29/12/2016 BBC Wales Today


29/12/2016

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Rail passengers travelling across South Wales have faced

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significant disruption throughout the day after planned

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Network Rail is currently carrying out major re-signalling work.

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There were cancellations between Cardiff and Newport,

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with some valley lines also delayed or cancelled.

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A ?300 million resignalling project fully underway.

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But delays to the work today meant delays for passengers.

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Some travelling to and from Cardiff Central waited

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Got outside Cardiff and eventually the train was delayed by over

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an hour and now we are just trying to get back by getting

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a bus to Newport and then a train from there.

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Because my wife is breast-feeding our newborn baby, obviously we have

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to carefully plan when we are able to feed her.

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My train was cancelled so we have had to make a phone call

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We have to wait around in the cold now with the little one.

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Bus services replaced most journeys to Newport.

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Some valleys' lines were also delayed and cancelled.

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With works planned until the 2nd of January, some disruption

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to services was expected here today at Cardiff Central, but with that

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work running behind, the disruption was worse than hoped.

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Network Rail say they are getting the work back on track,

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in time for the start of the first working week of the New Year.

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We were never going to open the lines until we were 100%

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confident that everything had been tested and was fully

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We will catch up now within the next few days over

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We've got a huge amount of complex work left to go,

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but we are confident that on the first working day

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of 2017, we will be open and ready for customers.

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Great Western Railway say a points failure unrelated to the engineering

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work contributed to delays between Swansea, Cardiff and Newport

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by about 40 minutes, but with the resignalling work

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continuing over the next few days, the advice for passengers

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is to check their journey details before setting off.

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A health board says a new emergency pharmacy service has prevented more

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than 8,000 unnecessary visits to GPs and hospitals in North Wales.

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Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board says the service,

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which funds the emergency supply of prescription medication,

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Police looking for a missing man from Monmouth say they're

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Liam Stubbs has been missing for ten days.

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The 46-year-old teaching assistant was last seen in the town's

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Doctors and nurses at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen

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could be bussed into work from a nearby supermarket car park

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The car park is often full with patients and visitors

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Hywel Dda Community Health Council says it's one option

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being considered, but no firm decision has yet been made.

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A man hoping to build an 80-foot bronze sculpture of a dragon

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on the Welsh borders near Chirk could be given another five years

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Wrexham Councillors will vote on the extension next week.

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Businessman Simon Wingett was given planning permission

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for the statue in 2011 and wants to raise ?2.5 million.

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The funeral has taken place of a Welsh soldier who was captured

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in France during World War Two, but saved from the firing squad

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His remarkable story emerged when he brought a packet

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of cigarettes given to him by Field Marshall Rommel along

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Afterwards, Roy Wooldridge pursued his life's

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work teaching maths, but

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at 95, he shared his story on the Antiques Road Show,

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revealing how he was captured while on a top-secret

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I was taken to a French chateaux and shown into

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a big room and standing there was Field Marshal Rommel and looking out

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of the window was Field Marshal von Rundstedt.

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They were two of the most powerful men in Germany.

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It was Rommel he felt spared his life.

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He said, is there anything that you require?

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So I said, yes, I'd like a pint of beer.

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I'd like a packet of cigarettes and I'd like a good meal,

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And I was served in his mess and on the table was a stein

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of beer and there was a packet of cigarettes.

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His sons Ian and Peter say in later years he

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He always regarded Rommel as a man of honour,

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who fought a clean war and despite the fact that Hitler had

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ordered that anybody captured without

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nametags and all that, which our father was,

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was to be shot, Rommel didn't agree with that and so, Dad

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always reckoned it was Rommel who saved his life.

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His collection was valued at around ?10,000, but he told

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the Antiques Road Show it was not for sale.

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It will now be donated to the Imperial War Museum.

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Football, and Swansea City's caretaker boss Alan Curtis has said

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the next manager should ideally be British and have experience

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But it does now seem unlikely that either Ryan Giggs or Chris Coleman

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will succeed American Bob Bradley who was sacked on Tuesday.

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Curtis, who will be at the helm during Saturday's game

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against Bournemouth, says he has no idea for how long

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Whoever comes in has to be the right man.

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I suppose ideally he would be British, knowing the Premier League,

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but they have to be satisfied that he fills all the criteria for

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We have had a real mixed today. Sunshine and frost. Fog and cloud

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and a wide range of temperature. Tonight, most places are dry.

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Freezing fog patches in the east. A lot of cloud around. Some frost

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inland but milder on the coast and in the West. Tomorrow, fog patches

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will slowly lift. A lot of cloud around with limited amounts of

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sunshine. The odd spot of drizzle. Fairly mild, seven in Monmouth, 11

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in Bangor. Into new years eve, mostly dry, sunshine in places. Just

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the odd spot of rain. Breezy in the north. Then on New Year's Day, rain

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will clear southwards, then it will try and brighten up and turning

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colder with showers in the north. Change on the way for the start of

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the New Year, turning quite cold with some sunshine and more frost. I

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will be back tomorrow. We'll be back with the late

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bulletin just after 11pm. From all of us on the programme,

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hwyl fawr, goodbye.

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