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Welcome to the programme. Tonight's headlines. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Figures obtained by Wales Today show more GP surgeries than ever | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
are closing or being taken over by their Local Health Board. | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
A gang is jailed for more than 43 years. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
And it's 50 years since the opening of the first Severn crossing. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
The dawn of a new economic era for South Wales. | :00:24. | :00:40. | |
More GP surgeries in Wales are either closing or being taken over | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
by their local Health Boards than ever before. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
And according to figures seen by this programme | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
gathered by the grassroots organisation GP Survival | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
An empty waiting room at a doctor's surgery is normally a welcome sight | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
GP, Dr Naoko Koto, has been running the Horeb | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
surgery in Treorchy on her own for a year. | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
She is handing back the surgery's contract to the Cwm Taf Local | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
Health Board, her thousands of patients have to find a new GP. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Looking after 3,200 patients on my own, I felt | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
It was not sustainable as a long-term option. | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
Difficulties around recruiting new GPs across Wales is | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
Last year, locum GP, Sophie Quinney, sent Freedom of Information | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
requests to all seven local health boards in Wales. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
She wanted to know how many GP surgeries have closed since 2010. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
She also asked how many had handed back their contracts and | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
were now run directly by the health boards. | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
12 months on, she has asked the same questions again and the | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
figures suggest the situation is getting worse. | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
In the past year, eight surgeries in North Wales have been taken over | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
In Cwm Taf, five surgeries have given | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
up their contracts or are closing. More than in any year since 2010. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
But in Cardiff and Vale, there was some better news. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
No surgeries have been taken over by the health board | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Across Wales, 20 GP surgeries had to close or be taken over | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
in just one year compared to 33 in the previous five | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
If we are not understood and supported now, I think the sad | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
news is that for patients and communities it's going to spell | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
the end of what we understand to be the family doctor. | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
The GP appointed by the Welsh Goverment to solve the problem says | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
recruiting more GPs is just part of the solution. | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
In order to enable the GP to have enough time to see the patients | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
who really need to see the GP, and the GP really wants to see | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
a more proactive way then we need to use the range of other health | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
professional services and the other services in general. | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
Whatever happens to solve this problem it will come too | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
She's leaving Horeb and Treorchy to work at another GP surgery. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
A trend health professionals say needs to change and fast. | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
An organised crime gang has been jailed for a total of more than 43 | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
years following a spate of burglaries across north Wales | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
The men from the traveller community stole items worth more than ?100,00. | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
This was the moment one of the gang was arrested, | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
part of a co-ordinated series of raids involving more than | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
John James Purcell was detained at a travellers site in Wrexham. | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
He and his colleagues carried out a series of burglaries in spring | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
and summer last year in north Wales, the north west of England, | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
and the Midlands targeting predominantly Asian families | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
who were storing high value jewellery at their homes. | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Often the gold is purer than in Western jewellery. | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
Burglary is a traumatic instance for anybody. | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
The impact of these burglaries was potentially more | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
because of the mess they created and the items | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
That is why it is a priority, any offence of burglary is a priority | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
It'll remain a priority to the police. | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
Most of the victims were originally from the Indian subcontinent, | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Many follow the custom of passing valuable jewellery to their children | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
but these burglaries have caused many to change their ways. | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Dr Farook Jishi from Wrexham knows some of those who were targeted. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Many of these items are handed down generation after generation so they | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
have got a lot of sentimental value in addition to the fact they are | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
gold from the Asian subcontinent which is high carat and people have | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
They hire safe deposit boxes or whatever. | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
The members of three families made up the majority | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
of the gang which was well coordinated and used stolen | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
high performance cars to carry out their thefts. | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
They tried to destroy evidence by using bleach | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
And they wore clothes, hats and even Beatles style wigs | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
from charity shops to disguise themselves. | :05:26. | :05:26. | |
But thanks to information from witnesses and CCTV cameras | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
the gang aged from 18 to 47 was identified and caught. | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
Nine men were jailed for between two and six and a half years. | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
The judge Niclas Parri told them this was professional criminal | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
conduct which left homeowners terrified. | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
A man accused of murdering a schoolgirl from Flintshire 40 | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
years ago has appeared at Mold Crown Court. | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
Stephen Hough, who's 57 and from Flint, is charged | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
with the rape, sexual assault and murder of 15-year-old | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
He spoke only to confirm his name via video link. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
The case was adjourned until December. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
A head teacher has defended excluding 72 pupils from regular | :06:05. | :06:19. | |
The driver and his passenger also known as Jodi died when the Ford | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
Fiesta collided with a Peugeot in the Conwy Valley last October. 82 | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
drill Paul Gardner who was a passenger in the Peugeot also died. | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
A head teacher has defended excluding 72 pupils from regular | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
classes for not complying with uniform rules. | :06:36. | :06:36. | |
Pupils at Denbigh High School were disciplined on the first day | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
of term on Monday for breaches of policy including "the wearing | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
of inappropriate trousers, skirts, and footwear". | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
The school's head says its uniform policy had been outlined | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
It was designed to usher in a new economic era for South Wales | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
and today marks 50 years since the original Severn Bridge | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
It was cutting edge at the time, improving on American designs | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
and is credited with having a profound impact on the economy. | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
To commemorate the first crossing of the Severn bridge I have great | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
It was a moment of national significance and | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
While the Queen became one of the first to cross, | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
reporters spoke to very patient paying passengers. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
A man from Cardiff was first in the queue. | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
Well, by the time the vehicles start-up | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
How have you managed to pass the time away? | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
I brought plenty of my own entertainment with me. | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
The bridge replaced this, the Ost Ferry. | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
At a squeeze, it could carry 19 cars. | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
Before we went on holiday Mike would take the car | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
with all the cases in and leave it so we would be first or second in | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
That is what most of the locals did, wasn't it? | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
Construction was a high wire act using these catwalks, it took | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
The deck which carries the cars was ground-breaking. | :08:16. | :08:28. | |
It was designed as an aerodynamic foil. | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
The same kind of thing you see on aeroplanes. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
It is designed to make sure it doesn't flap around and it was | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
Its cost was to be recovered through a toll. | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Originally, two shillings and sixpence. | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
The tolls are all too familiar for motorists | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
There was a poem written about them at the time. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
"Two lands at last connected, across the waters wide. | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
"And all the tolls collected on the English side." | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
50 years on and the bridge has carried hundreds of | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
millions of vehicles and employs a small army of engineers. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
This, one of the giant concrete anchors. | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
Robin Shaw is a former Welsh Government director | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
of transport and founded the website, | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
What that bridge and bridges do is open up South Wales | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
There are many companies particularly companies that are | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
involved in distribution, that I have no doubt | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
would not be based in South Wales if it weren't for the bridges. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
It continues to impress half a century on. | :09:45. | :09:54. | |
The Football Association of Wales' bid for Laura McAllister to join | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Fifa's ruling council has been halted. | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
A former Wales player and former Chair of Sport Wales, | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
Professor McAllister hoped to become the first Brtiish | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
A regulation, dating back to the 1940s, prevents any home | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
nation having more than one representative on the council. | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
Britain's David Gill is already a vice president. | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
At the Paralympic Games in Rio Cwmbran's Keiron Duke | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
is currently competing in the final of the F41 shot put. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
It was a disappointing day for Welsh athletes with London 2012 silver | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
medallist Aaron Moores from Swansea failing to reach the final | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
The Tour of Britain cycle race has left Wales after its second day | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
Stage five started this morning in Aberdare, | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
where hundreds of people lined the route. | :10:49. | :10:57. | |
You see them on TV and we don't get to see them in our area. | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
It is pretty cool for the Valleys here. | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
We watched the Olympics and my husband | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
keeps banging on about Bradley Wiggins. | :11:07. | :11:07. | |
I live across the road from the park. | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
It is just something you will not see again. | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
Derek, a mixed picture at the moment? | :11:14. | :11:24. | |
It is looking changeable over the next few days. That means some dry, | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
brighter spells but there is some rain in the forecast and watch out | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
for some gusty winds. A few showers around tonight, rain in places. | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Pembrokeshire should become dry and clear by the end of the night. The | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
humid night but not as sticky as it has been. Lower temperatures around | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
13 Celsius. Tomorrow morning, that is the best part of the day. Showers | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
in places will clear leaving it to dry. Some cloud. Across the rest of | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
the UK, we have a sprinkling of sour words. Most places dry, some | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
sunshine but turning wet and windy across Northern Ireland. That rain | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
across the Irish Sea reaching Cumbria and Anglesey during the | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
afternoon. The rain accompanied by strong to fail -- gale force winds. | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
In Wales tomorrow afternoon, some dry weather but a few showers around | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
as well. Rain will reach the north and west late in the afternoon with | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
strong to gale force winds. Temperatures are little higher than | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
today, the humidity rising again. Solano night we will see a spell of | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
rain. Rain heaviest in the hills. Part of me to -- mid Wales will see | :12:44. | :12:52. | |
some rain. Saturday a little rain at times in the south-east, elsewhere | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
dry and bright. A little sunshine, light winds and feeling cool. It | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
looks like there will be a fine evening for the Proms in the park in | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
Colwyn Bay on Saturday evening. It will turn to Lisa take a blanket. | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
Sunday, a lot of dry weather with a freshening breeze. Highs of 70 and | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Wrexham. It changeable mix over the next few days, warmer on Monday. | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
We'll be back with updates from 6.25am. | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
From all of us on the programme, thanks for watching. Goodnight. | :13:22. | :13:36. | |
The Pro12 season's kicking off, so it's game on for our Welsh regions. | :13:37. | :13:42. |