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Welcome to Wales today. The top story.

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Bon Marche is sold, nearly half of its stores will close. The break-up

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The other headlines. Why are so many being admitted as

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emergencies for breathing problems? Figures are after a ten-year high.

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This United Kingdom, what English voters think about the way we are

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governed since devolution. The Scottish have got theirs, the

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Welsh have got theirs, why can the English not have theirs?

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Peter Hain admits some in the last government did not want Cardiff Bay

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to have for law-making powers. Wales arrived in Poland as part of

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their Six Nations training. They are reduced to the big freeze

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chamber, but how will our reporter cope with temperatures plummeting

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to -120 degrees? I can barely feel my legs! I want

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Good evening. It is the beginning of the break-up

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of peacocks. 1400 jobs and 160 stores around Britain will go at

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Bon Marche, the clothing chain which formed part of the collapse

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Welsh we Taylor. It is being sold to a private equity company. There

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are just under 30 stores in Wales. Some of the staff have been told

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what is happening, others say they have been left in the dark. 230

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stores saved, but not without some casualties. Yes, on Thursday, we

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found out that half of the staff at the HQ in Cardiff have been made

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redundant, and another significant day in what is the break-up of the

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group as we know it. Bon Marche, the Yorkshire-based retailer chain

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bought by the Peacock Group 10 years ago, it has been sold to a

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private equity company. 27 stores in Wales. In the UK, at 160 stores

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will close, 230 remaining. 2400 staff remaining. To some extent, it

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could have been worse. Considering this company is obviously insolvent.

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We do not know exactly which stores will close and which ones will

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survive. To get a bit of reaction, we have been out in Aberystwyth.

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These shoppers told us they are concerned.

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I am disappointed at what is happening. All of the charity shops

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and temporary shops, it is really sad. Very sad. We will miss it. My

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mother will be 99, I purchased a lot of things from here. It is

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ideal. It holds a niche market. For my sort of age. I quite often come

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here and chop. -- shop. It has got a good selection of women's clothes.

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Let's talk about Peacocks. The administrators are trying to sell

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it. Any developments? The fate of 600 stores and concessions

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belonging to them around the UK, it is uncertain. Attempts by the

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administrator to try to find a buyer will begin in earnest this

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week. The financial books will be made available to any organisations.

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We are told 100 companies have expressed an interest in purchasing

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the company. That should come as some relief and hope to the staff,

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hoping to save their jobs. In terms of the Time Inc, there is no

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specific deadline for any first round bits, but we would expect the

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process to take around a week. Emergency admissions to hospital

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caused by lung diseases have reached a ten-year high. Last year

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saw his huge rise in cases of pneumonia. Patients are having to

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wait too long for support to help manage their conditions.

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Day and night, whenever she goes, Shelley Richards has to stay

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connected to her oxygen supply. She has COPD. It is something she can

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manage most days, but there have been emergencies. They have caused

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her to be rushed to hospital. a nightmare. It is so frightening.

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You just wonder what they will be able to do to make it easier.

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Unfortunately, you are left on a trolley until they find you a bed.

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You do not always get on to the board. Then, you get frightened.

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One in five of the Welsh population has some form of lung disease, with

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it the asthma, into seam-up or bronchitis. It is taking its toll

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on our hospitals. Last year, there were 46,000 emergency admissions.

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That includes an 18% rise in one year in cases of pneumonia, by far

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the biggest rise for any loan condition. Why the big increase?

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Doctors say they could be a link to flu cases, but they warned there is

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also an underlying trend. We are an ageing population, and older people

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are more likely to suffer from chest complaints, especially

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pneumonia. Over time, there has been a substantial increase in

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certain diseases, particularly those associated with smoking.

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the NHS is to cope, the British Lung Foundation says it has to

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improve. It is not fair to people with them and conditions if they

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have to wait for something like Pulmonary rehabilitation, because

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the evidence shows how beneficial it is for them, but also how could

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it is for the NHS, because it reduces hospital admissions.

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Welsh government admit that access to clinics varies across Wales.

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They say every hot port now has a plan to try and ensure demand is

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being met -- every every year. Church leaders have united against

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proposals to make everyone and organ donor unless they opt for it.

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They say the plans are ill judged, and data not believe presumed

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consent will lead to more transplants. The Welsh government

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says it wants as many people as possible to debate the matter.

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They said that man who died after a light aircraft crashed last week

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has been named as Steve Carr. His family said he was a devoted and

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loving father, husband, brother and front. The experienced pilot was

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flying with Bob Jones, the manager of mid-Wales Airport.

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The neighbour of a pregnant teenager stabbed to death before

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her flat was set on fire frantically tried to wake her, a

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murder trial has heard. Nikitta Grender died two weeks before she

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was due to give birth. Her neighbour told Newport Crown Court

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that she knocked on the flat door for 10 minutes after realising

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there was a fire inside. Carl Whant denies killing her.

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A grown in number of English voters think devolution has made the way

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Britain is governed for us. A report in Cardiff and Edinburgh

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universities found a shop rise in the number of English NEETS thought

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the Welsh Assembly has had a negative impact. Carwyn Jones has

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called for a convention to discuss the future.

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The two countries separated by Offa's Dyke. Now, it seems, by

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different opinion. After two successive yes votes in recent

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referenda, we know that people in Wales have been in favour of

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greater devolution. But a report out today suggests people in

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England feel they get a poor deal. The report by the IPPR and Cardiff

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and Edinburgh universities found that 31% felt the Welsh Assembly

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had a negative impact on how Britain is governed. That is

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compared to 11% in 2007. About a quarter, 26%, felt that Wales had

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its fair share of UK public spending. Only 7% felt England had

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its fair share. 79% favoured a proposal that only English MPs

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could vote on matters which affect England alone. Therefore, we get

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the picture that English voters are becoming more assertively English.

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The whole nature of the post devolution UK, which is

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increasingly a concern to English voters, only a quarter of English

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voters want to continue to be governed in the same way that

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England is governed by and reformed institutions of Westminster. They

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want to see something changed. the Severn bridge in Bristol, there

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are contrasting views about any English side effects from

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devolution. In Scotland and Wales, different things happen. We have to

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pay for prescriptions, they do not. People are beginning to feel, if

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they want to go alone, maybe we should. Maybe we should stand up

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for being English a bit more and ask for things more. Just as they

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do. Growing uneasiness is more reason to set up a constitutional

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convention, says the First Minister. If these findings are correct, at

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more impetus to the need to make sure that a thought is given to

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what the structure of the UK should be like in the years to come.

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Should Westminster give Wales more powers? It is a question being

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debated by the Silk Commission. Another commission is looking at

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whether Welsh MPs should vote on matters which affect England. That

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suggestion could appease what seems to be a current number of voters in

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England who feel their voice is being diluted.

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No Welsh, please, you are in prison. The Prison Service has been accused

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of undermining the rights of a Welsh-speaking Kinect by preventing

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him from using his own language. He is serving a 16 month sentence near

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Stockton-on-Tees in the north-east of England. The Prison Service says

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he can use Welsh but only if he gives them 48 hours' notice.

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Deprived of his liberty, but should a Welsh-speaking prisoner have

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restrictions put on his right to choose his own language? His mother

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knows where she stands. Welsh is her son's first language, she says.

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His own son does not speak English at all, but English is the language,

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she says, they are being forced to use in telephone calls. He should

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be in prison for what he has done, but do not punish us. He needs

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punishing, but we do not, we have not done anything. Why do we have

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to talk English? He was jailed for 16 months here after he admitted

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aggravated vehicle taking and assault. He served part of his

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sentence in prisons in the north- west of England. His family said

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there was no problem there about him speaking Welsh on the telephone.

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The difficulties began when he was moved to a prison on Teesside. It

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is a relatively modern jail which can accommodate more than 1200

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prisoners. The Prison Service website says it serves primarily

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communities on Teesside, Durham and North Yorkshire. A spokesperson

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The case has prompted fresh calls for a prison in north Wales. This

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would not have happened, had he been kept in a jail in can often or

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somewhere close. It is a complete injustice. The Prison Service say

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he might be able to speak Welsh if he gives two days' notice. That is

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fair enough, but what the Prison told me was, it is expensive, they

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cannot do that. That is not good enough. It is not good enough for

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his mother. She says she will not give up on this without a fight.

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Her son continues to serve out his sentence. He is due to be released

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in June. Much more to come before 7pm.

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It is a trip to Dublin to take on the reigning European champions,

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Leinster. The Cardiff Blues secured their place in the last eight of

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the Heineken Cup. What happens when you freeze aid

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would be reported? He gets the same training as Warren Gatland's Six

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Campaigners in command and say they are considering legal action to

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stop a housing development that could see over 1,000 new homes

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being built. Carmarthen West was earmarked for 600 houses in 2006

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but under a new development plan, that could double to 1,200.

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It's on these green fields that the council believes the count -- the

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town of Carmarthen should expand. Come off and has a population of

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about 15,000. That could increase by 81 10th. The latest plan, due to

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run from 2016 onwards, calls for more than 1,000 new homes to be

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built here. The county council maintain the area behind me was

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designated for 600 houses in 2000 - - in 2006. Opponents say any new

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houses should be developed in the new plan which is currently being

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drawn up. We think people have been misled

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during the consultation process last summer to object to this

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development I am not aware of what any grounds for a judicial review

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would be. The extent is not changing. We are

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being quoted a figure of 600 instead of 1,200. Some of that 600

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has already been delivered and the programme of the next few faces

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would not exceed that figure before 2016.

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Supporters of the new homes say they will build -- bring investment

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to the town but opponents say it will put a strain on services and

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damage the Welsh language. The battle for the future of

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Carmarthenshire could be decided by the courts.

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Nearly 50 factory workers in Swansea could lose their jobs after

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bosses announced plans to move production to Germany and Holland.

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company says it'll be discussing the move with staff and unions.

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Opera star, Bryn Terfel is moving his summer music festival from

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Gwynedd to London. The Faenol Festival has been cancelled in

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recent years due to poor ticket sales. It started in 2000 and

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attracted big names in music to North Wales, including Jose

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Carreras and Shirley Bassey. The Welsh festival will be held this

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year at the South Bank Centre's 21 acre site in July.

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Ministers in the last Labour government tried to block plans to

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give the National Assembly full law-making powers. That's according

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to the former Secretary of State for Wales, Peter Hain, in his

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memoirs, published today, Mr Hain says some Cabinet colleagues were

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obstructive and that Tony Blair never gave Wales proper respect and

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attention. He has been speaking to our correspondent.

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It is a background unique among Welsh politicians. He began in

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South Africa, where his parents were imprisoned and bound for anti-

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apartheid activity. Some of my earliest memories are

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being woken in the middle of the night and being told my parents

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were jailed at the age of 11. Peter Hain made his own name

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fighting apartheid from exile in Britain before winning the Neath

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by-election 20 years ago. He spent seven years as Secretary of State

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for Wales. I'm really looking forward to

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working with Rhodri Morgan, both in taking forward Wales to be a world-

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class Wales and making sure that I can support the Assembly.

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He tells of her cabinet colleagues threatened to derail his plans to

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give the Assembly full law-making powers.

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Principally John Prescott, to some extent Jack Straw and Rita Geoff

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Hoon, who were obstructive. -- later Geoff Hoon. I had to say to

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the Cabinet, you either back me on this or I can't do the job.

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Last year's referendum earned full law-making powers. The Wales office

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was downgraded and he said that was evidence Tony Blair and his team

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never gave Wales the proper respect and attention given to Scotland. Mr

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Hain's ministerial career was interrupted by a criminal

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investigation into donations to his campaign to become deputy leader.

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I sincerely regret the mistake in declaring donations late.

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He was cleared but the book reveals how he received a sympathetic

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letter from the Prince of Wales, something which would have shocked

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the younger, more radical Peter Hain.

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Not only did I never imagined I would be getting letters from the

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Prince of Wales, I might have been horrified by the thought as I was

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carried by police officers down Downing Street.

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He admits he has moved to the centre since his live -- his youth

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and says the younger Peter Hain would have thought he had become

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more establishment. Cardiff Blues take on a Leinster in

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the Heineken Cup quarter-finals. The Blues were thrashed their

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earlier this season but they hope to pull off a major shock after

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securing a place in the last eight with a dramatic victory in their

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final pool match. Qualifying for a European quarter-

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final is a major achievement yet if there weren't many players

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celebrating after beating racing Metro. Word had come through from

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Scotland that rivals Edinburgh had one and got a bonus point. That

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meant they topped the group, smashing a home quarter-final which

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could and should have been the Blues.

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The Welsh region had only managed three tries in their final pool

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game. Lloyd Williams pounced on a charge down for the first before

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Alex Cuthbert crossed twice after the ball had bounced county --

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kindly on both occasions. As news from Edinburgh filtered through,

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the Blues went in search of the bonus point. Richie Rees ultimately

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just a few inches away from booking a home quarter-final for the side.

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That meant any celebrations were muted. Players and fans both

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realising that they now faced a much harder task in the quarter-

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finals. On tonight's performance, I don't

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think they would go further. If we had a proper outside half, we

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might have qualified. On this campaign and then, I cannot

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see us beating Leinster. They got every chance, they need to

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pay more enthusiastically. The Scarlets European campaign also

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continues after Aaron Shingler's sprint helped them beat Castres.

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They now face brief in the quarter- finals.

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Swansea City's the say of winning promotion has contributed to a loss.

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The club board say bonuses and transfer fees were among the

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reasons but income from the first season in the Premier League should

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cancel out the losses next year. Frustration for Swansea this

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weekend. Despite dominating possession against Sunderland, they

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couldn't find a way through. Martin O'Neill's side won the three points.

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In the championship, plenty of goals at Cardiff City game against

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Portsmouth but a winner saw them fight back to win 3-2. They face

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Crystal Palace in the Carling Cup semi-final tomorrow. Wrexham beat

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Kettering and Newport County drew against Forest Green.

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The Wales Millennium Centre will be home to 600 judo competitors over

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the next few days instead of the usual musical entertainment. 24

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nations will compete in the judo championships. The over-thirties

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were in action today with the juniors competing tomorrow. The

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Welsh team consists of 70 members, one of which is Tracey Hall, he got

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back into the sport after encouraging her sons.

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To be honest with you, my nerves, I thought I couldn't do it but when I

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got on the mat, everything comes back to you. Undead I've done it. I

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wouldn't be on stage with anything else.

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14 hours a day of intensive training and sessions inside a

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cryotherapy chamber where temperatures plummet to -120

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degrees. All in a day's work for the Wales rugby squad. They have

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just arrived in Poland for the sessions. Gethin Jenkins hasn't

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troubled due to a knee injury. The regime seemed to pay-off last year

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at the World Cup but how would you cope with what has been dubbed the

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evil sauna? Our reporter went to see what it takes to handle the

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deep freeze. Wales began their preparation for

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the World Cup in the centre of Poland. This time they are back but

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on the northern Baltic coast. The training centre is located 50 miles

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north, right on the coast. The government owned facility will

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offer the Welsh squad everything they need. One of the main reasons

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for returning to Poland is the belief in the positive benefits of

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cryotherapy. You get into the chamber, which can

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be anything from -128 to -150. It allows us to do a lot of training.

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Explosive movements and then into skill sets. That is really

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important to us. We have only got a limited time to prepare.

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A couple of times you get a bit nervous going in there because you

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can't see anything that is in front of you. It is freezing cold.

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Personally, it is not too bad. You get in your little place and sing a

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song. No point coming all the way to

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Poland without trying this out but at 100 -- at -120 degrees, it seems

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to have a cold and I am slightly apprehensive. I have some

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compulsory kit and I'm going to do some tests to see if I am fit

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Oh, God. I can barely feel my legs. I want to swear. I shouldn't. That

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was an experience. I don't think I want to do it again.

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The Baltic coast is a pretty dull, grey, uninspiring place this time

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of year, much like the centre behind me. That is precisely the

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point. No temptations, no distractions, plenty of hard work

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for the players. That formula worked ahead of the World Cup. It's

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hoped the same thing will happen again before the Six Nations.

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He is a brave man. Any attack -- I wouldn't rule out a cold snap in

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February. Keep your vest handy, Jamie. It will turn milder tomorrow

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but as is often the way, that will bring some rain and drizzle. This

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evening his drive with clearer skies for a time and chilly.

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Temperatures for bingo enough for a touch of frost here and there.

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Milder on the Pembrokeshire coast. After midnight, the temperatures

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will start to rise with cloud bringing the rain. Tomorrow she has

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a warm front moving across Britain, introducing mild and moist air from

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the Atlantic. Tomorrow morning it is all change again. Cloudy and wet

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with heavy rain and poor visibility. Lots of mist and hill fog.

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Temperatures on the race. Nine Celsius in Carmarthenshire. We will

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all see some rain tomorrow. It should ease of during the afternoon

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but not completely private some patchy light rain and drizzle. Top

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temperatures 11 Celsius. A moderate to fresh south-westerly breeze.

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Wednesday is cloudy and windy. A little rain and drizzle. Fresh and

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strong winds. Gales through the Irish Sea. Thursday will bring a

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change, turning cold. Some of the showers heavy with a bit of snow on

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the mountains. Friday is dry and bright with some sunshine. The wind

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easing as well and at the moment, the weekend looks promising. High

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pressure bringing sunshine and frost. Our picture this evening is

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from will Lewis. These clouds are called Wave clouds. You can read

:26:45.:26:55.
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more about those on my blog. And the headlines again. Plans to

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impose a �26,000 cap on what any family could receive on benefit

:26:59.:27:04.

have run into stiff opposition in the House of Lords. A further vote

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on whether a child benefits should be excluded from that cap is

:27:07.:27:13.

currently under way. Staff who work for the clothing

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chain Bonmarche are waiting to hear whether their jobs will be safe.

:27:18.:27:22.

The company has been sold to a private equity company. As part of

:27:22.:27:28.

that deal, 160 stores will close around the UK with a loss of 1,400

:27:28.:27:32.

jobs. We are on Facebook and you can find

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