this garage people | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
told us neighbouring garage owners are going out of business because of | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
a lack of profit and higher fuel prices are affecting how people live | :08:17. | :08:26. | |
their lives. There are only two of us in the editor. We have to think | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
about whether we will drive somewhere or whether we will not go. | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
At the other end of the country in Monmouthshire, it is also more | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
expensive to run the cat than in more urban areas. Even though it may | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
only be four or five miles of the main road, they probably use more | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
fuel because they are going through the gearbox is more than someone who | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
is travelling on a motorway. This is the only petrol station in the | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
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vicinity for seven or eight miles. They are stuck. A five piece cut in | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
fuel duty could be considered in rural areas. But some question why | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
other rural areas have been left out of the plans. The manager is one of | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
the most rural areas in Wales and we are not mentioned in this | :09:26. | :09:36. | |
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consultation at all. I am concerned about that. I have people living in | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
various areas, they are all local and Google. I am very concerned | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
this. The announcement means people in rural Wales will not | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
automatically get 5p of a litre of fuel. The UK government are asking | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
garages like this one to provide them with evidence to take to the | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
European commission to see if they can extend the scheme which already | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
exists in parts of northern Scotland. Any 5p reduction could | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
take years to negotiate. The debate over how to do it fairly could take | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
even longer. Still to come. I am live at the Liberty Stadium this | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
evening. Swansea city fans starting to arrive to watch their team play | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
in Europe for the first time in 22 Former Education Minister Leighton | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
Andrews has dismissed claims the Welsh Government was authoritarian | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
and incompetent over the re-grading of exam papers last year. Nearly | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
2,400 English language pupils got better results after the review. The | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
former acting chair of Wales' largest exam board says Mr Andrews | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
dismissed advice about the complexities re-grading would cause. | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
Our Education Correspondent, Arwyn Jones is here with the details. | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
Thanks Lucy. Last year, these students, and over two thousand | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
others were celebrating getting higher grades after the re-grading. | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
It was popular move, which had cross party support. But for the body | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
setting the exams, and ensuring standards, it caused quite a | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
headache. Why? Well it meant a C grade in Wales wasn't the same as in | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
England or Northern Ireland. They explained that to the then education | :11:20. | :11:28. | |
minister, but say Leighton Andrews just wouldn't listen to them. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
was one word and it was authoritarian. Authoritarian and | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
without necessarily in terms of what we experienced evidence of a full | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
grasp of what the real issues were. That is a damning thing to say, but | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
that is the way it came over. Mr Lewis also wrote to the First | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
Minister Carwyn Jones in June outlining his concerns. I've seen a | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
copy of the reply from Carwyn Jones. In it he says the Welsh Government | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
has had a "long-standing and multi-faceted relationship" with the | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
WJEC acknowledging that, in some areas, the relationship had | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
"recently gone through a difficult period." But he goes on to say that | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
he disputes Mr Lewis' "narrative as partial and incomplete." But is | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
looking at whether there are "any lessons that officials here can | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
learn." Earlier I spoke to Leighton Andrews and began by asking for his | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
reaction to David Lewis' claims that he didn't fully understand the | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
consequences of ordering the re-grade. We fully understood the | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
consequences. We carried out an extensive review which resulted in a | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
very thorough report which was conducted by my officials in the | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
department at the time. The fundamental issue here was of | :12:45. | :12:54. | |
fairness to students in Wales as a result of our actions over 2300 | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
students got the trade they were entitled to. I am afraid it was the | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
WJ EC board that did not understand the issues and elevated issues of | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
process to the principle. It is ridiculous. Those issues of process | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
is the point of the fairness. It is the ability of those people to take | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
their qualifications to England and Northern Ireland and elsewhere and | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
be certain that employers and universities will say that is a | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
copper bottomed gold standard qualification and perhaps that will | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
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not be the case in future but Mark -- in future? I think our actions | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
will support it by all parties here and people in the teaching | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
profession. They were supported by teachers in England as well. What | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
did illustrate, I am afraid, is that the board members of the WJ EC, some | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
of them could not see the wood for the trees. They consistently over | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
the last 12 months have elevated issues that are really minor issues | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
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about process B levels of principle. We have been focusing on issues of | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
principle as a Welsh government was up I am glad that local government | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
leaders in Wales and now recognising that the governing structure of the | :14:16. | :14:26. | |
WJ EC was not fit for purpose. heard from Councillor Lois who said | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
you were bullying and validating. Did you regret any of the way you | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
conducted yourself? The allegations are ridiculous. I am afraid the | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
board members, some of them like Councillor Lois were not used to | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
working in a proper regulatory environment. They wanted cosy deals | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
behind the scenes between the WJ EC and government officials. That | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
cannot be the relationship between the regulator and the examining body | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
nor can it be the relationship between a democratic elected Welsh | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
government and the examining body. That is no parallel there. They have | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
to understand. But they are a charity and therefore must be exempt | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
from any kind of influence from a political party. That was the issue | :15:15. | :15:25. | |
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they were grazing. Various leaders from local government had signed off | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
on those changes. But the WJ EC is an examining body subject to | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
regulation in Wales and in England. In England it is regulated by | :15:46. | :15:54. | |
another body. It is located by the Welsh government in Wales. This | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
examination body cannot have it both ways. If it does not abide by those | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
guidelines, Welsh ministers will use their regulatory powers to direct it | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
to comply. On the issue of a cosy relationship, | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
the WJEC say all they did was outline what the options were to the | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
government. So the problem here was a fundamental disagreement between | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
what was best for pupils in Wales. The WJEC said portability of | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
qualifications to other parts of the UK, the Welsh Government insisted it | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
was fairness by regrading. Now, there's a new Education Minister. | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
Part of his role now will be to see how they can move on given that | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
There are calls for a medical school to train doctors to be set-up in | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
North Wales because of a shortage of GPs in rural areas. Councillors say | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
the number of doctors in Blaenau Ffestiniog has halved, putting extra | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
pressure on those who remain. The Welsh Government says it's doing all | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
it can to encourage doctors to stay, but campaigners say a medical school | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
is needed for local students. present, they leave to go to Cardiff | :16:59. | :17:07. | |
or Manchester or Liverpool. They are there for a long time and they tend | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
to stay in those areas and it is very difficult to get them back | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
here. I would like some sort of training for a university for | :17:16. | :17:26. | |
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doctors in North Wales. The BBC Radio Wales audience has | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
grown to its highest level in six years according to the latest | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
figures. 499,000 people listened every week in the three months to | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
June. BBC Radio Cymru also recorded an increase in listeners, after | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
getting its lowest ever audience in the previous quarter. | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
BBC Wales has announced its Cardiff headquarters are up for sale as part | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
of plans to relocate to a new purpose-built broadcast centre | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
elsewhere in the city by 2018. It follows 47 years at the current | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
building here in Llandaff. The start of the football season is | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
upon us and it's a big night for Swansea City. Claire's at the | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
Liberty Stadium for us tonight. Claire? | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
Good evening. A beautiful summer evening here in Swansea to kick the | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
season off. Swansea City are ready for their first match in Europe for | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
more than 20 years. Swansea's last European game was against Monaco in | :18:12. | :18:20. | |
1991. The visitors here tonight Malmo in the Europa League third | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
qualifying round. Their Swedish opponents should provide a stern | :18:25. | :18:35. | |
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test having won their previous tie 9-1. Sachin Krishnan reports. A big | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
day at the Liberty Stadium began with the opening of the new club | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
shop. A chance for fans to mingle with Swansea Legends ahead of the | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
visit tonight. It is a special day. It is what the fans deserve. They | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
have seen is at the bottom tier almost going out of the football | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
league. They will see us tonight playing European football. It is a | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
massive day for Swansea and the football club. As winners of the | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
Welsh cup, European football was a regular experience for Swansea teams | :19:14. | :19:23. | |
of the past. But following rule changes, the game against Monaco in | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
1991 was the last game in Europe. After winning the cup took up last | :19:28. | :19:38. | |
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season, they are in the third round of the Europa league. It is an early | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
start following what we achieved last season. I think we are well | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
prepared and we will be up against a Scandinavian side, a good side. | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
opponents alive at the Liberty Stadium tonight in good form. They | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
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beat Hibernian 9-1. It is going to be difficult but the way we play, it | :20:11. | :20:21. | |
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is important that we don't concede goals. We are looking forward to it. | :20:21. | :20:30. | |
Should Swansea get through the tide, they will face another tied to get | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
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through proper. Chris Coleman has just stopped after driving past. | :20:44. | :20:54. | |
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What a night for Swansea city? a long time from where they started. | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
The job has been done and it is phenomenal. They find themselves in | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
European football and winners of a major trophy. They have been | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
mid-table in the premiership. They deserve this and I am looking | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
forward to it. The Swansea side of today is a different prospect from | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
the team that played in the 1980s and 1990s. Look at their style of | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
play. They keep possession of the ball and Swansea are fantastic at | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
that. Swansea city have maintained that philosophy from Roberto | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
Martinez. They have done well with that. If you have the ball, the | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
opposition cannot score. Swansea city are very good at retaining the | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
ball. This could be another good year for Swansea. I know you do not | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
want to be drawn on Gareth Bale, but he has been talked about on the | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
world stage. How good is this for Welsh football that we have a player | :22:00. | :22:09. | |
with his capabilities and being talked about by a club like Real | :22:09. | :22:19. | |
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Madrid M -- Real Madrid? He is with a huge club at Tottenham Hotspur. If | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
he stays, he is still with a good club. But we are of course talking | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
about Real Madrid, one of the giants. He is only getting better. | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
We will have to wait and see what comes. I know he is a great player | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
and whatever he does, he will get better. I appreciate your time. | :22:44. | :22:54. | |
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Enjoyed the game. This week we are looking back on | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
last year's Summer of Sport and in the build up to the Olympic games | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
many of us were gripped by the arrival of the Olympic Flame on its | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
journey through Wales. In Llandudno, three sisters, the only three | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
siblings in the country to do it, carried the flame and a year on | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
their proving the Olympic spirit is still thriving. Meet Harriet, Alice | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
and Charlotte. They carried the torch on this stretch of road. | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
Things looked very different then. Thousands lined the streets in | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
Llandudno to cheer the flame on its journey. Harriet was the first | :23:29. | :23:39. | |
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sister to carry it. It was amazing. There were loads of cars and buses | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
and music. It was fabulous. Harriet at the flame onto her sister. | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
would be nice to have a bit of a run. They told me to slow down | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
because I was going too fast. I thought my trousers were going to | :23:56. | :24:06. | |
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rip. They were a bit tight. Charlotte had a bit of a job to do. | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
Snowdon could not be left until I got it right. A huge relief when it | :24:13. | :24:20. | |
was over. The girls all what they are torches as mementos of the Dave | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
Woods a bit taken to charity events and schools. They cannot carry the | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
torch is full in their tracksuits before somebody wants to talk to | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
them. This year they have raised �5,000 for charity. They enjoy doing | :24:37. | :24:46. | |
it. We do not think of it as volunteering. I broke my ankle in a | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
few months ago. The doctors were asking if I carried the torch. They | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
asked questions about how it felt and what am I doing now. I said I am | :24:58. | :25:06. | |
still doing voluntary work and it is amazing. It is one year after and it | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
is still an amazing feeling. girls give up a lot of their spare | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
time to go out and schools. Having the Olympic torch in the classroom | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
still brings out an amazing reaction. It is cooler than Batman. | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
The flame may be long gone but these sisters will be sharing their | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
experiences for many years to come. Well, we had lovely weather for the | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
Torch Relay and we can't complain about this summer too much. Derek, | :25:35. | :25:45. | |
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This hot weather is only paying us a short visit. There is a change on | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
the way. But what a difference a day makes. Yesterday, Capel Curing was | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
the wettest place in Britain with nearly 40mm of rain, but today, dry, | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
very warm and sunny. Usk, one of the hot spots in Wales with a high of 28 | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
Celsius. Mind you it hasn't been sunny everywhere. Parts of the west | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
cloudy and cooler. Only 19 Celsius in Milford Haven. Tomorrow will turn | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
cooler and fresher everywhere. The humidity dropping with a few | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
showers. Generally fine this evening but overnight clouding-over. Some | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
patchy rain and mist. Most of the rain in the west. A few milimetres | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
in Pembrokeshire, Gwynedd and Anglesey. A warm, muggy night. | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
Temperatures not falling below 16 Celsius. Tomorrow's chart low | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
pressure near Scotland with a cold front moving east across Britain. | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
That will push the hot and humid air out of the way and introduce cooler, | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
fresher air from the Atlantic. Here's the picture for 8.00 in the | :26:33. | :26:43. | |
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morning. Most places dry at this stage and still quite muggy. Some | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
cloud around but bright in places with some sunshine. Breezy in the | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
northwest. A brisk wind from the south in Holyhead. So some sunshine | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
tomorrow but a few scattered showers as well. If you catch one it could | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
be heavy with thunder. Some places, though, will get away with a dry | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
afternoon. Temperatures not as high as today but feeling pleasantly warm | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
with a breeze. It should feel a bit fresher in the afternoon. Borth | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
Carnival is taking place tomorrow. I wouldn't rule out a shower but most | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
of the day. Breezy with a high of 21. Tomorrow evening and night. | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
Scattered showers. Heavy in places. Some dry weather as well and a | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
cooler/fresher night. Saturday will bring a mixture of sunny spells and | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
scattered showers. The showers heavy in places with a risk of thunder but | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
some fine weather as well. Sunday some dry weather. A few showers with | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
a risk of rain in the afternoon and evening, especially in the north and | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
west. So today, the hottest day of the weekend. The next few days | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
cooler and fresher. Changeable next week. Some rain, showers and sunny | :27:36. | :27:40. |