18/03/2016 BBC Wales Today


18/03/2016

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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top stories:

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Ten sites are in the running for a share

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of almost ?30 million in a bid to boost tourism.

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After a meltdown in the price paid for recycled waste the councils that

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claim it's cost them more than a million pounds.

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Good evening.

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Welcome to Wales - it's a phrase which greets visitors

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from the UK and abroad every year.

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But where in Wales should tourists go and what can they do

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when they arrive?

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A multi million pound investment has been announced to help establish ten

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so-called "must visit" destinations.

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Caroline Evans reports.

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In the sunshine there is, of course, nowhere

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better than Wales.

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In Aberystwyth today tourists were full of

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enthusiasm for what we offer.

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It's got everything.

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Compared to England.

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It's brilliant to be fair.

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What brought us here today was the hope of a bit of sunshine

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which we were lucky enough to find.

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It is a relatively easy and very, very beautiful journey.

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We enjoy going down to Brecon and areas like the Gower.

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As much as anything else it is because we can actually go out

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and about where we want to.

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And down in Pendine the minister agreed.

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Edwina Hart believes this is among one of the places in Wales

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which could become an iconic destination.

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I believe every place in Wales is a destination of the tourists

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and that is important but sometimes people

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get bogged down with what they think people want.

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But the world has changed a lot.

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When you look at activity holidays for instance,

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places in Wales we thought people would not be interested in 30 years

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ago, it is going viral across the globe what we can do

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in Welsh terms.

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In all, ten places are set to get a boost and include

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Saundersfoot Harbour, an adventure climbing centre

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near Merthyr Tydfil and a new railway museum in Aberystwyth.

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The man behind one of Wales' current main tourist

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attractions, Dan yr Ogof caves, which is not on the list says

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he welcomes the news that these other locations will get money

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but says that is only a starting point

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for building up tourism.

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We have got to do more.

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It's no good adding to the attractions' number

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unless we get more people coming into Wales.

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From all the surveys we do at Dan yt Ogof,

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not many people know us abroad.

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The reason is quite simply that we don't spend

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enough on marketing and our marketing compared to other regions

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of Britian is very, very poor.

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Back in Pendine a starting point is most welcome.

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They are looking to open a land speed museum,

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a heritage art centre and an eco-holiday resort,

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among other plans.

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It is looking to the future and getting

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people who had not thought about Pendine before to think

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of it as a place, not to go for the day but

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to stay as well.

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That's a part of the overall vision.

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While regeneration here is already under way,

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like all of the projects they will now be

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individually assessed and if they get through the next

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stage they say more work will begin here next year.

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A senior Ukip politician says the party's National Executive

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Committee will consider the de-selection of an Assembly

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candidate at the centre of a race row.

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Gareth Bennett has linked immigration in Cardiff to rubbish

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in the city road area of the capital.

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He's threatened to sue for 300-thousand pounds

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if he is deselected without due process.

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All I can observe is the empirical evidence that 15 years ago

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the rubbish problem in that area was not

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as great as it is today.

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In the last 15 years, possibly in a shorter

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space of time than that, we have had a large influx

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of Eastern Europeansin particular.

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Therefore, there is clear empirical evidence that the two are connected.

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A former magician from Cardiff has been jailed for 14 years

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for sexually abusing boys in the 1980s and 90s.

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Cardiff Crown Court heard 55-year-old Mark Davis targeted boys

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from single parent families, dazzling them with magic tricks

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before abusing them.

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He was found guilty of 13 sex offences, including

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three counts of rape.

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Some Welsh councils have lost more than a million pounds in income

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because of a collapse in the global price paid for recycled waste.

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Six authorities have told BBC Wales that a meltdown in waste markets has

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hit their budgets.

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George Herd has the details.

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It's bin day in Buckley and the weekly recycling

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round is well under way.

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Nearly 60% of the rubbish picked up in Flintshire is now recycled,

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making it a record year for the county.

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This is where all the recycled waste collected in Flintshire ends up.

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The plastic is being sorted here.

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Then it will be bailed up and sold on and that is where

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the problem lies.

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The amount of cash being received for recycled waste

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across the world has collapsed.

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In fact, Flintshire Council estimates it has cost them more

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than ?400,000 in lost income over the last year.

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We try to play the market as best we can but obviously we have got

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to manage our budgets as we go on through the financial year so it

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makes it difficult when we do have a drop in issues that we can't

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control, such as the global price of oil or when larger countries

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flood the European market with steel.

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It does affect the prices we get for our materials.

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Across Wales, six councils who sell on their own recycling waste have

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told us that they have been feeling the pinch.

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Taking a hit of anything from just a few thousand pounds in Gwynedd

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to six figure sums in places like Pembrokeshire.

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So what can councils do when the drop in recycling markets

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are completely out of their hands?

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The answer may be to aim for zero waste in the first place

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and that is what this project in Bangor has been looking at under

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the banner Love Your Clothes.

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What we really need to be doing is looking at how we prevent waste

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in the first place.

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You can't always rely on the fact you're going to have a

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global market for your textiles.

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At the moment the global market for textile is a bit iffy so really

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we need to be reusing more of it in the communities we live in.

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Finding a new home for an old piece of clothing might seem like a tiny

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step forward when it comes to saving on waste but it's

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something we might all have to consider in the future.

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By 2025 we need to recycle 70% of what we throw away.

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By 2050 that goes up to 100%.

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Of course, it's not all bad news for councils because it costs them

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more than ?80 in landfill tax for every tonne of waste they bury

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at a dump.

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So every scrap of rubbish sold on is money in the council coffers

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at a time when they desperately need every penny they can find.

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There should be a single ticketing system for all bus,

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rail and Metro services across Wales by 2018,

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that's according to a committee of Assembly Members.

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They say customers should be able to make contactless payments

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for travel, through bank cards or smartphones,

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similar to the Oyster system in London.

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A bible which a 15-year-old girl walked 26 miles barefoot to buy has

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returned to the Gwynedd town she purchased it from more

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than 200 years ago.

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Mary Jones made the journey to Bala in 1800.

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Rugby.

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Wales Under-20s have won their first ever Six Nations Grand Slam

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by beating Italy at Eirias Park in Colwyn Bay 35-6.

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What's the weekend weather got in store for us?

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Derek has the latest.

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Hello, shwmae?

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We have enjoyed some lovely weather this week.

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Blue sky, sunshine and frost but unfortunately it is a different

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story for the weekend.

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A lot more cloud around, mostly dry bar the odd

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spot of drizzle and it is going to feel on the chilly side.

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Tonight, low cloud will become more expensive, misty in places too.

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Some hill fog even the odd spot of drizzle.

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Temperatures generally above freezing tonight so most

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places frost free.

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Tomorrow morning, much cloudier than today.

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The odd spot of drizzle, misty in places.

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Otherwise dry and hopefully there will be a few bright intervals.

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Across the rest of the UK, it is a similar story really.

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Plenty of cloud.

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One of two spots of drizzle otherwise most places drive.

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Hopefully, some sunshine for parts of Scotland, maybe Cumbria.

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Temperatures on the cold side, eight Celsius in Liverpool

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with a chilly breeze across the south-east of England.

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In Wales tomorrow afternoon, plenty of cloud around.

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Still the spot of drizzle possible but mostly dry.

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Maybe a little sunshine in parts of the west.

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Temperatures, only 6-8 Celsius, maybe ten Celsius

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on the Carmarthenshire Coast with a light to moderate breeze.

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Grey and chilly in Cardiff tomorrow for the rugby but mostly dry.

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Good luck to Wales.

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For Sunday, it is the spring equinox.

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The sun over the equator.

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Weather-wise, we still have high pressure in charge

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and that is the reason for the settled spell of weather.

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Maybe the odd spot of light rain or drizzle on Sunday.

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Otherwise dry.

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Plenty of cloud but hopefully it will brighten up in places.

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Temperatures, nothing special but at least the wind will be light.

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Next day, more dry weather but we may see some

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wind and rain arriving from the Atlantic by

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Maundy Thursday.

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Have a nice weekend. Mwynhewch y penwythnos.

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That's Wales Today.

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