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an attack by IS killed an elderly priest. What can a democratic state

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actually do in this situation? Join me on

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Our top stories: Years of policies to help vulnerable people out

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of poverty - so how come so many are still struggling?

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Wales at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth

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Tonight, why we won't be hosting it any time soon.

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And lessons in chemotherapy - why patients are being encouraged

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We've had years of policies to try to get people out

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So how come so many people are still struggling?

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Tonight, calls for the Welsh Government to be given

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A report from the Bevan Foundation says current policies aren't

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working, as nearly a quarter of the population are struggling

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to make ends meet, a figure which hasn't gone down in a decade.

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Here's our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins.

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Looking for bargains. That's what so many households across Wales have to

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do every week. Everything a pound a bag today. Outside of London, Wales

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has the highest proportion of working age people living in

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poverty, despite having lower unemployment than the UK as a whole.

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In Wales, nearly one in three children live in poverty, as do one

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in four working age adults, and around one in six pensioners. For 16

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years, the level of pensioners living in poverty fell, look for the

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last three years, it has risen again.

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People have lived off their savings. They always saved for a rainy day.

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The rainy day came faster than they thought.

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There has been a real shift from people being in poverty who are out

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of work to in work poverty. In E.ON, Emma Turner is studying at

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university and working all the hours she can to bring up her children.

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The Department for Work and Pensions says a single parent with two

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children needs to have ?291 a week after paying for household bills to

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be above the poverty level. Emma has three children.

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Minimum wage job, 40 hours a week, you're not even earning ?300 a week.

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If you have rents to pay, the average house price rental around

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here is about 500- ?600 per month for a three-bedroom house. Ever

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since devolution, successive Welsh governments have made combating

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poverty a priority, and many millions of pounds have been spent

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on a range of schemes on, from free school breakfasts to attempt to get

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unemployed young people into work. And of course, initiatives to

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attract more investment and jobs into Wales. These figures suggest

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that poverty really has not changed overall those years. The Bevan

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Foundation is proposing one new radical approach, devolving

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benefits. Such new ideas may gain momentum.

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Housing benefit, we think, could make a huge difference. There is ?1

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billion coming into Wales and going straight into landlords' pockets. If

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that money was used differently and better, we could be building more

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houses and people could have more affordable, secure homes.

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The Welsh government says is working hard to create jobs and improve

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skills, but when Wales is enjoying its biggest increase in jobs but

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still has this level of poverty, it suggests that this is about more

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than getting people into work. 115 people who work

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at Dow Corning Chemical plant in the Vale of Glamorgan have been

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told they're losing their jobs. Workers were told last month that

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some jobs at the Barry based factory Around 630 people currently

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work at the plant. The MP for Aberavon,

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Stephen Kinnock, has denied concealing details

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about his daughter's private education when seeking selection

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for the safe Labour seat. His eldest daughter Johanna

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attended Atlantic College, near Llantwit Major,

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in the Vale of Glamorgan He said her study was partly funded

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by a standard Danish The death of a man from Bronygarth

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near Oswestry who fell from a cliff while trekking in Peru has been

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recorded as accidental by a coroner. Harry Greaves' body was found two

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weeks after he was reported It's one of the biggest sports

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events in the world, but the 2026 Commonwealth Games

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will not be staged here. The Welsh Government has announced

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that an all-Wales bid for the event will not go ahead due in part

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to financial uncertainty following the Brexit vote.

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Teleri Glyn Jones reports. Glasgow 2014, a record 36 Welsh

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medals in what many say was the most successful staging of the

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Commonwealth Games. But it is likely to be the closest Welsh athletes get

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to a home games for sometime, with estimates suggesting the cost of an

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all Wales bid for the 2026 games at up to ?1.54 billion. The Welsh

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government has decided it is not feasible. Ideally, we would have

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loved to be able to bid for the games, but in the current

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circumstances, leaving Europe, and with ongoing austerity, the cost to

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Wales was judged to be too great. An official report into Glasgow's

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staging of the games to two-year great years ago and that it was

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worth ?740 million to the Scottish economy, with the city itself

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gaining close to 390 million. Across the world, around 690,000 people are

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estimated to have visited Glasgow during the games. With cross-party

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support Brigade, today's announcement has been met with

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disappointment. What they have done is damage Wales' future in terms of

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economic develop them, in my opinion, about getting is on the

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world stage. It costs a lot of money to host these games, but you also

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earn a lot of money, directly and indirectly, and you can buy

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advertising like posting the Commonwealth Games.

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The Welsh government's preferred it would have seen events staged right

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across Wales, with, for example, bowls in wonder drug Wells, and

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table tennis in Wrexham. However, with increased costs and greater

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logistical challenges, it is believed it would not have gained

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support among Commonwealth boating nations. The chair of the committee

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leading the dead safe investment is needed. If we had those world-class

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sporting facilities, like a number of people who have hosted games

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before us, we would not be in this position. A lot of the cast is to

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actually develop that, develop a huge cultural programme which would

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develop every child and adult across Wales. With one football's biggest

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event, the Champions League Final, being staged at the principal at the

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Stadium next year, Wales is still on the map and tins of high-profile

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sporting events. The Welsh government says it is ordering a

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review into sporting facilities here to make sure it can bring other

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big-ticket events here in future. Future nuclear power projects

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in Wales need to show value That's the call from MPs

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who sit on Westminster's A report published by them today

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looks at the potential of developing new nuclear power stations at Wylfa

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and Trawsfynydd in North Wales. Nuclear power is going to be... Is

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already very important in North Wales. It is providing jobs at the

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moment, not least in the decommissioning that is going on. It

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could be used to provide even more highly skilled jobs, especially if

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we go to continuous decommissioning, which is something our committee

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would like, but also, in the future, we have the capacity to provide

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thousands of well-paid jobs, firstly in the construction of the plant,

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and secondly in the running and maintenance of it.

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A new council-funded hydroelectric scheme has officially opened

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At a cost of nearly ?4 million, the Radyr Weir hydro project

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is expected to generate enough energy to power 550 homes.

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The electricity will be sold to the National Grid.

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The profits will help the council offset its annual

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Cancer patients at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire

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are being offered question and answer sessions

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The six-month trial is a joint venture by the North Wales health

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Its aim is to reduce the anxiety some people feel before

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starting their treatment. Matthew Richards reports.

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Chris Dunning from Flintshire has just completed the second of three

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chemotherapy sessions for cancer of the oesophagus. Having previously

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attended a session with medical and support staff who told them what to

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expect, he is speaking to patients about to undergo their own

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treatment. You know what you're going to expect

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when you come in here. It is actually not a horrible place, it is

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quite a pleasant environment to sit while they give you an infusion with

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the different drugs, and so as a consequence, I knew where I was

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coming, what I was going to be doing, and what it might look like

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for me, rather than this worry that I was kind of building up in my head

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before that. Classes explain what chemotherapy

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is, how it could affect people, and what steps they can take to stay as

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healthy as possible during treatment.

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Hospitals can be bewildering places at the best of times, which is why

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there is a list of signs showing you where to go. Now, the hospital and

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ten of us have teamed up to create a road map to guide people through the

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cancer treatment. Patients and their families are able to ask about

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anything that concerns them before chemotherapy begins.

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One of the main questions was, will I lose my hair? My age, I am very

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pleased with my bonnet. I was told I probably would not lose my hair, but

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the hair would get thinner. I feel like a fraud, because I have

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not had any symptoms or anything. And now, they are going to make me

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unhealthy to make me look healthier, and that's just... I can't get my

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head around that happening. But the advice and support extends

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beyond the merely medical. We do our best to enable them to

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have more information, to be more confident going home, having had

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their first chemotherapy. We would like them to be able to seek help

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and ask for attention, and advice, as they need to.

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We are here to help people with any financial problems that they have.

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They can join our choirs, they can speak to a nurse on our support

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line, and we also have a cancer call-back service that we can speak

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to patients regularly to see how they are doing throughout their

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treatment. The six-month trial is halfway

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through, and the vast majority of participants have found it useful. A

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cancer diagnosis can be a journey into the unknown, but the classes

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should help to eliminate at least part of it.

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Seven Welsh Paralympians have been added to Team GB's track and field

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They'll be joining discus and shotput athlete Aled Sion Davies

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and javelin thrower Holly Arnold, who had already been included.

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Cricket, and in the Royal London One Day at Chelmsford,

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Glamorgan scored 324-8 from their 50 overs.

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Their opponents - Essex - had reached 24 for no

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Both sides could still qualify for the quarterfinals.

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Let's see what the weather has in store.

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This time last week, it was hot and humid. But this week, our weather is

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coming from the Atlantic, so it is much cooler. There is more rain on

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the way, followed by dry and brighter weather tomorrow afternoon.

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In the meantime, some places are dry at the moment, but rain will spread

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across the whole country after midnight, some heavy bursts of rain

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and a mild, muggy night. Lowest temperatures, 14-16. A dull and damp

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start tomorrow morning. Light rain, drizzle, mist and low cloud, but it

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should dry up in the North data in the morning. Across the rest of the

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UK, some light rain and drizzle in the South will gradually clear. One

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or two sharp showers, perhaps the odd rumble of thunder in the south

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tomorrow afternoon. Further north, dry Aaron brighter, some sunshine,

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and if you showers for the North of Scotland. Top temperatures, 22

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Celsius in London. In Wales tomorrow afternoon, and improving story. Most

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places become dry and brighter, with a little sunshine and cloud

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breaking. The visibility will also improve. I is temperatures, up to

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22, cooler in the north and on the West Coast. Dry for most of us

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tomorrow evening. The odd shower in the south, and later in the night,

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the next batch of rain will cross the Irish Sea, and on Thursday, we

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will all season rain. It should stage I and brighter in the

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afternoon, breezy on the Bristol Channel coast, a fuse showers in the

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north. Friday, a better day. One or two showers here and there,

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otherwise dry, some sunshine, and feeling fresher. The weekend, sunny

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spells and a few showers. Temperatures not that high over the

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weekend. Cool at night, pleasantly warm when the sun is out. I will see

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you soon. More on all of our stories on our

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website. That's Wales Today.

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Thank you for watching. From all of us on the

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programme, goodnight.

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