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More on that and all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.

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That's Labour party members in the Cynon

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Valley have cancelled a meeting to select a replacement parliamentary

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candidate, after being told it Labour are looking

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for a new candidate to replace the MP Ann Clwyd, who's retiring

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at next year's general election. Ann Clwyd was elected as Labour MP

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for the Cynon Valley in 1984. At the time she was only the fourth

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woman ever to hold a Welsh seat. As she prepares to stand down

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Labour Party bosses want to replace But some members of the party

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in the Cynon Valley constituency don't agree

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and argue they want to find the best We getting knows the need to extend

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representation of women in parliament and elsewhere. What we

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are unhappy about is the members have considered the alternatives, we

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were told we would be consulted about the matter, and then our views

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have been ignored. Women shortlists have already

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selected candidates in Aberconwy, Cardiff Central, Cardiff North,

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Carmarthen West and South Swansea East have still to select

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a candidate but they're also expected to be asked to choose

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from a woman-only list. That has caused issues for Labour

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in the past. There was a bitter dispute over

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all-women shortlists within the party in Blaenau Gwent

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at the 2005 general election. The Labour AM Peter Law stood

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as an independent and overturned But one

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of the party's biggest supporters of the policy says having more women

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in politics is a good thing. If we leave it to chance or two open

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list it never happens. If we bring in a system which most of us would

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believe that is a quality, for women and men, because men have had a huge

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share of all the seats in Wales. In a statement,

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the Welsh Labour Party said it leads the way on female representation

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in Wales with more women MPs, AMs and councillors than any other

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party and will continue to do so. Two motorcyclists have died

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and five other people have been injured, in a crash between a car

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and six motorbikes in Flintshire. It happened on the A5104

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at Pontblyddyn, Five casualties were taken to

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hospital by ambulance Two Liverpool University students

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who went missing while diving off the Anglesey coast,

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have been rescued, after a major search involving two Sea

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King helicopters from RAF Valley. The students, a man and woman

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in their 20s, were found They were very cold,

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but otherwise well. More stop checks on drivers will be

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made over the next month by police forces across Wales, as part of a

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summer anti-drink driving campaign. The family of 20-year-old

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Josh Williams from Merthyr Tydfil, who was killed by a drunk driver

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in March last year, A lot of people are of the mindset

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of, it is only done the road, it is only one drink, that little moment

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relapse of concentration can make you hit a curb, your car spins out

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of control, that is when you realise, I wish I didn't have a

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drink. You have killed somebody. The veteran 200 metres runner

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Christian Malcolm has failed to make the selection criteria for

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the Commonwealth Games at the Welsh The former Olympic finalist finished

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third in the heats at Leckwith, but could still be selected

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on past merit. Glamorgan have been batting

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on day one of their championship At the close they were all out

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for 244. The weather forecast now,

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with Sue Charles. It is the 1st of June, the start of

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a major article summer. It felt like it at times. Some rain, colder than

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average. Rain spreading from the west, so messed and tell fog, and

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mild night, temperatures staying in double figures. Cloudy with

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outbreaks of gristly rain, clearing eastwards, the cloud will gradually

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break through the afternoon, brighter spells developing from the

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West. Tuesday is often cloudy, mix of sunny spells and shaymus will

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stop more settled. Good night.

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Hope you had a nice weekend, it was a warm and sunny one across central

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and eastern areas. A different story out west with signs of change. It

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will be a different week this week with some rain around. Some sunshine

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too. For

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