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The United Nations will call into the health effects of the UK's | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
largest opencast mine in Merthyr Tydfil. | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Two decades after being murdered by her husband, human remains are | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
confirmed to be Sandie Bowen. And the Charity commission is looking | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
into the former Wales footballer Craig Bellamy's academy setup to | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
help children in Leone. 11 million tonnes of coal | :00:30. | :00:40. | |
being mined metres meters Residents living alongside the Ffos | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
y Fran opencast coal pit in Merthyr Tydfil have long | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
campaigned against it. Now BBC Wales has learnt that | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
a United Nations report will call for an independent investigation | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
into claims it may be The mine's operator has | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
accused those living nearby Our environment correspondent | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Steffan Messenger has For more than a decade, | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
they've been protesting against the giant coal mine | :01:07. | :01:16. | |
on their doorstep. They've claimed dust and noise has | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
been causing sleeping and breathing problems and say no-one has | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
listened till now. Cut into the side of | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
the Merthyr Valley, Ffos y Fran Modern mining methods, | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
the local community was told, I've got the posters | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
for the public meeting. Chris and Alice and Austin live | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
a few hundred metres from the mine. The dust is always an issue | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
that we were concerned about. We've spent so much time | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
dealing with the Council, dealing with the Welsh Assembly | :01:49. | :01:59. | |
and nobody is interested in trying There have been times | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
we've been sitting here, But now, BBC Wales can reveal | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
that the United Nations, which has a role in protecting human | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
rights worldwide, is set to make a surprising intervention, | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
following an official visit to the UK, a report by its chief | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
legal adviser on pollution, who criticised the way local | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
people's concerns in Merthyr Tydfil have been | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
handled by the authorities. The case really stuck with me, | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
both in terms of the lack of access to information but also | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
the challenges that the community has faced in terms | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
of accessing justice. There needs to be an independent | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
and thorough investigation of what sort of health effects may | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
be linked to the operation In a statement, the mine's operator, | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Miller Argent, said some local residents had been spreading fake | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
news about pollution. It criticised the United Nations | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
special rapporteur for not visiting They accused him of being biased | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
and a disgrace to his office. The mine they say is | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
heavily regulated and has never been prosecuted | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
for any environmental breaches. Merthyr Tydfil council also | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
criticised Mr Tuncak for not speaking to its officials, | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
claiming that his report would be The Welsh Government said | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
it was supporting local authorities The UK Government will respond | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
when an official report is presented to the UN's human rights | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
council in September. Police have confirmed tonight that | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
a body found in a reservoir in Monmouthshire last month is that | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
of Sandie Bowen, who Her husband, Mike Bowen was jailed | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
for her murder but never revealed in a now near empty | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
Wentwood Reservoir. Her body had been | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
there for two decades. Anita Giles, Sandie Bowen's | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
daughter, never gave up hope She is now being supported | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
by trained police officers. I am just relieved that it is her | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
so that we can get closure, I can finally lay her to rest, | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
which is what she deserves, Sandie Bowen went missing in 1997, | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
from her home in Monmouthshire. Her husband, Mike Bowen, | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
said he dropped her off at Newport railway station | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
where she was catching a train to Folkestone in Kent, | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
to visit her daughter. Hours earlier, he had found out | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
she was having an affair. Police later discovered he had also | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
been having an affair. Her daughter, Anita, | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
reported her meeting when she failed to arrive in Kent and made | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
an emotional appeal. I just want my mum to find me, | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
just to let me know she's all right. Or contact the police | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
station, anything, just Police carried out a huge search | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
of the Monmouthshire countryside, At the time, police divers probed | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
a then fuller Wentwood Reservoir. But there was no sign | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
of the 53-year-old. Eventually, police found her blood | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
at the home she shared A year later, he was convicted | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
of the murder of Sandie Bowen. He's never said what | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
he did with her body. Mike Bowen has recently been | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
released on licence. I don't think he should | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
have been given parole. I don't think anyone | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
should be given parole, I am supporting Helen's law | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
where the person that's convicted of murdering someone should not be | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
allowed parole until they've given Had Mum not been found | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
and he hadn't been given parole, he may well still be | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
in prison today. After two decades, the search | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
for Sandie Bowen is over. Murdered by Mike Bowen, he then | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
dumped her body in this reservoir. He believed it would | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
never be discovered. Now, police are looking | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
into what further action 17 men have been sentenced | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
at Newport Crown Court following the largest drugs | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
operation ever carried The men were arrested following 14 | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
police raids involving 300 officers They admitted a variety of offences, | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
including possesion with intent to supply class-A drugs, | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
including crack cocaine and heroin. The sentences range from four months | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
to four years in prison. A 12-year-old boy remains | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
in a critical condition after he collided with a minibus, | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
when he was cycling in Trefriw He was airlifted to a hospital | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
in Liverpool with serious injuries following the incident on Crafnant | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
Road. North Wales Police are | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
appealing for witnesses. The Welsh Government has vetoed | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
the preferred candidate to represent Wales on the BBC's | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
new management board. Members for England and Scotland | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
were confirmed, but the UK Government has reopened | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
the appointments process after its choice of candidate | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
was rejected by ministers The Welsh Government | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
said its primary concern was to ensure the BBC Board properly | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
represents the needs The Charity Commission has confirmed | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
it's looking at concerns about Welsh footballer Craig Bellamy's football | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
academy in Sierra Leone, which has been forced to close | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
because of financial difficulties. The Craig Bellamy Foundation, | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
set up in 2008, offered five-year scholarships to children | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
as young as 11. The former Wales captain is said | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
to be devastated by the news and is co-operating fully | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
with the authorities. Just amazed by the warmth of | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
the people but This is a promotional video | :07:54. | :08:02. | |
for the foundation when it A few years earlier, | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
the Wales international striker had visited | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
the area and was struck How football motivates these young | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
kids, you won't believe and to use part of the league, | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
to go to school to be I knew it was going to get a lot | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
of kids back into school. He set up an academy | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
in a small fishing village which offered five-year | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
scholarships to children and created a youth football league which at one | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
point took in Interviewed at the time, | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
he said it was It gave me an opportunity | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
to give something back to people that need | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
it more than anyone. It has been very rewarding for me | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
as a person and hopefully Craig Bellamy came to my | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
house and visited me. It stayed open recently | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
but despite Craig Bellamy putting in a reported ?1.4 million of his | :08:55. | :09:04. | |
own money, it's now hit financial difficulties and not filed | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
annual accounts on many occasions. There are concerns about the closure | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
of the Academy and they said trustees must account to the public | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
and donors for their income and Failure to do so may give rise | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
to concerns about the governance and administration | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
of the charity. The former Wales | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
captain is now a youth coach at Cardiff city and was | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
unavailable for comment today. However his solicitor has told me | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
he is devastated by what has happened to his foundation | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
in West Africa. A statement released on his behalf | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
says Mr Bellamy has recently appointed a new legal | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
team to investigate any irregularities in the management | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
of his financial affairs. It says that team will assist | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
all government agencies in their investigations | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
and if necessary, take action against those responsible | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
for any wrongdoing. Onto rugby and the roof | :10:01. | :10:12. | |
at the Principality Stadium will be closed for Wales' Six Nations clash | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
with Ireland tomorrow night. Ahead of the match, Wales skipper | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
Alun Wyn Jones and his team have had Wales will be unchanged | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
from the team that lost to Scotland Ireland are more than happy to go | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
with our decision so in fairness, for the supporters, that | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
will add to the occasion. It will be a fantastic atmosphere | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
and that is Teams coming to Cardiff and wanting | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
to play at the stadium, make it as great an | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
occasion as possible. It is closed, so I am really | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
looking forward to that. We have got to be | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
confident in what we The last time we were here, | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
65 minutes against England, if we can | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
match that, you know, and learn from that experience | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
against England then we are not Football and Newport County have | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
sacked their manager, Graham Westley, after five | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
months in charge. It follows a string of poor results | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
which have left the Exiles 11 points from safety at the bottom | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
of the Football League. Westley will be replaced | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
by first-team coach Mike Flynn Time for a look at what | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
the weather has in store now. Today was the warmest day so far for | :11:17. | :11:36. | |
Wales,. Looking much cloudier tomorrow but we can look forward to | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
a lot of dry weather as well. Tonight, the cloud is increasing | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
from the south-west with a bit of light rain or drizzle mainly on the | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
hills, summer mist and fog forming especially along the West Coast. | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
Tomorrow, high-pressure, still trying to control our weather. We | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
will see a lot more cloud around tomorrow compared to today. Some | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
mist and fog first thing tomorrow morning, poor visibility but it will | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
lift as we go through the day the odd spot of rain likely but most of | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
us getting away with a dry Friday. For the rest of the British Isles, | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
little bit of rain across Scotland but for Northern Ireland, England | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
and Wales, a largely dry study with the best of the brightness in the | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
east. Here in Wales tomorrow afternoon, some limited amounts of | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
brightness. The best of those for parts of northern Powys, Wrexham, | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
Denbighshire and Flintshire. A serious shortage of sunshine | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
compared to today. If you're going to the rugby tomorrow night, a | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
cloudy night, but temperatures for kick-off will be around nine | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Celsius. Tomorrow night, fairly quiet night to come, but of cloud, | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
mist and reef forming fog, dry weather with temperatures no lower | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
than eight Celsius. Fairly mild night. Saturday, a little bit of | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
mist and fog first thing. That will lift. Patchy rain through the day, | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
becoming drier in the afternoon across parts of the north and west. | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
Sunday, more rain yet again in the morning, becoming drier and brighter | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
by the afternoon. Attach fresher as we will be in a north-westerly flow. | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
Attach fresher as we will be in a north-westerly flow. | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
We'll be back in Breakfast with updates from around | :13:20. | :13:22. |