23/02/2014 BBC Wales Today


23/02/2014

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Good evening. Special prayers have been said for the six-day-old baby,

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Eliza-Mae Mullane, who died at the family home in Carmarthenshire last

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week. The family's pet dog was seized by police from their house in

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Pontyberem, as part of the investigation. Matt Murray reports.

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Eliza-Mae was less than a week old when she died at home in Pontyberem.

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Following her death, police took away the family dog, leaving a

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community in shock. Today, prayers for Eliza-Mae were said at this

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local church. Parish priest Father Pius Augustine led the service and

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said her family attended after contacting him in the week. We are

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all deeply saddened I this tragedy. It has been a big shock for us. We

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hope her family will get through this. On the one hand, we have a big

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community every find consolation and strength in prayer. We also wanted

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to express our concern and support for the family. Officers finished

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their forensic examination of the family home in New Road on Friday,

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but insisted the investigation may still take some time, describing it

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as a sensitive inquiry. The family pet, Nisha, still remains in

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possession of the police. It's an Alaskan Malmute, like this, a breed

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of dog which is not on the banned list. Eliza-Mae's parents have paid

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tribute to their "dearly loved daughter", saying they would cherish

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the short time they had with her. Around 35 firefighters are tackling

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a large fire at a leisure centre in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan.

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The alarm was raised just over an hour ago at Cogan Leisure Centre.

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An elderly man is in hospital in Cardiff after he was seriously

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injured in a collision with a recovery vehicle. The incident

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happened on Mill Road in Ely yesterday lunchtime. The man

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suffered multiple injuries. Police are appealing for witnesses.

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Ceredigion coastal path has suffered more than ?100,000 of damage during

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the recent winter storms. The council was already facing costs of

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?1.5 million to repair Aberystwyth Promenade and other locations. They

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say the work, between Cardigan and Ynyslas, will be completed as soon

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as possible. Football and the Wales manager,

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Chris Coleman, has described his side's qualifying group for the next

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European Championships as tough. That's despite avoiding some of the

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highest-ranked teams in the draw. Elsewhere, Swansea City were in

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Premier League action at Liverpool. The great and the good of European

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football were in Nice to learn their fate. 26 team will be held in France

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and an increase in the countries taking part means that Wales will

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have more unit is to qualify for their first major tournament since

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1958. The draw, on paper , looks favourable. The toughest side is

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Belgium. The top two will automatically qualify. It is not a

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kind draw, it will still be tough. The benefit of being fourth rather

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than six seeds last time, in the last group, it was a crunch group,

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it really was. This will not be an easy group. At Anfield, one of the

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matches of the season, Swansea City waste out for-3 by Liverpool. They

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came back from 2-0 and 3-2. The winner was grabbed with 15 minutes

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to go. Very unlucky to not get anything. If you think about the

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number of games we had, to keep their energy levels up, I thought we

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deserved something from it. I cannot thank my players enough. Meanwhile

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Cardiff city's poor performance against Hull has caused a

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cancellation of their warm weather training.

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Rugby and, in the Pro12, the Ospreys were beaten 25-11 at home against

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Munster at the Liberty Stadium. In the women's Six Nations, Wales were

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handed a heavy defeat by France in Aberavon. The visitors won 27 points

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to nil. On the final day of the Winter

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Olympics, Pembrokeshire's Bruce Tasker missed out on a medal in the

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four-man bobsleigh. Team GB-1 finished in fifth place, after

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today's fourth and final slide in Sochi. Starting 12 does not help, as

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the ice tested the grade as the teams go down it. Every run, you

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move down the order. We were just chipping away and it we got a good

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result in fifth. result in

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The weather forecast now, with Behnaz Akhgar.

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Good evening. We do have a blustery day today. We saw gusts of 93 mph.

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The good news is the winter should is scrutinised. We have this by the

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front bringing with it some intense downpours. Especially across parts

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of the country when we have a yellow warning. There is the potential for

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some flooding there. We do have the wind and the rain house where but

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the wind will ease off overnight. A mild night with temperatures of

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6-7dC was not a bad start for the working week. The rain band will

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clear. Behind it, the odd isolated shower. Through the afternoon, it.

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To cloud over from the West ahead of the next rain. That will bring some

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wet and windy conditions tomorrow night into Tuesday. The weather

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certainly remains unsettled for the rest of the week. I for now.

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That's Wales Today. I'll be back with our later update just after

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10:15pm. Have a Hello. Still no sign of the weather

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really settling down next week. There should be an improvement for

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most of us tomorrow. It will not be as windy as it has been today, and

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the band of rain will slowly peter out. We still have some rain to come

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through the night. This band of rain is quite slow moving,

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