25/06/2014 BBC Wales Today


25/06/2014

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A mother who raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for cancer

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services in Pembrokeshire is asking the NHS to pay the money back.

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Chris Evans-Thomas lost her son, Adam, to Leukaemia in 2004

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His dying wish was to improve facilities at Withybush Hospital,

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but 10 years on, his legacy has not been spent.

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She's been speaking exclusively to Abigail Neal.

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Adams Evans Thomas achieved remarkable things in his lifetime.

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He campaigned for the government to pay the costs of DNA tests the bone

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marrow donors and persuaded 3000 people to sign up to donor register.

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But as Adams illness progressed he decided he wanted to give something

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back. He began raising money through his charity to refurbish the cancer

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ward at Withybush Hospital and to build a new chemotherapy day unit.

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In 2004 when he died his mother took on that legacy. We had been told and

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we were discussing purple lockers and all of this and it went on for

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another year and we were still enthusiastically fund-raising and

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it's been going on now for ten years. And still no unit. Through

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the high-profile nature of his appeal his mother has helped raise

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nearly ?700,000 for cancer services in temperature. She says she has

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repeatedly been given dates for when the work will start at now she wants

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the money back. I am making the money. People have believed in me so

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I am carrying the can. If we're not to have this unit and if you are not

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going to build it, I am going to ask for the money back and if you are

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not going to make up your mind we will use it to something else. A

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cancer support charity show us letters they received from the local

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health board citing recruitment and staffing problems at Withybush

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Hospital. They await this may mean Adam's legacy never gets built.

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Everyone is assuming it will go to Glangwili Hospital because that is

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where everything seems to be going. Hywel Dda Health Board told us they

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are still committed to a new chemotherapy day unit and that

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?550,000 worth of funds have been committed to the new unit and the

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refurbishment of the cancer ward but they added that capital builder is

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only part of the challenge and a review of starting a sure it is

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sustainable in the term. Hywel Dda Health Board have no plans to hand

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the money back and legal experts say that will be hard to challenge.

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Frequently, NHS charities ask you to give money for particular purpose

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but on the basis that that is an expression of wish. It is not a

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binding obligation on them to use it for that particular purpose.

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Frustrated at the lack of progress, Chris Evans-Thomas has set up their

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own facility for cancer patients in Pembrokeshire. But she won't give up

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a mission to see out his sons dying wish.

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A jealous husband shot his wife dead in the street because

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he couldn't accept she'd left him for another man, a court has heard.

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Caroline Parry died after being shot twice

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Her husband, Christopher, was described as a controlling

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Caroline Parry had been married for 27 years, but the court was told

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her husband, Christopher, was controlling and dominant.

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In March last year, she left him and eventually moved

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It was here during the morning of August the 8th last year that he

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waited for her to leave for work in her car, before flagging her down.

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The prosecutor told the court when Mrs Parry stop this beta is burned

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you enter the blood of his carpet for the shotgun and shot her twice

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in the back. It was carefully planned by a man who was in full

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control of himself when he murdered his wife.

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Mr Parry then shot himself causing substantial facial injuries.

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He claimed he'd not meant to kill his wife, but had come to shoot

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But the prosecution says he planned the

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attack, as CCTV footage showed his car in the area two days earlier.

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If you add all of these activities together he was a man who was not

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repaired to let go, someone who kept his wife in the surveillance and

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find out -- found that when she was living. He armed himself for the

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task he was about to carry out. Christopher Parry had admitted

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manslaughter but the night is murder. The case continues.

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Roads were closed in Porthcawl this afternoon after a large fire

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An area of grass and gorse was alight.

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The smoke was visible for some distance and fire crews say

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The Education Minister, Huw Lewis, is writing to the Home Office to

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ask why he wasn't given any notice that it was stripping Glyndwr

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University of its right to sponsor foreign student visa applications.

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Applicants must be tested to ensure they can speak English to

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a suitable level, but a police investigation found that hundreds of

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The Health Minister has told AMs that he's given ambulance bosses

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a deadline of three months to deliver "urgent

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improvements" after it again failed to meet response time targets.

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In May, 54% of ambulances reached life-threatening incidents

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Opposition parties claim response times are a national disgrace.

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The ambulance service blamed a rise in emergency calls and

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I expect an urgent improvement over the next three months. I do not want

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to be in the position of coming before the assembly in September to

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find the performance we have seen in May has continued into June as

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well. I don't want to be here having to explain to you by the arm service

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has not been able to make the necessary improvements.

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It's been confirmed that the Wales rugby player Owen Williams has

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The Cardiff Blues centre was injured during a match in Singapore

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and remains in hospital there after surgery to stabilise a fracture.

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Today his family, who are at his bedside, thanked everyone

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Every player was devastated at the training ground and everybody has

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their fingers crossed for him. Hopefully we will hear some good

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news over the next few days and our thoughts are with him and his

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family. We have sent as many messages as we can add their and the

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whole rugby community has got behind them.

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There's been a 2,500% increase in the number of people in Wales

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registering to become bone marrow donors and it's

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down to eight-year-old Hollie Clark from Cardiff.

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She needs a transplant and celebrities like

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Jonathan Davies have been taking pictures of themselves with pants

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on their head to encourage people to join the register.

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The Anthony Nolan Trust says more donors are still needed.

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Cricket, and Glamorgan lost to Hampshire in

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the T20 blast at the Swalec Stadium tonight, leaving the visitors to go

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Hampshire posted a score of 170 for six, holding their nerve to win

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Glamorgan remain fourth and are still on course

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Well, there could be a few more showers

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Here's Derek now with the forecast. We have had a good dose of sunshine

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this month but the dry spell is on its last legs. That is some rain and

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heavy showers on the way but it's not going to be a total write-off

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this began. Dry across the country tonight and a few clouds. A mild

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night but fresher than recent nights. Tomorrow morning will be dry

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with some cloud around but some brightness as well. Feeling

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pleasantly warm. Across the rest of the UK, a few spots of rain likely

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in Northern Ireland and south-west Scotland but otherwise a lot of

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places dry. There will be some cloud but some sunshine as well. Some rain

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spreading into the West Country approaching South Wales later in the

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afternoon. Top temperatures around 21 Celsius in London and 17 in

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Glasgow. At three o'clock in the afternoon most of Wales will be dry

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but rain will spread into the south and south-west later on. Quite warm

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again tomorrow with a southeasterly breeze. Rain will spread northwards

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tomorrow evening, heavy in places, turning try in the south and west

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but with scattered heavy showers. Into Friday, we have a trough of low

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pressure over southern Britain and that means more unsettled weather.

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Cloudy on Friday with outbreaks of rain in the North. Some bright

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spells for mid Wales and the South but also heavy showers. Enter the

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weekend, there will be further showers. But I can promise you some

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dry weather and sunshine as well. Sunday is probably the best day of

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the weekend. We're back with updates

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in the morning from around 6.25am. For now though, from all of us here,

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good night.

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