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Welcome to Wales Today - our top stories.

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Why you might be picking up a bigger bill to help pay for

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And five UKIP Assembly Members call for UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill

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to resign his seat as an AM if he will not resign as an MEP.

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You might be picking up a bigger bill to help pay for the increasing

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Taxpayers in Gwent are being warned they could be asked to pay more

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towards the cost of policing if UK Government cuts continue.

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But the Home Office says the funding settlement for the coming

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Two years ago, cars like this were part of a dedicated traffic

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unit, but with less money, that unit was merged with others.

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Officers like this are now trained to do more tasks.

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Public order, raiding properties, as well as road policing.

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Technology helps as well, a device to help check details

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It makes you more efficient as the officers can go on patrol

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and can do the admin without having to come back to work.

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Households in Gwent paid ?220 on average towards the police know.

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In five years' time, it could be more like ?270.

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The top line is the money Gwent Police gets from the Home Office.

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The bottom line is the money Gwent Police raises from local

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The plan is for it to go up, as the other funding goes down

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to balance the year 2021, it could raise ?59 million, half

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We would need to so see a sustainable police force in Gwent,

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there has to be minimum standards delivered,

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If the UK Government continue with austerity and continue

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to reduce their central grant to us, we have little choice other

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than to turn to the local population for that input.

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The other police forces in Wales want to be in a similar position.

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North Wales Police already raises 50% of its budget from local

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Powys Police says it is likely to go the same way over

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In South Wales, the Commissioner says he is also being

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Gwent has already seen the biggest drop in staff

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Would people in blackwood be prepared to pay more

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I would be happy for that to come out of my council tax and led

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Are you happy to pay more on your council tax?

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I think it is, if we can see where the money is going.

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At this police station, the show goes on, doing

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Five UKIP Assembly Members have called for UKIP Wales leader

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Nathan Gill to stand down as an Assembly Member

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if he will not resign as a member of the European Parliament.

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It follows criticism of Mr Gill "double-jobbing."

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Five of the party's seven AMs met this afternoon, but Mr Gill

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I feel really sorry for the membership of UKIP,

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who fought really hard to get myself and all these other people

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elected, and then here we are in silly season,

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in August, and a few people, for their own political aims,

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are basically disgracing UKIP in front of the media of Wales.

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The Pontypridd MP and Labour leadership candidate Owen Smith has

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asked the Labour Party to ensure that all of his leadership contest

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debates with Jeremy Corbyn are broadcast live by the media -

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This comes after Mr Corbyn pulled out of the Channel 4 News hustings

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on Monday, which Mr Smith attended alone.

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Three nurses who falsified the blood sugar reading of patients have been

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Rebecca Jones, Lauro Bertulano, and Natalie Jones, who worked

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at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, all pleaded guilty

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating the case

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of a 24-year-old man who is critically ill after being

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North Wales Police responded to a "domestic

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The man's being treated in hospital with a serious head injury.

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Passengers left stranded by the collapse of Wrexham-based GHA

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Coaches last month have been told they should get some

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of their services restored by the end of August.

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But many say there'll be a reduction in the number

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Councillors met with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy

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and Infrastructure today to discuss the situation.

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If we want the Welsh economy to grow after we leave the European Union,

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more of us need to work where we live.

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That's the message from the Bevan Foundation.

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It says more needs to be done to grow local economies.

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Here's our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins.

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Four locally owned businesses working together in Crickhowell.

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My husband and I set up this smokery nearly 21 years ago.

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Ever since, this family business has bought and sold locally.

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We are using other local suppliers, buying local sausages and smoking

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them, we are going to the two villages away and having our

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preserves made, going to a town away and buying crackers.

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So, absolutely, we are genuinely interacting business

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Ryan is one of five local employees - the doubles

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Trimming the edges down, then I slice it into a D shape.

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The busy centre of Crickhowell looks like the perfect postcard,

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but many other Welsh market towns have died as big towns and cities

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have taken over as places to work and shop.

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Many here argue it is by working together that it has survived.

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The argument is that if every adult in this area spend ?5 in these shops

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every week rather than in chains and supermarkets, it

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would put ?1.4 million into this local economy.

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Here over the hill, it is not as easy as in Crickhowell.

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Here, a high proportion of people commute for work and they are

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more likely to spend money there than here.

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The suggestion from the Bevan Foundation of trying to grow local

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organisations and businesses is in sharp contrast to policies

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of building business parks and communities and trying to get

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Doctor Mark Lang has been studying ways of getting money into local

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communities where traditional industry has gone.

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Poor communities still have people living in them who have skills

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and passion for the future of their communities.

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It doesn't have to be in wealthy communities that this happens.

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The argument is that if people work in their own communities,

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they will spend more of their wages there,

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This proposal is an attempt to encourage more jobs

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Football, and Swansea City have rejected a bid from Everton

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for defender Ashley Williams, who had been linked

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Swansea have already seen three forwards leave this summer

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The weather - look on the bright side.

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There won't be a hosepipe ban this summer.

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Hopefully not and probably not in Swansea. They won't be playing

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cricket or football at Underhill park judging by this photograph. In

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the last 36 hours over two inches of rain have fallen in Swansea. The

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wettest one day period in the city of Swansea so far this year. Through

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tonight we still have some damp and misty weather but that will clear

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away. Elsewhere looking dry with a couple of showers. Tomorrow morning

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it will be dry and bright. The cloud lifting with some sunshine. One or

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two showers. The breeze picking up. Across the rest of the UK we have

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low pressure close to Northern Ireland and that means stronger

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winds tomorrow. Gales on some Irish Sea coasts. Some blustery rain in

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showers in Northern Ireland and purse of northern England. The South

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and east of England drive with sunny spells. In Wales tomorrow afternoon,

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dry and bright weather but a few blustery showers as well. Less humid

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than today but with gusty winds after gale force in the north-west.

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It should be dry in Abergavenny tomorrow. Thursday, less windy with

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some sunshine. Also a sprinkling of heavy showers in places. Friday

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should be dry with Ledger winds and into the weekend it may turn damp

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and humid again on Saturday. From all of us on the

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programme, goodnight.

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