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divided, what does she have to do to stop the

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divided, what does she have to do to stop the divide

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Welcome to Wales Today.

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Our top stories tonight: Amina Al-Jeffery's father

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took her from Swansea to Saudi Arabia in 2012.

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Today he told the High Court he did so to save her life.

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The ambitious plans for The Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon -

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but does Wales have the workforce to make the project a reality?

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And 150 years after the birth of Beatrix Potter, we'll be hearing

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how she was inspired by this Denbighshire garden.

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Good evening.

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A father accused of taking his daughter from Swansea

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and imprisoning her in Saudi Arabia says he was trying to help her.

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A court has heard how Mohammed Al-Jeffery took 21-year-old

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Anima Al-Jeffrey to-macro three in 2012 to save her life.

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Anima says she wants to return to the UK and claims

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she is being held against her will.

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Her father disputes the allegations.

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From the High Court in London, here is Paul Heaney.

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Amina Al-Jeffery as a teenager in school in Swansea.

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She has dual nationality, both British and Saudi Arabian.

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Her father says back in 2012, he took her here

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to the Saudi city of Jedah because she's become reckless.

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He claims she hadn't been doing well in school

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and he took her here to save her life.

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She says she's being held here now against her will and mistreated.

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Lawyers acting for Miss Al-Jeffery want a High Court here in London

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to order that she be brought back here to Britain or be allowed

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to speak to her solicitor or the British consolate

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in Saudi Arabia but the judge here admitted his powers are limited.

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It doesn't matter what judgment is handed down here,

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it won't be able to be enforced in Saudi Arabia.

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Marcus Scott Manderson QC representing Mr Al-Jeffery in court

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said the father didn't want to discuss Amina's return

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because of what he'd seen in the media.

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He also said she was at risk in Britain and the British Government

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did nothing to help her.

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He said Amina was reckless and couldn't help herself

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and he had to help her.

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The judge said that he was seeking to do what was best for his adult

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daughter, adding that nobody was trying to be punitive.

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"I want to act collaberataively and cooperatively with him" he said.

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Mr Scott Manderson QC continued to read out the client's statement,

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saying it was his decision to bring Amina to Saudi Arabia,

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she was not focusing on school he said, she was taking drugs,

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going to clubs and spending time with older men.

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He finished, "I am certain that if Amina were to return to the UK,

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my wife would not be able to control her challenging behaviour."

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This Welsh MP chairs the all-party parliamentary human rights group

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and has raised concerns about Saudi Arabia's

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human rights records.

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Women can do very little about the agreement

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of a so-called guardian.

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They can't travel, they can't sign documents, they cannot drive cars.

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Everyone knows several attempts by women in Saudi Arabia to drive

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cars and they've been apprehended and in some places arrested.

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It's a mixture of things.

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It is a pretty bad scene for women.

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At 21 years old, Amina Al-Jeffery's lawyer says she is a vulnerable

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adult in need of protection.

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The judge here is now focused on how best

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to allow her to speak freely in

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this rare, internationally significant case.

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It would be the first of its kind in the world and would transform

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part of Swansea Bay.

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But an independent study says there needs to be far more

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investment in skills if Wales is to take full economic advantage

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of the proposed Tidal Lagoon.

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Altogether, it forecasts the project could bring 2,000, 200 jobs

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in the five years it would take to build.

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Ben Price reports.

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An ambitious design for the UK's first tidal lagoon.

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This is how those behind the Swansea Bay project

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in visits the final design.

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Doubts have been raised as to whether it will look exactly

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like this and today more questions as to how achievable it is.

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A joint independent report commissioned by the Welsh Government

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highlights the risks as well as the advantages

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of the proposed scheme.

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The authors of the report believe on the manufacturing

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side of the project, Wales is equipped to provide just

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half of the parts required to build the tidal lagoon.

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With investment to fill the gaps, it believes in theory that

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could increase to more than 90%.

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The potential skills gap for the project includes plant

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operators, labourers and those with specialist marine skills.

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We know for instance that in the next ten years,

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around 18,000 construction workers are going to reach retirement age.

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We have also got forecast growth of around 2.9% over

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the next five years.

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We will need a lot more workers involved in the construction sector

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and that could cause pinch points.

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The report says there aren't enough companies in Wales currently capable

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of such things as casting or forging steel to make for example the blades

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of the turbines.

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But one of the report's other authors also believes

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Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon can still be a blueprint for similar

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projects in the future.

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I think the real gains are to be had from scaling up of the project

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and if we see Swansea as a pilot, then there are three other sites

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already identified in Wales, significantly bigger.

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16 turbines in Swansea, 108 in Cardiff, 48 in Newport,

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128 in Colwyn Bay.

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Once we start to develop that scale of operation,

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then that is a very significant contribution to the economy.

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There are many companies in Wales itching to get the ball rolling.

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This mechanical engineering company is based in Pembroke Dock.

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It lost a lot of business following the closure

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of the Murco oil refinery.

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It is now looking to the tidal lagoon project to boost

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the company once again.

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We see the opportunity for us that we could certainly sustain

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about 150-200 jobs and probably create approximately another

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100 additional jobs.

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We could certainly get back up to 1000 employees,

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which we did have some time ago.

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It is said this 16 turbine tidal lagoon will be able to power 120,000

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houses for the next 120 years and despite concerns

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about a shortage in the skilled workforce here in Wales,

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the company behind this project says it is ready to start

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work straightaway.

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We are still focused on starting here in Swansea Bay

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early autumn next year, as a company we are ready to go

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and we are looking to start spending ?1.3 billion in the UK.

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Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon is one of a number of big renewable energy

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projects waiting for the green light and as the Hinkley Point

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nuclear power station gets the go-ahead today,

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the challenge now will be to develop a big enough skilled workforce

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in Wales to carry out the work ahead.

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Further along Swansea Bay in Port Talbot, around 100

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Tata workers, uncertain about their future, have been

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meeting with unions.

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The sale of the plant was HALTED earlier this month,

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as TATA entered MERGER-talks with the German firm, ThyssenKrupp.

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Unions say they're increasingly frustrated with how

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the process is being handled.

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We want the company to involve the unions in whatever is the sales

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process or whether it is a joint tie up merger.

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We have a highly skilled and motivated workforce

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in there that deserve closure on this.

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It is still early stages, so there is a long way to go,

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but I am sure the unions will keep everyone in the loop and yes,

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it has been a worthwhile meeting getting together.

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People have aired their opinions, what they think, going forward.

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And we are united going forward and we are going to fight

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to save the future of the steel industry in this country.

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The funeral of a soldier who died on a training exercise in Brecon

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earlier this month has taken place in his home town in

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South-West Scotland.

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Corporal Joshua Hoole, who was 26, was a member

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of the Rifles Regiment.

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The investigation into his death is ongoing.

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The UK Government has approved plans for 17 kilometres of overhead cables

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to connect Wind-Farms in Denbighshire to

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the electricity-grid.

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Scottish Power Manweb has been given the go-ahead to put-up pylons

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between Clocaenog Forest and the St Asaph sub-station.

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RWE Innogy has already been granted permission to build a wind

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farm in Clocaenog.

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Construction could now start as early as next year.

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The Children's Author, Beatrix Potter, is most closely

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associated with the Lake District, but she also took inspiration

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from numerous visits to Wales.

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And on the 150th anniversary of her birth, the garden

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of Gwaenynog Hall near Denbigh, which was depicted in the 'Tale

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of the Flopsy Bunnies', will be opened to the public as part

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of the celebrations.

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A teenage Beatrix Potter visited her aunt and uncle

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at Gwaenynog Hall in the 1890s.

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Now owned and maintained by her descendants, like great

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great neice Janie Smith, its garden made an impression

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on the woman who would later immortalise it.

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It's open to the public by appointment and this week

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a series of events will mark this special anniversary.

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Janie Smith can empathise with the struggle of Mr McGregor -

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the fictional gardener - to maintain order in her

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favourite Potter book.

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Oh, it has to be the Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies.

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It's very close to my heart here.

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We do have rabbits in the garden from time to time

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and they nibble things!

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But we usually find where they have come in and we make sure

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that they go out and don't come back again.

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Beatrix Potter described this as the prettiest kind of garden

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and planted a seed in here which blossomed into a wealth

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of magical stories which are still enthralling children

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all around the world.

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These are now issued as anniversary cards...

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Colin Antwis, an illustrator from Mold, has been commissioned

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to recreate some of Beatrix Potter's most famous characters for greetings

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cards to coincide with the 150th anniversary of her birth.

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He says her keen interest in anatomy helped to make her images timeless.

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Her animal characters, unlike a lot of animal

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characters that people draw, cartoonists and other artists,

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she doesn't try to humanise them.

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She might put clothes on them, yes, but she doesn't

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humanise them in other ways.

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They're in a landscape that you would find a fox,

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that you would find a badger, that you would find a duck and that

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you would find Peter Rabbit.

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As well as Gwaenynog, a visit to Tenby is also

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credited with stirring the author's imagination.

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A century and a half on, we're still happy for her colourful

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characters to take us on a journey up the garden path.

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Glamorgan have made it through to the quarterfinals

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of the Natwest T20 Blast series after a rain affected match

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against Sussex in Hove tonight.

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Sussex were chasing 102 to beat Glamorgan when rain stopped play.

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Glamorgan will finish in the top two in their group after both teams

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picked up a single point.

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Well, let's take a look at what the weather has in store

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for the next few days.

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Derek has the forecast.

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No two days are the same at the moment.

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Rain one day, sunshine the next.

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And we are in for a real mix tomorrow.

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More rain, a few showers, some sunshine in the north.

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For tonight, a lot of cloud, some outbreaks of rain for parts

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of mid and North Wales.

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One or two showers in the South and a mild muggy might.

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Tomorrow morning, again, a lot of cloud.

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Further outbreaks of rain in parts of mid and North Wales,

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with low cloud.

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Southern counties dry, bar the odd shower in places.

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And a few glimpses of sunshine.

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Now, across the rest of the UK, a band of rain lying

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through central areas will slip southwards during the day,

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turning lighter and more patchy as it does though.

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To the south of that, one or two showers with a few

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bright sunny intervals.

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The best of the sunshine tomorrow further north with showers for parts

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of Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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Top temperatures a muggy 23 Celsius in London, fresher in Glasgow.

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In Wales tomorrow afternoon, some patchy rain across Powys

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will spread further south during the afternoon.

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To the north of that, becoming drier and brighter

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with sunshine in Rhyl.

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Temperatures around 20 Celsius, turning fresher in the North.

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Tomorrow evening, spots of rain in the South will clear.

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Dry everywhere overnight.

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Cloud clearing and a fresher night.

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Temperatures in Powys falling as low as seven Celsius.

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On Saturday, a dry start, some sunshine, but

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showers breaking out.

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One or two heavy showers but some places will stay dry.

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And it is a similar story really on Sunday.

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You may catch a shower but on the whole,

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a lot of dry weather.

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Some sunshine, pleasantly warm but watch out for some cool nights

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and it looks like the changeable weather pattern is set

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to continue into August.

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Bye for now.

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And that's all from the late team.

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We'll be back in breakfast tomorrow morning from around 6:30,

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but until then, thanks for watching, diolch am wylio,

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and have a very good night.

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