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Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's headlines:

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Nearly a dozen of its stores will close, but the Peacocks brand is

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saved, along with its Welsh Also tonight:

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Carl Whant will serve at least 35 years in prison for the murder of

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Nikita Grender. She was weeks away Nikkita was young and beautiful.

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Together with Ryan they were about to be proud parents to Kelsey May.

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This was ripped away by Carl Whant, who has never had the decency to

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tell us the truth. The pollution running down this

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rock face came from a fish farm - tonight there are calls for an

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inquiry into the amount of public money it received.

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Why a unique wooden viaduct dating back to the 1800s is to be

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demolished. And Nathan Cleverly lends a hand to

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help boxers from underprivileged countries reach the Olympics.

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I have to be a world-beater. Always, that is my dream. I focus to be a

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Good evening. The high street chain Peacocks has been bought out of

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administration by the Scottish retailer Edinburgh Woollen Mill.

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The deal means 6,000 jobs are saved but just over 3,000 redundancies

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are being made. 11 stores out of the 62 across Wales will close, but

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the Peacocks name survives, as do the three distribution depots in

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south Wales and the headquarters in Cardiff, where our business

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correspondent Nick Servini is for Lucy, it has been an unbearably

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tense time for the staff behind me with the company. It has been in

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administration for a number of weeks. There has been speculation

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as to what is going to happen to it. It has been connection to --

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connected with a major Indian manufacturer, a textile billionaire

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from Japan. An Edinburgh company has won the race and it is fairly

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well recognised brand on the British High Street. Edinburgh

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Woollen Mill. After months of negotiations, a deal at last to

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decide the future of one of the biggest companies in Wales. This is

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what it will mean under the ownership of Edinburgh Woollen Mill.

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388 stores and 50 concessions survive. 224 stores will close. It

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means 6,000 jobs across the UK are saved but there will be 3,000, 100

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-- 3,100 redundancies. The vast majority of the 250 jobs at HQ

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remain and three distribution centres in South Wales, which

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employ nearly 500 people, will still operate. But they will be

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changes on some Welsh High Street. 11 stores will close, including two

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flagship ones in the city centre in Cardiff. Elsewhere, the closures

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are in Cardiff, Newport, Tredegar, Swansea, Carmarthen, Llanelli,

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Fishguard, Flint and the store in Wrexham is to be relocated. This

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was the reaction to the news among the shoppers in Swansea.

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I think any jobs these days that will save it, it's a bonus, isn't

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it? The situation is so bad. It's really good news. Any jobs

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saved his brilliant so there is enough unemployment as there is.

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Any jobs are great. Is not known how much the deal to

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buy the company was worth but administrators say they are pleased

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most of the business has been saved. The atmosphere has been buoyant.

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They are pleased that the sale has taken place. They are very

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concerned about the people who have lost their jobs in the 224 stores

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today. Peacock's went into administration

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a month ago as a result of a debt worth around �750 million. Half of

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the work force were made redundancy almost immediately. The retail

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chain owned by the Peacocks group was sold to send European capital.

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Today's announcement was the final chapter in the story that was

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sparked by the insolvency of Peacocks.

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Is this a good deal for the company?

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It depends who you speak to. For the people who have lost their jobs

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today, they are not. There are 3,000 of those across the UK. As an

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independent, you have to say, it could have been worse. At the

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headquarters behind me, admittedly, they have already lost half the

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staff but we found out today the vast majority of the staff will

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remain here now. Then there is the distribution network in South Wales,

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500 people, as I mentioned. That distribution network will remain.

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Then, in terms of the High Street, 11 out of around 60 of the stores

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will close. The flagship store in the city centre of Cardiff to close.

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The impact on the High Street will be limited. The other thing you

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have to say is that went administrations -- administrators

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are called in, there is always the risk that the business will be

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liquidated. That hasn't happened here and the brand and the company

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has survived this ordeal. Admittedly, about a third of the

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operation will disappear. What are the new owners saying?

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They haven't done an interview tonight. The chief Executive of

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Edinburgh Woollen Mill has given a statement. Let me give you a

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flavour. He says he's looking forward to rebuilding the business

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in a tough economic environment. He has said there is scope to save

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some more jobs in the future but says there is a considerable amount

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of work to try to turn this business around. There is a decent

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chance this will become an efficient operation. The problems

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with Peacocks were never about the operating profits, it was always

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about the deck. The debt has now disappeared and presumably, any

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loss-making stores that did exist are now not part of the

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organisation. It should be a fairly efficient company now run by a

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Scottish organisation. Calculating and devious. The words

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of the judge as he sentenced Carl Whant to 35 years in prison for the

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rape and murder of pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender. The 19-

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year-old from Newport and her unborn baby were killed in her flat

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in February last year. Live to our reporter Nick Palit who's outside

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the flat in the Liswerry area of Newport. Fresh flowers here tonight.

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This is the flat that Carl Whant set fire to, to try and cover his

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murderous tracks. He claimed he'd had consensual sex with the heavily

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pregnant teenager here and had nothing to do with her killing, but

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the jury didn't believe a word of it and found him guilty on all four

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counts. A show of solidarity and sadness on the steps of Newport

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Crown Court. Nikkita Grenders family acknowledge the guilty

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verdicts on Carl Whant, a man that's robbed them of a daughter

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and an unborn grand-daughter. For us to see our grandchild for

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the first time in a mortuary, that was the most heartbreaking thing we

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have ever had to do. Nikita Brenda was so special and will remain in

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our hearts until we die. We will never deal with the tragic events

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that have stolen our family from us but hope that we can start to

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understand what has happened. Nikkita Grender's body was found

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last February in the bedroom of her burnt out flat in the Lliswerry

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area of Newport. A postmortem examination found that her throat

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had been slashed, and she'd been stabbed in the stomach. She'd been

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a lively, sociable young woman, excited about the prospect of

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becoming a mother for the first time. She was expecting a baby

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daughter within a fortnight, and Nikkita and her boyfriend Ryan

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Mayes had already named her Kelsey May. Today, Carl Whant, her

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boyfriend's cousin was found guilty of murder, rape, child destruction

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and arson. The judge, Justice Williams, said

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the murder of Nikki to grander and the death of her unborn child had

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left her family and friends bereft. Their sense of loss compounded by

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the fact that her murderer had also raped her. Sentencing him to a

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minimum of 35 years, he described Carl Whant as calculating, vain and

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devious and said that by setting fire to a bed, he had denied her

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family one last chance to look at her face.

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Nikkita Grender was so young and beautiful and together with Brian,

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they were about to become a very proud that of parents. This has

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been ripped from them by Carl Whant, who has never had the decency to

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tell us the truth. On the night of the murder, Whant had been out with

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a group of friends, including Ryan Mayes. He left the group later on

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and was caught on CCTV several times. He said he was driving to

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his grandmothers house to pick up cigarettes. We now know it was

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during this time he raped and murdered Nikkita and killed her

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unborn child, setting fire to her flat to cover his tracks.

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35 years is the longest sentence I can remember in my 30 years in

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Gwent Police. It is, and reflects, in my view, this absolutely

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terrible crime that was committed by a Carl Whant.

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The court heard how forensic examinations found Nikitta's blood

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on Whant's clothes and in the footwell of his car. The jury was

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also shown pictures of scratches on Whant's arms. It took the jury just

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five hours to convict him on all charges. He now faces a minimum of

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35 years behind bars. Nikitta Grender has been described

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as a popular fun-loving young woman. Jordan Davies reports now on a

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crime which has cast a long shadow over this community.

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Nikitta Grender's death shocked everyone living on the Broadmead

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Park Estate in the Lliswerry area of Newport. A popular young woman,

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Nikitta was two weeks away from becoming a mother. Initially it was

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thought she'd died in a tragic accident after her flat caught fire.

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At 9am on 5th February, a senior fire officer investigated the flat.

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He said something didn't look right. From then on, the emphasis of the

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investigation shifted to include something more sinister. Police

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stepped up patrols in the area as part of their inquiry. Then, late

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one night, that inquiry became a murder investigation.

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Gwent Police confirm we are involved in a murder inquiry. Post

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mortem has shown that Nikkita Grender was stabbed, a weapon,

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believed to be a knife, has not yet been found but this is a priority

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for the search teams. Jade White, a family friend lives a few doors

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down from where Nikitta died. Every time I go out the front door

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and see a flat boarded-up, you think about it all the time. I've

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got a little niece. Nikkita Grender's baby would have been a

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couple of months younger than her. Many of Nikitta's close family and

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friends live in the streets surrounding her home. They say the

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estate has changed since that day a year ago.

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There are several families here it that they are going to have to live

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with the consequences of what has happened. You have to feel for them.

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Those are innocent people. The person that committed the crime has

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got what was coming, he's got what he deserved.

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500 people attended Nikita Grenders' funeral at St John's

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Church in Maindee, many wore pink as a mark of respect. The numbers

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showed the strength of local feeling, and it was there again

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today as Carl Whant was jailed - a packed public gallery in court,

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emotions riding high as justice was In addition to the rape, murder and

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arson charges, Carl Whant also faced one of child destruction.

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That is a rarely used charge but the Crown Prosecution Service said

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they thought it was extremely important to mark the death of

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Kelsey may as well. They used the Infant Life Preservation Act of

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1929 to do that. It was originally set up to combat backstreet

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abortionists but can also be applied to other cases. It was

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broadly designed to help protect the rights of the unborn child that

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is capable of being born alive. Kelsey met that description.

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Hundreds of children were sent home today after metal thieves stole

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copper piping from a school's heating system. The theft caused

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thousands of pounds of flooding damage at Ysgol Gyfun Llanhari in

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Rhondda Cynon Taf. Thieves broke into the boilerhouse overnight to

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take copper piping. The school, which has had lead stolen from the

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roof before, will reopen tomorrow. An investigation into commercial

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and operational activities at Aberystwyth University has

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concluded there was no evidence of fraud or corruption. But there were

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failures to follow due process. The Vice Chancellor said today there

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was evidence of overspending on certain projects and some members

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of staff have been suspended. There are clearly some areas where

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we need to make improvements in the way that we work and that is to do

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with management and governance and adherence to arrow and processes.

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The processes were in place but not everyone has adhered to those in

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the past. The Welsh Government has written to

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the Race Equality Charity, Awema, to try and reclaim any public money

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it still holds, the Assembly was told today. The charity is being

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wound up after an inquiry found there was financial mismanagement

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and conflicts of interest. Its chief executive Naz Malik and

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finance director Saquib Zia were dismissed last week. Live now to

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the Senedd and our Welsh Affairs I understand the government faced

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quite a grilling over AWEMA today. The opposition parties are angry

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not just about what they think has been going on at AWEMA but what

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they see as government stonewalling about the fact they have been

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written statements, not statements giving in the assembly. They say

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the government is refusing to answer crucial questions, not so

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much about the current situation which everyone except has to be

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investigated, but about the past relationship between the government

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and AWEMA, particularly given that some of its senior figures had

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close connections to the Labour Party. Here is Peter Black.

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Government ministers received warning after warning from people

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inside and outside the organisation after misconduct happening within

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AWEMA. Can the Minister assure us that she and her colleagues, who we

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believe have repeatedly failed, have acted appropriately at all

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stages? That individual relationships with AWEMA members

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did not compromise the scrutiny of that body? How did the Government

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respond? Assembly Members did not get that many answers to the

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questions. There were a couple of development. The ministers

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reassured Assembly Members that the Audit Office inquiry would go all

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the way back to 1999, that it would look at the whole history of AWEMA

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and its relationship with the Welsh Government and there would be an

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attempt to claw back any public money it still had. The Welsh

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Government acted immediately. We informed AWEMA that the money would

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be terminated with immediate effect will stop a letter has gone today

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to protect our interests and stating a claim in respect of

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funding they currently hold. Assurances from the Minister that

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when will the various inquiries be completed? Not from the audit

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office until the summer pop, probably. We are looking at the

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possibility of it all going to court.

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Still to come tonight: It dates back to the 1800s - why

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this unique wooden viaduct could soon be knocked down.

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And how Wales is helping boxers from under-privileged countries

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There's been a call for an inquiry into the amount of public funding

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given to a fish farm which polluted the environment. Selonda UK, based

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near Beaumaris on Anglesey, received more than �4 million from

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the European Union and Welsh Government. Today, its former

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managing director admitted failing to comply with environmental

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regulations. He was given a conditional discharge. The company

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will be sentenced next month. It was set up to put Wales at the

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forefront of fish production. State-of-the-art, environmentally

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friendly. The waste would be treated in reed beds. It was set up

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with millions of pounds of public money. The ambition was there. A

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clean, green, high-value business, but Selonda UK failed. It alluded a

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fragile marine environment and it failed financially to, despite all

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that money from the public purse. The business was built in a disused

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quarry yards from the sea and this is what Environment Agency

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officials found when they visited Selonda UK in 20th August 10. A

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pipe carrying better and discharging directly into the coast.

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It left the cliff-face stained white by sodium hydroxide, a

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chemical used to adjust the acidity of water. This pollution landed the

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company in court. But there is evidence of other environmental

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failings. Waste from the tanks was supposed to be cleaned up by the

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Natural action of the reed bed built alongside the plant. But for

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a time at least the system was not working. Selonda UK tried to hide

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it. There were certain things that we felt the company and the

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individuals on site had been hiding from us. There were discharges

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taking place that we did not know about until we found and did more

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investigations on the site. Witnesses have told us there were

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practices on the site deliberately intended to deceive us. Questions

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are now being asked about financial aspects of Selonda UK's business

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and the amount of public money used to create just 30 jobs. Selonda UK

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was a 50-50 partnership. This website boasts that half of the

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investment costs came in non- refundable grants from the European

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Union and the government of Wales. We have identified a string of

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payments from Europe and the Welsh Government totalling more than 4.2

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�5 million. �1.2 million was all the business would fall when it was

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sold out of administration in January. There are clearly lessons

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that need to be learnt. This was a bus to be a highly environmentally

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friendly project. They have pleaded guilty to pollution and under �4

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million has gone into this company. It has been sold for less than �1.5

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million. There are clear questions that need to be answered. After the

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buyout, the company was renamed. The Environment Agency says it is

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now working to make sure the new business operates properly.

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Tributes have been paid to the former leader of the Welsh Liberal

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Party Lord Hooson, who's died at the age of 86. Emlyn Hooson was a

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distinguished lawyer and a QC. He was the MP for Montgomeryshire

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between 1962 and 1979. Here's our Political Correspondent, Tomos

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Livingstone. Few people did more to keep the

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Liberal flame alive in Wales than Emlyn Hooson. For many years, he

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was the party's only Welsh MPs. His response to the electoral rise of

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Labour and Plaid Cymru was to form the Welsh Liberal Party as a

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distinct organisation. Today the tributes poured in from across the

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political spectrum. Although we were in different parties, I don't

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think I ever found myself having a cross word with him. He was

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invariably polite and generous of spirit and that is how he talked to

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anyone, disagreeing or not. He was clear and powerful in speech and

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incredibly able and sharper. think he kept the flame of liberals

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isn't burning in Wales. -- liberalism. He developed the ideal

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of federal structure. Emlyn Hooson enjoyed a glittering legal career.

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At 35 he became the youngest ever young Welsh lawyer to be appointed

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a QC. In 1966, he was given the task of defending Ian Brady. He was

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made a peer in 1979 and worked as a non-executive director at Laura

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Ashley. Today, the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, Kirsty

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Williams, said he cared for the people of Montgomeryshire and Wales.

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A new �20 million road and rail bridge in Penrhyndeudraeth in

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Gwynedd has been given the go ahead. It will replace the existing Pont

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Briwet crossing which was built in 1867. The bridge, which includes a

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toll house, is unique as it's a wooden viaduct used by trains and

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cars. Time has taken its toll on Pont

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Briwet. Last owned by Sir Osmond Williams, 2nd Baronet, the bridge

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was built 145 years ago to span the River Dwyryd. In summer though it's

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single carriageway causes headaches for drivers. Try and imagine what

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it is like in summer when we have thousands of visitors coming to the

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area and they are not prepared to wait on a rainy day especially up

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to half an hour, sometimes, to go over the bridge. For years there've

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been various plans to create a new crossing. It has not always been

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popular with local people and visitors because the road simply

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was not built to cope with modern traffic. The narrow lane and the

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tall means some people have long wanted a replacement. Snowdonia

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National Park planners approved the plan to demolish the wooden viaduct

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and tollhouse to make way for a new rail and road bridge. It will cost

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�20 million but many believe it'll be money well spent. We see

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considerable benefits because at the moment it is a tourism area but

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the planning permission has gone through forepeak development of an

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airfield and we see this as a source of alternative jobs, better

:24:01.:24:05.

job opportunities and therefore increasing the financial situation

:24:05.:24:08.

for the coast. The Welsh historic monuments body Cadw could yet

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object to the demolition of the Grade 2 Listed structure, but

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supporters of the scheme say only part of the bridge still contains

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original elements. Wales is hosting an Olympic

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training camp this week, but none of the athletes taking part are

:24:26.:24:29.

Welsh or even British. Boxers from 44 underdeveloped countries are

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being coached at Cardiff University to give them a better chance of

:24:32.:24:34.

qualifying for London 2012. Our sports reporter Ashleigh Crowter

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went along too. The Olympics brings the world

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together. In fact, it is already happening in Wales five months

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before the London Games begin. 68 boxes from 44 countries, both men

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and women, drawn from all five continents are here for the next

:24:53.:24:58.

three weeks for an intensive training camp. It is organised by a

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amateur boxing's world governing body who want to help boxers from

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developing countries to compete on a more level playing field. We want

:25:08.:25:12.

to qualify for the upcoming World Championships and perform much

:25:12.:25:18.

better. Cardiff University beat rival bids from France and England

:25:18.:25:22.

to host the camp and today it invited back Davies and maths

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graduate to pass on his expertise. Nathan Cleverly will defend his

:25:26.:25:32.

world title in Cardiff on Saturday and he proved to be an inspiration.

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I am happy to meet him because when I talked to him I also want to be a

:25:40.:25:44.

world champion. It is good for them to use the facilities we have got

:25:44.:25:50.

and give them the best opportunity they can have. They are training

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with the best coaches and it gives them the best chance possible to

:25:54.:25:59.

qualify for the Olympic Games. is a truly international event but

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it will also leave a real legacy in Wales because as a direct result of

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this camp, for the first time, Wales has its own Olympic-sized

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ring to be used by a future generation of Welsh amateur boxers.

:26:13.:26:17.

Colin Jones is in charge of the camp. He competed in the Olympics

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in Montreal in 1976. Going to the Olympic Games was something special.

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It leaves a mark on you. It is a good mark. If some of these could

:26:30.:26:37.

qualify, it is a life-changing event. This will not be the last

:26:37.:26:40.

association with the Olympics for Cardiff University. They will be

:26:40.:26:49.

hosting a camp and the Australian Paralympics team later this year.

:26:49.:26:58.

Wet and windy today. Derek, you did The worst is over but a few rivers

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are swollen. At the moment, there is one flood warning on the River

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Conwy between Llanrwst and Trefriw and a few flood alerts. Tomorrow

:27:06.:27:12.

will be drier and mild. Less windy too. Some parts of the country will

:27:12.:27:16.

enjoy a taste of spring, but not everywhere. Temperatures in

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Holywell rising to 15 degrees Celsius. Only 11 Celsius in

:27:21.:27:25.

Hayscastle. Tonight will be cloudy and damp. Low cloud, mist, hill and

:27:25.:27:29.

coastal fog as well. The wind easing and very mild. Lowest

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temperatures around nine to 11 degrees Celsius. Tomorrow, the air

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over Britain will have come from the Tropics, but I can't promise a

:27:35.:27:40.

clear, blue sky. As the air crosses the sea it will form low cloud. And

:27:40.:27:44.

that's what we can expect tomorrow. Low cloud, mist and murk. Hill and

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coastal fog. Some poor visibility. Spots of drizzle and it will be

:27:48.:27:50.

very mild. Even at eight in the morning, temperatures will be

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around 11 degrees Celsius in Welshpool. So, mild tomorrow, but

:27:53.:27:56.

most of the country grey and misty. A little drizzle, but otherwise dry.

:27:56.:28:00.

The best of the weather in parts of the north and east. Dry and

:28:00.:28:02.

brightening-up with a little sunshine. Not as windy as today

:28:02.:28:05.

with temperatures above average. 11 to 15 degrees Celsius. Along the

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south and west coast tomorrow, it will be grey and misty with fog

:28:08.:28:10.

patches. Temperatures in Pendine around 11 degrees Celsius. However,

:28:10.:28:14.

in parts of the north and east it will feel more like spring.

:28:14.:28:16.

Temperatures in Colwyn Bay reaching 15 degrees Celsius. Friday less

:28:16.:28:20.

mild. Some rain and drizzle spreading south. Mist and fog

:28:20.:28:24.

patches. Into the weekend, the weather will improve. Saturday will

:28:24.:28:28.

be dry with some sunshine. Temperatures lower with light winds.

:28:28.:28:31.

Sunday will start dry but clouding over with a little rain. If you're

:28:31.:28:34.

heading to Twickers for the rugby, the weather will be ideal. Dry with

:28:34.:28:37.

light winds. Temperatures a fresher 8 degrees Celsius. And it should be

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dry in Wembley for the football on dry in Wembley for the football on

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The high street chain Peacocks has been bought out of administration

:28:49.:28:52.

by the Scottish retailer Edinburgh Woollen Mill. The deal means 6,000

:28:52.:28:55.

jobs are saved, but just over 3,000 redundancies are being made, with

:28:55.:29:00.

11 stores in Wales to close. And Carl Whant has been sentenced

:29:00.:29:04.

to 35 years in prison for the rape and murder of pregnant teenager

:29:04.:29:07.

Nikitta Grender. The 19-year-old from Newport and her unborn baby

:29:07.:29:10.

were killed in her flat in February last year. The judge described

:29:10.:29:16.

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