18/04/2014 BBC Wales Today


18/04/2014

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on the BBC News Channel. I'll be back with the late news at

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Good evening. A union is warning 145 jobs could be at risk at a

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construction firm in Newport. Green Hill builds affordable housing

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across south east Wales and Herefordshire.

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It offers to build an affordable future but its own future now seems

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uncertain. Green Hill construction in Newport has won contracts worth

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millions of pounds to build houses for some of the biggest housing

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associations in Wales. The firm had recently expanded its associations

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but the gates are now locked and workers have been told to expect

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redundancy. We've got bills to pay and mortgages

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and all the rest of it and just at Easter, it wouldn't be worse timing.

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Nobody saw it coming. Some of the apprentices say they've

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now been left in limbo looking for another company to help finish the

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qualifications. Last year company was awarded ?146,000 by the Welsh

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government to help buy new machinery and take on more workers. Some are

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now questioning of that investment was wise although the local assembly

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member says risks are inevitable. There are always possibilities that

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funding will be given and that things will develop after that time

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and I think that in the nature of government assistant. It will be

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raising a host of issues with the company itself and with the Welsh

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government. There is still a lot of uncertainty

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this weekend as to how many jobs could be affected here and why the

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company appears to have gone into administration in the first place.

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Three people have died in separate crashes in south and west Wales, two

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of them motorcyclists. A woman passenger has died in hospital after

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the car she was in collided with parked cars in Swansea last night. A

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man has died this afternoon after a crash between his motorbike and a

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lorry on the A487 in Pembrokeshire. And a 27-year-old man has died after

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his motorbike collided with parked cars in Cadoxton, near Neath, in the

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early hours of this morning. The Cardiff City Manager, Ole Gunnar

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Solskjaer, has denied the club asked the Premier League to overturn their

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3-0 il defeat to Crystal Palace. The Bluebirds have lodged an official

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complaint, claiming Palace found out the team in advance of the game.

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Solskjaer says allegations that midfielder Aron Gunnarson was the

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source of the leak aren't true. We will defend his name and

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reputation to the edge of the cliff. It's an internal case so that means

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we keep it there, and we've dealt with the issues and we move on.

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In League Two, Newport squandered a 2-0 lead at Wimbledon this

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afternoon. . One of the biggest fixtures in the

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Welsh regional rugby calendar takes place this weekend.

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They'll be playing against each other this weekend, drumming home

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the message that regional rugby is hot stuff and a timer for fans to

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watch teams compete under the same roof. The blues won their last two

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teams but confidence is sky for the harlots -- Scarlets.

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Within that sixth spot at the moment with a few tunes creeping up so

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we're under no illusions. If we get a victory this weekend, it would go

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a long way towards securing that. You don't want to lose when you play

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any Welsh region and our record probably isn't the best against

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Scarlets in recent years and we need to rectify that. To pretty date --

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big games. The dragons and ospreys match will

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follow. The ospreys are currently fifth and hoping Glasgow can slip

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up. They face a dragon side without a win in the last five matches. Both

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coaches know each other for very well.

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The dragons are a tough outfit. We slipped off a little bit at the

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moment but they have some young, exciting players.

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It's an opportunity for our players to show the rest of Wales how good

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they are and we've started the season particularly well but fallen

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away drastically, you know, all our players have features to playful.

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Judgement today is aptly names. It's a chance for Wales coach Warren

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Gatland to see several players as he looks to name his squad to tour

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South Africa this summer. The weather forecast now. It's been

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a glorious day in Wales thanks to high pressure. Make the most of the

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way that tomorrow. There will be unsettled weather on Sunday.

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Tonight, chilly with a touch of frost and underneath the sky is the

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skies that temperatures will dip away to when Celsius which will give

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this a chilly start to Saturday morning but again, more sunshine

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to. A bit breezy tomorrow with cloud from the East as we go into the

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afternoon. The best of the brightness from Pembrokeshire up to

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Anglesey by the afternoon with highs of 14 Celsius. Sunday, it will start

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off dry and cloudy but by the afternoon, we could see some wet and

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windy conditions heading our way. That's today. I'll be back at ten 15

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p.m.. Today we have seen temperatures

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rising if Scotland but again tonight, with the clear skies and

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light wind temperatures will fall sharply, and for many of us, we are

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looking at a touch of frost. The satellite picture tells a story

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nicely. This belt of

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