03/02/2014 BBC Wales Today


03/02/2014

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confiscated and destroyed, well, that must be galling.

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Good evening. The driver of a bus forced off the road in horrendous

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weather conditions has denied claims he was told to use another route.

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Pembrokeshire Council says he ignored warnings, even though

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traffic was being diverted at Newgale. No-one was injured but ten

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passengers and the driver had to be rescued after the bus was hit by a

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huge wave. There are warnings of more bad weather to come this week.

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Abigail Neal reports. This is the aftermath of the latest storm. The

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411 bus from St David's to Haverfordwest was swept off the road

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on Saturday night, and ten passengers had to be rescued as the

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bus was battered by the waves. The driver that night was back on his

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route this morning, describing his shock the moment the wave hit. I

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hadn't moved the steering work -- steering wheel and suddenly we are

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going in a different direction. It was literally the same sort of

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effort as you would imagine picking up a coffee table to move it. It

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must have felt quite strange. Yes. It's not something I want to go

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through in the near future. Police are carrying out a routine

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investigation into the accident. Pembrokeshire Council have issued a

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statement saying that the driver ignored warnings from their workers

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at the scene. They say that at 7pm the council was in the process of

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closing the road and advised him to take an alternative route, something

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Mr Ashman flatly denies. They'd just arrived, they were in the process of

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it, I believe. Ultimately, I'm not going to put myself or passengers at

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risk. It is not in my best interests. I was told that there

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were standing water but it was still possible with care. We spoke to one

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passenger on the bus today who corroborated the driver's version of

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events. It's the second time in a month that the storm has caused

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chaos down here in Newgale. And while the weather wasn't as bad as

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in January, it wasn't the only part of Wales to suffer. In Abersoch a

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number of beach huts were badly damaged, and in Porthmadog a train

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carrying tools was overturned on the tracks by the 70mph winds. They took

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no risks in Aberystwyth, sending students home for the weekend. But

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in the end it was only shingle and debris that scattered the promenade.

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The app centre text to the phone and interrogate the phone's GPS.

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Technology came to the rescue nearby when a phone app helped mountain

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rescue teams locate a group of seven students from Manchester who got

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into trouble on Pumlumon Mountain. If you think of a huge area, very

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poor phone signal normally. Without a clear indication of where they

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were, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack. If we have a

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precise location it makes the job a lot easier. The Met Office have

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warned that another band of strong wind and heavy rain to come, with

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some coastal areas facing wind speeds of up to 80 mph. Patients are

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being urged to stay away from Wales' largest hospital following an

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unprecedented influx of patients over the past 48 hours. Cardiff and

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Vale University Health Board is tonight warning people coming to the

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Emergency Unit at the University Hospital of Wales with minor

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conditions to expect significant waits for treatment, as staff are

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focusing on caring for the sickest patients. Who owns the rights to

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whatever lies beneath your house or garden? They call them manorial

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rights and tonight, 800 people attended a meeting on Anglesey to

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discuss what had, until now, thought to be largely symbolic rights. The

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meeting heard about Lord Treffos, who bought the title in 1992, who

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claims manorial rights over thousands of properties. There is

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some good news. We are hoping he will drop the claim and we might not

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have to take things any further. I have some residual concerns, because

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even if he didn't drop the claim he could sell the rights to somebody

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else. Although I'm not worried about my house particularly, there is land

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that somebody could theoretically come hunting on that we don't want

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them to do that. Dyfed-Powys Police say they're talking to the Crown

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Prosecution Service and another police force over payments to two

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council chief executives. Auditors say Mark James, the chief executive

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of Carmarthenshire, and his counterpart at Pembrokeshire, Bryn

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Parry Jones, were unlawfully paid pension contributions directly to

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avoid paying tax. Both councils have denied doing anything wrong. Police

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are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a patient

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at Wrexham Maelor Hospital. 81-year-old Alan Walker, from

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Leeswood near Mold, died nearly two weeks ago. A cause of death has not

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yet been confirmed. North Wales Police said there had been no

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arrests, but staff at the hospital were assisting with inquiries. The

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family of missing teenager Nida Naseer say she was deeply depressed

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for two years before disappearing in December. Her sister says the

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19-year-old from Newport was also jealous of a friend who'd been

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granted asylum and allowed to attend university. Nida's family, who are

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from Pakistan, had been refused asylum. Gwent Police say they've

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received over 50 calls regarding reported sightings across the UK but

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Nida is still missing. Wales' longest-serving MP is standing down

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at the general election next year. Ann Clwyd, who's 76, has been MP for

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Cynon Valley for 30 years. She says she'll continue to speak out on

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issues such as human rights and the NHS. For many years she was the only

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Welsh woman MP at Westminster. Our parliamentary correspondent, David

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Cornock, reports. As a woman in what was often a

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man's world, and Clywd knew how to get noticed, spending a night

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underground to fight plans to close Tower colliery in the mid-1990s. How

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are you feeling? A bit feeble at the moment but I'm very pleased we

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managed to get some kind of reprieve. Ten years earlier she'd

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won the by-election to become only Wales' fourth woman MP ever. It was

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difficult for a woman to break in. But the more difficult it was, the

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more determined you came to get your foot in the door. This is what I

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always say to people. Keep your foot in the door, don't take it out. At

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Westminster she made her name on foreign affairs, speaking up on

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human rights. Often independent and outspoken, in opposition she was

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sacked from the Labour front bench by both Neil Kinnock and Tony Blair.

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But you won cross-party support for highlighting problems in the care

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her dying husband received in hospital in Cardiff. There are

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increasing complaints about nurses who failed to show care and

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compassion to their patients. What will the Prime Minister do about

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that? The Prime Minister asked her to lead a review of NHS complaints

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in England. I felt very angry that this should be happening in the

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NHS, but I think the vast number of letters that I got certainly proved

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I wasn't alone. That gave me particular impetus to carry on the

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campaign. It is still going on. Now 76, she says she'll continue to

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speak out. The House of Lords may follow. This is not her swansong but

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a slight pause for breath. Let's get the forecast now.

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No sign of any high pressure. Wet in Pembrokeshire today. Yes, there is

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more heavy rain and gale is on the weekend. You could see 100

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millimetres or more of rain in parts of the South and West. That is up to

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five inches. Most places wet at the moment, a bit of snow on the higher

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ground. That rain will gradually clearing away. Turning dry before

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showers arrived, some of these heavy and wintry on higher ground.

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Temperatures inland clue falling close to freezing and there will be

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a touch of frost in places with icy patches. The case of dodging the

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showers tomorrow morning. Some of them heavy. Some sunshine as well.

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Across the rest of the UK, damp and breezy in the north-east of

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Scotland. Elsewhere, brighter, some sunshine, scattered, heavy downpours

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as well. Some places will stay dry. However, wet and windy weather will

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reach the south-west and Cornwall mid to late afternoon with severe

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gales. At 3pm, most of Wales should be dry but you will notice the

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southeasterly wind strengthening. Eventually Gales on the

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Pembrokeshire coast and rain in the south and south-west. All tied to

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this storm system heading towards the south west of Ireland. Turning

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wet and very window -- Indy tomorrow evening. Heavy rain, strong to

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severe sales force winds as well. It is they will continue windy. Further

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rain and blustery showers, strong winds and gales with a risk of

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flooding on the coast from Anglesey to south-west Wales. Brighter on

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Thursday but more stormy weather next weekend.

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Jeremy Paxman has Newsnight over on BBC Two now, with the story of the

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former UKIP spokesman who led a kidnap gang in Pakistan.

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