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Welcome to Wales today, our top stories: destruction across the

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country as more than 35,000 public sector workers' strike. If they

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think this is destruction, there will be far more to come. Our

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belief is that other unions will be on board. By autumn it will be the

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biggest strike in this country for 30 years.

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More than 1000 schools are closed or disrupted as 17,000 teachers

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walkout. For a lot of teachers it is it -- parents it is a real

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nuisance. Lot of children are off Our other headlines: stabbed on the

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way to play skittles, a scathing report finds Gwen Poole's death

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could have been avoided. Cardiff Blues consider legal action

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after Dai Young moves to the Wasps. And saving the red squirrel, the

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campaign gets a funding boost as Good evening. A public sectors

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workers across Wales are joined in a one-day strike in a row over

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changes to their pensions. More than 35,000 people attended rallies

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and picket lines all over the country. More than 1000 schools had

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lessons disrupted, some were shot on to get there as 17,000 teachers

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walk out. Jobcentres, museums and the National Assembly were all

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affected by the action. Our Business correspondent is outside

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the main tax centre in Cardiff where many workers stayed away from

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their desks. Behind me the third biggest a tax

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office in the UK, one of the big employers in Wales affected by

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today's action. It was not just those directly employed here that

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were affected, parents where as well. In terms of the workers, this

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was a real point of principle today, the No the changes to their

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pensions will affect the rest of their lives. For the UK government,

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a point of economic necessity and claimed that the country cannot

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afford these pensions. What ever the truth, there was no doubting

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the strength of anger among the workers.

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They would normally be in classrooms and government offices,

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but around 500 of the civil servants and teachers marched

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through the streets of Cardiff this lunchtime. The UK Government says

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proposals for them to work longer and to contribute more to their

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pensions are fear. But more than 35,000 public sector workers in

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Wales today shows a disagreement by going on strike. At the rally in

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Cardiff, they were warned to prepare for the fight of their

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lives. I do not accept that working people, because they are living

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longer, should not get a good pension. Cameron and Clegg have a

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good pension. We are not going to give it up or I were welfare state.

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We will have a damn good fight. was not just the capital, lock it

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and rallies were staged his throughout Wales. Around 100 people,

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mainly teachers, took part in this rally in Wrexham. The PCS Union

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added DVLA in Swansea said that between 50 and 80% of staff stayed

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away. At the National Assembly in can -- Cardiff, as a Conservative a

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Ms turned up as normal, along with at least one Lib Dem, but Plaid

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Cymru and Labour members did not. PCS members were also on strike at

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the National Library in Aberystwyth. Here at the main tax office in

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Cardiff, picket line the gates. Among those striking was Steve

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Linton. He is a 42-year-old clerical worker who earns �19,500 a

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year. Under the current arrangement he will retire when he is 60, after

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40 years of service, and receive a final salary scheme worth roughly

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half his annual wages. Under the proposals he says he will have to

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work until he is at least 66 and will have to pay an extra �50 a

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month in pension contribute -- contributions in order to receive a

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pension which he hopes will be the same. The pension that we get at

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the end of it, it is the third page, that is why we except law were

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wages. It is almost an unwritten part of a wages. You should be

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rewarded at the end. Or at least be able to live once you retire.

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financial experts is changes are inevitable, mainly because people

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are living longer. The Government has known for a very long time that

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the UK taxpayer cannot afford to continue to fund the generous

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levels of pensions in the public sector compared to the private

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sector. In the private sector, the average pension for people retiring

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now will be much lower than those in the public sector. The UK

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coalition government claims that even under these new proposals,

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public sector pensions will still be better than those on offer in

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business. I think it is unreasonable for the unions to

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except ordinary taxpayer to work until the a 67 or 68 to allow

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public sectors to work in at 60, receiving better pensions. Union

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leaders claim to have the support of the public behind them, that may

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well be partly true, particularly in Wales without public sector is

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dominant in many communities, but that only goes so far. That

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goodwill may be tested to the limit if there are further strikes down

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the road. The biggest impact on the general public was the knock-on

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effect of those school closures. Around 1000 schools in Wales were

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shut completely or partially affected. He is our education

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correspondent. Morning assembly in Cardiff. The

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singing is still strong, even though numbers were well down.

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There is approximately 210 or 220 children not attending school today,

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being denied their education. The reaction I am having from parents

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is that they are supportive of what is actually being done today,

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because of their issue to do with a war pensions. Roughly one quarter

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of schools closed completely, this school in Bangor was among them.

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University and college lecturers were also on strike, along with

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17,000 teachers from their nut and NTL.

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Hundreds of teachers, lecturers and public sector workers have come out

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in Swansea today, a city in which the schools have been eagerly quiet.

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Almost every single one is close are partially closed. For what it

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is the teachers who are making the noise. Teachers do not want to be

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on strike today, we are here today making a stand because we are

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concerned about the future of our were children. The current

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proposals mean that we are going to have 68-year-old teachers teaching

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the year-old, it will be ridiculous. This skill in Bangor was open to

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all its classes, as were 50% of schools nationwide. There are

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knock-on effect to these strikes. People need to take time off, they

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can lose holiday, it is costing the economy a lot of money for the

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inconvenience to try and arrange childcare will these strikes

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continue. It is not really helping anybody. For those dupe -- for

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these children in Carmarthen, the strike met the day in the park.

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Dead parents mind the extra hassle? They do a marvellous job. They have

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the right to speak out in this way. Parents in our school this morning

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where quite confused due to the fact that some schools were Open

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and some were closed. Negotiations with the UK government are ongoing,

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but these teachers say, if necessary, they will strike again.

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Despite the disruption today, it is worth remembering that the majority

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of public sector workers across the UK were not on strike today. One of

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the big questions is what will happen, particularly with Unison,

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them the union which is in top with the UK government on this issue. If

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it goes on strike in Wales, around 90,000 workers will be affected.

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Let us speak to dominate -- Dominic MacAskill from Unison. That is the

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big question, are you going to go on strike? Unison it fully supports

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action of the teachers and civil servants today, standing up for

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their pensions. Their fight is were fight. The only issue is around the

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timing. Unison decided it would exhaust the negotiations with the

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government, albeit we have been very unhappy with the public

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statements that have been made outside their negotiations, and

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also we have got 1.2 million members in the UK who will be

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prepared to ballot. That sounds like you are preparing for strike

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action? We are hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. The

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noises coming through is that the Government is looking for windfall

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tax on public sector workers, rather than trying to make any

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sustainability for public sector pensions. The fact is that a Hutton

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report and it Tory-dominated Public Accounts Committee produced a

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report which demonstrates that public sector pensions are

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affordable and sustainable. The government is now changing its

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language. It is about fear and us. We will have to leave it there.

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Thank you very much. There are plenty of discussions and plenty of

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work left on this issue. A scathing report into the

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treatment of a paranoid schizophrenic who went on to stab a

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grandmother to death in a random street attack has found her death

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was preventable. 66-year-old Gwen Poole had not known Martin Davies

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when he stabbed to with a bread knife near her home in Llanbradach

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near Caerphilly two years ago. The healthcare inspectorate for Wales

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said there had been failings in the system.

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It was here in his quiet village that Gwen Poole met her death,

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stabbed by a kitchen knife as she waited for a lift to go to skittles.

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Martin D Davies pleaded not guilty to her murder, but guilty to

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manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He was a

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violent paranoid schizophrenic who had been receiving treatment for

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mental health issues since childhood.

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He suffered from hallucinations, voices in his head telling him to

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kill somebody. On this street he did just that. He stab a

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grandmother who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong

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time. Now, this report by the healthcare inspectorate for Wales,

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has listed a catalogue of failings in his gear and has concluded that

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Gwen Poole's, site may have been preventable. In 2008 he was

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discharged from the Cygnett Hospital in Somerset and

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transferred closer to home to an acute psychiatric hospital in

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Blackwood. In December of that year a decision was taken to discharge

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him into the care of the community mental health team who found him a

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column -- accommodation in new treaty go. Just a week before he

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killed Gwen Poole he was moved to Llanbradach to stay with his

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brother. On 24th March 2009 he stabbed Gwen Poole. Earlier that

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day he being taken to the shops by a mental health worker to buy a

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bottle of of what cost. It is a catalogue of things that go back to

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when Martin Davies was a child. He was in crisis from the age of seven.

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There were many interventions we feel could have been brought to

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fruition at a more timely manner, we feel many of their actions were

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indefensible. He then went on to present himself to the and E

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departments asking for admission and help. He was not given the care

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and support he needed. Today, both local authority and health board

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excepted the floors are highlighted by the report. They were confident

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that changes they had endured would help. It is important to make sure

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that when people are in crisis, they should be able to pull on

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resources available. One of the changes we have made is to make

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sure that a crisis intervention team is in place seven days a week.

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But in Llanbradach there is anger at the feelings of the mental

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health system. Marilyn Hyde were lives on the spot where Gwen Poole

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was killed. It is dreadful. If it was predictable it should have been

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stopped. We should not be put at risk because of other people not

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doing their job. It has affected the community very badly, it should

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not have happened. She was a lovely lady, just going about doing her

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Plenty still to come on the programme. Dai Young is confirmed

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as new coach at Wasps. Speculation grows about who will take over at

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the Blues. I doubt there will be a lack of applicants for the coaching

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job. The talent in the squad, it his day-job that a lot of coaches

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would love. And Glamorgan have been stripped of the right to hold an

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England Test match at the Swalec Stadium next year. The trial of a

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man accused of murdering Karen Skipper in the 1990s has heard that

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her ex-husband, could have been the killer after all. The defence

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claims that Cardiff Labour John Pope is innocent.

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It is the second time that John Pope has stood trial for this

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murder. Last December, the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction and

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ordered a retrial. The murder happened when Karen Skipper had

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been out walking with her dogs late one Saturday night. Her partially

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clothed body was found in the river. Her hands were tied behind her back.

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Initially, her former husband became the prime suspect that at

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his trial in 1997, he was found not guilty. Today defence lawyers

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representing John Pope told the court there were any number of men

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who could have killed Karen Skipper, including the mystery man who has

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never been identified. But the main suspect, they say, remains her late

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husband. On the other hand, John Pope, they say is a man of limited

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At the time of the murder, John Pope told police he did not know

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Karen Skipper. When he was arrested, he said he had met her three weeks

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before her death, when he pulled a thorn from her dog's form. The dog

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had bitten him and that explained how his blood was later found on

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her trousers. Today, giving his evidence, you said he was not sure

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when the dog had bitten him. He may have said it was three weeks before

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the murder because of something the police had said. He told them that

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he had not know Karen Skipper because he did not realise she was

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the woman with the dogs. The case continues. The coroner in the

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inquest into the death of a fitness instructor, who was stabbed to

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death while on holiday in the United States, has recorded an open

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verdict. Lavern Ritch from Penarth was killed in New Jersey four years

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ago. In April, Robert Davies was jailed for more than 20 years for

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his manslaughter. Onto tonight's sport, and the news that Glamorgan

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has lost a Test match it was due to host next year. Our sports reporter

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Ashleigh Crowter's at the Swalec Stadium tonight. Ash, what

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happened? England were due to play the West

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Indies here in Cardiff next year, but now that match will take place

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somewhere else. The reason is financial. Glamorgan have been

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forced to ask for extra time to pay the fees, owed to the ECB, for

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staging the recent test match here against Sri Lanka. Tickets sales

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were poor and bad weather didn't help either and Glamorgan clearly

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failed to make the money they'd hoped. The ECB have agreed to that

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request, but as part of the deal, Glamorgan will now lose the Test

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next year. Other grounds will be free to bid for it. It's clearly

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quite embarrassing for Glamorgan to be given a match and then forced to

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hand it back but in a statement, the club say the deal with ECB has

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guaranteed the ground's future as a venue for international cricket,

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with a least one Test, probably in 2014, five one day internationals

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and T20 match guaranteed to be played here over the next five

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years. And of course, that includes September's one day international

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against India, which goes ahead as planned.

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Meanwhile, on the field, Glamorgan lost their Championship match

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against Derbyshire on the final day's play here in Cardiff. The

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Welsh county were bowled out for 283 in their second innings,

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setting Derbyshire 130 to win. The visitors reached it fairly

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comfortably, winning by six wickets. Former Wales captain Dai Young is

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the new director of rugby at London Wasps. The 43-year-old has signed a

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four year contract with the English Premiership side. He resigned from

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the Cardiff Blues this morning where he'd been coach for nine

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years. The capital region is considering legal action after

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Wasps rejected their claim for compensation. It has been a badly

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kept secret. For weeks, he has been linked with Wasps, so there was no

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surprise when David Young was finally unveiled. After nine years

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at the Cardiff Blues, his departure has not been without controversy.

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Everyone is chucking stones at the minute. I feel quite proud of what

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I have do not be Cardiff Blues. It has not been enough for some people.

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I have certainly moved the club on every season since I have been

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there. You cannot coach one-club they ever. I had to move somewhere.

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If I was going to move somewhere, it had to be a club that I felt I

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could develop again as a coach. Storm clouds are gathering. A

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dispute over compensation could end up in the courts with the Cardiff

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Blues demanding �100,000. We do not believe we have acted improperly

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over appointing David Young. It is difficult to see where compensation

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is payable. I think we need to keep on talking and see where Cardiff

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won to take it. -- want to take it. David Young ones to take this job

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and this challenge. It has been his decision to do that. So David Young

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depart after nearly a decade with the Cardiff Blues. He guided them

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to two trophies in nine years. They became the first Welsh region to

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win and European competition. The hunt for his replacement has

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already started. Gareth Baber and Justin Burnell are tipped to take

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over. I doubt there will be a lack of applicants for the coaching job.

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The talent in the squad, I think there will be a lot of coaches in

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world rugby who would love to coach the calibre of squad that we have

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at the Cardiff Blues. replacement could be announced soon

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a possible legal wranglings over his departure could take longer to

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sort out. It is a very big night for the

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football club. They are playing their very first match in European

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competitions. They added MacShane - Lee Trundle had put Neath ahead but

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We will of course bring you the results of those matches in our

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bulletin at 10:25pm. The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall

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stayed close to home on day four of their week-long tour of Wales. This

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morning they opened the newly- refurbished train station in

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Llandovery which closed in 1992. They then met volunteers and

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supporters before officially opening the new Myddfai Village

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Hall near their home in Llwynywermod.

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Once, red squirrels were relatively common across Wales. Now they only

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survive in three or four pockets. But efforts to protect one of their

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last strongholds have received a boost, with �300,000 of Heritage

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Lottery Funding. On Anglesey, the cash will be used to safeguard

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their habitat and encourage local people to get involved with

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conservation work. Few of us have probably ever seen one in the wild

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but they are hanging on, just. On Anglesey, more than a decade of

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conversation -- conservation work is paying dividends. In other areas,

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numbers are still fragile but it -- on Anglesey the population is

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increasing. We take boxes like this and put them up of the trees. The

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squirrels will use them. It is a nest box for squirrels. One of the

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tools that the friends of the Anglesey red squirrels use.

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How important is it to give them a helping hand? It is really

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important. It benefits them and it benefits us. We can learn more

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about the behaviour and ecology and use that to fine-tune compers --

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conservation in the future. They are also doing their best to remove

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Grey squirrels. This lottery funding is a big boost.

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illustrates what you can achieve if you have community support. And

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also landowner's support. They have been behind us for all these years.

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This gives us an opportunity to have a new chapter and get red

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squirrels across the island for the first time. And this really has

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been a wildlife success story. 15 years ago, there were just 40 red

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squirrels left on Anglesey. Now there are more than 400. And they

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are spread out as well. They are beginning to turn up everywhere.

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There are even supports that some of them are crossing to the

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mainland. -- reports. If you want to see a red squirrel in the wild,

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Time now for the weather forecast. We have had mixed weather this

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month but it looks like getting off to a good start this month. I

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cannot promise clear blue skies. Clown is likely, but some sunshine

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as well. Tonight, another thrash night. Temperatures dropping into

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single figures. The ridge of high pressure moving up across Britain

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and that means settled weather. Tomorrow, bright and sunny. As we

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head further north, we will have some cloud order. Some sunshine.

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Dry and fairly cloudy for the West Coast, into the south-west.

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Temperatures in Carmarthen starting off at ten Celsius. Tomorrow, the

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cloud will spread out. But still bright in places. Some showers

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possible but much of the country dry.

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In Flintshire tomorrow, rather cloudy. Temperatures rising to 60

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degrees Celsius. -- 16 Celsius. On the weekend, generally dry.

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Variable cloud. Some sunny spells, pleasantly warm. At the moment,

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Monday is looking warm. Lots going on this weekend. St

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Mary's Church is having a summer BBBC Wales roadshow will be in

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Llanelli on Sunday. I will be there with a few were the faces. Plenty

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Yes, there is plenty going on. A reminder of the top storey. Public

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sector workers had been on strike today over changes to pensions. At

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least 35,000 people attended rallies and picket lines. More than

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1,000 schools were disrupted. Let's go back to our Business

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correspondent, Nick Servini. Very strong words from union

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officials and a lot of disruption. 1,000 schools were closed or

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partially shut. But some big questions tonight. How much

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sympathy and support is there among the general public? And what has

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gone to happen to those negotiations with the UK

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government? Will we see the bigger public sector unions take straps --

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strike action in the autumn? A quick look ahead now to what's on

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