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blustery. Thank you very much. That is all from

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Welcome to Wales Today our top story.

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More spending on the NHS in the annual budget

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but local council services lose out so less cash for our councils.

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What that could mean for services like leisure centres

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Billions of viruses in Cardiff University -

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one of these test tubes could provide answers for HIV and cancer.

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funding fitness in communities with money made by criminals.

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And a loss of habitat has led to the disappearance of more than half of

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wild animals. We will be discovering how Wales is coping.

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The number crunching is over, negotiations have ended,

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the Welsh Government has announced its spending plans for next year.

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It has more than ?15 billion to spend on public services -

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?40 million less than they have this year.

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But, the draft budget includes an extra ?425 million

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the Welsh Government had to do a deal with the Liberal Democrats.

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But the extra spending on health means cuts in local government

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Here's our political correspondent, Daniel Davies.

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So another part of the public sector will feel the pain

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of her funding injection for the health service.

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Health is a priority for the people of Wales, for our well-being, for

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our economy and that is what we are looking at.

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Here's how the picture fits together.

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There'll be an extra ?425 million for the health service

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over two years - ?225 million of it next year.

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There'll be more for the economy, science

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and transport next year too - ?14 million.

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But every other department gets a cut.

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Education is down more than ?28 million.

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Funding for local councils will fall by more than ?192 million.

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Another serving of austerity for local councils,

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like Ceredigion council, which shut the building

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that hosted this lunch club in Aberaeron in March.

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And that's at a time when ministers say they want to protect

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It was not just about a hot meal, it was about getting up on time,

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getting dressed, was about getting up on time,

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house, meeting other people, socialising. It was a relief to

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loneliness. The Welsh government isn't just

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short of cash. It's short of seats in the

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Assembly too - it has no majority. Fundamental differences

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with the Conservatives and a row with Plaid Cymru mean

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Labour has just one option Their price - a ?200 million deal

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over two years, with more funding school children

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from deprived families. It has always been the Welsh Liberal

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Democrat priority to make sure that we begin to close the educational

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funding gap that exists between England and Wales, starting with our

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poorest pupils first. We have secured an increase in the amount of

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money that goes to schools to educate our most venerable children.

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The deal includes completing a long-awaited link road

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to Cardiff Bay and a pledge not to start building

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the new M4 relief road near Newport before the next assembly election.

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It was the government's support for that motorway which drove

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There will be an attempt to protect health spending, which is a good

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thing, but unfortunately if you take money away from social services and

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from other supporting budgets, the elderly will suffer and there will

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be a merry-go-round and increased pressure will come on the health

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service again. Few AMs would begrudge a shot

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in the arm for the NHS. The reason the UK to wish in

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government is having to make cuts is because of the previous UK Labour

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government spending too much money. The debt has got to be paid off,

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even the Labour Party know that. But with the amount of money the

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assembly is getting, ?15 billion, the health service could be more of

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a priority. when they hear Tory complaints

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about cuts. He seems to ignore the fact we were

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called upon to make cuts as well by the UK Government. I know he thinks

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there is a magic money tree somewhere but there is not and that

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means difficult decisions have to be taken.

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If you were Carwyn Jones' Finance Minister,

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You have got to spend more on hospital nurses. In Llanelli, one of

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the Accident and Emergency Department is going so the nearest

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one is 20 miles away. Definitely the economy because without that you

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don't have any of this. Where would you make the cuts? Things like

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executive salaries. Those things. Crafting a budget

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with fewer resources. Jane Hutt has got a deal on her

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spending plans, but when there are cuts to make, her handy-work

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won't be to everyone's taste. So, Daniel, the budget is a big

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political test for the government. Yes, Carwyn Jones is very keen to

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stress that this is a two-year budget that gives the government

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much more stability between now and the run-up to the next election in

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2016. Stability for the government perhaps but not for local councils

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who are saying that if things carry on like this, services will

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disappear. Let's discuss that with the finance minister who joins me

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this evening. Weak at the week, we hear from David Cameron criticising

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your government's record on the NHS. Is that pressure the reason you are

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now spending more on health? The people of Wales are going to be very

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pleased to hear we are putting an extra ?425 million into our health

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service. But we are doing that because we have had advice from the

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independent foundation who said to us, if we can put this investment

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in, we can put the health service of affordable and sustainable in Wales.

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It does mean investment with a strong message to our health boards

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that they have got to perform and make sure that we deliver the best

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in terms of support for our health service. It is not just David

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Cameron who is criticising you, we have heard from the British Medical

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Association that the have heard from the British Medical

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meltdown in Wales. Is the reason a lack of funding? The hospital I

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visited today with the Health Minister, Royal Glamorgan Hospital,

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is at the forefront of diagnostic abilities, a new CT scan,

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radiologists telling me they are the forefront of the UK in terms of the

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equipment they have got and also making very important decisions to

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help keep people safe and well at home and reduce admissions. Of

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course we have got to work on how we can improve our health service but

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today is about investing in our health service. I will also say

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interesting in social services. We are also investing in those services

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which will help local government. But those social services are run by

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local councils and you are reading their budgets to prop up the health

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service. Can councils really cope? We have protected local government

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over the past four years. That has changed now. If you look at the way

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they have been cut in England, 9.5%, of those local services that mean

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some edge to people, so we have worked with local government

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particularly in terms of health and social care will stop we are also

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putting money into education. We are going to put another ?44 million

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into the pupil deprivation grant. This is going to reach those

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children who are most disadvantaged, eligible for free

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school meals. Teachers, head teachers and parents will be

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delighted that because we got a budget agreement, we are going to

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move forward and protect that funding. It is support for local

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services. The deal has been done, the final vote on the budget will be

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in December with plenty of scrutiny between now and then.

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Dan, thank you, and later we'll be taking a closer look at the impact

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today's budget announcement will have on the services

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A health board has tonight apologised to the family

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of a disabled man who died following a gall bladder operation.

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Timothy Cowen was treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital last year.

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A senior executive at Besti Cadwaladr told an inquest his case

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was a "watershed" in the way it deals with

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Tim Cowans had severe learning difficulties since birth but the

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inquest heard he loved life as far as he could. He enjoyed football,

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the cinema, theatre. The last week of his life exposed a series of

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failings in his hospital care. He went to Wrexham Maelor Hospital for

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a gall bladder operation on April 23, 2013. He was discharged on the

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25th but here is noticed his health was deteriorating and he was taken

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to Accident and Emergency a few days later. He died on May two. He could

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not walk, talk or swallow. But the inquest was told there were

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questions whether the hospital, whether his reading was carried out

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safely. His condition was not properly assessed before he was

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discharged. Giving evidence, Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board chief of

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staff said the organisation had had some dark times. Timothy's case is a

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watershed page, she said. After the hearing, his family said despite

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having to fight for an enquiry into his death, they are now satisfied

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that changes are being made. But such a change is due to the death of

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my brother is humbling. In death, Timothy has achieved more than most

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would consider possible in any lifetime. It is a true and lasting

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legacy. For the family, this was always about making sure this would

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not happen again and the training the coroner has asked the health

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board to put in place will help. They have turned a corner but not

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completely yet. This evening, in a statement, the Betsi Cadwaladr

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Health Board apologised for what it said were a range of clinical

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errors. An investigation had recommended training for staff in

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the care of people with disabilities. The coroner said that

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training should be made compulsory. Carmarthenshire Council's

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chief executive Mark James part of the council's voluntary

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redundancy scheme. Mr James was cleared of criminal

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offences earlier this year following findings

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by the Wales Audit Office that the authority had made

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unlawful payments to him. The council says it's

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considering his application. Police officers who found

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a 93-year-old woman collapsed in her home following a burglary

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have arrested a teenage boy. They were called to her home

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in the Killay area of Swansea She was taken to Morriston Hospital

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where she remains Wylfa nuclear power station

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on Anglesey has been given a licence to continue operating

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until the end of next year. The reactor, which opened

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in 1971 and is Britain's oldest, was due to close today,

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when its current licence expired. But a last minute extension

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has been confirmed. An ?8 billion replacement

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for Wylfa has been provisionally Could our body's immune system

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be adapted to fight off some of the world's deadliest

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diseases? That's what scientists at Cardiff

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University have been working on for 10 years, and they now

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believe they have the answer. By cloning billions of viruses,

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they've discovered how our body reacts to the world's most complex

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infection and that could hold the key to

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treating HIV and even cancer. It's the size of a fridge freezer

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you'd find in your kitchen. This is Cardiff University's

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centre for infection and immunity. There are 19,000 tubes

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in this freezer and each one contains 10 million

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viruses. They hold the key to understanding

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how killer diseases live This tube contains a disease which

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could affect newborn babies or people with a weakened immune

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system. This is what CMV looks like

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up close - the green slivers are human cells

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that have been infected. It's a complex virus that's learned

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how to hide from our immune system. But scientists here have now worked

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out exactly how it does that. The trick up their sleeve was to

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clone the virus in the laboratory but allow it to attack

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the immune system as if it were still

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in the human body. They've effectively developed the

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definitive version of CMV, paving the way for new ways

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to treat it. Because of the work we have been

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doing in Cardiff, pharmaceutical companies worldwide have been using

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our viruses to detect infection in patients worldwide and potentially

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save lives. By understanding how CMV and our

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immune system interact with each other, scientists around the world

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are now developing new treatments for a host of other diseases, based

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on Cardiff University's research. There has been an exciting

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development, particularly in There has been an exciting

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United States, where they have used part of a vaccine aiming to protect

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United States, where they have used against HIV, so understanding what

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happens when the virus gets into cells and understanding how we can

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induce the best possible immune response against CMV, will really

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help the development of a vaccine against HIV. There is another

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interest in harnessing this virus in vaccines against other diseases, for

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example cancer. Our body's immune system can be

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the most powerful weapon Understanding how that immune

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response is supressed when it Research like this could influence

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how those treatments look Much more to come before

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seven o'clock. new research suggests the number

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of wild animals on Earth has halved in 40 years.

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How is the natural world doing And the last day of September,

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a remarkable month, one of the driest on record,

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but there's a big change on the way. Back to our main story and the

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Welsh Government's draft budget. Earlier we heard how money for

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councils will be reduced by just over ?192 millions - that's

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around 4% of their budgets. It represents another big challenge

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for local authorities already dealing with cuts

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from previous years. Our economics correspondent

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Sarah Dickins reports. As the Welsh government prepared to

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deliver its spending plans for next year, in Denbighshire they were

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still discussing this year's budget. When councils list the services

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they want to change, it's often followed by scenes

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like this. Its in leisure services that

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the most difficult Cardiff Council wanted to close

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this leisure centre in Splott and they're building a hub with

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leisure facilities down the road. In Blaenau Gwent, they're building

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skills for the future. 16-year-olds taking time out

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of school for what they hope will benefit them

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in the long term. I feel me when I am here. Hopefully

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get an apprenticeship in the future. I have been coming here for about a

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year and I do like carpentry and we do bricklaying, carpentry, painting

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and decorating, plastering. Today, more cuts and more pressure

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for councils. In the past year alone,

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3,000 jobs have gone in local government

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as they try to balance their books. It means all the cuts tend to fall

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on a range of services so it is no surprises that leisure centres get

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it, libraries are getting it, public toilets, gay centres. All the things

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that the public really value but the things you can't protect.

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Blaenau Gwent Council pays towards this training centre at the moment.

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It's kept it open because its in one of Wales' most challenging

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Long-term, in courage and people into training and employment,

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Long-term, in courage and people are savings across the whole public

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sector portfolio with regard to health, looking at employment

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opportunities, saving on benefits, everything going on with welfare

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reform, encouraging people into the workplace.

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Individual councils will hear next week what sums they will get

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from the Welsh Government from April and then decide

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whether to increase council tax or for instance sell assets.

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At the same time councils are being encouraged to merge

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with neighbours and see if they can work more efficiently

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The discount supermarket chain Aldi is to build a warehouse

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on the outskirts of Cardiff, which it says will create 400 jobs.

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On Monday, it announced a big rise in profits.

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The supermarket has been given planning permission

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for a distribution centre on the Capital Business Park in Wentloog.

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Websites with Welsh domain names go live for the first time

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The new .cymru and .wales addresses are being switched-on

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The National Assembly, the Welsh Rugby Union and political parties

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Money seized from criminals in the Gwent Police Force area

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is being used to support good work in the community.

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A mixed martial arts club is just one of those given a grant

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by the Police and Crime Commissioner,

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for their work in reducing anti-social behaviour.

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In total, more than ?150,000 has been made available.

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Jenny Rees has been finding out how it'll be spent.

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Focus, determination and a lot of hard work. It is a tough learning

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environment at this academy. But they are invaluable lessons for

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young men who may otherwise have strayed down a very different path.

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We do a lot of work with the youth offending team and we have a massive

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success rate. 95% turnover of kids who do something with their lives.

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The academy has been given ?5,000 by the police and crime commission in

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Gwent, raised from the proceeds of crime. These lads will have

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confidence. Before, a little bit insecure and felt the need to prove

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themselves. I left school at about 14, got arrested a number of times.

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Richard sorted me out and calmed me out and company write-down. I joined

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the Army, I have done two tours of Afghanistan, I have won a lot of

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titles, Welsh boxing titles, it has changed me from that troublemaker.

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This is just one of a number of projects which has been given a

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share of more than ?150,000, supporting groups having a positive

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impact. There were projects out there that needed a little bit of

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funding to help them to do a really good and important thing in their

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communities. This year, we have developed that and I decided we

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would take the money from money we get from criminals. Those people who

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have been locked up and made money out of drugs or criminality, we have

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taken the money of them and put it back into the community. Among those

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deciding where the money was spent were members of the Blaenau Gwent

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youth Forum. It has nearly brought me to tears and you have to decide

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with your heart or your head. It is life changing to a lot of people and

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you can see it changing people's lives, not just instantly but

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further down the line as well. For the Academy, the grant means that

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Jim gets a complete refit. For its members, it means some urge more. A

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healthy lifestyle and, for some, their first sense of achievement.

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The World Wildlife Fund says the number of wild animals on Earth

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The Living Planet Index found the biggest threat to habitats

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And while the biggest losses are in the developing world,

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we're seeing the same patterns here in Wales.

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Magical sights like this are what the Welsh coastline is famous for.

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Just last weekend a superpod of up to one thousand dolphins

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But Worldwide Marine and other animal wildlife is in steep decline.

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The World Wildlife Fund has come up with what they call

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Using 1970 as a baseline, they've sampled

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day populations of animal, fish and bird species across the world.

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species like the water vole are disappearing.

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In rivers and freshwater ecosystems across the world animal populations

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Human behaviour and consumption are driving this rapid decline,

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It may be more dramatic in the developing world but we see

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the conflict between man and nature here too.

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This area of Cross Hands is marked for development

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and it sits right beside a nature reserve.

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The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales work hard to keep

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this grassland an open habitat for the species that depend on it.

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This is a food plant for a butterfly. This one food source

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alone preserves the flood relief. In Wales, because it is associated with

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grassland, we are still a stronghold for it. We feel a responsibility to

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protect it. Intervention can turn things

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around. Once persecuted and on the brink

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of extinction, feeding centres

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like this one near Aberystwyth have helped bring back the red kite

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across the British Isles. To start with, you would be lucky to

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see half a dozen kites here but these days we are getting on average

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probably about 150 kites every day. Otters too are making a comeback,

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but as each generation expects to see less and less in the wild, the

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challenge of conservation increases. In Football, Cardiff City still

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without a permanent manager face Brighton

:25:13.:25:14.

in the championship tonight. The end of September and we can

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expect a change in the weather. The second driest September on

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record according to The Met office. This is an average figure for the

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whole country. Some places have had more rain than others. Only a few

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millimetres in Flintshire. It is also the third joint warmest

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September since 1910 and Wales has been the sunniest nation of the UK

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this month. This picture taken in Llandudno. The reason for the warm

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weather is high pressure. However, next week the jet stream is going to

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slip further south, low pressure will bring rain and it will turn

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cooler and windy. A big change on the way. This evening, some rain

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around, moving eastwards. Once again, another mild night. Here is

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the picture for eight in the morning. Most of the country dry at

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this stage. Not dry everywhere though. In North Wales, we could see

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a few spots of light rain and drizzle. During the day, a cold

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front will move eastwards bringing thicker cloud, a little patchy rain

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and a few showers. However, it should brighten up in the north and

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west later in the afternoon. Temperatures not as high as today.

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Tomorrow night, fine and dry. A cooler night than of late. Five

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Celsius or lower in Snowdonia. Thursday, most places dry with a

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mixture of sunshine and cloud. Friday, a breezy, windy day, spots

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of drizzle. Rain will reach the north west later in the afternoon.

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This spreading south-east to give a wet end to the day. Turning fresher

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over the weekend. Health spending will go up by ?425

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million over the next two years after the Welsh government announced

:27:33.:27:36.

its draft budget but there are cuts in areas like education and local

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government. I'll have an update for you here

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at eight o'clock and again That's Wales Today.

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Thank you for watching. From all of us on the programme,

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good evening.

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