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some places could get a real downpour. England

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Is Social Care here really at 'Tipping Point?'

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There are calls for urgent action to avert a crisis before Christmas.

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What we currently have a dysfunctional system, dysfunctional

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is the word we would use. We need to ensure that the health and social

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Also tonight, six months after the collapse of the Didcot

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Power Station Christopher Huxtable from Swansea is still missing, his

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I talked to him. It sounds stupid, doesn't it?

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The Archbishop of Wales announces he's to retire in January.

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Dr Barry Morgan is the longest serving Archbishop in the Anglican

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As our Olympic medallist return home Rio prepares for the Paralympics,

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but one former Gold medallist tells us budget cuts ahead

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People who are cared for in their own houses

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and residential homes are facing a "winter of discontent" if urgent

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action isn't taken to ease funding and recruitment pressures,

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that's according to the body which represents care-providers here.

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Matthew Richards has been to meet Mario Kreft,

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An art and craft session for residents of a nursing

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Elderly and disabled people here are encouraged

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to indulge their creative side as part of a wide programme

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But a senior figure in the care industry says that creative thinking

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is also urgently needed to stop a catastrophe in the sector this

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You can only innovate if you're working with partners.

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Currently, the relationship between the sector, generally

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speaking, and has boards and local authorities is not where Richard B.

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And local authorities is not where it should be.

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We want to see those organisations and regulators

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led by the Welsh government, trying to make some sense of this.

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If we don't we going to have real winter of discontent.

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Mario Kreft says a lack of investment combined with a major

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increase in the number of over 85s in the next 20 years plus moves

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to increase pay in line with the so-called living wage

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is a triple whammy pushing services to a tipping point.

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Staff at nursing homes like they say they have noticed growing pressures,

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and they always make sure residents are the last people to suffer.

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But they say that the current level of Carey is unsustainable

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Tracy Cuthill runs a care home for people with physical disabilities.

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She says the comparative underfunding of the social sector

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compared with the NHS means staff are fighting

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I had a gentleman in from a hospital two months ago came

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Now, as far as they were concerned he was going to lie in bed

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until such time we could get him a wheelchair.

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Now, that's not our responsibility either, but then, you want

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It's a basic human rights, but because of waiting lists,

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You are almost pleading for basic human rights to get out of bed.

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The Social Services minister wasn't available for interview

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but the Welsh Government says the sector is neither

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The majority of adult care homes raised no concerns in a recent

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report and it says it's investing in both health and

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But some experts say the system is in a fragile state.

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The businesses are particularly financially fragile,

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which means that residents in them are vulnerable

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If they are slow one payments, the banking and lending institutions

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could ask for a big financial payment, and they don't bother

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to find out which business it is they are demanding those from.

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In those instances older people become commodities in the business

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model where the profit margins are locked at instead

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The art class in Wrexham is drawing to a close.

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It's part of the added value staff are trying to provide for some

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of the most vulnerable people in society.

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They warn it could be lost unless the picture improves.

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I'm joined by Sarah Rochira, the Older People's Commissioner,

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to pick up on some of the points raised in Matthew's report,

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Sarah Rochira, some serious concerns raised about the fragility

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of the care system in that report, should we be concerned

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I don't think anybody has any doubt about the pressures facing the

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social care system, financial pressures, recruitment pressures,

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particularly in terms of nurses, but also care home managers.

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In parts of Wales we don't have providers and others are struggling,

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but can't get the support to improve.

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It is a complex and long-standing issue.

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Mario said they could be a crisis within the next few months, bet you

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released a major report two years ago highlighting that standards were

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slipping in homes, why hasn't the situation been turned around?

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You are absolutely right. We looked at the quality of life of older

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people but we talked about the systemic problems we have in Wales,

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the things the system, the Welsh judgment, local authorities and

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health will need to change. I understood they were difficult.

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They've been building for a long time.

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I sought from them and I pushed into assurances, I told them I knew it

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would take some time, that I'm going to take a follow-up review in

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November and I publish that next year.

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I've been very clear, I know there is a huge amount of work going on in

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Wales, I've seen that myself. There is a huge amount of action,

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but ultimately we've got to address the systemic issues.

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I think there is another issue that we're not talking about in Wales.

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Action is important. The things that has boards do. But they will come a

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point when we have to talk about that most Google topic, money.

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People often say we don't have enough money.

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The reality is that a price is always paid. The prices paid by Paul

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care, and it is paid by individuals. The time has come when we had to

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have a grown-up debate as a society, but a debate led by government about

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what they are prepared to invest into social care.

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That is important to the workforce. You talk about investment, it is a

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complex situation, we heard in the report about staffing and

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recruitment problems, low morale. Is throwing money going to help?

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Well, I was very clear when I produced the review it's not all

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about money. There is much we can do once already doing in Wales in best

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care homes, that doesn't cost anything. One of the things I did

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talk about, and focus on, was investment in the workforce.

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Wherever you find great care, you find great people. We need to invest

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in those people. We need to pay them are probably with their terms and

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conditions, we provide opportunities for training and career advancement.

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Those will come with a cost. I am clear that it is a price not just

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worth paying, but a price we have to pay if people are not going to

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suffer in Wales. It's six months since the collapse

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of Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire which trapped three

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workers including Christopher His family have spoken today saying

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they now need closure. Politicians representing

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the families of the workers say they're "horrified" by how long it's

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taking to recover their bodies. Returning to the site with a loved

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one is still lying. Six months on the body of Christopher Huxtable

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from Swansea has been trapped under the rubble since Didcot power

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station collapsed in February. His sister and daughter save the last

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few months have been torture. It's not nice to think he still out

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there after six months. They should get him out.

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I hope they get him out soon. I talked to him I do, through the

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scrap. It sounds stupid, doesn't it. It's the only thing I can do. I just

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think it needs to bring closure now. Destruction, devastation, this was

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the scene at Didcot power station not long after part of the

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decommission site collapsed in February. It killed for demolition

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workers. Only one of the bodies has been recovered. Today the mail

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Didcot says the family should now be allowed to mourn.

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Six months is an acceptable. They should be allowed to move on. Into

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mourn, and to... Closure is not the right word. But they should be able

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to actually just step away from thinking about Didcot and focusing

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on their own lives and families. Politicians representing the

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families have also criticised the recovery effort. One Swansea MP told

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me the time it has taken me shopping.

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As a family representative I am horrified at how long it has taken.

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It's just unfair, they have no closure. It's a tragedy. A dreadful

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tragedy. When I think about Didcot I think about the man and the families

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of the man left grieving without being able to have closure.

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Last month the demolition of the remaining section was carried out

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using explosives. The half demolished Sally was finally fully

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levelled. The search for the men resumed. But around 20,000 tonnes of

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material still needs to be sifted through. The company which owns the

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site has defended the recovery operation, it says part of the

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structure have proven challenging to remove, but they are working seven

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days a week and their priority is recovering the man.

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For the families of those whose body is still a end of the rubble the

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A 23-year-old man has appeared in Cardiff Crown court accused

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Police were called to a property in the Llandaff area

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Jordan Matthews is accused of killing 24-year-old Xi-Xi Bi.

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He's been remanded in custody until October.

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The firm behind plans to build a ?120 million holiday village

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on Anglesey has bought 600 acres of land for the development.

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Land and Lakes has purchased the site at Holy Island,

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where they plan to develop 800 lodges and cottages,

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They also plan to restore buildings on the Penrhos estate.

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The company claims the new resort will generate hundreds of jobs.

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The Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, has announced he's

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to retire next January, on his 70th birthday.

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He's the longest serving archbishop in the Anglican communion,

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and has been a strong voice in public and political

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He supported more powers for the Assembly, but opposed

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a change in the law around organ donation.

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He's led the way on big occasions, here in Llandaff Cathedral two years

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ago, at the Welsh national service marking 100 years since

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But has been there too, for communities rocked by personal

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tragedies as at Gleision, when four miners were killed in 2011.

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Those within the church credit him with holding it together,

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when topics like women bishops and same sex marriages,

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But Archbishop Barry Morgan hasn't been afraid to speak out

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What I'm not in favour of is this bill which presumes that

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unless you have opted out then your organs can be used

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What is it about a prosperous country where people have two depend

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on food banks to get food, in order to feed their families.

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There was something really wrong here.

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I think it's been absolutely right for the Archbishop

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to take a lead in politics, he will be there to

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He, across the board has spoken for the vulnerable, particularly

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That has been hugely appreciated by those of us who work

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But I think it's appropriate for a bishop of a province

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He will, of course, received rough treatment from some when he has

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Dr Morgan stands down in January, when he turns 70.

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Today he thanked those who have supported him over the years,

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particularly since the death of his wife earlier this year,

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a loss, he says, he found enormously hard to bear.

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Still to come on tonight's programme.

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It's a waterway with 200 years of history, much of the Swansea

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Now the engineer who carried out the work has returned to help

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28C, 82F, the highest temperature recorded in Wales so far this month.

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Ukip hasn't been far from the headlines in recent weeks

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partly because of the increasingly bitter battle between

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Assembly Members Neil Hamilton and Nathan Gill.

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But the party is also now electing a successor to leader Nigel Farage,

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and it's a race between five relatively low profile candidates.

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Our political reporter Paul Martin has been looking at what impact

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Nigel Farage's departure may have on Ukip in Wales.

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He's been the face of Ukip for the best part of a decade,

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and become one of Britain's few celebrity politicians.

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So this is a story about how everyone has behaved

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I think that's right, Ian.

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But no Nigel Farage is stepping down as Ukip leader,

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and the candidates in the running to replace him are not

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Even to Ukip supporters, let alone voters generally.

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One of Nigel Farage's strengths was his ability to appeal to two

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very different parts of the electorate.

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On the one hand, voters into dishing only conservative areas,

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And on the other, ex-Labour supporters in former

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This constituency was one of Ukip's five second-place finishes

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So will Nigel Farage standing down make Ukip voters hear less likely

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I think party members would stand for the same things as he did.

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He got us out of Europe, and I was so glad.

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Mark Jones is a former Labour member from Merthyr who now

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He is worried about the party's future once Nigel Farage

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He was such a brilliant man to the party.

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Like I said, when I was on holidays, and I found out he'd left I just

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think that the party is going to go downhill.

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Ukip's chairman in Wales is worried too.

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Mainly about the impact of recent infighting.

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But he thinks Nigel Farage's successor can unite ex-Labour

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Some of the worries, you know, the working-class Labour

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voters in Merthyr are no different from those

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Particularly will as far as immigration is concerned.

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Concern about taking jobs, British jobs going

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So really, I can see how the two sides can come together.

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Ukip as described Wales as a party stronghold after the election

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It infighting within the party has followed.

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The question now is whether Ukip can maintain its support in areas

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Time for tonight's sport, here's Tomos.

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Welsh members of Team GB touched down at Heathrow airport greeted

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A record haul of ten medals was won by the Welsh athletes

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Among the Gold medallists was sailor Hannah Mills, from Dinas Powys,

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who won the 4-70 class with her partner Saskia Clarke.

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The preparation and everything culminating in a two-week long

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Yes, just mentally and physically exhausted and can't

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I can't wait to go and watch, as a fan.

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So that's it, is it?

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Obviously I'm going to miss Saskia, that will factor in what I decide

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to do but we'll see how the dust settles.

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In just over a fortnight Rio will host the Paralympics

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but the financial crisis affecting the games, is a real concern

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to athletes here and may affect the image of the event.

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That's the warning tonight from Disability Sport Wales.

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Most of the 24 Welsh athletes competing for Paralympics GB

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Organisers have been forced to announce major budget cuts.

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They won 22 medals last time around in London. Today's Britain's cycling

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team trained in Newport. At the weekend most will be flying to a

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training camp in Brazil, heading to a games overshadowed by financial

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troubles. It's concerning for the athletes and

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for the image of the games. I know that the IPC are working with the

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teams they aren't the Government of Brazil to make sure they put on a

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good show for the athletes. I think the athletes will be fully supported

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with no cutbacks, hopefully, on the field of play they wouldn't be any

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issues. The Paralympics budget has been is tailed back. Cuts have been

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announced including the closure of a park, the second-largest of the four

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zones used in the Olympics the down workforce will also be downsized.

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Issues such as repairs at the athletes village, extra security and

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the treatment of the green water in the aquatic centre have meant that

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Paralympics friends have been diverted. Sport Wales has set a

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target of 20 to 30 medals for Welsh athletes over the next two

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Paralympics. One of the medal hopes took to Twitter this week asking

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whether these problems would have occurred had the Paralympics been

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held before the Olympics. Another Paralympic champion from 2012 told

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me it is disconcerting, but the cutback shouldn't affect the

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athletes. It is shameful as far as I am concerned. As an ex-athlete I

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feel that any athlete representing the country, Olympic or Paralympic

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should be given the same opportunity. Real jinni real have

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had enough time now to get it right. Organisers said they wanted to

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welcome the world to the city, but just 12% of tickets have been sold

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so far. The Beijing and London Paralympics generated huge interest

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in disability sport and brought a shifting perceptions. The hope is

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that that momentum will continue in Rio despite the problems

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behind-the-scenes. Neil Taylor is expected to make his

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first start of the new season as Swansea city begin their campaign

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against League 1 side Peterborough tonight. Leo Britton and Kristoffer

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Nordvelt who has just signed a new contract is also likely to start the

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second round match. It is live on BBC radio Wales from 7pm.

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Gareth Bale's agent has denied reports that the Wales international

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has agreed a new five year contract to extend his stay with Real Madrid.

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Media reports in Spain had suggested Bale, who scored twice

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on the opening weekend of the La Liga season

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He joined the European Champions for a thenWorld record

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In rugby it has been confirmed that the Aviva Stadium in Dublin will

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stage the pro 12 final next May. Volunteers are working to restore

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parts of the historic Swansea Canal that were covered over and built on

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more than four decades ago. The local canal society and the canal

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and River trust in Wales are working to reopen stretches of the waterway

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with the help of the engineer originally tasked with filling it

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in. And covering 200 years of history.

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It might not look like much now but beneath the surface is one of 36

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blocks which forms the historic canal. In the 1970s this part was

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covered over with concrete to make way for a council depot. The

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engineer responsible for managing the work more than 40 years ago has

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returned to find the lock has survived.

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When we did it I always wondered if it was going to be dug up, but I

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never thought that would happen. I'm so pleased to see the canal society

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doing it. Hopefully, any few years' time it

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will be back to its former glory? Absolutely.

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It is going to take some time but having bought the land Swansea Canal

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Society are working hard to bring Lock seven back to life.

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When it was built in 1788 the canal was used to transport coal from the

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upper Swansea Valley to the world-famous copper works on the

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banks of the river Tawe. As the industry closed down much of the

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canal was covered over. Part of it fell into disrepair. Over

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the past 50 years much of this waterway has been filled in. Only

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six out of 16 miles of it has been accessible, over the past three

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years more than 25,000 hours have been clocked up by volunteers as

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they try to restore it to its former glory.

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Restoration work has ranged from clearing away the overgrown trees

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and hedges to rebuilding the old canal walls.

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They are using local stone. The locks we were gone we use the same

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techniques that were used 200 years ago. We use a light mortar mix which

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is more forgiving than cement which would crack. We don't want to damage

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the old bridges and locks. It is absolutely fantastic that we still

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use the same techniques from 200 years ago.

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We work closely with a heritage advisor to ensure that all volunteer

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works are adhered to. We have the waterway recovery group, that is

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healthier for the last three years and we've had people from all over

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the world come and join us working on the lock. We've had people from

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Italy, America, and they are keen to learn about the area.

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The tranquillity of life on the canal is a far cry from the

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industrious rooted once was. With big plans to redevelop much of this

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waterway in the future the Swansea Canal Society hopes it can write a

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new chapter in its long and important history. Ben Price in

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Swansea. Well it's been a beautifully sunny

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day today, is the hot weather going to last,

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Derek? Not all week. It is a short burst of

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heat. It won't stay dry all week either. But today has felt like

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summer again. A lovely day for working on the farm.

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The sunshine hazy at times with wispy high level cirrus clouds.

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Temperature wise, Cardiff soared to a humid 28C this afternoon.

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The highest temperature recorded in Wales so far this month.

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Parts of the coast cooler, 20C in Aberdaron.

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So fine and warm for most of us this evening.

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That cloud will spread across more of the country overnight.

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A bit misty in places and a mild night.

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There will be more cloud around but dry.

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Bright in parts of the south and west with some sunshine.

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So a mix of cloud and sunshine tomorrow.

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Generally dry but the odd shower is possible in the afternoon.

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Temperatures not as high as today but still on the warm side.

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Fresher in the north and west especially on the coast.

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Cloudier and not as warm as today but dry.

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On the North Coast tomorrow dry with sunny spells .

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Tomorrow evening there is a risk of some rain in the south east.

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Elsewhere dry apart from the odd shower.

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On Thursday greater risk of some rain and showers.

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Heavy and thundery in places but some dry weather as well.

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And in the west it should brighten-up during the afternoon.

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Dry with a mix of cloud and sunny spells.

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Feel pleasantly warm with a light to moderate breeze.

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Will it stay dry over the bank holiday weekend?

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High pressure will be in charge on Friday but a front will move

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And then on Sunday it looks like low pressure will be over us.

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That means some rain and heavy showers over

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the weekend but some dry, brighter spells in the mix as well.

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And a reminder of today's top stories.

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Welsh athletes were among those who landed at Heathrow today

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in a specially chartered plane from the Rio Olympics.

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It's been a record breaking games, with ten medals for Welsh athletes,

:26:45.:26:47.

There is a warning to make that older people in Wales could suffer

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unless more money is invested in training care staff and making sure

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they are well paid. Speaking on this programme the older people's

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commissioner said there needs to be a change in the wake areas provided

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for people in residential homes and in their own homes. Wherever you

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find great here you find great people. We need to pay them

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appropriately give them opportunities for training and

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career advancement. Those will come with a cast. I'm clear that it is a

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cost not only worth paying but we have to pay if people aren't going

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have to pay if people aren't going to suffer in Wales.

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And that's Wales Today, we'll be back with all the latest

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