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A reminder of the main story, Rolf Harris is beginning a

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Jail for the leader of a gang of rogue builders who ripped off

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elderly and vulnerable homeowners for shoddy driveway repairs.

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Physically pushed people around. Premier presents brought

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intimidation to those householders. They felt their in a position they

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could not turn down. Two men involved

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in a business ripping off vulnerable pensioners for driveway repairs have

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been jailed for a total Bellway Paving, just one of

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the names they operated under, was first featured on BBC Wales' X-Ray

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programme nearly two years ago. Today, the judge at Newport Crown

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Court said the men had deliberately targeted their elderly victims who

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lost a total of ?67,000. Rachel Treadaway Williams was

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in court. This is Tom Connors, the man in

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charge of Bellway Paving. They are" giving a thumbs up but knowing he

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faced jail. The judge heard how his business is operating under a

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variety of names had scammed 40 vulnerable and elderly homeowners.

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The youngest was 61. The eldest was 98. In total, they lost around

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?67,000 for gracefully overpriced substandard and often completely and

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necessary home and driveway repairs. Teddy and and therewith contacted

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BBC where a couple of years ago. Tom Connors had calmed down for a

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waterproof membrane he said they needed for their drive.

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kind in Wales. Tom Connors was on top of the list. It does the end for

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Bellway Paving. He and other defendants all admitted conspiracy

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to defraud. He was jailed for 38 months. Two of them had suspended

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jail sentences. They physically pushed people are put up their

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presence brought an air of intimidation to householders and

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they felt they were in a position where they had no choice. The judge

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said these men had shown a lack of humanity and saw the victims for how

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much they could take for them. They had been vicious in one case and

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simply wanted to bleed their victim drive.

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A Pembrokeshire MP has accused health bosses in West Wales

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of relying on charities because there aren't enough GPs.

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Simon Hart was sent a letter from Hywel Dda health board saying

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the British Red Cross and the RNLI was helping to provide cover over

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They say this is part of an additional service.

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8.30am and there's a queue to see the doctor in Tenby.

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This is a good morning. Today, everyone got an appointment,

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sometimes they don't. The queues

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in the morning are quite long, up to about 30 people some mornings.

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I've just been standing outside here since 7.30 and I got

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in through the door two minutes ago and I've been told I can't see

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the doctor until 10.30. Sent away for a cup of tea,

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basically. Tenby is not unique.

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Patients across Wales are complaining about the difficulty

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in getting to see a doctor. Demand is going up and there

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aren't enough to go around. GPs across the whole of Wales are

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experiencing considerable pressure on their appointments systems, with

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the ever increasing complexity of the care that we provide, the demand

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for appointments, we deal with over 19 million consultations every year,

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at least. Also, the fact that we have

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a problem with recruitment and retention of GPs means that there

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are less GPs to see patients and the ones that are there are struggling

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to cope with the demand, and certainly I think the situation is

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only going to get worse. Hywel Dda health board say the situation here

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in Tenby has been caused by the resignation of four GPs which

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they haven't been able to replace. But it's been their response to

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questions about how they're going to handle the busy tourist season

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that has angered the local MP. The health board say they've

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commissioned additional services from the charitable sector,

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including the British Red Cross and the RNLI to support Tenby over

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the summer months. Lifeguards team up with

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the ambulance service to deal with 999 calls

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and can even administer some drugs. The lifeguards are here seven days

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a week. They've got all the kit

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and they're trained. They're more than happy to come

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and help with anything so it's just a great resource

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for the public to use. Partnership working is not new

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but there are fears it could be used as a stop-gap.

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To be told that actually the slack is going to be taken up

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by, for example, the RNLI seems to me to be absurd.

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The RNLI have got a busy summer ahead of them.

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They've got lots of things that they've got to do.

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They're a charity, and people pay their taxes to get a

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good doctor service here in Tenby. Campaigners argue that uncertainty

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over the future of Withybush Hospital is undermining

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attempts to recruit medical staff in Pembrokeshire.

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Hywel Dda say they are working with Tenby surgery to resolve

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the staffing issues. Wales' largest health board still

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has more work to do until it's fully fit for purpose,

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according to a report out today. The study of Betsi Cadwaladr

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University Health Board was carried out by Healthcare Inspectorate Wales

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and the Wales Audit Office. It follows

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a highly critical report last year, which led to the former chairman

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and vice chair stepping down. The health board says progress

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has been made but it recognises We found that progress is being made

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in detecting the issue of infection control and prevention of infection.

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That is a lot of work to be done in that area. We broadly acknowledged

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the progress and had work the board has made in these areas but that is

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significant work to be done still. A coroner who investigated

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the death of a man after he was ejected from a nightclub has warned

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that others could die At an inquest last month

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a jury concluded the actions of two officers contributed to

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the death of Hywel Hughes. These stills from CCTV footage shows

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Hywel Hughes grappling with security men outside a nightclub. He was

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seriously injured but nobody realised. He was pinned to the

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ground and he was handcuffed and tried to the police car. He died

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later that night. Police had taken him to the custody suite ten miles

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away. He died of asphyxia caused by his injuries. It is concluded last

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month that the way he was that it contributed part to his death. The

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coroner warns unless there are changes, that is the coroner warns

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unless there are changes, that is in her report, the QC calls for

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improved police training and guidance on positional asphyxia. She

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questions the design of some police cars. They impede an officer 's

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ability to see and hear AGT me. She says she is also concerned about

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training and the lack of a requirement for doorstep to have

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first aid qualifications. This evening, both with police said it

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had received a copy of the report. It has also gone to the Home

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Secretary. If that is reliable evidence that is a fault and that

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fault leads to a real risk of injury or death, of course, they will

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address it. Two security men were cleared by a jury of manslaughter in

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2005. Charges of misconduct related dismissed for two others. The family

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has campaigned to find out by he died. The coroner now says efforts

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are being made to make sure nothing similar happened again.

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North Wales Police officers will travel to Crete to join the search

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for Arthur Jones, who's been missing on the island for two weeks.

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They'll be joined by a member of the North Wales Mountain Rescue team.

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The 73-year-old is said to be a keen walker, and hasn't been seen since

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Llangollen International Eisteddfod could be missing several groups

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of competitors next week after they've been refused

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Organisers say some of the performers from countries

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including India, Russia and Nepal have been competing for years.

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The Home Office says it won't comment without knowing the details

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Is London 'starving' museums and galleries here of funding?

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That's the view of the head of National Museum Wales,

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who's told this programme that a disproportionate amount

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of public and private money is given to organisations

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Our arts and media correspondent Huw Thomas reports.

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London's museums, the jewel in Britain's cultural crown or a weight

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around the institutions based outside the M25. The bus of the

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National Museum of Wales says the London museums get more than they

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deserve. Half ?1 billion goes to the national institutions in London. It

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makes a huge difference. Half ?1 billion of play that many also

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goes. This means the rest of the United Kingdom is relatively starved

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of funding for it at and cultural provision. The paintings of Richard

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Wilson at the neutral in Cardiff. Holding exhibitions like this is

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expensive. The museum would receive ?23 million in funding from the

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assembly government. It is effectively a cat. These galleries

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already boast an impressive collection of art but that is a

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sense that for all the effort to display the treasures that are

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housed here, the museum is still outclassed and underfunded and paid

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to the wealth that reaches its London competitors. The sponsorship

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deals may be the only way to David money to Wales but one expert on the

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arts believes it is time for creative fundraising. Think about

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what you can do in Cardiff. You could change the planning system,

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you could have camouflaged subsidies by encouraging low rates. You can

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give tax breaks. Cardiff was created by a private individual. In

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testimony from London will not be easy. The government admits as a

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disparity. Fears for how the birdlife of

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Skomer Island will be monitored in future as researchers suffer

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a cut in funding. Labour Party members in the

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Cynon Valley have gone on strike in Labour has insisted its candidate

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for the seat at the general election must be a woman, despite local party

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members wanting to choose from a We feel we have been treated

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shabbily by the party. If you are the party is not snowing and the

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consultation process was a sham. We believe we have not got a proper

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right of hearing or appeal. Our political correspondent

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Daniel Davies joins us now. Is this damaging for labour?

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Well they won't want it to spread to other seats

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because there'll be eight seats with all-women shortlists.

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Mr Williams says the biggest contribution party member make

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is to choose candidates. And when their local MP Ann Clwyd

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stands down next year, Mr Williams and his comrades

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in the Cynon Valley Constituency Labour Party wanted a free choice

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of male and female candidates. They've been overruled

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and the result is this, pictures Labour didn't want you to

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see, hundreds of empty envelopes and unused books of stamps sitting

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in boxes at Mr Williams' house Hirwaun because of this strike.

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Selecting a candidate involves writing to party members, booking

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meeting venues, stuffing envelopes. In the Cynon Valley they're

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not going to do it. Welsh Labour HQ will

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have to do it instead. Welsh Labour says it makes no

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apology for using an all-women shortlist.

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Only 13 women have ever represented Wales in the House of Commons.

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Will another be elected as in the Cynon Valley next year?

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They're on strike, but Mr Williams says he and fellow members won't put

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up an independent candidate as happened in a very bitter row

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about all-women shortlists in Blaenau Gwent a few years ago.

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At this stage, it looks unlikely that this row will

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cost Labour a seat. It's a nature reserve of

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international importance but there are concerns tonight that funding

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cuts could impact on conservation Natural Resources Wales who've

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taken the decision to cut the grant say they're taking

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a more holistic approach. Our environment correspondent Iolo

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ap Dafydd reports At the height of summer, these

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cliffs are bursting with life. Razorbills, guillemot and her

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friends are some of the species here. Most of the birds who died

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here have died from malnourishment. Trying to make sense of how many of

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these sea birds have been affected by the winter storms is important.

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Here, there is a large colony of guillemot. That is a comprehensive

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and specific research into their numbers. That is general on a drink

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on the island as well of other sea birds. Because of the storms, and

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additional 5000 guillemots are estimated to have died this year.

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Sheffield University as funding this assessment and that is concern that

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this kind of rigorous research is losing government support. It has to

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be done professionally and regular sleep otherwise you are wasting your

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time. Counting birds will give you a cute index but ours gives you a more

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sophisticated measure of what is happening in the population. Other

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species are monitored but not in such depth. It is admitted that are

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tough decisions on funding. We tried to make sure we understand every

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element of the environment so they are not concentrating on one

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species. Skomer Island is in Wales is only marine nature reserve. It

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makes good policy when you can back this up with good information. We

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would like to think this is something they will be putting more

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effort into doing. Monitoring will also be taking place next year.

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It's been revealed that a man from Cardiff, who called himself the

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father of terrorism, tried to travel abroad to join extremists groups.

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21-year-old Khuram Iqbal has admitted posting links to

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Woolwich Crown Court heard that he posted more than 500 videos,

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deemed as the most serious, illegal category.

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Our reporter Jordan Davies is outside the court

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He looked straight ahead when evidence against him was read out.

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He called himself the father of terrorism. He has already admitted

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using social media to spread extremist videos and articles. Some

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modified the murder of Lee Rigby and the attacks in New York. When police

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searched his home -- home, they found copies of a catalyst magazine

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on his laptop. In court today, we also heard that three years ago, he

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was arrested by Kenyan police in Kinnear close to the order with

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Somalia will stop it was alleged he was trying to join an extremist

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group in Somalia and he was deported back to the UK where he was

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questioned by terror police here but was released without charge for

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Saturday, we learned that sometime later he was stopped at Heathrow

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Airport and was booked onto a flight to Turkey. He said it was for a city

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break. The police did not believe him. Prosecutors today said this was

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an attempt to join a terrorist cause. Two months later we know he

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was arrested for distributing extremist material was up something

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he is pleading guilty to. It will now be up to the judge and

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appropriate sentence when they return.

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Sport now, and Wales captain Ashley Williams will still be

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at Swansea City next season after signing a contract extension.

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There had been speculation the central defender was a target

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But he's added another three years to his current deal, which

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But it looks increasingly likely that Cardiff City captain

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The Bluebirds have accepted a bid from Queens Park Rangers,

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although it's possible other clubs could join the race to sign him.

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Aberystwyth Town's debut in Europe turned into a nightmare.

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They lost four-nil at League of Ireland side Derry City,

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after having their goalkeeper sent off in the first half.

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The second leg of their Europa League qualifying tie will be played

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In the other matches, Bangor City also lost 4-0 to Stjarnan in

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Iceland, while Airbus drew one-all with Norwegian side FK Haugesund.

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No player in the ticket this evening.

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Well, let's hope there's a bright weekend in store.

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Time for the weather forecast. Through this evening, we have the

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rain band pushing through. It will become patchy in the early hours of

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tomorrow. By dawn, much of the country should be tried. A fairly

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mild night. Quite blustery out there but hopefully the winds will ease by

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the early hours of tomorrow morning. Low pressure in charge this weekend.

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That weather front will clear through. A brief break before we see

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another weather system coming through by Sunday. First thing

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tomorrow morning, just a few showers. By the time we get into the

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afternoon, we can look forward to dry conditions with some sunshine.

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As you see on the map, the majority of us getting away with a dry

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Saturday afternoon. Temperatures cooler than recently. It will feel

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fresher. In the sunshine, feeling pleasant. More sunshine for the

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evening before sunset. Overnight, clear skies. Just a few showers

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across the south coast. Temperatures at its lowest around nine Celsius.

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We go into Sunday, it will start to try and sunny. The showers will get

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going and it could be heavy at times. How is up to 18 Celsius.

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Saturday is the best day for outdoor activities. As we head to the start

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of next week, we have more unsettled conditions. A mixture of sunshine

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and showers as low pressure remains in charge. High pressure taking

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charge by the middle of next week. A mixture of sunny spells and also

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something much drier as well. A beautiful scene today. Thank you for

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sending that in. Rolf Harris has been jailed

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for nearly six years for indecently assaulting four girls

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between the late ?60s and mid-80s. The youngest was just eight

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at the time. The judge said

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the veteran entertainer had shown no We'll be back with our next

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update after the BBC News at Ten. For now though, from all of us on

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the programme, have a good evening.

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