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Good evening. Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight, Swansea City begin

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life in the Premier League. The fans left Swansea early this

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morning, all heading north, bus loads of them. 2,500 have arrived

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to watch their team play the world's richest football club.

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First game of the prem. Taking the boy with mement can't wait now.

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keep saying it over and over again, Man City versus Swansea. It's

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incredible. We're going to do it. It's there to see clearly in black

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and white, the fans are going out of their way to support the team.

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Also tonight, Rebecca Aylward, murdered by her ex-boyfriend. Her

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mother gives the first television interview, hoping the teenage

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killer will never be released. We are living day by day. We just

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feel numb, numb. A woman dies on a camp site, overcome by fumes in her

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tent. Her husband and two young children taken to hospital.

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And Wales are looking for a new captain for the World Cup. Matthew

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Good evening. Welcome to Wales Today. Welcome to the home of

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Manchester City football club, where Swansea City are an hour-and-

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a-half away from starting in the Premier League. The players will be

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running out of the tunnel and onto this pitch. Kick-off at 8pm. If you

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don't follow football and you know little about Manchester City, let

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me tell you, they have some of the best footballers in the world

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playing for them. They are officially the richest club on the

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planet. Let me just give you one or two examples. Swansea City's

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biggest signing this summer cost them �3.5 million. Compare that to

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Manchester City. They paid a whopping �38 million for just one

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player. Let's lock at their venues. Liberty Stadium can hold just over

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20,000 fans. But here, they can pack the rafters with over 50,000.

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This is the big time in football. Swansea City have arrived. The fans

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are out to enjoy every single second.

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Was this the moment when it really sunk in that Swansea are a Premier

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League club? Supporters coach as riefd this evening with passengers

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pinching themselves at where they'd ended up. They set off from Swansea

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earlier in the day, knowing the journey marked the start of their

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Premier League odyssey. I have my season ticket. A little card shows

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us the fixture. It said "Premier League", it still wasn't true.

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First game of the season, hopefully Man City, first win of the league.

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I remember 1981, now 30 years later, taking the boy to the p the -- the

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prem, can't wait. That match 30 years ago will provide inspiration

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tonight. Newly promoted Swansea weren't given much hope in 1981

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either, but went on to thrash one of the biggest club of that era

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Leeds United in their first game. That match has been talked about

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for years. The significance of tonight's game isn't lost on the

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current generation. We're very honoured to be the first Welsh club

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to get into the Premier League. We hope that we can do the badge and

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the club and the country as a whole very proud. Like I say, we'll fight

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for our life to try and compete in the league without giving away our

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soul of the club, which is very important. Swansea lit up the

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championship with their passing game last season and deserved to

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win promotion. But the Premier League is a big step up. Wembley

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hero Scott Sinclair used to play for Chelsea and Wigan. He's fully

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aware of how different it will be. In the championship you might have

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four or five chances in frobt of the goal. In the prem you might get

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one or two. If you can get one or two you have to stick one away.

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There are a lot of familiar faces, but over the summer a handful of

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new signings have bolstered the squad. The big question is will it

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be enough for Swansea to compete with the big boys of the Premier

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League? He's made a couple of good signings. I think they've got all

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the ingredients to make a real good go of it in the Premier League.

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Maybe along the way they might get beaten and beaten well sometimes,

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but it's important to keep focused. It wouldn't be a zaster to lose to

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Manchester City. It's only the first of 38 matches. With pictures

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of the game being beamed into an estimated 600 million households in

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200 countries, Swansea will be keen to make a good impression in front

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of the watching world. The world watching and also

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watching tonight, Match Of The Day commentator, Liverpool legend Mark

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Laurenceson is here. How will Swansea cope tonight? They'll be

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fine tonight. This is just the beginning of the adventure. 38

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games over the course of the season is completely different, but

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reading all the stuff coming out of Swansea this week about the players

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saying how much they're looking forward to it, some of those

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players have played in the lower divisions. To be fair it's a no-

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lose game. I heard your build up about Manchester City and the

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wealth that they've got and the players. I think the majority of

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neutrals coming tonight won't expect anything from Swansea.

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will Swansea handle the emotion. It's a huge step up from the

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championship. Yeah, but it's great. It's the noise, you can haert PA

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system, no-one can hear us any wai. It's the noise. I've been in the

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situation with Brighton many years ago, to the old first division that

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was, you sit in the dressing room, you look at the names and thinking

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"Oh, my goodness." They've only got two legs like you have. They go to

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the toilet same as you do. They have to go out and play. The great

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thing for Swansea they're a very good football team. They're not

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going to kick it long. It doesn't suit them. Can I put you on the

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result? If you said to the manager, if you give me a draw now, he'll

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give you a kiss. The thing with City is they can bring three

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substitutes on that cost �50 million, that's the difference.

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Thank you very much for talking to us. The fans have been arriving all

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day. But of course there's a whole city back home, all summer

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preparations and celebrations have been ongoing, for not just the fans

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but businesses too. Let's hear it for Wales. It as f

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was jubilation from players and fans when Swansea City became the

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first Welsh side to reach the Premier League. A footballing

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fairytale, now it's the reality of playing in the world's biggest

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league. The change in Swansea City's fortunes has been clear to

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see at the club's shop. The tills haven't stopped ringing, with the

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entire stock of 6,000 home shirts selling out in hours. It's now only

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the away strip available. It's been totally mad every day. We are open

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seven days a week now as well. Our busiest is our printing. The

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printing on the shirts. Last season, one or two maybe a week. Now we've

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got about 40, 50 a day. This is a nice one. With her supporters kit

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purchased Marilyn packs it for the first taste of the Premiership.

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She's supported the Swans through the highs and lows. She was there

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eight years ago when the team nearly went out of the Football

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League. Now it's the football top flight. Absolutely excited beyond,

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I mean can't wait to get up there, this evening to watch the game.

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We're staying overnight, so we can enjoy the wholeness of it. I think

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it's just a terrific event. It's something thaw dream of. And all

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ofcy aud -- all of a sudden it's today. And the fever has spread

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west. Mike has been a fan for over 50 years. To celebrate he did what

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he does best. Mike will be one of more tan 2,500 fans making the trip

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to Manchester. Business leaders believe the city has to build on

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the club's success. We all need confidence at the moment.

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Businesses are nervous about investing. Seeing what the club has

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done, particularly where it was eight years ago, and how they

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bounced back, that gives us a boost in terms of confidence. Already

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seeing the benefits, this chip shop across the -- across the road from

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the stadium. It's going to get busier. There will be a lot more

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people around here. We may get footballers coming in for pie and

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chips. A moment of history for the fans, as they prepare to take on

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the world's wealthiest clubs. Former Wales international Iwan

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Roberts is here. You told me earlier you want to put your boots

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on. This is what everyone dreams of. It is. When you become a

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professional footballer, you dream of playing in the Premier League in

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stadiums like this. It's a fantastic stadium. The pitch

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surface looks superb. It will suit the Swansea players down to a tee

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tonight. Realistically, what can Swansea City hope for this season?

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I think they can survive. You think they can? I think they can. The

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type of football they play, it will suit the Premier League. You get

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more time in the Premier League on the ball. I think the manager

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strengthened really well over the summer, albeit, not too many of the

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players have Premier League experience. But they have points to

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prove. That's vital. Yes, it's going to be tough. But they've

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earned the right to play in the Premier League against the top

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sides in Europe and the world, in the best stadiums. They have to

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grab that with both hands. I'm sure they will do. If you were Brendan

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Rogers what would you be saying to them tonight? Don't be scared of

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them. Get stuck in with them and you'll come away with a positive

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result. Thank you. Enjoit game. Much more later in the programme.

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Good evening. The mother of Rebecca Aylward, the schoolgirl murdered by

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her ex-boyfriend, has given her first television interview, saying

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she hopes her daughter's killer is never released from custody. The

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15-year-old was taken into a secluded wood near Bridgend and

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battered to death by Joshua Davies. Rebecca Aylward's mother has been

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speaking to our reporter Ross Harris.

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A few weeks from now, Sonia Oatly would have been waiting for

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Rebekah's GCSE results. Instead she's grieving for a daughter taken

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from her in a most brutal and senseless manner. She told me how

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she felt about the boy she'd once trusted and welcomed into her

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family. I hate him for what he's done, obviously. I don't ever want

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him to come out of jail because I know he will do it to another

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innocent child. I'd hate for any other parents to go through what

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we've gone through. We've known him for four years. He was almost part

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of the family. He'd come up and if I'd cook him something to eat and

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say "The usual Josh?" He was great. I'm just devastated by what he's

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done. And in terms of the trial itself, as you've mentioned,

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horrendous thing for a mother to have to sit through. And listen.

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Was there any eye contact -- contact at all during the trial?

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were in the upper gallery. He looked up to me. It was horrible

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looking into his eyes. I think I've said it before, it was like looking

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into the eyes of the devil. Very different, his expression,

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everything has changed from the Josh I knew. Joshua Davies killed

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Rebecca Aylward in this secluded wood leaving her body face down in

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the dirt. Rebekah's family cheered in court when the guilty verdict

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was delivered but say, since the day of her murder, their lives have

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stopped. Sonia's two other children Jessica and Jack, both woreship

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their older sister. They told me they would never forgive Joshua

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Davies for what he's done. He's just evil. There's no words to

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describe how angry we all are towards him. It's mad. It's changed

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us into something that we don't want to be. We've got so much anger

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in us. I looked up to him as a brother, but then he did that, just

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horrible he is. I hate him now. I just want him locked up forever. I

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don't want him to come back out. I really don't. Rebekah's mother says

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the funeral wentibly in a blur, an entire experience still feels

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unreal, like a nightmare. It is like that. We're still waiting to

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wake up. It really is not real. Still waiting for her to walk into

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the door and all the police to come and say it wasn't him. It really is

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unreal. How will you remember Rebekah? Just as a happy, bubbly,

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beautiful girl, very intelligent. The kebab house at the centre of an

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outbreak of E.coli was inspected by Cardiff Council less than one month

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ago. The Adonis takeaway was given a rating of one out of five for its

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food hygiene. It was closed last week by investigators trying to

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find the cause of the outbreak. Two people have now left hospital but a

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third remain seriously ill. The Environment Agency has launched

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an investigation after 50 bags of asbestos was found dumped on the

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Gelligaer Common, near the village of Fochriw. They say it could harm

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the environment and human health. Officers say the cost of the clean-

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up is likely to run into thousands of pounds.

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Hundreds of IT contractors who work the DVLA in Swansea and the Office

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for National Statistics in Newport have been balloted over strike

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action in a row over pay. They work for the technology company Fujitsu.

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Unions say workers could walk out next month and October.

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A mother has died after being overcome by fumes in a tent in

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Gwynedd. North Wales Police say they were called to a caravan site

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in Gyrn Goch this morning. The woman's husband and two young

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children were also in the tent and were taken to hospital.

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Police were called to the Aberafon Camping and Caravan Site on the

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Lleyn Peninsula at around half-past nine this morning. Paramedics were

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already there. The family who are not from the area had arrived at

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the campsite on Saturday. We're not treating the matter as suspicious,

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we are cheating it has sent... Initial over say the family were

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overcome by fumes in the round tent. The family were using a barbecue

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that might have been taken into the tent for war. Police have not

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confirmed this and say they're looking into what happened. The

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owners of the caravan site are too distressed to talk tonight. The

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accident has come as a huge shock to local people.

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I have not spoken to the owners yet but I think the air in deep shock.

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I rent eight Caravan Sites myself. I understand how I would feel. It

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is quite horrific. The police say they grateful to members of the

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public who helped take the children to safety. A post-mortem will be

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held. Exactly what happened here will take several days to You are

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watching Wales Today. They are best pals and have been living next door

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to each other since 1935. The inseparable neighbours celebrating

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after 76 years. We don't fall out, touch wood. On Saturday we had the

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good news, a win over England in the build-up to the rugby World Cup.

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Today, the bad news. Captain, Matthew Rees, has been ruled out of

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the competition because of a neck injury.

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Matthew Rees's desperate race to be fit has ended in defeat. Pain-

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killing injections and rest have not cured his neck problem and for

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the sake of his long-term career the decision has been taken to

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operate. Matthew has always got a bit of

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banter and is always laughing and joking but at the moment he is

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walking around not like Matthew Rees because he is always in such

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pain. Another of Wales's first choice front row, Adam Jones, is

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expected to return against Argentina this Saturday after

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recovering from a toe injury and he thinks his captain has made the

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right decision to opt for surgery. It is a big deal to go to the World

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Cup. It does not come around very often. In the end of the day, you

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have got to look after yourself. It will be very sad for him not to be

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there but totally he will be involved. Thoughts now turn to who

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will take over from Matthew Rees as skipper out in New Zealand. Sam

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Warburton filled in for both matches against England and was

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outstanding. He will be rested this Saturday. Gavin Henson meanwhile

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faces a race against time to play any part in New Zealand. He will be

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out for between six to eight weeks after having an operation on a

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dislocated wrist yesterday. The World Cup squad is named a week

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today. The team to face Argentina, tomorrow.

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The team behind the record-breaking attempt on the land speed record in

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an electric car say they won't give up. Despite failing to beat the

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137mph record at Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire yesterday, Joe

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Wales and his father Don say they're working on future Bluebird

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electric cars that could top 500mph within the next two to three years.

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The route for the Welsh stage of the Tour of Britain Cycle Race next

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month has been announced. Starting in Welshpool, the riders will end

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the gruelling 182 kilometre route cycling up Caerphilly Mountain.

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Today, young and old gathered outside the castle to celebrate the

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The tour of Britain makes up one of the most top races. Some of the

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biggest name in sport will be here. This stage could be one of the

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crucial stages to shake the whole overall standing of the race,

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particularly with the climb at the end. Cardiff City are top of the

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Championship table after their opening two games. The Bluebirds

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beat Bristol City 3-1 at home with goals from Mark Hudson, new

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signings, Craig Conway and Robert Earnshaw.

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Nearly 24,000 here today and a real good performance. They saw goals

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and the energy. I saw passion and the fans and that is what I want to

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see week-in, week-out. They care about that more than a thing.

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Confidence is growing, slowly. Watching them win was brilliant.

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Today, I think we will bang on. Confidence was up. The fitness is

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getting there. Everybody is starting to gel together very

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quickly. It is all about Swansea tonight. Back to Claire now in

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Manchester. Welcome back. Perfect timing, you

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can see some of the players such as come as for a look around of the

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pitch. The fans gave them a huge cheer. A bake warm welcome. Out

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there is Garry Monk. He led them to the play-off final at Wembley at

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the end of the -- at the end of May. He talked to us about the homes of

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this season. He can not what that play-off final, he says it gives

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hints -- goose bumps. I have not lost the fall game yet.

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-- watched the fall game. I fast-forward the two goals and I

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That could have been a game say that.

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Then I fast-forward to the penalty and then it to the end. I have not

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watched it right through yet. We would definitely be competitive,

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I can tell you that. We will not lie down at all. We will give our

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all and with the crowd behind us, the fans we have got here and the

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belief we have in ourselves, I to do believe we will surprise a few

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teams this season. We have got to go out there and give our all.

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Everybody is talking about this team and that team, they've got

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this amount of money and that amount of money. The whole season

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is going to be a great adventure for this.

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You can't go away. There will be times when it will be tough and

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people will be asking if we can sustain it. How can we go away from

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that? The gaffer believes in us, the fans and everyone. We need to

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take that belief and using it as motivation and push on.

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Every single day, is Swansea fan will want to talk to about a

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certain aspect of the game or something like that. You can't get

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away from it and it is great. It means so much to the city, it is

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not just about Swansea but you are representing a nation. You are

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representing the nation and it is something the boys will realise.

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The all the boys who have been here for a long time will have to make

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sure the new boys will have to know that.

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Let's get the latest weather forecast now. We have seen men of

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the Manchester rain here yet. We It did turn dull and damp across

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Wales Today as patchy rain is heading towards Manchester. It is

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cloudy for kick-off at 7:45pm but an increasing chance of drizzle.

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That band of rain is moving north east across Wales. Occasional heavy

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bursts especially at a higher ground further west. There's

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coastal mist and extensive hill fog and it is staying McGhee with

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temperatures falling no lower than 13 degrees Celsius. It is only a

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few degrees lower than today. If you look at the pressures chart we

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can see that tomorrow is fairly unsettled with low pressure pushing

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in weather front on the Atlantic. An overcast that, mostly light

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drizzle. It will clear during the day leaving behind scattered

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showers and it will slowly become drier later. The wind should ease

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bets there will be humid air coming in so feeling mild. 17 degrees

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Celsius on Cardigan Bay, 20 in front Show. He tried day on

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Wednesday with some sunshine especially in the north. A

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changeable outlook. It is often cloudy of the next couple of days,

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sunny spells with a chance to showers and signs of something

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warmer on Friday and into the weekend. Finally, today's picture

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is from the Vale of Neath. Taken this morning. It is not went to be

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that clear tomorrow morning. -- it How long have you know your

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neighbours? 10 years? 20? How about 76? Kate Bradley and Vi Price from

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Mold met when they were children and have lived next door to each

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other since 1935. The best friends say they are always in each other's

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houses and still take holidays together. Meet Vi at Number 9 and

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Kate at Number 8. These two have been living next

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door to each other through 15 British prime ministers, four

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monarchs and one World War. They knew each other as neighbourhood

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children before their families moved to this street at the same

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time not realising they would end up together.

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We never had a fence, we had a gate and we would go to one another's

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houses. We would walk in and say, can I borrow a drop of milk? If you

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are making steel and it didn't have an onion, we would ask for any

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errors. That is how you get on. Times have changed, including the

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rent. When these were council houses they paid five shillings

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eight pence a week. Kate and Vi put their long relationship down to

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similar personalities. They have even got a similar taste in clothes.

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When she walked in, I said she's got the same frock as me! I wasn't

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going to put this one on but as the first one I grabbed. And usually

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got a skirt and blouse on. It could be chemistry.

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A The pair still visit a pensioners' club once a week and

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take regular trips to Blackpool together. Even when they are away

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from home they are still together. Through good times and that they

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have been through good times and bad times together. It was then the

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rest of their live side by side. David Cameron has said tackling

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Britain's broken society is back at the top of his agenda following

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last the's riots. The Labour leader warned it is knee-jerk gimmicks.

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That is his from mean. The last word from choir in Manchester.

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The players are ready, the fans as certainly read the end it is an

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