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Spy planes targeting ISIS, a multi-million pound deal

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for military surveillance aircraft secures jobs in Flintshire and hopes

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There's a strong market across the world for that capability and I

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think we are well placed here in North to provide that.

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The family of Miriam Briddon from Ceredigion, killed

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by a drink-driver, are in Downing Street handing

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in their petition calling for tougher sentences.

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They've been selling flowers in Pontypool market for generations.

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A new report looks at how to revitalise communities

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I remember coming in here when I was a really little girl. It was so busy

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here then. I come in and it's disheartening when no one thing

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here. All of this can have food poisoning bacteria on. And concerns

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over an increased risk of E. Coli with a growing trend for burgers

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served rare. And Wales's Valley to Rally GB get started in North Wales.

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They are the spy planes at the front line of surveillance

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against so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

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Tonight a ?130 million deal has secured Welsh jobs to maintain

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Raytheon based at Broughton in Flintshire says North Wales

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is now well placed for further expansion into Intelligence

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This is the view from the cockpit of the Raytheon Sentinel,

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the RAF's eye in the sky over Iraq and Syria.

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The plane can fly for nine hours at a time, at 40,000 feet.

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Surveying the land below using high-tech radar equipment.

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It's helping to pinpoint a terrorist in the Middle East.

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It's here in north-east Wales that engineers maintain the planes

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which have their instruments and electrics installed

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The fleet of five sentinels were due to be scrapped,

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but in last year's UK Government's Strategic Defence Review

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A decision that has secured 40 highly skilled jobs here,

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and around 120 across the rest of the UK.

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It's great to be here in North Wales at Broughton to announce

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a ?135 million contract to sustain the centre now

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here at Raytheon and ensure that this really capable aircraft

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which provides an eye on the sky for our Armed Forces is going to be

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Raytheon have been in business here for 20 years.

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The company took over the Hawker jet company,

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and move production to the United States but bosses

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were so impressed with the quality of the workforce that the company

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Engineers here are in the process of servicing one of the fleet

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Today's news means that staff of all ages can have some job

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We're going to be here for however long, I can still learn.

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Move around different areas and get to know the aircraft.

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And Shannon and her colleagues could see their workload

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increase if the company can sell its high-tech

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The market itself, I think, is a very strong market

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for ISR, the intelligence for reconnaissance platforms.

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There is a strong market across the world for that

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I think we are well placed here in North Wales

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This entire area is controlled by Islamic State.

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Last year the BBC gained exclusive access on board one of the centre

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now planes as it flew in nine hour mission over Iraq and Syria looking

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John Skipper spent most of his 35 year military career working

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in intelligence and was involved in developing the Sentinel.

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He says it's a very valuable in modern warfare.

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It can image in very high definition what is going on on the ground.

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Enemy troop movements, and enemy positions.

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Particularly effective in Afghanistan, or certainly

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against Isis where you're trying to identify a small pocket

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of very quickly moving and difficult targets to acquire.

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Today's investment will assure that these planes are fit

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for the skies above the Middle East for years to come.

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Thanks, in no small part, to a highly skilled workforce some

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A Pembrokeshire engineering company has gone into administration.

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Main Port Engineering opened a new manufacturing site last March

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with ?650,000 support from the Welsh Government

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with the aim of creating 30 jobs and safeguarding the then

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The company was served with a petition to wind

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We will have more just after the ten o'clock news.

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The family of a young woman from Ceredigion,

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killed by a drink-driver, have taken their 100,000 name

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petition to Downing Street to call for tougher sentences.

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The motorist who killed Miriam Briddon will spend just two

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The government say they will hold a review into driving offences

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From Downing Street, Aled Scourfield reports.

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It's been a long, painful journey for the family of Miriam Briddon's

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since she was so tragically killed near Ciliau Aeron in March 2014.

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Today the journey took them from their home in Ceredigion

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to the gates of Downing Street in their battle for tougher

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penalties for drivers that kill after drink-driving.

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Not only have we been fully supported by our local community,

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that's kept us going for the last two and a half years.

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We've been supported across the whole of the UK.

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We're very proud to be here to present this petition

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on behalf of ordinary families like ourselves.

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Miriam was just 21 when her Fiat Punto was struck by a car

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being driven by Gareth Entwistle, seen here hiding his face outside

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He pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving whilst under

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He was sentenced to five and a half years in prison,

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but his sentence was cut by six months on appeal.

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He'll serve just two and half years in jail.

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Miriam's family have led a campaign for tougher sentences

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And almost 110,000 people have now signed a petition supporting

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them, which was handed into Prime Minister Theresa

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A spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice told me the Government

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is determined to make sure that sentencing fits the crime for people

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who killed or seriously injure others on our roads.

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The consultation on road offences and penalties will be launched

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Miriam's family told me they are hopeful they will be

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a change in line to light of the tragic story.

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It's very hard to put into words the feeling of being here today.

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We've worked hard for 11 weeks now, and we're handing this over

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Quite frankly, there has to be a change.

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We have to get to the point when a sentence fits the crime.

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People need to understand that drink-driving is not an accident.

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It is a choice people make with tragic implications.

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I think the Government are mindful, we need, those of us campaigning

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on this issue with the Briddon family, need to hold

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The Briddon family say they will continue to fight

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for tougher sentences despite their daily battle to deal

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The UK Government says it's looking at whether there should be

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a change in the law, in the wake of the Ched Evans case.

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The Welsh footballer, who now plays for Chesterfield,

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was cleared of rape in a re-trial earlier this month.

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Labour has condemned the decision to allow the jury to hear the sexual

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The Attorney General says this isn't "routinely used", but

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A 23-year-old man has denied murdering his girlfriend in Cardiff.

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Xixi Bi,who was 24, died at a property on Ely Road

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Jordan Matthews, who's from Llandaf, was remanded in custody and is due

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Ms Bi grew up in China, and had moved to the UK to study.

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A teenager has been sentenced to four years behind bars,

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after attempting to rob a village post office near Newport

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with an imitation gun wrapped in a plastic bag,

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and dressed in a smart suit and balaclava.

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19-year-old Kane Wannell fled the Basaleg post office where there

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were several elderly customers after the postmaster fought back.

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Major infrastructure projects such as the M4 relief road and Metro

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will offer "little" to some communities, despite costing over

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?1 billion in public money, and the promise

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A wide ranging report suggests that towns in the South Wales Valleys

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would benefit more from having higher-skilled jobs,

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so people would earn more and spend more locally.

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The report concentrates on the town of Pontypool in Torfaen,

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from where our economics correspondent Sarah

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The entrance to Pontypool Park, a reminder of past glory.

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But for decades here, like many other Welsh towns,

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The indoor market has been refurbished, helped by EU cash,

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The market, like the town, is not thriving.

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The bulk of the work that is above minimum wage

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Lots of people within the town work minimum wage,

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As seen in London the report says the haves and the have-nots

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It argues those struggling can be drizzly forgotten and big economic

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projects can fail to touch communities in need

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like this one, a mile from Pontypool town centre.

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What's it going to do for those broader communities,

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in particular of Pontypool that are so far distant from

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The prospect of using that infrastructure to commute to work

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in the big cities of Wales and beyond seems a very

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It's in this part of the town that families are struggling most.

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It's only a mile from the centre of Pontypool that you can

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As you drive up, a few streets away large houses with big bay

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Here's 75% of children under four are living in poverty.

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The average income is ?16,000 a year.

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Reducing poverty is a priority for the Welsh government and Torfaen

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It hopes the Cardiff Capital Region wil help.

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It can really bring the scale and ambition to the

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If we really worked together I think we can combine that skill

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with the local knowledge we bring to the table.

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Getting ready for a day of inspiring children

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with extra money from, among others, the Welsh government.

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It's proud of low unemployment across Wales and says it's

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developing a new strategy to support economic growth in all communities.

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Its recently set up a valleys task force.

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The Welsh government says investment is at record

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In Pontypool the report says those who are more affluent are earning

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and spending their cash outside the town.

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The challenge is to grow higher paid jobs in town.

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And there are positive signs, and old pub transformed,

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new flats above, and a creative space for businesses below.

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People will then grow outside this space.

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Eventually they get bigger and they may take up

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It means they can stay living in Pontypool.

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It means they don't have to go to Newport or Cardiff.

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Theyll buy their bacon sandwich in the market.

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Beth White is the fourth generation of her family to sell

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I remember coming in here when I was really little.

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Obviously my mam had the stall and it was so busy then.

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The report argues that if you can get more people with money

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spending it in the town, that's good for people like Beth.

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So what does this report suggest about other parts of Wales?

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I think the detail of what we see in Pontypool is something that will

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touch a nerve with a lot of people across Wales. Inward investment has

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been a policy of successive governments for a long time. The

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idea of attracting jobs in industrial parks and building good

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roads to them so people can get there. The Government is right, we

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have more inward investment and higher levels of employment.

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Unemployment is below the UK average, but if you look at

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Pontypool, I think lots of us know a town like that where people are

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living and earning decent wages, but they are not working in the town

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they live in and not spending money in that town either. In tall vine

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about 40% of people don't even work in county. They commute. The

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argument in this report is that with technology and the way people work

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now you don't have to be in the same office as your colleagues and you

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can bring the life back into towns. Thank you.

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There's concern tonight that relaxing food hygiene rules around

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serving rare beef burgers could lead to an increased risk

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Demand for gourmet or premium burgers, served rare or medium,

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has increased and experts say, while the risks are low,

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serving under cooked burgers is a risk to public safety.

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The humble burger, staple of the roadside van,

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And increasingly being offered as a premium option

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The sector has grown rapidly, the UK burger bar market is now

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estimated to be worth over ?3.2 billion, up 22%

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But it's how well you cook the burger which is causing much

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debate, as the current trend is to offer high-end burgers cooked

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We're at Coleg Gwent's catering department,

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There'll be bacteria on the outside of the meat,

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and on the meat as it's been handled and gone

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It's not been killed by high-temperature throughthorough

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cooking, it's just been warmed up a little bit, which actually

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We would expect to see, for a properly cooked burger,

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So this is a burger that's been properly cooked all the way through.

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Responding to the trend, the Food Standards Agency has been

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looking at how meat can be made safer for the industry to serve

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rare, but environmental health experts here say it can't be done.

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One of my concerns with rear burgers is that someone could get

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E.Coli food poisoning, and someone could die

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Right now we can't stop people offering their burgers,

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if the business can absolutely guarantee that there is no risk

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at all from the burgers that they serve rare,

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My concern, the concern of the chartered Institute

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of Environmental Science, is that nobody can guarantee that.

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It's impossible to give that guarantee.

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In fact, the Welsh Food Advisory Committee,

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which advises the FSA's board, also disagreed with

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I would hope that we take the opportunity to rethink the

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Although I'm quite happy to recognise that it was arrived

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at with the best intentions I don't think it's the best position

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Here in Wales memories are all too fresh of the E.Coli outbreak

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of 2005, which killed a five-year-old boy.

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The man who chaired an enquiry into that outbreak has called

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on the FSA to reconsider the relaxation of rules

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and heed the advice of their scientific advisers.

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Many of us, including myself, and I know experts

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from Wales as well lobbied the Food Standards Agency not to go

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down this route and not to, basically, relaxed the system

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they had in place for many years which worked very satisfactorily.

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Why change it just because of a change in public fashion?

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I'm not saying that they've been giving into commercial pressure,

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that you could say that's what it looks like.

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The Food Standards Agency says their advice is clear,

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serving burgers less than thoroughly cooked remains unacceptable,

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unless a business can provide evidence to their local authority

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However, FSA advice when cooking burgers at home is that burgers

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should be cooked all the way through, no pink meat,

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And high pressure building as we head into the weekend,

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Engines are to be ready. We gear up for the start of Wales Rally GB in

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mid and North Wales. And high pressure building

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as we head into the weekend, looking settled, but not necessarily

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that bright, a full A group of dentists and doctors

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from South Wales is going to the so-called Jungle in Calais

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this weekend to give medicine and clothing to people who've

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been living at the camp. French officials cleared the site

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this week and migrants have been moved to centres across the country,

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but the group believes there are still people

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in the area who are in need. It was once home to around 8000

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people. Very close to the Calais ferry terminal they were desperate

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to come to the UK. French police moved in this week to move migrants

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to other facilities. Some slept without shelter last

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night, activists on the ground worn many will simply return here after

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clearance work is done. Groups of volunteers from Wales have

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visited Calais frequently for the past year. Ali is a dentist chair

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income brand, part of the latest group to offer help.

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Despite thousands of people being moved to other homes there are

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hundreds still there. The only difference being their accommodation

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has been decimated. He was inspired by another dentist

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from Cardiff who visited the so-called jungle camp last year.

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He had lines queueing around him last year. He literally had got a

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caravan, attached it to his car and was driving around doing all the

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work he could possibly do. Sometimes people have problems they don't know

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about. This can cause significant loss of quality of life.

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They will take medical supplies and money with them.

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It is basic humanitarian aid for me. I'm not concerned with the politics

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of who wants to come to the UK. These people all deserve basic care

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and aid which, unfortunately, in the jungle is not being provided. As

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refugee centres they will tell you, the living conditions are poor. We

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just want to help our fellow man. That is my philosophy. They were

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temporary shelters built by people who had very little. Some now appear

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to have even less. Ali hopes that practical help with the right some

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relief as a long-term solution to the crisis seems a distant hope.

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Students and staff at Swansea University were evacuated

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earlier after a potentially hazardous chemical

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The emergency services were called to the Singleton campus shortly

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It's understood that steps are being taken to safely remove

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the chemical and the Health and Safety Executive

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I think most people were surprised it wasn't a drill.

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This is the one time it isn't a drill.

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They scanned the building to make sure no one was there.

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At least half the campus are away, if not at home.

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The latest radio listening figures show the audience

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for BBC Radio Cymru has fallen to its lowest level this century.

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101,000 people tuned in between July and September,a drop of 2,000

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compared to the previous three months.

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Meanwhile, Radio Wales increased its audience

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to 340,000, attracting 7,000 additional listeners.

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So how will the weather be looking for the event over the coming days?

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A bit mixed over the next 24 hours, there is some rain heading

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into parts of North West Wales, misty but mild and often cloudy

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This evening starts dry, some clear spells further south,

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but cloud thickening and that patchy rain pushing into

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That rain further north comes from this cold front, also bringing

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thicker cloud tomorrow, but it retreats back northwards

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as high pressure starts to build in from the south later in the day.

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Some mist and fog first thing tomorrow.

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Slowly lifting, that mainly patchy rain and drizzle in the north

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Some limited brightness later, light winds,mist and fog reforming

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But still quite mild for late October at 12C in Gwynedd,

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Some improvements as we head into the weekend, that high pressure

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continues to build from the south keeping things relatively settled,

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but quite a gloomy high with a lot of cloud around.

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A lot of low level cloud, and just a light breeze allowing

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a fair amount of mist and fog to develop overnight.

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Temperatures won't drop away too much staying in double

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A misty, murky start to Saturday, quite cloudy, but where we get

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the breaks in the cloud southerly winds will make it feel quite mild

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Through the weekend, high pressure drifts

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It should still be should be dominant enough to block weather

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systems from coming in, but always the north and west more

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So often overcast but mild as we head into the weekend,

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which looks mainly dry and settled, but could be quite cloudy.

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The cloud thick enough for some rain and drizzle.

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When the suns breaks through, feeling pleasantly mild

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although where the sky is then clear overnight it will turn chilly

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Finally this picture is from weather watcher ADJ,

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who took this one of misty, autumn woods near Tonypandy.

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Likely to see more mist and fog over the next 48 hours.

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If you're near any of the forests of Mid and North Wales over

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the coming days you'll almost certainly encounter

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the Wales Rally GB - the penultimate stage

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of the F-I-A World Rally Championship.

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Teams from around the world are back to compete over

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200 miles across Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Powys.

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The event is about to be launched in Park Eirias in Colwyn Bay,

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and Chris Dearden is there for us tonight, Chris.

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Good evening. From the ceremonial start the first cars crackle their

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way across the start line. That's where the Wales Rally the GB

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formally begins. The work in the forests in Denbighshire this morning

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for a shakedown. That is chance to iron out

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last-minute problems. They would be there for real on Sunday. I have Ben

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Taylor who is the managing director with me.

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What is the attraction? There is a fantastic cloud here this evening.

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It is the biggest event in North and mid Wales every year. Its second

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motorsport in the UK, to Formula 1 Grand Prix. This is a big event. The

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best of the World Championship rallying coming to Wales. And we've

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a platform here which we really excited about.

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It's been in Wales for 20 years, 16 years, I think?

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Wachtel Wales get out of it? It's a fantastic host country. The Welsh

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government have been incredibly supportive. They get back a ?10

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million economic impact in the Welsh economy which is big numbers. It's

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talking about local communities. You can't get a bed in Wales for the

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next four days! We've also got primary schools and

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rugby clubs and community groups benefiting from the event coming.

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It's bringing masses of spectators with it.

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Last year was really wet. I remember the driving rain and wind. With the

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weather this year, what is going to like?

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It looks like it will be favourable. We had a terrible time last year.

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The weather looks fair. It's half term, the families and kids go free.

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It's a brilliant way to end the half term holiday. We are really looking

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forward to a fantastic regard. With less mud over the next few

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days! Rallying starts tomorrow morning with the first stage. It

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looks great to be a Chris. Rank you. Our headlines. Around 40 highly

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skilled jobs have been maintained in Flintshire. Raytheon is benefiting

:26:58.:27:01.

from a deal struck with the Ministry of Defence is worth more than ?130

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million. And BBC Wales has learned tonight that main port engineering,

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based in Pembroke Dock has gone into administration. We will, of course,

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have more details for you on that story in late bulletin. That's at

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10:30pm. You can see the latest online.

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For now from all of us on the programme,

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