20/01/2016 BBC Wales Today


20/01/2016

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In Wales, more than 750 steel workers face losing their jobs.

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The group set up to tackle the fallout

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And he died after being wrongly attached to a zip wire

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There was a defiant message tonight from the task force set up to help

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workers affected by the Tata steel jobs cuts in Port Talbot.

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Members said they wouldn't roll over or wave the white flag in the face

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The boss of the Port Talbot plant, where 750 people face

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losing their jobs, said the works was in a fight for survival.

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Here's our political editor Nick Servini.

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48 hours after the biggest blow to the Welsh steel industry

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in recent years and the fallout continues.

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Today, union leaders became unusual bedfellows with their bosses

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at Tata Steel and joined business and council leaders to discuss

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After the talks at the assembly, the economy Minister Edwina Hart

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said there was everything still to fight for and was asked

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whether she was preparing for further losses?

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The task force is focusing on the job losses that are likely

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to come and how we help the industry be sustainable in Wales.

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The task force will continue to meet on a regular basis.

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The initial focus will be on retraining for the workers

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Despite the defiance, the boss at the plant stressed

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For the 3500 staff that remain at Newport.

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We are fighting to save the 3500 jobs remaining in the industry. I

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believe very energised that I know we are fighting the correct battles,

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one for the people leaving and one for the people staying. This isn't

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the first time the task force has been set up.

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After huge losses at this oil refinery in Pembrokeshire,

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it helped 70% of those who lost jobs to find new work within 18 months.

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We placed 70% of people within jobs locally and further afield.

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Geographical location of where Tata Steel jobs are now

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will make that redistribution easier because they are within shooting

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range of more job opportunities in the future.

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The problems have been caused by cheap Chinese steel

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The allegation is that it is produced at a loss by a state owned

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company and as a result is illegal dumping.

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Moves are being made to change its status

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Critics say it would make it more difficult to clamp down on the

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imports? Isn't this the Westminster

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government putting the bankers of London before Manufacturing

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workers in the rest of the UK? I think the honourable gentleman

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is wrong in content and approach. There are market economies that

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Europe still puts We have done it with

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Russia and America. Pressure will continue with no end

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in sight for the pressures facing the industry.

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A Gwynedd adventure park where an 11-year-old boy died

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in a zipwire accident has been ordered to pay more than ?100,000

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Bailey Sumner Lonsdale from Blackpool died in 2011

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at Greenwood Forest Park near Caernarfon.

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The court heard how he fell after being incorrectly attached

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This has been a long and difficult journey

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His grandfather and father were in court today.

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It's almost five years since the Scottish -

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He was riding the Swamp Fire zip wire which had only been open

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Bailey fell and hit his head before dying from his injuries.

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At the inquest into his death in 2013, it emerged that

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a mountaineering clip, or carabiner, had been passed through a false loop

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in a supporting rope which had then come loose.

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At the time, we asked a specialist to demonstrate.

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When this rope starts to move around, this strand of rope here can

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And end up creating an additional loop.

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That loop, like that, had gone on to the zip wire,

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I think you can see what is going to happen.

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Some staff had been aware of the false loop issue some days

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But Rangers on the ride hadn't been informed.

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The managing director of Greenwood Forest Park

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was Stephen Bristow, seen here on the right

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He voluntarily removed the ride from the site

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Even though the ride had been passed as safe by inspectors.

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Mr Bristow said at the time it was a symbol of tragedy.

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The company admitted failing to ensure the safety of members

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But the judge, Philip Harris Jenkins said it was a firm that had

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It does take health and safety seriously.

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It was fined ?45,000 and ordered to pay ?64,000 in costs.

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Police say they will be taking no further action against a teacher,

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who was driving a minibus which hit and killed a pupil

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15-year-old Ashley Talbot died just over a year ago.

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The bus was being driven by PE teacher Chris Brooks.

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An investigation into what happened is continuing.

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Wales has seen the greatest fall in unemployment of all parts

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of the UK, according to the latest official figures.

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In the three months to November, the unemployment rate in Wales

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was 5.5% - that's still higher than the UK average of 5.1%.

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More people are being diagnosed with cancer in Wales,

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but survival rates are at an all-time high.

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That's according to the all-Wales annual report for cancer,

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compiled on behalf of the Welsh Government.

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Between 2013 and 2014, 19,000 people were diagnosed -

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an increase of 11.5% compared to a decade ago.

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But more than half of people now survive for at least five years.

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The Welsh Government says it'll prioritise improving access

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The Culture Minister, Ken Skates, says planned cuts

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to the Welsh Books Council's grant won't be going ahead

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following lobbying from authors and Assembly Members.

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Writers like Phillip Pullman had criticised the proposed reduction

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A new species of dinosaur discovered on the South Wales coast has been

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named in honour of the brothers who found it.

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The fossilised bones of the "Dracoraptor hanigani"

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were discovered in slabs of rock on Lavernock beach by Nick

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Translated it means dragon thief from the family of Hanigan. We

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wanted to give it a name synonymous with Wales, hence Dragon, and we are

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pleased the family name can be maintained for the next 200 million

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years! tonight's frost will be the last and

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it is turning my order for a time. When done at times but still some

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sunshine and the snow covering the Brecon Beacons will disappear. For

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tonight some frost although some freezing fog patches but overnight

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fog will increase with a few spots of rain turning up in the West. The

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temperature dropping as low as -5 but staying above freezing on the

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south coast and Pembrokeshire with the south-easterly wind. Tomorrow

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not as nice as today, much cloudier and damp in places with some mist

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and fog patches especially on higher ground. Across the rest of the UK

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look out for a fog patches are travelling and there's a Met Office

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yellow warning in place for the North and north-east of England.

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Also the risk of ice with rain falling onto frozen ground and the

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rain will gradually spread from the West with snow on the Scottish

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mountains and Eastern counties should stay dry. Wind picking up in

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the West with a high of nine in Belfast. In Wales tomorrow now

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sparkling sunshine like today, cloudy with outbreaks of rain and

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the temperature a little higher. South-easterly winds strong and

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gusty on the western coasts. Tomorrow night mild and windy and

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damp at times with heavy rain and stronger winds are riding, the

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temperature everywhere well above freezing. Friday starts with and

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windy but heavy rain will clear and then it will brighten up with some

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sunshine and look at those temperatures back into double

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figures. Saturday dry and bright with the temperature above average

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again but the is more rain on the way so the cold and frosty weather

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is about to come to an end. From all of us on the

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programme, good night.

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