03/01/2016 BBC Wales Today


03/01/2016

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The heavy rain has brought misery to householders and motorists

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While North Wales escaped the worst of it, firefighters were called

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to dozens of locations in Carmarthenshire, Powys

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Even the Christmas chocolate are ruined.

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In Burry Port, Brigitte is laughing because she says there is nothing

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This is the fifth time the couple have been flooded out

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Clear the floor, get everything out and get it done.

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Next door, her neighbour told me he had lost hope of the council

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dealing with the problem and so he spent ?35,000

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of his savings to protect his property.

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He has built this big wall, spending ?2000 on this floodgate

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alone and underneath his patio, two pumps now begin

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Today was the first test of the equipment.

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If we had not spent the money on our defences,

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because there was no help from anyone, then

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Across the country, firefighters answered dozens of calls.

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There was flooding around Abergavenny and fire crews

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South Wales Police tweeted this picture of flooding on this road,

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There were tailbacks along the M4 after one lane in each of these

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At Bridgend, there was an accident involving seven vehicles.

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It is not known whether the weather was a factor but conditions

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were poor as police cleared up the carriageway.

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In Burry Port, the water was pumped away by early afternoon,

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but this latest band of heavy rain is expected to last until Tuesday.

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A 24-hour strike by Arriva Trains Wales drivers is due to go ahead

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tomorrow, with all services cancelled.

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The industrial action by the unions ASLEF and RMT follows a dispute over

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Arriva says it deeply regrets the disruption,

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and advises customers to make alternative travel arrangements.

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Public Health Wales is warning that half of known injecting drug users

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are at risk of contracting Hepatitis C.

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It says so-called legal highs have been "a real game changer"

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and the health risk was becoming a "substantial" problem.

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Some drug users have turned to injecting legal highs,

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Firefighters in Wales have been delayed more than 500 times in three

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years between arriving at the scene of a fire and starting to tackle it.

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South Wales Fire Service recorded the highest number of delays -

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The reasons include access problems and poor directions.

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A service has been held at Llandaff Cathedral,

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to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of Cardiff's worst night

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of bombing during World War Two, which killed 167 people.

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A vigil of prayer, thanksgiving and reconciliation was held

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It was extensively damaged in the bombing raid,

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on the night of the 2nd January, 1941.

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The whole building was remodelled and refurbished, quite

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substantially, really, after the devastation

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and essentially, of course, became almost a very different

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But the most important thing from our point of view, we felt,

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was to mark the occasion and use it as a solemn vigil for peace

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And we'll have much more on the anniversary on tomorrow's

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Football, and Swansea City are improving under caretaker

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manager Alan Curtis, according to goalkeeper Lukas

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They lost 2-1 against Manchester United at Old Trafford yesterday.

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Gylfi Sigurdsson equalised, but a late goal by United captain

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Wayne Rooney denied the Swans a point.

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Despite that, Fabianski says the team's "going in the right

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Meanwhile, Cardiff City claimed their first win of four

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Championship matches, beating Blackburn 1-nil yesterday.

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After a goalless first half, Joe Mason made the breakthrough.

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Cardiff City are now ninth in the table, four points behind

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The weather forecast and tomorrow there'll be scattered heavy showers,

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possibly thundery, and some brighter spells.

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We're back in Breakfast with updates from 6.25.

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Over 60 flood warnings at the moment. As yet, no severe warnings,

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but we are still concerned about eastern Scotland, where we still

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have this amber rain warning.

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