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humbling of its hosts. That's all

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The sacked Environment Minister, Alun Davies, has written to five

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Assembly Members, apologising for trying to get personal

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The First Minister has told this programme that he'd already warned

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Mr Davies last week that he was "on the edge of a cliff" over

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the way he dealt with plans for a motor racing circuit.

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Here's our political editor, Nick Servini.

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Calmer waters in Cardiff Bay after the turbulence of yesterday,

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which saw the most high-profile sacking of a

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Alun Davies asked for personal information about farm payments to

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Andrew RT Davies, his colleague Antoinette Sandbach, Plaid's Llyr

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Gruffydd, and the leader of the Lib Dems, Kirsty Williams,

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The big problem was the information wasn't public and he

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was using his ministerial office for party political purposes.

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This morning, the First Minister said it would be helpful if he'd

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This this position is needed. -- it would help his addition if he did.

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Then came a letter, in which he apologised and said the purpose of

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the request for the details of the farm payments was simply to provide

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background information and that he could offer an absolute assurance

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that at no time did he intend to use the information for political

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But that appeared to contradict with what the First Minister

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The only conclusion you can draw and the only conclusion any

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reasonable person can draw is he wanted the information to use

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On that basis, he could thus remain in the government.

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-- he could not remain in the government.

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One of the five AMs at the heart of this story, Llyr Gruffydd,

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I am disappointed that he tried to do what he tried to do.

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It underlines to me that Carwyn Jones should've dealt with this last

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week when it showed Alun Davies have broken the ministerial code.

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Alun Davies's sacking continued to be high on the agenda.

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David Cameron didn't waste an opportunity to criticise Labour

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during Prime Minister's Questions, calling it a worrying development.

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And there has been a debate at the Assembly about

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whether an independent adjudicator should advise the First Minister

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As the sun goes down on this affair, questions are still being asked on

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how to deal in future with ministers who break the rules.

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A man from Cwmbran who shot his estranged wife outside her new

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lover?s home has been found guilty of her murder.

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Newport Crown Court heard Christopher Parry "couldn't accept"

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Police on Seabreeze Avenue in Newport, a quiet residential

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Here, Caroline Parry, mother of two, was killed by her estranged husband.

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Shot in the back twice with a shotgun.

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Christopher Parry, who couldn't accept she'd left him,

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He still bears the scars from that day.

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Today, Christopher Parry was found guilty

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of Caroline Parry's murder, the jury rejecting his manslaughter plea.

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They believed he intended to kill her that morning

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Amazing. Amazing justice has been done

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She was so young. She will be forever young.

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And we are all amazed. It's fantastic.

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The verdict is what we wanted and it's justice.

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Christopher Parry left his Cwmbran home in August last year with

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He travelled eight miles to the home of Caroline Parry's new

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Neighbours were then awakened by three shots.

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Paramedics arrived just before nine and found both bodies in the street.

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Caroline Parry was pronounced dead in hospital

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People are so sad and upset, and to see the flowers there, terrific

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You know, as you can tell, it's such a quiet neighbourhood

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here, you don't expect something like that to come here.

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Christopher Parry was said to have been controlling

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Today, he was found guilty of his wife's murder.

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Christopher Parry wasn't in the courtroom when

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the guilty verdict was read out, with the permission of the judge.

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But there were cheers from the public gallery.

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It is clear the scars on his face caused

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by the shooting will be with him for life, a reminder of the crime

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Jordan Davies, BBC Wales today, Newport Crown Court.

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The search for Arthur Jones, who's gone missing on the island

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The 73-year-old hasn't been seen since the 19th of June.

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A personal profile of him has been completed and, as a result, local

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police will search an area between his hotel and a German war cemetery.

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A hoaxer who triggered a major search operation

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while he was at his home has been given a suspended jail sentence.

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Andrew Griffiths, from Corwen, dialled 999 in May, claiming he'd

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injured his ankle on Llandegla Moors, between Ruthin and Wrexham.

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Police say it wasted a total of 90 hours of their time.

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A bakery in Newport which was threatened with closure has been

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sold, raising hopes that some of the 550 jobs there could be saved.

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The Avana site in Rogerstone announced it would close earlier

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Making hand-decorated cakes to sell in a competitive market.

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Three months ago, workers at the Avana Bakery here

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Today, they were told the site had been sold to new owners, so despite

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the uncertainty this is potentially a short-term boost to morale.

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We are surprised because I know the company have been working hard to

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secure business, which hasn't been forthcoming at this moment, so a new

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company coming in and taking over, we are very surprised and excited.

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The site, near Newport, lost 85% of its order book when Marks Spencer

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moved a multi-million pound contract elsewhere earlier this year.

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The 2 Sisters food group, which used to own this site,

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makes everything from frozen pizza to chocolate biscuits.

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The bakery's new owners are two executives from the 2 Sisters group.

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Some are now calling for that new company, called Food Utopia,

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to explain what their plans are for this important source of jobs.

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We can't magic up cake orders. That is something people can't do.

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And I'm sure Food Utopia are out getting new orders to secure

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the long and medium future for the loyal workers there.

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They couldn't wish for a better workforce.

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550 workers commute here from miles around.

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If jobs can be saved, it won't just benefit Newport's

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Wales rugby player Owen Williams, who fractured his spine

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during a match in Singapore last month, has been moved to

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He had been treated at the University Hospital of Wales but is

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Well, it looks as if the sunshine may stay with us a little longer.

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But, Sue, it's not all plain sailing, is it?

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It has been fairly sunny today and it should be largely warm and dry.

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Every look at the map, mainly dry and light winds but it will turn

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killer with a chance of mist in rural areas. Tomorrow we have two

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weather systems in the East and West. The one to the West is more

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likely to affect the weather for Wales tomorrow but the detail is a

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bit tricky. So a dry morning with sunny spells,

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but cloud will thicken from the west and similar

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across the western side of the UK. Patchy drizzle across

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Northern Ireland. But further east, thicker cloud

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and more persistent rain moving in, with this zone in the middle

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hanging on to the sunshine, and the And those border counties

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the warmest across Wales tomorrow. A touch cooler where it's

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cloudier along Cardigan Bay. Friday starts off

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on a cloudier note further west, but brightening up, while the sunshine

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along the Marches likely to be replaced by thicker cloud from that

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warm front moving in from the east. The humid air could trigger

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a few showers. Then as we head into the weekend,

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these fronts push in from the Atlantic,

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so a more unsettled influence on our weather, with humid air continuing

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to push in from the Continent. It should be fine at first

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on Saturday. Some sunny spells,

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before cloud and showery rain pushes in from the west later on

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and begins to move eastwards. Fine for the next couple of days but

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turning increasingly changeable through the weekend and we will see

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showery rain pushed eastwards through Sunday. You can check the

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latest on the website. We'll be back with updates

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into Breakfast, For now, from all of us on

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the programme, a very good night.

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