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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.

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Tonight - hopes the new Hinkley nuclear plant in Somerset can

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boost the beleaguered Welsh steel industry.

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This is an opportunity not just for Welsh steel -

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but for our construction and engineering firms too.

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But do we have enough skilled workers to win all that work?

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We have been expecting this work for quite a while so we have been

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gearing up but I have to say that we do also have a skills gap

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Helen Thompson needed a car to take her autistic son to college.

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The previous owner had borrowed against it.

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The call for a change in the law on so-called logbook loans.

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Ukip is about to pick a successor to Nigel Farage -

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big figures in the party in Wales are split on who should take over.

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Welsh football is on a high after success at the Euros.

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Now talk of a Great Britain football team playing at the next Olympics

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It's been billed as a good opportunity for the Welsh economy,

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but there are concerns tonight that the new nuclear power plant

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in Somerset will take the most specialist workers away from Wales.

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The Prime Minister gave the ?18 billion Hinkley C project

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Overlooking the Bristol channel, it's just 14 and a half

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Welsh firms are already lined up to provide 200,000 tonnes of steel,

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worth ?100 million, to build the plant.

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There are up to 26,000 jobs on offer, but there are concerns

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that Welsh people taking some of those roles will leave businesses

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Our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins is in Port Talbot.

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And so many times when we are here at Port Talbot in the shadow of the

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steelworks, we are talking about bad news, the fragility of the sector,

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but today it is more about opportunities, the opportunities for

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steel. Not however for Tata Steel, the plant here and be hotrolled coil

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that it makes but through the steel industry is that we have in Wales

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that actually supply the construction industry with

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reinforced steel that will be so much needed for Hinkley point. There

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are other opportunities to because around Port Talbot over the decades

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many metal fabrication businesses have set up and there could be

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opportunities for them to perhaps do some self-assembly work year and

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then supply across the water to Hinkley point. Across the water, a

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different country, a different economy, the challenge for Wales is

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to grab the opportunities that lie with his ?18 billion and adjustment.

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If Wales can win business building the first nuclear power plant for 30

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years, it could help the Welsh economy for the long-term. After a

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more of that after more of a year than... This time he focuses on Tata

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Steel, but instead on salsa in Cardiff. It makes the steel that is

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used for reinforcing concrete and it makes it from scratch steel that has

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brought here on massive lorries. Already, 200,000 tonnes of that

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reinforced recycled steel has been ordered for the Hinkley project.

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Steel from here will go to express reinforcements in Neath. It is

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already involved in the Crossrail project in London and will be

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supplying Hinkley C, just one Welsh company already talking to those

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running the nuclear project. We have been expecting this work for some

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time so we have been gearing up but I have to say that we do also have a

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skills gap of mammoth proportions. We lost 400,000 people in the

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construction industry in the last recession and they haven't come

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back. And also our training needs to be moved up quite a few gears so we

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need lots of Welsh Government help to do that. On the ground, there is

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a real fear that the skills gap will only get bigger and that the most

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specialist workers will be tempted to work on Hinkley C, pushing

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smaller firms to the bottom of the food chain. I believe we will

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struggle with subcontractors, addresses, plumbers, bricklayers,

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Hinkley will be offering a higher salary than what Wales are paying.

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And we already have a shortage and Hinkley will be taking those people

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away from us, making it worse in Wales. But today the first ministers

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pledged ?16.5 million towards developing skills across North Wales

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as they prepare for a new nuclear reactor at Wylfa Power Station. He

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is confident we can seize the opportunities from the Hinkley

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project. We know that we have the businesses in Wales that can offer

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jobs to people with the right skills so we're not looking at a brain

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drain. What we are looking at is an opportunity for businesses in Wales

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to act as suppliers and contractors potentially for Hinkley and that is

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a bit we want to explore. What is undeniable is that Hinkley C will

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have a clear impact on the economy of South Wales in a number of Wales.

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But with wealth and know it on the drawing board, expertise learned

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working on Hinkley but help Welsh firms winning projects and is the

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whole of the Welsh economy. Ken Skates has said that the project

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must use UK steel. He has also said that Welsh manufacturing must be

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involved. You could say that the genes of a politician but he might

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actually be knocking on an open door because EDF, the French company

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behind the project, they will be running the project in effect, they

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have a buy local policy, if you like. Now, North Devon and North

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Somerset doesn't have much of a steel industry. We have much more of

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one year round so we could well be in a good place, a good position, to

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supply into that. There are big opportunities focused action, for

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engineering and for steel for Wales but the companies in Wales will

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really have to fight to get any bit of the action.

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The trial of a former senior police officer accused of the historical

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sexual abuse of two boys has heard one of them describe being passed

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Gordon Anglesea denies three charges of indecent assault and another

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The jury at Mold Crown Court heard a police interview with one

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Gordon Anglesea was a former superintendent

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Now aged 78, he was a police inspector based

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The prosecution say that during that time, he abused two teenagers,

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one of them now in his 40s was interviewed by police

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He was a resident at the Bryn Alyn children's home.

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The head of the organisation was John Allen, jailed in 2014

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The witness claims he was taken by John Allen to different locations

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to be abused by others over a period of months.

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During the interview, the witness said he was taken

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to a property in Mold in Flintshire, where he was indecently

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But he had a birthmark on his face and glasses.

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He was a really nasty, horrible piece of work.

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I think he was something to do with the police.

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That, the prosecution say, was Gordon Anglesea.

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The witness then said that the man threatened him, saying he had

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the authority to send him far, far away and he would never

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Asked how he knew the man was something to do with the police,

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The trial is adjourned for the week and will resume on Monday

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with the witness facing cross-examination by the defence.

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Gordon Anglesea denies two indecent assault charges and committing

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a serious sexual offence against one complainant and an indecent assault

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A drugs gang which ferried heroin and crack cocaine from Liverpool

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into north east Wales has been jailed.

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Mold Crown Court heard the gang brought class-A drugs

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into Flintshire for distribution on the streets.

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The seven members of the gang were given jail terms ranging

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BBC Wales has announced a major reorganisation aimed

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A shake-up of senior management will see six senior posts scrapped

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and three new ones created, with the commissioning

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of TV, radio and online content brought together.

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The changes come against the background of the BBC's

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"cash-flat" licence fee agreement, set in 2015.

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Obviously, we have a flat licence fee, which means that in real terms,

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we will need to find savings of about 2% every year

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So a number of changes will need to be made there.

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The new broadcast centre in Central Square in Cardiff city

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centre will make a big contribution to those savings,

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The second thing I announced, a number of management changes,

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A reward of up to ?5,000 is being offered for information

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about an arson attack on a school in Torfaen.

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A fire in January destroyed the nursery and infant classrooms

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Seven people from the area have been arrested on suspicion of arson

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with intent to endanger life and are currently on bail.

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A motorist from the Swansea Valley is backing calls for a change

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in the law in relation to so-called "logbook-loans".

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Helen Thompson from Ystalyfera bought a second-hand car last year,

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but weeks later a finance company tried to re-possess it.

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The previous owner had taken out a loan secured on the vehicle

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The Law Commission says new legislation is needed to make

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It's the biggest purchase most of us make after our home.

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Our cars can be worth hundreds, thousands, even tens

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And when hard times hit, it can be a valuable financial asset.

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Now some specialist companies are offering to lend you money

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There are a whole host of companies on the Internet offering

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to lend you cash against the value of your car.

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But they are only intended as a short-term loans and have

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Now some unscrupulous motorists have been taking

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the cash and selling the car on without settling the debt.

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And that is having devastating consequences for the new owner.

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Helen Thomson needed a cheap car to take her autistic son to college.

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But the Golf she bought for ?1200 has cost her dear.

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The man she bought it from had borrowed ?500 against it but hadn't

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made the repayments before selling it on.

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I bought the car in June, then I received a letter saying

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that they were coming to get the car because it had a logbook loan on it.

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And I contacted them saying that I didn't have the loan on the car.

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And it went on for weeks and weeks and weeks.

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He came at the door then, another one.

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So I pulled the wheels off and I put it on the drive.

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Now it is sitting there and I can't do nothing with it.

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And I've had to purchase this one now.

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Helen has had to borrow from family for an alternative car

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Citizens Advice say at least 100 people have been caught out like

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The Law Commission say new legislation is needed.

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We're going to change the law so that people in Helen's position,

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they will be the owners of the vehicle.

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The lender can't come and repossess the vehicle any more.

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What the lender will then have to do is proceed to sue the borrower.

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Helen's battle with the finance company has now lasted more

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than a year and it's taken its toll on her health.

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Couldn't sleep, couldn't sleep for months and months and still now,

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you'd hear someone with a glory and you think, oh my God,

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they're going to put it up on a high up or something and take it.

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So hopefully the law will change and the man who sold me the car can

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If the government accept the Law Commission recommendation,

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the new law could be on the statutes sometime next year.

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Still to come on the programme tonight, Welsh football is on a high

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Now talk of a Great Britain football team playing at the next Olympics

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isn't scoring well with fans. And could a robot really do

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Meet Emily who's going into service off the Gwynedd coast.

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There's just under a week left of voting to choose the next

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Labour Leader and both candidates have been setting out their

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industrial policies as the contest enters its final days.

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Jeremy Corbyn used a speech in London earlier to say

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that he would insist on the use of British steel in

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Owen Smith will visit Port Talbot steelworks shortly. You will be

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outlining how he will protect manufacturing jobs. Jobs and the

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economy very much the focus today. That's right, as we enter the final

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stages of this campaign that started off fairly gently at the beginning

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of the summer but has got increasingly fractious as the weeks

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and months have gone on. The accusation against the Jeremy Corbyn

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camp is they will lead some kind of vendetta against Labour MPs that

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have been rude towards Jeremy Corbyn. The accusation against the

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Owen Smith camp is that he is led an increasingly personalised campaign

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against the character of Jeremy Corbyn but today an opportunity for

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both men to lay out their industrial strategies. In central London,

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Jeremy Corbyn talking about the need to borrow to invest in our

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manufacturing base and Owen Smith as you say will come here tonight and

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meets union and workers to set out one of his policies, which is again

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linked to the need for the government to borrow to invest in

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manufacturing but he will add a bit of spice to it by saying that it

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Jeremy Corbyn was in charge, he would put hundreds of thousands of

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jobs in energy, oil and gas and manufacturing and the nuclear

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industry at risk. Now of course, the public don't vote in this contest

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but union members do. And that clearly is what both men's messages

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have been directed that today. Thank you very much.

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Labour aren't the only party in the midst of

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Tomorrow, we'll learn who'll take over from Nigel Farage

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So, after months of bitter infighting within Ukip Wales,

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what impact will the new leader have on the party?

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The two main figures in Ukip here differ on what they want

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from the next chapter of the party's story.

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And while Roald Dahl 's life will be celebrated in Cardiff this weekend,

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the person who will take the big seat in Ukip will also be announced.

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So what do the characters in the party look like?

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They've made Ukip one of the stories of Welsh politics.

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They now have a significant group of Assembly Members and won

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what is to most members the equivalent of

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Reflecting a deep split in the party, the story

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of Ukip in Wales has become a struggle between two men,

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Nathan Gill who led the assembly election campaign and is close

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to Nigel Farage and the man who beat him in a vote

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to become assembly group leader, Neil Hamilton,

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seen as being on the anti Farage side of the party.

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Since then, Nathan Gill has left the assembly group and now sits

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So where do the pictures go next in the Ukip block?

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Well, Nigel Farage's successor will be drawn from a cast

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The favourite is Nigel Farage's ally, Diane James.

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So what's the mood on the story here?

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Unsurprisingly, the big characters disagree.

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Nathan Gill says he thinks Diane James will try to change

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If you were the leader of the new party and you had people

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in the party who were kicking against what you were trying

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to achieve, you would have two stamp your authority on those people.

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So could that mean trying to destabilise Neil Hamilton's role

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There is absolutely nothing that anyone can do to change

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the leadership of the group in the assembly because that is

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entirely in the hands of our Assembly Members.

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They elected me rather than Nathan Gill, hence

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Because he can't cope with the democratic

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They may not yet be giants on the political scene,

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but whoever takes the hot seat for Ukip tomorrow is likely

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to have a big say on how the story develops for the party in Wales.

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Doctors at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor say there's been a dramatic drop

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in the number of diabetic people having legs or feet amputated.

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They say better co-ordination between different medical

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and nursing staff has helped them to act quickly and prevent

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A checkup at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor.

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69-year-old Jenny Glover has type two diabetes.

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Last December, her foot became infected and she was brought

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She says it is only thanks to staff here that she didn't lose her foot.

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They are wonderful but I live on my own.

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If I didn't have some kind of mobility, I don't want to go

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into care or anything like that, or have care is coming round,

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Jenny Glover has lost toes in the past, having limbs

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amputated is a known risk for people with diabetes.

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They lose sensation in their limbs and don't realise if they have been

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hurt by something as simple as a shoe rubbing.

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In England, figures for the start of this decade show that as many

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as 135 people a week had to have an amputation

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The charity Diabetes UK says it is a serious problem and diabetic

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people don't always get the care they need to avoid it

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But at Ysbyty Gwynedd, things are a bit different.

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Ten years ago, managers reorganise the way staff care for diabetic

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Different specialists started working together

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I find amputating limbs always very disappointing,

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But to get people back from the brink of losing a limb

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or even life, getting back to a real good quality

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of life is a real thrill, not just for me, but for all

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the staff and the staff keep going because they see results.

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And those results are reflected in the figures.

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In 2014, staff at Ysbyty Gwynedd did no major amputations at all.

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They say they are working hard to carry on in the same way,

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Let's get tonight's sport now with Tomos.

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A Great Britain football team which could include players

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like Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey playing at the next Olympics.

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That's what the England manager wants but the Football Association

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of Wales has reiterated its opposition to the idea.

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It fears it could damage its independence and it's

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an issue which always generates strong opinions.

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Weeks after Wales exceeded all expectations and went further

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in Euro 2016 than any other home nation, the thorny issue of fielding

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The home nations got together over breakfast yesterday.

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Scotland and Northern Ireland do not.

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Along with the Football Association of Wales.

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And some of the national side 's prominent supporters.

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I just find the whole persistent agenda quite

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For years, we were kind of left alone, no one really cared

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about Welsh football, and now it is fully

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2012 and a British football side in action

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Now the British Olympic Association would love to see it return in 2020.

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It argues when else would young footballers and the women's senior

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footballers have the chance to get significant tournament experience?

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11 football games were held here at the Olympics in 2012.

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As for Wales, it enjoys something of a unique position

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While not an independent country, it has a special place

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within Fifa which allows it to compete independently

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at European Championships and the World Cup.

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The same goes for England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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Is there a threat to their existence as separate footballing entities?

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Fifa top brass can give all the assurances they want

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but basically world governing is football body is run

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by its member countries and therefore if three quarters

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of those nations wanted Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland

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and England to become Great Britain then they could force it through no

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matter what the assurances that come from the hierarchy.

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It is expected football bosses from the four home nations

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Part of the process towards considering the reintroduction

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Fifa say it would need the agreement of the ruling bodies in Scotland,

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So it seems the impasse will continue with Wales wary of any

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revival which could threaten its footballing independence.

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Staying with football, Wales have climbed to 10th

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They're now above former world champions Spain.

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Worth remembering, just five years ago, Wales were ranked 117th.

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Swansea City's Nathan Dyer will be out of action for two months.

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The winger, who won the Premier League while on loan

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at Leicester last season, has what's described as an "extra

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Machines have been replacing people for years, but could a robot really

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Well, one has gone into service off the Gwynedd coast today,

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to help if someone gets into difficulty in the sea.

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The robot lifeguard known as E.M.I.L.Y, or the Emergency

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Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard, will be used by campsite

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Launched on the California beaches of Malibu, this is Emily,

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or the Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard.

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It can reach speeds of up to 22 mph to reach distressed swimmers faster

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And now from the beaches of Baywatch to this Gwynedd Council campsite.

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It will be used by staff on this site where this year alone they have

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rescued three adults and three children from the waters.

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In the UK this year, we have seen a lot of riptides

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being formed and people given the information.

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It's basically a life ring with a control that you can get away

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casualty straightaway, once it's in the water.

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A life ring, you can only throw ten metres,

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whereas this, it can get out to 100 metres victory

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It has been a busy summer for the rescue services on the Welsh

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coast with several lives being lost, including two teenage boys

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from Birmingham who died after being swept out

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When every second counts in a rescue, Emily is

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I have been told this is idiot proof so I have been allowed to go

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It is just a simple remote control with a trigger and a wheel

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where you can turn her left or right and she is now going at full speed,

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just over 20 mph and it will go as far as the eye can see,

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around four or five miles out to sea.

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It costs around ?8,000 and models in the United States have been

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fitted with on-board speakers and cameras so the lifeguard can see

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It can also be fitted with sonar systems to help

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There is no replacement for a lifeguard, there is no

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This is an idea that has been with to get buoyancy to people.

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The rescue services to a cracking job around the country

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It has been designed to keep people above the water whilst they are

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waiting for the professionals from the RNLI and the Coast Guard.

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It has been in use for several years in America but this is thought to be

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a UK first and if it proves to be a life-saver we could see

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Time for the latest weather forecast now with Sue.

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Thank you very much. Today the last of the unseasonably warm days. Some

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heavy downpours denied and then feeling fresher tomorrow with some

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bright spells. The change comes as this front which brought thunder on

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Tuesday and then stored in the Atlantic eventually moves eastwards

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tonight. That could trigger thundery downpours. A warning for the risk of

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those in south-east Wales. Otherwise turning increasingly cloudy with

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outbreaks of showery rain overnight. Heavy at times. Temperatures holding

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up in the teens. Tomorrow, any early rain clears to the east. Cloud and

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missed lifting, allowing sunny spells to develop. A much fresher

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day with sunny spells. Just the odd isolated shower. Brisk

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north-westerly winds and feeling noticeably cooler. 16 Celsius in

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Gwynedd. Temperatures back where they should be for September.

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Tonight, much quieter. The odd shower. Otherwise dry spells.

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Slightly cooler overnight with north-westerly winds. High pressure

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builds from the South west into the weekend. We swap the humidity for

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settled fresher weather on Saturday. But this low pressure could head in

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on Sunday. A chilly start on Saturday. Cooler in the --

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north-westerly winds. Sunday, the threat of rain heading in from the

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west later in the day. We lose the humidity. A chance of some heavy

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downpours denied and then a fresher day tomorrow, similar into the

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weekend with more autumnal conditions to come next week.

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We'll have a quick update at 8, there's more after

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But that is Wales Today, thanks for watching,

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from all of us here, have a good evening.

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