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Amina Al-Jeffrey from Swansea claimed her father kept her locked

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A UK court rules she's in peril and must be returned to Britain.

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Three years on from the horse meat scandal, why Wales' food industry

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And first day at work for 300 junior doctors.

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Tonight, why Wales could be doing more to recruit

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In peril and requiring rescuing - that's how a judge has

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described Amina Al-Jeffrey, who he says must be brought back

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to Wales from her father's home in Saudi Arabia.

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The 21-year-old from Swansea has claimed she's been mistreated,

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and the High Court heard she had been effectively "caged"

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with restrictions to where she could go and what she could do.

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A photo sent to friends, a metal mesh in the background.

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A 21-year-old with dual nationality, British and Saudi Arabian.

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A young woman who says she is being held against her will.

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Amina Al-Jeffery went to Olchfa School in Swansea until she was 16.

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Then, in 2012, her father took her to the city

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He claimed it was to save her life, to stop her going clubbing

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In the past year, she managed to get in contact again, pleading to leave

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Saudi Arabia, claiming she was being deprived of food

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Her father admitted keeping her in his apartment

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for her own safety, last week, but denied the other accusations.

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The dispute was brought before the High Court here in London.

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Miss Al-Jeffrey's lawyers argued on her behalf

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that she was in dire need of protection from our legal system.

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The judge initially felt that he didn't have a lot

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of power over what goes on in the Middle East.

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He eventually decided he had to intervene.

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My only concern is that I don't know if Amina even knows that this

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What I would really like to do is speak to her and tell her

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and what he has ordered to happen to her.

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The Foreign Office have tonight said they will continue to raise the case

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The Henna Foundation, a charity which

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supports marginalised sections of the Muslim community, says it is

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important that things are now done sensitively.

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I think it might be a bit more complex than just picking up

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the phone are having a conversation about

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I think it requires a great level of diplomacy and tact.

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Ultimately, we want Amina to be kept safe and for her to

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So it might require some negotiation, some conversations

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behind closed doors, to enable her return.

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For three hours here today, the judge slowly, cautiously,

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Because Amina is both a Saudi and British citizen,

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if citizenship in the UK is to mean anything, it should mean

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help and protection from your own country.

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In issuing this High Court order, he told Amina's father

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to bring her back to the UK by 11 September.

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Paul Heaney, BBC Wales Today, the High Court in London.

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A group of Ukip branch chairs have written a letter to the party's

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ruling committee asking them to "retract their threat"

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Earlier this week, Ukip's National Executive Committee

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voted to remove Nathan Gill from the party,

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unless he resigns from one of his two elected positions.

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But the 12 signatories say Mr Gill - who is an MEP as well as an AM -

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"remains extremely popular" with most Ukip Wales members.

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The body which represents Welsh councils has defended the help

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local authorities here have given to Syrian refugees,

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after a committee of MPs said many aren't doing enough.

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The Home Affairs Select Committee found five of the 22 Welsh councils

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had taken a total of 78 refugees by March.

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But the Welsh Local Government Association says

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around 100 more have been settled here since

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The number of British visitors making overnight trips to Wales fell

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slightly in the 12 months to April, according to

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That's compared to a 3.8% increase in visits across Britain.

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But the amount of money visitors spent in Wales went up

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The Welsh Government says the increase in expenditure shows

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tourism in Wales is "performing strongly".

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Three years on from the horsemeat scandal, Wales' food and drink

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industry still faces a "real threat" of exploitation by criminals.

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That's the warning from the head of the National Food Crime Unit,

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who's told Wales Today that the sector here is vulnerable

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to fraudsters who are looking to short change consumers

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Carwyn Jones has this exclusive report.

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Horse meat used as a substitute for beef and widely

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sold across the UK - three years ago we realised

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we weren't always getting what we paid for.

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In the wake of the horse meat scandal,

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the National Food Crime Unit was launched,

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to investigate fraud within the food industry.

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The head of the orgainsation has told Wales Today

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that the scale of criminality is still significant.

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There will always be criminals who will want to exploit whatever

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We are talking about, in Wales, a 5 billion plus

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industry in terms of its turnover, employing some 250,000

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But where there are large profits, there is also the

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possibility of making money criminally.

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I think if we don't deal with this over the next two or three

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years and it on top of it, then organised crime could become

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There is substitution - for example, replacing lamb

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Diversion - when animal waste is used in products

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Misrepresentation - selling Argentinian meat as Welsh beef.

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And adulteration - for example, adding

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methanol to vodka to increase volumes.

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Earlier this year, Trading Standards took 100 samples of food

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from takeways, retaillers and manufacturers

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The results are in and the findings are stark.

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There was an issue with nearly half of the samples found.

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Either some problems with the labelling itself,

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so not saying something on the label, but also sometimes

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finding things in the food that should not have been in there.

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Food crime doesn't just mean consumers are getting ripped off.

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It can also distort the market and undermine legitmate businesses -

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Talgarth Bakery supplies 150 food outlets with pies and pasties.

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It's a business built on consumer trust.

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It is key to us that everybody else basically comes in line, really,

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because it is encouraging that anything you buy from a customer's

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And that they could have the confidence in that

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what they're buying, they know where it is coming from.

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The National Food Crime Unit says food fraud could cost the UK economy

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The challenge is making sure the food we eat

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Wales could be doing more to recruit and retain junior doctors -

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that's according to the Medical Director of

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Cardiff Vale University Health Board, who believes Wales has

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Latest figures show there are more than 300 unfilled trainee

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But in Cardiff today, hundreds of junior doctors started

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work at the University Hospital of Wales.

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Nicola Smith went to find out what brought them here.

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Let's go into the treatment room here.

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This is where the children have their blood...

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It is Matthew Jones' first day in the paediatric unit

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at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, and he is getting a tour

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He has worked in Wales and England but has chosen

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I graduated from Cardiff University and I thought I would come back

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to the hospital that I know reasonably well.

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It is certainly somewhere where you can learn an awful lot

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of medicine or surgery, and it is a lovely city to live in.

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For all those reasons, Cardiff Vale University

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Health Board has very few problems with recruitment and retention

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But elsewhere, the picture is rather different.

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Figures provided by the Wales Deanery last month

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almost a quarter of posts were unfilled in the health boards

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that cover both West and North Wales.

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The medical director here says, at its simplest,

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it is about selling Wales to the rest of the UK and beyond.

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I think that my perspective is that I think we should be pushing

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very hard what Wales can offer, because I do believe it has

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We have a lot to offer here in Cardiff, as do my other

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medical director colleagues in other UHBs across the rest of Wales.

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He is from Shanghai and told me there are several things

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Firstly, my seniors told me Cardiff and Wales in general has got

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a really good teaching programme for junior doctors.

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Everyone is nice and supportive and you learn a lot here.

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Secondly, at the time, the junior doctor contract

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was a concern for doctors in England, so I think that is a big

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reason for why many of us chose Wales this year.

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And thirdly, I was feeling quite adventurous myself.

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I had never been to Cardiff, I'd never been to Wales,

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A total of 315 junior doctors like these two have started

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They will have chosen Wales for a variety of reasons -

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what is clear is the desire and the need to keep them.

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The Welsh Language Commissioner has complained to the BBC

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following a tweet sent by a researcher, which asked

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a contributor to appear on Radio 5 live to talk about

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The station has apologised and said it was

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for a "broad discussion about non-English languages".

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Meri Huws said the message was verging on racism.

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Asking those types of questions, I think, about a language

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which is a language which is alive, which is our language,

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one of our languages here in Wales, is not appropriate.

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In other contexts, it would definitely be considered racist.

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A family from Monmouth say they're "living the dream" after winning

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more than ?61 million on the EuroMillions Lottery.

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The Davies scooped the prize by matching all seven numbers

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Sonia Davies rang her daughter from the US and asked her to buy

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a ticket after having life-saving cancer surgery.

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Derek's winning numbers now - here's tonight's weather.

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Forget ?61 million, I just want some summer weather. It was like them

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today, with strong to gale force winds, costs at 50-60 mph. Still

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blustery but the wind will gradually ease with a mixture of clear

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intervals and showers. Temperatures in the mid-teens. The morning

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tomorrow, less windy. Showers around and heavy in places but some dry

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weather and sunshine also. The low pressure which brought today strong

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winds will be over the North Sea close to Norway tomorrow, so the

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wind will be lighter. A mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers

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across the UK tomorrow. Some showers happy with a rumble of thunder.

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Cooler and fresher than today. Still up to 22 Celsius in London. Closer

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to home, ate few showers. Still some heavy showers but if lucky you will

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stay dry. Some blue sky and sunshine mixed in. 17-20dC with lighter

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winds. In Aber again -- in Abergavenny, most of the day dry

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with some sunshine but a shower possible. Evenly showers will fade

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away tomorrow later and the windfalls, and it cools down to nine

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Celsius in Powys. One or two showers on Friday and sunny spells and

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lighter winds feeling a little warmer. For the weekend, some

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sunshine on offer but is not completely dry, turning down and

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misty for a while. In other words, a mixed bag.

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From all of us on the programme, goodnight.

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