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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story.

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They're top of the class, but teachers elsewhere are simply not up

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to standard in the latest inspectors report.

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No doubt there are people who are unsuited to teaching who would be

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better doing other things but it is not my job to examine the

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professionalism of each individual teacher.

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Tonight, the chief inspector of schools tells us why her report

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makes such uncomfortable reading. Our other headlines tonight.

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How does this place work? The answer from the politicians who are

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employed here is, not very well. Our economy is back in business -

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manufacturers like this are continuing to grow, but are we all

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feeling the gains? Men at work, but why has it taken BT

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more than a month to get customers back online.

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And Sam Warburton is on the bench as Wales start their defence of the Six

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Nations against Italy. Good evening. The quality of

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teaching in Wales needs to improve if education standards are to have

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any chance of getting better. That's the message from the schools

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watchdog Estyn in its annual report. According to inspectors, the number

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of secondary schools that are unsatisfactory has increased from

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one in seven to one in four. There will also be follow-up visits in

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more than two-thirds of schools. Standards in primary schools were

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similar to last year, with seven in ten classified as good. The Welsh

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Government acknowledged there are issues that need to be resolved.

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Here's our education correspondent Arwyn Jones.

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BBC Three's hit programme, Young Tough Teachers, follows a group of

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graduates working for the Teach First charity. They pick the

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brightest students from the best universities and send them to work

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in challenging schools. They've just started working in Wales. But

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today's Estyn report raises concerns about our current crop of teachers.

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The most important resource in any educational system is the quality of

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teachers and the quality of teaching in school. Recent data showed that

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over half our teachers qualified with a 2:1 degree or higher. So what

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type of salary can they expect? For a newly qualified teacher, it's

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around ?21,000, going up to ?31,000 after six years. Heads generally

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start off at around ?70,000 a year and can earn over ?100,000. Unions

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argue that teachers are worth every penny. What's most needed is time to

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train and develop throughout their careers. We need to make sure that

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access to professional development is easily and readily available, it

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is high-quality, funded and resource. Where we have excellent

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Cheech 's, who won numerous in Wales, need to make sure they have

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the opportunity share best practice. At Cwm Tawe Secondary School, they

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use data on every pupil to set very ambitious targets. As a result, they

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believe underachievement is being tackled. It is very important to

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challenge pupils but it is equally important to support them. Another

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issue raised in the report is how to tackle poverty. At Mount Stuart

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Primary School in Cardiff Bay, nine out of ten pupils don't have English

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or Welsh as a first language. A third are from poor backgrounds. But

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they overcome those challenges by getting parents into the school for

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one day a week. Parents now expect to come in and they said that the

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tables and they will do the activities. The parents are really

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interested. Today's report caps what has been a disappointing 12 months

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for education in Wales. GCSE results showed signs of improvement, but A

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Levels and the PISA tests, which chart Wales' progress against other

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countries, were a real disappointment. Policies that are

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just beginning to bite that will make a difference, a new testing

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regime around literacy and numerous sea, a new support network around

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teachers and there will be more to come. But this isn't enough for the

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opposition parties, who say the government should apologise for

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mismanaging the education sector in Wales. Yet again, we're faced with

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another worrying report on the state of education. The priority would

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seem to be how to help teachers across Wales.

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Let's pick up on that with the chief inspector of schools Ann Keane. We

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seem to have spent years reporting on schools' poor performance and

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poor teachers and head teachers are at the heart of our problem aren't

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they? You said that last year. Nothing much has changed much. We

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are not seeing the improvements we need to see in Wales if we are to

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make our children truly competitive in terms of their results. We are

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not seeing those improvements yet. Why? It is true that there are

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initiatives that the Welsh government has introduced and these

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initiatives are being rolled out currently. The literacy and numerous

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eve framework is one of them. And the annual test. We will not see the

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benefit of those until we have another set in the summer which

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means schools can use the outcome to look up progress. The Education

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Minister also said that some teachers should not be in the

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profession. Parents watching this will wonder why more is not done to

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remove poor performing teachers and headteachers. That is a matter for

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the schools and the school governors, not for us as an

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inspector, to engage with that process. But it is at the heart of

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the problem, is it not? For teaching generally is part of the problem and

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we need to engage teachers and build capacity in the workforce in order

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to be able to address some of the challenges we face in Wales. Do you

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get depressed writing a report that says, could do better, year after

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year? What raises my spirits is going to schools like Mount Stuart

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school where they work against the odds to meet obstacles like the very

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high rate of free school meals and indeed the fact that most of the

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children have English as an additional language.

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A survey by the Electoral Reform Society has found that many AMs

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believe there should be a comprehensive review of the way the

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National Assembly is run. In particular, they felt that full

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Assembly sessions were not used effectively. Here's our Political

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Editor Nick Servini. It is a wet Tuesday afternoon in

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Cardiff Bay, the busiest day of the week at the assembly, so it is a

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really good time to come to try to find out what our Assembly Members

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are so unhappy about if the results of this survey are correct.

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Just over half of the 60 Assembly Members answered questions from the

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Electoral Reform Society. Four out of five full in full assembly

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sessions like these was not used effectively and efficiently. Below

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me, the first Minister is being questioned by opposition party

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leaders and a variety of Assembly Members are given the chance to ask

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questions as well. One of the concerns is that on occasions, the

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members don't feel they have enough time to properly scrutinise the

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Welsh government. I am going to speak to a few of them. One of the

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backbenchers who had the chance to question the first Minister today

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was the Conservative, Janet Saunders. How did it go? They were

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quite good answers for the first time in a long time. I think it is

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disappointing at times. There is not that much time, three quarters of an

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hour, for us to ask questions. The responses, I have had lots of

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representation across Wales were the responses are poor. One man who has

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experience of Westminster as a Plaid Cymru MP and Cardiff Bay as an

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Assembly Member is Simon Thomas. I don't think the procedure is the

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main problem, I think it is a problem of too little real energetic

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debate, real challenge. It is a political problem, not a procedural

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problem, and I want to see us getting the full powers and really

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becoming, acting and talking like a parliament. Once we believe in that,

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we will all improve. The Presiding Officer says she has brought in

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changes to give more opportunities to backbenchers to scrutinise the

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government. She says other attempts to improve accountability have been

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blocked by Assembly Members. But some say there is still plenty that

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can be done. Quite often this can feel like Groundhog Day. Ministers

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avoid answering questions, opposition parties what often tabled

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the same debates, week in week out. Backbenchers don't have enough time

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to prepare. The Electoral Reform Society which put together this

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survey says there is another answer as well as changing the procedure,

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which is to increase the number of Assembly Members from 60 or 100. But

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that will be a tough sell with the public.

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Two hired killers who murdered a teenage boy when they went to the

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wrong house have launched an appeal against their sentences. 17-year-old

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Aamir Siddiqi from Cardiff was stabbed to death on his doorstep in

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front of his parents, who were also injured in the attack. Ben Hope, who

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is 40, and Jason Richards, who is 39, were convicted last year and

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handed life sentences with a minimum of 40 years.

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A farmer's plan to build a 1,000-cow dairy has been put on hold after an

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animal welfare group intervened. The World Society for the Protection of

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Animals has been granted a High Court judicial review, where the

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Welsh Government's decision to allow the dairy at Leighton, near

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Welshpool, will be assessed. It could be 12 months before the review

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takes place. A fire that killed a teenage girl

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while she was house-sitting for her grandparents may have been caused by

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an electric heater, an inquest has heard. 18-year-old Emily Harris died

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in the house in Aberdare last October. Investigators believe

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clothing was left too close to the heater and may have smouldered for

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hours. So the UK economy grew throughout

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last year, according to the latest figures. And manufacturing and

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tourism, both important for the Welsh economy, are doing well. Our

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economics correspondent Sarah Dickins is at a manufacturing

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company in Merthyr Tydfil. What is really interesting and quite

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exciting for people that enjoy some of these numbers is, this is the

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first time since 2007 that we have had a whole year where we have seen

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some growth. Manufacturing, like this plant, that is very much at the

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heart of that growth. Really interesting for Wales because we

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have more manufacturing than the UK as an average and those sectors are

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growing. Let's talk to the boss of this company. This welding that is

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taking place behind this is directly for London. Is it London that is

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fuelling your growth? There is no doubt there is some pick-up locally

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but the excess we have tapped into London which makes the difference.

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And how busy I knew? We are in stream the busy. The lads are

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working overtime at the moment. And that demand is coming largely from

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the south-east and London? The overflow, we still have our base

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products for supermarkets and everything else locally, but in

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general the extra work is coming from the south-east. One of the big

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questions is whether this growth is sustainable. With this also is a

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banking professor from Cardiff University. How much do you think

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this growth is sustainable? This growth will continue as long as

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employment grows because what is happening is that GDP is growing and

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so is employment. The net effect is that we are not actually better off.

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2013 is no better off than 2012 because GDP per person has remained

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the same. In that, there will be pockets of excellence with some

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genuine growth but other areas are contracting. Where does that leave

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us in Wales? Is this good news? I am very disappointed with the growth

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results. What we are seeing here is that we have reached capacity and

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the government has to do allow industry to grow. There will be

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pockets of excellence where industries are tied to the Expo

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centre and that will be able to improve but without investment there

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is not going to be any growth. Thank you both very much.

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Much more to come before seven o'clock.

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Cut off since Christmas - why has it taken BT more than a month to get

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customers back on line? And before he was Cardiff manager,

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they used to call him the baby faced assassin. Can he execute a win at

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his old stomping ground? The Leader of the Welsh Liberal

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Democrats, Kirsty Williams, has defended the action taken by the

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party following allegations about one of their Asembly Members.

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William Powell was given a formal written warning about his behaviour

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towards a young activist, who alleges he gave her and two other

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women alcohol, touched her leg and put his hands round their waists in

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2011. Mr Powell apologised unreservedly. Let's talk to Vaughan

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Roderick. Today was the first time Kirsty Williams has spoken publicly

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about these events. What did she have to say? This was the first time

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Kirsty Williams had faced the press since the information about the case

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of William Powell broke over the weekend. She answered questions, as

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many questions as the press wanted to ask, and she said she realised

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these accusations had to be taken seriously, they could not just be

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ignored. Technically, we did not have to do anything at all. I can do

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with believe that was not an appropriate way to proceed. Neither

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did we feel it was appropriate just to have a quick tour member kind of

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chat or a quiet word in the year of the individual. We felt it was

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appropriate to take forward the process as we have outlined in the

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statement and to issue that written warning. Where does that leave

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William Powell? In one sense, it leaves him exactly where he was

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before. He was in work in the assembly today, taking part in

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activities in the chamber. The only thing that has happened is that this

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has become public. But when I asked Kirsty Williams today, digits the

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Liberal Democrats to take this matter into account, whether he

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would stand at the next assembly elections, she refused to say one

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way or the other. That does not strike me as being an ringing

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endorsement of William Powell when it comes to standing in the next

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assembly elections in two years time.

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A man accused of stabbing a woman more than 40 times at her home in

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Pembrokeshire has repeatedly denied murder. Joanna Hall died three weeks

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after an incident in her Tenby home last March. 30-year-old Steven

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Williams, who's a self confessed alcoholic, told Swansea Crown Court

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he left the flat to buy alcohol and returned to find Ms Hall bleeding

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from stab wounds. A petition signed by 11,000 people

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to keep inpatient care at Cardigan Hospital has been delivered to AMs

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in the Senedd. In December, it was announced the hospital would only

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remain open to outpatients. Hywel Dda Health Board said inpatient beds

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would instead be provided by nursing homes.

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Tributes have been paid to the poet and lecturer Nigel Jenkins, who's

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died. He's known for co-editing The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales

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and for his writing, inspired by Gower and Swansea. He won the Welsh

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Book of the Year Award in 1996 and was director of Swansea University's

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creative writing programme. It's only a few miles outside

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Carmarthen, but the village of Llanllawddog is cut off from the

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outside world. Damage to phone lines before Christmas mean that some

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households have not had any phone or internet services for more than a

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month. BT says it hopes to have the problem fixed by the end of this

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week. Abigail Neal reports. It's only a few miles outside

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Carmarthen, but you don't get much more wild than this. And now the

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sense of isolation is complete, with all means of communication down.

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Jenny Hare is a writer and painter and the lack of broadband is

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affecting her work. I sell my paintings on eBay and on the

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Internet. Of course, you know your customers want to be in contact with

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you. They've got questions or need to know when something's arriving

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and I need to keep checking my listings. I can't do any of that

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without the Internet. 26 homes across the valley were affected.

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Some have been cut off since before Christmas. BT says initially the

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phone cables were damaged by bad weather, then a lightning strike

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caused further damage. Frustrated by the lack of progress, posters began

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appearing up on phone lines and they appear to have done the trick.

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Today, engineers were out in force replacing 1.5 kilometres of overhead

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cable. Some customers have now been re-connected. Jenny Hare is one of

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16 homes still cut off and she's drawing on her work as self-help

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writer to remain calm. Well, the last book I delivered was on

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forgiveness so I'm trying to remember what I wrote and be

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forgiving about it. We are very, very dependent on BT, especially

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because we haven't got a mobile signal here. BT say this is proving

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a massive and complex job, but hope to get everyone back in touch by the

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end of the week. Sport now, and Warren Gatland has

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picked his first team for this year's Six Nations. Ashleigh's got

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the details. Thanks, Jamie. Wales' head coach

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says it was one of the hardest selections he's had to make. Regular

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skipper Sam Warburton is only on the bench for Saturday's opener against

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Italy, despite being passed fit. The captain's arm-band passes to Alun

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Wyn Jones, with Rhys Priestland picked at fly-half.

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As the Lions tour ended, so the Six Nations begins, with Alun Wyn Jones,

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Warren Gatland's chosen man to lead his troops. Sam Warburton is fit

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after testing his injured shoulder in full contact training but he will

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take a back-seat against Italy on the replacements bench, having not

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played for two months. He was desperate to be involved and we are

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very lucky Indians of the quality we have at number seven. We just felt

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we would give Justin the opportunity to start. It is a team full of

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experience. Paul James plays up ruck with Gethin Jenkins being given an

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extra week to build up his troubled me. Luke Charteris benefits from Ian

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Evans's suspension. It is still possible that Sam Warburton could

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start the match on Saturday. Flanker Dan Lydiate is not here after

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dropping everything to fly to Paris where his fiancee has gone into

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labour. The teams are hoping for good news on all fronts but nobody

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knows when he will be back. That's the type this call was at fly half

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way Rhys Priestland gets the nod ahead of Dan Biggar. Jamie Roberts

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is back after missing the autumn series. And there is firepower out

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wide with Leigh Halfpenny to get the goals. It is an important

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opportunity for Rhys Priestland. He is one of the players the WRU still

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want to sign on a central contract. It does worry you what is going to

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happen in the future and I am sure it is not just me that feels like

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that. There are things frustratingly and it is not the sort of person I

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am. The players who have signed contracts feel the weight of their

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shoulders. The players will be trying to put the off field and

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syringes to one side for a few weeks now. That is easier said than done.

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But at least they can unite around a shared goal. Being the first team to

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win three back-to-back Six Nations titles. A win against Italy would

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help. So the uncertainty continues for

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many players. Tonight, the Chief Executive of the WRU, Roger Lewis,

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is meeting Welsh MPs at Westminster to discuss the ongoing row with the

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regions. Arriving at the meeting, Mr Lewis said he would brief MPs and

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hoped a solution could be found. The regions have yet to sign a new

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agreement with the WRU because of a dispute over the way the game is

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funded. Cardiff City manager Ole Gunnar

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Solskjaer returns to Old Trafford tonight looking for his first

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Premier League win since taking over as manager. The Norwegian is still

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idolised at Old Trafford, but there will be no sentiment, with Cardiff

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rooted at the bottom of the table. While Swansea City face relegation

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rivals Fulham. Here's Matt Murray. He enjoyed 11 seasons as a player

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with Manchester United, nicknamed the baby face assassin. He'll be

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showing his maturity tonight as he returns to his old club as a Premier

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League manager. Ole Gunner Solskjaer scored the winning goal in the 1999

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Champions League final. But with Cardiff bottom of the table, he will

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not be sentimental about tonight's match as he's looks for his first

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win in the Premier League and a much needed three points. Of course the

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fear factor is there. You are going to the biggest club in the world. I

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have been part of many defeats at home so that is not just suddenly

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now, that has been all over the history. I remember many bad defeats

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when you go home and react to and that is Manchester United. They

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always bounce back. Cardiff City have also completed the signing of

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striker Kenwyne Jones from Stoke City, with Peter Odemwingie going to

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the Potteries. While Swansea have new signing, striker David Ngog,

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available after his arrival from Bolton. They've also completed on

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Adam King from Hearts today. Tonight's match comes in a crucial

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month of fixtures for the club, who are just above the relegation zone.

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In this moment, we are all in there. Just six points between 11 teams.

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And because it is direct opponent every time, or five in the next six

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games, that means every game is a six pointer. Newport County's match

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is postponed against Plymouth because of a waterlogged pitch,

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while Wrexham, who are currently 13th in the Conference, take on

:24:36.:24:41.

Tamworth. Staying with football, the national

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side will play the Netherlands in a friendly in Amsterdam on June

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fourth. Chris Coleman's team will be up against the Dutch days before

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they start their World Cup campaign. Let's get the weather forecast with

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Derek. Some dry weather today, but plenty

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more rain and showers as well. The rain and showers circulating around.

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Low pressure centred over Anglesey and Gwynedd. 10mm to 20mm of rain in

:25:11.:25:14.

places falling on already saturated ground. There's more rain and

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showers to come in the next 24 hours. A little sleet and snow as

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well, mainly on higher ground, but nothing major. Ice the main hazard

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by Thursday because it is going to turn colder. Tonight, more rain and

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showers at times. Snow on the mountains. Some dry weather as well.

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Temperatures staying above freezing with light to moderate winds. Here's

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the picture for eight in the morning. Plenty of cloud. Further

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rain and showers across the country. Sleet in places and snow on higher

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ground. Feeling colder with an easterly breeze. During the day and

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into the afternoon, most of the rain in the east, with sleet in places. A

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little snow on the hills of Powys, the Brecon Beacons and Black

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Mountains. However, parts of the west should become dry and a bit

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brighter. Turning colder tomorrow with an easterly breeze.

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Temperatures a little lower than today. In Swansea tomorrow, a few

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showers in the morning. Becoming dry in the afternoon with a high of

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seven in Gorseinon. In Brecknockshire, cloudy and cold with

:26:22.:26:25.

outbreaks of rain. Snow on Pen y Fan. Tomorrow night, rain, sleet and

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snow in Powys and the south will gradually clear. And with

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temperatures falling close to freezing or below, there is a

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warning of ice. Thursday will be a cold day but much drier. Bright in

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places. Sunshine in parts of Gwynedd and Ceredigion. Thursday will be the

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coldest day of the winter so far, but it's all change again on Friday.

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Another spell of wet and windy weather on the way. Heavy rain and a

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risk of localised flooding. The rain should clear before evening. The

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weekend, sunshine and blustery showers. Some of the showers wintry.

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Also high spring tides this weekend. A storm surge like we had earlier in

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the month is not expected but flood alerts may be issued for parts of

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the south and west coast. The headlines from the BBC. The

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schools watchdog Estyn says the quality of teaching in Wales needs

:27:21.:27:23.

to improve if education standards are to have any chance of getting

:27:24.:27:29.

better. And the UK economy has grown at its fastest rate since 2007,

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growing in every quarter of last year.

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We'll have an update for you here at 8.00pm and after the BBC News at

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10.00pm. That's Wales Today. Thank you for watching. From all of us on

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the programme, good evening.

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