03/01/2017 BBC Wales Today


03/01/2017

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Our top stories: After one of the biggest railway engineering

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upgrades in a generation, a warning that we need more

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Bird flu is confirmed in a domestic flock in Carmarthenshire -

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a surveillance zone is in place to contain the outbreak.

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And beavers haven't been seen in our rivers for hundreds of years -

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A leading transport expert says Cardiff's Central Station urgently

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needs to expand if it's to cope with predicted demand

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which could see passenger numbers rise to 23 million a year.

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Professor Stuart Cole's comments come on the day that the station saw

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the official opening of a new platform.

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It was back to work for commuters today after the festive break.

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The train services themselves were back

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on track after engineering and signalling works which have caused

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First day back in work and I've not noticed

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A little bit late getting back and forth to work over

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For some passengers the first journey of the

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New Year terminated at a brand-new platform at Cardiff Central.

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This is the new platform eight designed to

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But with commuter numbers set to rise by 6% a year or

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next decade many are saying at least two new platforms are needed.

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With huge commercial developments and the

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construction right on the doorstep of this

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transport hub thousands will

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be applied in the shiny new offices and many

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of those extra workers will

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At present there are 30 million passengers

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expected to go through the stage this year.

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By 2023, that will have risen to 23 million.

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That rate of growth requires and it banding station.

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If it not expanded we will get the kind of queueing

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we have had in the past outside Cardiff Central

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station and we will have overcrowding on platforms.

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With room to expand in short supply, he says a

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redevelopment of this brewery site could provide new

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Network Rail accept new platforms are needed and are

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We are working through options and the

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We don't know numbers of platforms but

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we have options and we're working closely with

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the Welsh Government and

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with our customers to understand what the capacity will be in the

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For passengers, a more pressing demand is the cost of tickets which

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rose this week by nearly 2% in Wales.

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That was less than elsewhere in Britain, but still prompted a

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We have seen a steady increase in fares year after year

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All the investment into the railways is

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The latest improvements in Cardiff will make

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things easier for the 265,000 passengers that currently use this

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But the expansion in infrastructure may

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struggle to keep pace with the expansion in passenger numbers.

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The UK Government says it is delivering

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the biggest rail modernisation programme for more than a century.

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Bird flu has been found in a domestic flock of chickens

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The H5-N8 strain of Avian flu was discovered in a back

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It's the same strain found in a wild duck in Llanelli

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Teleri Glyn Jones reports from Pontyberem.

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veterinary Officer today announced that the strain of bird flu has been

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found in a flock of birds here. It was a flock of chickens and ducks

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being kept in a back garden here in Carmarthenshire. The flock was cold

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today before confirmation because there was a strong suspicion that

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the birds were infected. Since then, a three kilometre protection zone

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and a ten kilometres surveillance zone has been set up in order to

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stop the spread of the disease. That is the same strain, if you remember,

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that was found in a wild duck just before Christmas and at a turkey

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farm in Lincolnshire earlier in December. In terms of advice, they

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say there is a low risk to public health from the virus itself at the

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Food Standards Agency has made it clear that there is no risk to food

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safety. Poultry products and eggs are safe. However, the chief vet has

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stressed that it is up to bird keepers to be responsible and to

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practice the very highest I/O security.

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Organisers of Festival Number 6 in Portmeirion will pay Gwynedd

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council ?8,000 in reimbursement costs.

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when the event's car park flooded in September.

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Council staff worked at Porthmadog leisure centre for two nights,

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when 200 people took refuge because their cars were stranded.

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Wrexham council is thought to be the first in the UK to collect

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more fines for littering than for parking offences.

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More than 3,000 fixed penalty tickets were issued in the past six

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months as part of the council's zero tolerance approach to litter.

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Despite claims from critics that enforcement officers

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are over-zealous, the authority says the aim is to keep Wrexham tidy.

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Suggestions that the Labour party's "too weak" to win a majority

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at the next general election are "utter nonsense" according

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Jo Stevens was responding to a report by the left-leaning

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It comes as the incoming chair of Welsh Labour has told BBC Wales

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the party won't make any headway while Jeremy Corbyn's leader.

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The Gower constituency was always a rock-solid Labour fortress.

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The party held the Parliamentary seat

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for more than 100 years before the Conservatives won it by just 27

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This is the kind of area Labour will have to

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take back if it wants to win the next general election.

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But today's report says the party has no chance

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of securing a majority in the Commons and it should look

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instead to govern with the help of other

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I'm not saying they will never get in power but not in

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I just don't think he's the right leader.

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We are well behind in the opinion polls.

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But the important thing is to realise that it can be

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What we need to do is not be defeatist.

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We need to recognise that if we have the right policies and

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the right attitude and the right enthusiasm we can win the next

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20 years ago Labour knew all about winning seats.

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Here is the then leader Tony Blair campaigning

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in Cardiff, fortnight before his party swept to victory

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That figure fell to 25 out of 42 years ago.

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Before Labour's couldn't leader was elected.

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But can Jeremy Corbyn turn things around?

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The incoming chair of Welsh Labour told me this report is

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a fair reflection of the party at UK level and he doesn't think Labour

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will make any headway and the Jeremy Corbyn.

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First of all we've got about 33% of the electorate to go for love not

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That is part of Jeremy Clarkson appeal.

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Can Labour win an election in the Jeremy

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The New Year has brought familiar questions and

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May's local elections will provide another test

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Intervening in the natural world, or rewilding, is controversial.

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So should an animal not seen in our rivers for hundreds of years

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Wildlife experts in Wales are hoping to release ten beavers

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at an undisclosed location in South Wales this year.

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From a distance, this looks like ordinary marshland,

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but on closer inspection, this enclosure is home to

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It's a small project run in Machynlleth but we

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could now be a step closer to seeing beavers in the wild here.

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Wildlife Trust Wales has applied to release

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ten beavers into the wild at an undisclosed location somewhere in

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It could happen as soon as this year.

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We have a breeding pair we hope and they are getting on

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They are enclosed for now because beavers were not allowed

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to live in Wales free up until very soon hopefully.

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We are hoping our kits might be part of the

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reintroduction programme, which would be fantastic.

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In Scotland, following a five-year trial,

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the government has given the species protected status,

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meaning they are back there for good.

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In Devo, a couple of pairs established

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there had their kits last

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We are getting European beavers and bringing

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make sure they are held in captivity to make

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not going to spread any disease and make sure

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Farmers and anglers have raised concerns

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beavers damage the landscape and fish migration routes.

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The original science we were presented with

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suggested they wouldn't build dams and travel very far but we now know

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The evidence in Scotland is they can do

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The species were hunted to extinction here in

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the 16th century, but a licence for their release in the wild

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could mark a reversal in fortunes after an

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Natural Resources Wales said it would have

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to consider the pact on existing wildlife and land use before making

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Football and the man tasked with reviving Swansea City

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watched his new side at Crystal Palace from

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Paul Clement, the former Bayern Munich assistant manager,

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has agreed a 2.5 year deal with the Swans who are bottom

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Scores on the doors weatherwise - Derek's got the forecast.

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We have gotten high pressure on the way for a Thursday. The this time

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last night, most places were clear, cold and frosty but there is a

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different story tonight. It is less cold because there is more cloud.

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That is big enough for some rain and drizzle, but otherwise dry. Some

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gaps in the cloud in the south-east. Some ground frost, but generally

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temperatures staying above freezing. You should not need to scrape the

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car windscreen tomorrow morning. There will be plenty of cloud

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around. Spots of light rain drifting southwards through the morning.

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Should brighten up later on. Across the rest of the UK, a weak cold

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front will move southwards during the day, taking some light rain and

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drizzle with it. You find that, blue sky, sunshine and colder air. Windy

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on the east coast with some showers. Four Celsius in Newcastle. An

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improving story in Wales tomorrow afternoon. The cloud in the South

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clearing away, leaving brighter skies and sunshine. Nine Celsius and

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dropping as that colder ever arrived and it certainly will do tomorrow

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night. Moderate to hard frost and inverters dropping as low as minus

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five Celsius. Maybe one or two freezing fog patches as well. The

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frost and any freezing fog will clear on Thursday, leaving a fine

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winter date with lots of sunshine. The capture only to Celsius in the

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afternoon. Up to seven Celsius in Milford Haven with a south easterly

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breeze. High pressure on Thursday but it will not hang around too

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long. France will topple in from the Atlantic during Friday. So it is all

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change on Friday. A dry start but we have got some rain and the way.

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Temperatures rising so turning milder towards the end of the week

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with some rain, but before then, some sunshine and more frost. Then

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she very much. We're back in Breakfast

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from 6 tomorrow morning. From all of us on the

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programme, goodnight.

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