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Welcome to Wales Today. Our headlines tonight:

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Helen Jones' husband Alun waited a fortnight for an angiogram

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Why are patients in some parts of the country

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The nurse said to us, there might be a slight delay,

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We waited 16 days for him to be transferred.

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Mike Boyle has Cystic Fibrosis, they're simplyfying how you access

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expensive treatments, will it really benefit

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I know there's something, it's within my grasp,

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within my reach, and I'm being denied that at the moment.

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What we want? 0%. When we wanted? Now!

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Angry homeowners tell politicians to scrap the rules regulating

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Ten years years ago, people were moved out of their homes

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for a road that never came, now it's back to square one.

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And we'll be finding out how a project looking at wildlife

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on this river could change how we manage our waterways

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There's concern tonight that heart attack patients in Mid

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and West Wales are waiting weeks for a specialist cardiac procedure,

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because there is no provision within the Hywel Dda

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Cardiac patient Alun Jones from Ceredigion waited over

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a fortnight for an angiogram in Morriston Hospital in Swansea,

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although official guidance recommends having the procedure

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Mr Jones' wife contacted us with her concerns and has been

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speaking to our reporter Aled Scourfield.

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It should be a time of celebration for Helen Jones as she marks her

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26th wedding anniversary with her husband Alun.

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But the past few weeks have been incredibly stressful

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Alun suffered a heart attack on St David's Day and was admitted

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She contacted Wales Today about his experiences.

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He was admitted to the cardiology ward and was advised that he needed

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to be seen at Morriston for an angiogram within threedays.

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The nurse said to us there might be a slight delay,

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We waited 16 days for him to be transferred.

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A coronary angiogram is a specialist x-ray that detects blockages

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All patients from the Hywel Dda health board area have to travel

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to Morriston Hospital for the procedure, which is in

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the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board area.

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For some, that can mean a journey of over 70 miles.

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The National Institutes of Health and Care Excellence, NICE,

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suggest that patients who suffer a heart attack like Alun should

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Helen has nothing but praise for the care her husband

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received at Glangwili, and he's recovering well.

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She says that patients from Mid and West Wales are waiting

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If somebody presents with heart or chest pains,

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If you present at Morriston with chest pains, you're likely,

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very likely, I think they're hitting their targets very well,

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to be seen within the 72 hours and have this intervention.

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It's not a question of money. It's a question of lives.

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The Swansea Health Board denies prioritising

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This is where cardiac catheterisation, or angiograms,

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can be performed at specialist centres around Wales at the moment.

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None in Mid and West Wales, and just one in the North.

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The Royal College of Physicians said in a report in 2014 that the lack

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of a cardiac catheterisation lab to perform angiograms

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in the Hywel Dda health board area was a clinical risk.

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Three years later, there's still no facility at Glangwili to cover

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a rural population of over 370,000 people that includes

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the counties of Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion.

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I know of many examples, Mr Jones is one of them.

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And others have had to wait for excessive amounts of time,

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weeks on end, for transfer to Morriston for treatment.

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They are clinically and say, that is what clinicians are saying,

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and there is a need to increase capacity, certainly,

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I asked for an interview with the Chief Executive

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of the health board, but I was told he wasn't available.

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In a statement, Steve Moore apologised for

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He said it was the health board's priority to make sure patients

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were treated quickly, and work closely with

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However, he did admit that the current situation needs

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to improve, and there are plans for a new catheterisation

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lab here at Glangwili, which will mean fewer patients

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The Welsh government has told me it's awaiting that business case.

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Helen Jones says the development is well overdue for patients

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like her husband that have had to travel long distances and wait

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for a cardiac procedure that can provide vital information

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Staying with cardiac care, almost three thousand people who've

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had certain types of open heart surgery at the University Hospital

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of Wales in Cardiff since 2013 have been told they may have been

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So far, three cases of Mycobacterium chimaera have been

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identified in Wales, which is linked to the use

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of a device to regulate blood temperature.

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28 cases have been identified across the UK.

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Patients who need treatment that isn't available on the NHS

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because its deemed too expensive can find the process of applying

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Today, that system has been simplified.

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But a leading charity says the changes don't go far enough,

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and an opportunity to end a "postcode lottery"

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Here's our health correspondent Owain Clarke.

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It's not a life jacket, but it does help him live.

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Mike Boyle from Cardiff has cystic fibrosis,

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a genetic illness that clogs up his lungs.

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But the vibrations from the jacket help clear the mucus,

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meaning every breath is a little bit less of a struggle.

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I do it twice a day, and it's for two minute cycles.

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My parents were told I probably wouldn't see my tenth birthday.

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Through medical advances and things like that, really,

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These are the medicines that have helped Mike defy the odds.

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He takes 55 tablets each day, but with his health getting worse,

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doctors told him about a new pill they thought could help.

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But he needed to make a special request to try to get his

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quite confident that this would come around.

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So then when you're told as a patient, no, it's been refused,

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and on the grounds it's been refused, it's quite some destroying.

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Around 700 patients with a range of doses

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made similar requests last year for treatments that

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haven't been given the green light as cost-effective for NHS use.

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One of the main complaint about the system is,

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to be successful, a patient has to prove they're an exceptional case.

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But Health Secretary, on the advice of an independent panel,

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Instead, a decision will be based on whether or not there will be

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But experts still need to be convinced that its value for money.

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I hope the process will be much easier to understand.

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The new definition of clinical benefit for the individual should be

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much clearer both for the patient but also the clinician as well.

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And also be much more upfront about the fact

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it as to deliver reasonable value. The NHS is not a finite resource...

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For years, there have also been complete about health boards making

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different decisions to each other, leading to what some described

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Some want to see a single group established to make

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That won't happen, but the various panels will be

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Some argue this is a missed opportunity.

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It's significantly more difficult to get seven

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We are only a population of 3 million.

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There are not a huge number of applications all the time.

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Those people on those panels could become experts.

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One line can have a look at the patients complaining.

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If one says in West Wales they have had a decision

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and they have a similar type of cancer, that is going

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Hundreds of new treatments and drugs develop each year.

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Back in Cardiff, Mike is well aware the NHS can't pay for them all.

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But now, needing a lung and kidney transplant,

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he feels he has personally been denied a chance.

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It's just something I could swallow, and it could increase my lung

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function, help me live longer and improve my life.

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But that one tablet, you know, costs over ?100,000

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per patient per year. I know.

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I know it is something within my grasp, within my reach,

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and I'm being denied that at the moment.

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The changes which come into force in September won't necessarily mean

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And it's hoped a similar system also be fairer.

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A Gwent police officer has told an inquest he forgot

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to switch-on a body camera, which could have recorded the scene

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where a man attacked and killed Cerys Yemm in 2014.

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PC Sion Jenkins was one of five officers who tried

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to restrain Matthew Williams following the attack

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Williams was tasered by police and later died.

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Police searching for an 11 year old girl who went missing

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from her home in Llanddulas overnight has been found safe

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North Wales Police has thanked everyone involved

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Earlier this month, Plaid Cymru's Neil McEvoy was suspended

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as a local councillor, after a tribunal ruled,

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he made a 'bullying' remark to an official.

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He's also an assembly member, and was suspended from the party's

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But, today he was reinstated into the Assembly group

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following his apology for any distress caused.

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Our correspondent Daniel Davies has been following the story.

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Dan, is there now peace in Plaid Cymru?

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There is certainly a feeling that this issue has taken up enough time

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and energy, and they would rather move on. Whether they will be able

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to do that, I don't know, given that Plaid Cymru is holding another

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investigation into it to look at other complaint against him. This

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stems from another suspension he is serving in his other role as Cardiff

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Council member. He said he wanted to restructure the council. That remark

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was heard by an officer, who told a tribunal she felt threatened in her

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job, and the adjudication panel came to the conclusion that his comments

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amounted to bullying behaviour. The party wanted him to apologise. He

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wants to appeal. And in the meantime for the last two weeks, he has been

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an independent member of the assembly, until today, when they

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agreed on the statement in which he says that his comment was not

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directed at the council officer, but acknowledged that she has said that

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the comet caused distress, and for that he apologises. From Neil

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McEvoy, to Donald Trump. Today the Welsh government's top law officer

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has issued a statement saying there have been increasing attacks on the

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independence of the judiciary at home and abroad. And although he

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doesn't name Neil McEvoy, he does draw attention to a phrase that

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Vista McEvoy has used about the tribunal that ruled against him, a

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kangaroo court. According to the Council General of Wales, that

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language undermines the fundamental principles of the rule of law that

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underpinned the democratic system of government and administration of

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justice. People living near Aston Hill,

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close to Queensferry, in north east Wales say

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they are ready to oppose new plans to widen a major road there,

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nine years after a similar They say they'll support

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an alternative route. The A 494 links the motorway network

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in England with north Wales. Here we go again, the first stage

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of a Welsh government consultation, This is a battle

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they thought they'd won. This has been going

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on for over 20 years. It was on, then it was off,

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then it was back on, Eight years ago, there was a public

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enquiry into quietening It doesn't seem to be a significant

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amount of difference in what they were stating

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when we won the public We have reformed a group and been

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looking very carefully at the different options,

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and we are ready for another The road at rush-hour -

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bottlenecks happen when it feeds into the A55, which runs

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the length of the North Wales coast to Holyhead.

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So why does this matter? This is the single most important

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road for the North Wales economy. It connects the region

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to the north-west of England, there are 8 million people,

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and two International airports We have been here before,

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they've been looking for a solution to Deeside's traffic problems

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for 30 years. These homes were compulsorily

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purchased to allow A plan that was scrapped

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after the enquiry. Now, new homes are being built

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there, but this time On this map, the Aston Hill

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route is coloured blue, it runs through Queensferry

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to the A55. The alternative red route would take

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traffic over the River Dee, connecting through countryside

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to the A55. They like me Flincher Bridge plan,

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people living near it would be less impressed.

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What about business? Ashka Cabani chairs a business form

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that represents 1000 businesses employing 25,000 people.

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He is backing the blue route. It looks right to me.

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It looks right for most businesses. Why change something

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that we already have a plan for? Ten years ago, they

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were going to do this. So just continue, bite

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the bullet and go for it, and build the motorway we deed

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so desperately for North Wales. And this is just the

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start of the process. Restoring our rivers,

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how a massive survey could change how we look after the country's

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watercourses, and how the Somali community

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here is raising money to try to help the victims

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of drought-striken Africa. "Absolutely diabolical",

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that's how some park home residents have described the rules relating

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to the sale of their properties. Campaigners believe

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it's unfair that anyone buying the bungalow-style mobile homes

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is required to pay up to They were protesting

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outside the Senedd to lobby the Welsh Government

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to change the rules. Here's our political

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reporter James Williams. Getting ready for the fight. Around

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15 months ago, this man and his wife moved from the Bristol area to

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Wales. They paid ?75,000 for their Park home. 7500 of which, 10%, was

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paid directly to the site owner. The actual 10% we paid to the park owner

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was never brought up until we had actually exchanged contracts. It

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came as a bit of a shock. It has led Royston to join others in protesting

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the up to 10% commission the buyer pays to the site owner. Despite them

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not being involved in the selling process. We feel it is diabolical in

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this day and age. We feel that it is very, very unfair, and somebody has

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got to stand up and be counted. And that's what we're all about. We are

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the ones standing up and being counted. This morning, they took

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their protest to the steps of government. Almost 100 lobbied

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ministers in Cardiff. It is in the Welsh governor's gift to change

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commission rules. Today, they have announced a public consultation into

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the issue. The minister says he is currently the view that there may be

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a case to reduce or even abolish the commission. However, this former

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Liberal Democrat Minister passed a law in 2013, he decided against

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including a change in the commission rate. I think the whole economics of

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Park homes are bizarre because you buy the site, but you still pay a

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pitch fee, and you still have to give a commission. The whole thing

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is bizarre, but it has been established like that for decades.

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To try to unravel that starts to get very compensated. But for these

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protest is and the around 5000 Park home residents in Wales it's a

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simple question of fairness. Our rivers and waterways

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are a much loved part of the Welsh landscape,

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but in some areas, fish stocks and other wildlife has declined

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because of poor water quality. Now, a new project has been

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launched to return rivers Our environment correspondent

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Steffan Messenger is on the banks What's this

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project all about? We are at the end of the River story

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at Cardiff Marina where the river flows into the sea. Water quality

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further up the catchment has been deemed poor, even bad in places by

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natural resources Wales. Now a huge survey of this river from top to

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bottom has given us a unique insight into the challenges it faces and

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what needs to happen now. A fine day for litter picking.

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Volunteers joined forces with a host of different organisations at the

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start of a new campaign to restore our rivers. I think it definitely

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has the be the way forward for everyone to work together with the

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local community, get that pride and awareness back up of the value of

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our rivers. This is the first of a number of clean ups along this river

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this spring. The hope is to involve local people and schools as well as

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specialists in dealing with different types of pollution. The

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river flows for around 24 miles from Cardiff into the bay. But the water

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quality is so bad in parts that local anglers complained to the

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council, claiming the river was basically dead. After an enquiry by

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the council's environment committee, a number of different organisations

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came on board and a thorough survey was carried out from top to bottom.

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The first of its kind on a river in Wales. We found hundreds of major

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tipping incidents, and also sewage outfall. There are also unscrupulous

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builders who deliberately mis-connect showers, granny flats,

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directly into the storm drain. That all adds together to kill a river

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off. Wells water are now involved in responding to the survey's findings.

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We've got 7000 comet is of rivers in Wales, and actually, we can't

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understand everything that is going on in all of them. This survey will

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help us to understand where we have missed connections. After two hours

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of litter picking, the team of volunteers feel around 20 barracks,

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and then there is all this rubbish as well. Things that can't be was

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cycled. A programme of work to tackle the problem is now being

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prepared. This project could set a precedent for restoring other rivers

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across Wales. And the findings of that survey,

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mapping pollution along the river Ely will soon be available

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as an online resource. It'll also show areas where fallen

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trees and invasive species like japanese knotweed

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could be causing problems. The hope then is that restoration

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work can be properly targeted, and the River Ely can

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in time will become a haven for fish and other wildlife

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and an amenity the local community Hundreds of members of the Somali

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community here have been taking part in fundraising events to raise money

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for drought-stricken families and relatives living

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in the Horn of Africa. Cardiff has one of the the largest

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Somali communities in the UK, and people here have already raised

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thousands of pounds. Shocking images like this have

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sparked an international charitable response in the last few weeks. In

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parts of Somalia, they've had three years without rain. The last famine

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here in 2011 claimed the lives of 250,000 people. It makes a big

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difference, you know. A world away in Wales a year without Wales is

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hard -- without rain is hard to imagine. They are doing everything

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they can to help. They have arranged football and family fun days in this

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part of Cardiff where second and third generations still have strong

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family ties in that region of Africa. Most of my family are from

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the rural area of Somali land, an area too far from any City, from any

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area where you can get basic supplies from, and the stories that

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I have heard are dire, people left with nothing. There is a large

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population here, and we have a big connection to the communities. They

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are appealing for help and support. With food and rain in abundance in

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Cardiff, the Somali community here recognise just how fortunate they

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are to be living in Wales, but they're determined to help family in

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drought stricken areas. This family fun day and other weekends have

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already raised nearly ?6,000. A few family members we have been able to

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speak to have all said about how devastating it is and how it is not

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getting better because it hasn't rained. I can see the suffering

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around, therefore they want us from the West to rally around them and

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basically send as much money as possible. Obviously, there is no

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funding, because Somali land is not recognised as a country. I have

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sisters hurting, even though we are all the way in Wales, in Cardiff, we

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hurt as bad as they are. We do as much as we can. Getting clean

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drinking water is the best way to stave off disease. Aid is being

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planned for next week. Meanwhile the funding continues. A

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charity football match between a Somali team and members of the

:24:23.:24:26.

Bangladeshi community kicks off at 8pm. The score is irrelevant, their

:24:27.:24:31.

only goal is to raise as much cash as possible for a drought stricken

:24:32.:24:32.

part of Africa. following the alleged bite

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on George North during Wales' defeat Six Nations officials have been

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unable to find any television BBC Wales understands

:24:43.:24:45.

the Welsh Rugby Union's plan to take over the Newport Gwent Dragons

:24:46.:24:52.

and Rodney Parade Stadium The WRU already owns

:24:53.:24:54.

a 50% stake in the Dragons. The region has been looking

:24:55.:25:01.

for investment for nearly a year. But if the deal is to happen it

:25:02.:25:05.

will need to be supported by three quarters of

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Newport RFC shareholders. Let's see what the weather

:25:09.:25:12.

has in store, Derek's Sunshine and heavy showers today,

:25:13.:25:25.

snow in the mountains. Parts of the North are dry, bright and sunny.

:25:26.:25:31.

This evening and tonight, more showers, and also heavy rain. Sleet

:25:32.:25:38.

and snow, too. Snow, 300-400 metres, a few centimetres likely on some of

:25:39.:25:43.

the higher level roads. Dry in the west later in the night. This is the

:25:44.:25:47.

picture for 8pm tomorrow morning. Cloudy in the north, some rain, some

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heavy, extending into the North East to Wrexham. Eastern Powys and

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Monmouthshire with showers. The south-west dry and brighter with

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sunshine. During the day, further outbreaks of rain in the north, wet

:26:06.:26:11.

weather, wintry on high ground. Further south, showers with dry

:26:12.:26:15.

weather and sunshine in the afternoon. Temperatures again on the

:26:16.:26:20.

cold side, the wind lighter ban today. Tomorrow, cold and wet, six

:26:21.:26:26.

Celsius in Holly welcomer dry and bright in Swansea tomorrow. Sunshine

:26:27.:26:34.

as well. Rain will clear, showers dying away leaving a dry night with

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mist and frost in places. Thursday, dry with showers, especially in the

:26:41.:26:43.

north and east, the best sunshine in the South west. The north-easterly

:26:44.:26:51.

wind will make it feel chilly. Dry and bright elsewhere, looking

:26:52.:26:53.

promising for the weekend. Dry, sunshine and warm.

:26:54.:27:04.

Northern Ireland's former Deputy First Minister,

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Martin McGuinness, has died at the 66.

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He was a senior commander in the IRA, which

:27:13.:27:14.

in the 1970;s and eighties - was at the forefront of a terror

:27:15.:27:17.

But he later played an important role as a Sinn Fein negotiator

:27:18.:27:21.

And there's concern that heart attack patients living in mid

:27:22.:27:25.

and west wales are waiting longer than they should for angiograms.

:27:26.:27:28.

Helen Jones from Ceredigion got in touch when her husband waited

:27:29.:27:31.

over a fortnight for the test that should be available within 72 hours.

:27:32.:27:34.

Hywel Dda Health board has apologised.

:27:35.:27:36.

If you - like Helen - have a story you want

:27:37.:27:39.

us to investigate - you can email us

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[email protected] - i'll be back at 8 and again

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after the News at 10 - That's Wales Today -

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