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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story: Parts of England are in

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drought, but Welsh Water says it's too expensive to pipe ours over the

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Our other headlines tonight: The worldwide search for the best

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professors on Earth. A �50 million head hunt to attract the best

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brains. * Professor Tom love grove more

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than pay for themselves. -- star professors.

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Also tonight: 150,000 of us need social services. Now, a promise to

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give more control over care, and end the post code lottery. And,

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Casualty, Upstairs Downstairs and Dr Who move in together.

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The official opening of the BBC's largest drama studios in Britain.

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Good evening. In tonight's sport: Swansea City beat the Premier

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League leaders. Now, how high can they go?

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And, after "arriverderci, Italy", now we can all focus on the Grand

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Good evening. Dwr Cymru Welsh Water has said it

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would be too expensive to pump water from Wales to areas of

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England that are being put on drought warning. Today, it's been

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announced a hosepipe ban will be put in place in south east England

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where water supplies are running low. Our environment correspondent

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Iolo ap Dafydd is at the Llwyn Onn Reservoir in the Brecon Beacons.

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Allows you can see, this reservoir is full to capacity. This question

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is asked when parts of England are in drought, and politicians in

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Wales and in England see the plentiful supply here, as either a

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potential way to profit, or a national asset which should be

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shared. The first question to ask is how feasible would it be to

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transport Welsh water to dry counties of England?

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A few weeks ago, torrential rain. This reservoir, like most in Wales,

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is full to capacity. The order he is used by Severn Trent customers

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in Wales and England. With water bills increasing, is there any way

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to use one of our most plentiful resources and reduce how much

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customers pay? If Welsh Water was keen to profit by selling over the

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border, how feasible would it be? If it would be great if we could

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sell water to the south east to make a profit for customers in

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Wales. Unfortunately, the cost of moving water to the south east of

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England is prohibitively expensive. The Institute of Civil Engineers is

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preparing a report on water supply. It already States, technically, a

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transfer of water could happen, but at what price? Local transfer of

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water works. We should be using our existing resources, the rivers and

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canals. To build pipelines to transport it is not the way forward.

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Of course, moving water to England is a hugely emotive subject. Think

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back to the 1960s and this. A Welsh committee was moved so low ball

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could take its water from Wales. If this could spell of dry weather

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continued, there could be talk of water shortages in Wales. The

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Environment Agency is urging us to conserve rather than waste water.

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We should not be complacent. We have seen in the previous year, a

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prolonged period of dry weather can lead to deterioration in water

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resources quite quickly. We must take steps to preserve water.

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if weepers of -- prefer sunny days, the local authorities are praying

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for more rain. Is it totally impractical to transport Welsh

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water over the border? We have got an electricity and gas

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grid. For the time being, it does not

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seem as if a water grid is on the cards. It has been called

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impractical. Other people might disagree. One union said today,

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there is no water shortage in Britain, just a lack of capacity of

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moving it from an area where there is plenty to an area where there is

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a shortage. Scottish Water today said they are willing to talk about

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supplying water from trapped stricken areas in England --

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drought. The question is the cost. The Welsh Government has said there

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is no consultation at the moment with the UK government about the

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drought. Are we immune from the drought

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problems here? We are probably not. As this dry weather continues,

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especially if there is a lack of rainfall. Last month we had half

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the rainfall we normally have in February. Very quickly, the water

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in these reservoirs would disappear and we could well be facing a

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potential shortage in future, if we had dry weather. We only have

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capacity for around six months of water up in Wales as it stands now.

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A worldwide search to find the best brains, and bring them here. That's

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what's behind a �50 million project to head hunt the best professors

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from across the globe. The aim is to attract more research funding

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here. The Welsh Government hopes it could bring �27 million pounds

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every year into the economy. Jordan Davies has the story.

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This is a star professor. Chris Mcguigan made over �10 million for

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Cardiff University when he invented and sold a drug that treats

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Hepatitis C. He was head hunted from another university, and now

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the Welsh Government wants to attract more. Since I have been in

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Cardiff, I have brought in at �10 million to Cardiff University,

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spent locally. That is 10 times my salary over the period. These

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professors bring in more money than it costs to employ them. Today, the

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First Minister, Carwyn Jones, chose one of the most advanced labs in

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the country, at GE Healthcare in Cardiff, to launch the �50 million

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Ser Cymru, Stars Wales scheme. have to make sure we have the

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expertise in Wales, that is why this scheme has been launched, to

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bring three new chairs into Wales, who will be leading experts in

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their particular fields. To help us get a bigger share of research

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grant funding. The money, spread over five years, will pay for three

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star professors, their researchers and equipment. The Welsh Government

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want them to focus on life sciences, which includes drugs and medical

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equipment, Green technology, and advanced engineering. Universities

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here have been criticised for not working together, and not applying

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for all the money that's handed out to fund scientific experiments. In

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Scotland, they are capped five times more funding than we

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currently do. Now, the Welsh Government have a goal,-- to

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attract over 5% of UK Research Council money. That'll mean an

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extra �27 million a year for the economy. This will rise to �64

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million when other funding is included. Pupils in North Wales

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attended Bangor Science Festival today, where there was a call for

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more money for home grown talent. We have to look at science and

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research in the world as an ecosystem, there are people

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building up to the highest levels. We have plenty of talent in Wales,

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in Welsh universities at student level and academic level.

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ambition is to provide world class labs like this, producing world

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class science. Science that will provide a bedrock for the knowledge

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economy in Wales. Professor John Harries is the Chief

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Scientific Adviser for Wales. You said in your review of science

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research here, that Wales could do so much better?

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We did a survey of Science and Engineering in Wales, an audit. We

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found that there are some really world class, top-class, excellent

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peaks in our scientific programme, but not enough of them. The reason

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I say that is, we have evidence, from the amount of money we are

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getting from the week -- the UK Research Council, in comparison

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with other nations in the UK, we are not doing as well. �50 million

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is a lot of money. We have, in our strategy which has been published

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today by the First Minister, we have identified three areas of

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priority. One is Life Sciences, one is advanced engineering, the other

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is Environment and ecology and the low carbon. What we can buy for

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that much -- from that money is to attract in a true megastar in sight

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terms, a real leader capable in winning research money, and

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leadership. And provide them with a team of people if they require that.

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And also to talk about whether we can help with equipment.

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Scotland seems to get five times as much UK research grant money.

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Scotland is in an advantageous position. Incidentally, England

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does not do as well as Scotland. Why? In Scotland, there is a well

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established and a large university community. The equivalent of five

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Cardiff universities. And, a long tradition of making that system

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work. We have called up a lot of the Scottish experience, to design

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what we think we need for Wales. A new state-of-the-art hospital has

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been officially opened by the Health Minister. It houses a range

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of community-based services, including a 24 hour emergency

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centre. There are 250 beds, aimed at reducing hospital acquired

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infection rates. The Welsh Government has promised

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more control for people who use social services. The first bill

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under the Assembly's new powers is set to reform how payments are made,

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and when people are eligible for care. Who is this going to effect?

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150,000 people in Wales used Social Services, care, nursing homes, the

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vast majority getting help in their own homes with mobility and

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preparing meals. Those numbers are set to rise because most of us are

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living longer. But there are already tensions in the system. One

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of the biggest problems is perceived in the quality and lack

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of consistency. Two people in different parts of Wales may be

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offered different types of care by different councils. The Welsh

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Government says its new single criteria in this Bill would get

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much greater equality. The Welsh Government is not prepared to stand

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by to see fewer people receiving the services they need. And this

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Bill, it is mainly to create consistency across the country, and

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to meet people's needs in a consistent way. Social services

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also has a reputation for being bureaucratic. Will this improve?

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Yes, often when things go wrong in its Social Services, people get

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lost in a system, they don't feel they are in charge of tailoring the

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care they get. There is already a system of direct payment, this bill

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would increase the number of services people are eligible for,

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they can decide how the money is spent. For people who get care, it

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is frustrating having to cut through the red tape. Earlier, I

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met some people who look after the roams care budgets. We are

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individuals. We employ people. At the same time, when we employ

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people, we have to be responsible. It is chance, really. Doing what

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you want, when you want. Of going wherever you want. And not being

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stuck at home all day. There are also changes on adopting, and

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protecting vulnerable groups. this is a wide ranging bit of

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legislation. It would create a national adoption service.

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Hopefully, it will be the adoption will happen more quickly. A

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national safeguarding body should drive up standards when it comes to

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protecting vulnerable children and adults. This legislation has gone

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to consultation in the next 12 weeks. After that, it may come into

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Much more to come before 7 o'clock: Casualty, Dr Who and Upstairs

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Downstairs all become neighbours. The BBC officially opens the

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largest drama production base in Britain.

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And the smiles say it all for Swansea - still celebrating the

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biggest victory since promotion It's a year since an earthquake off

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the coast of Japan triggered a powerful tsunami. The human toll

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was immense. Thousands of people killed and countless homes

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destroyed. The economic impact of the disaster was felt around the

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world, including here in Wales. The Welsh Government made �4 million

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available to businesses based here that have been hit. Sian Lloyd

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looks at how Japanese businesses have been rebuilding.

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Favouring the flavours of Japanese cuisine you. The annual conference

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in London showcases what the country has to offer. A year after

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the natural disaster which caused so much devastation, the event

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still went ahead, but reminders of the impact of the earthquake and

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tsunami were never far away. This exhibition is all about people

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having fun, but the organisers have an important message to. That

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Japanese businesses at home and abroad are still a feeling the

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effects of the disaster had that happened a year ago. The economic

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aftershock of the earthquake was felt around the world. We worked

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away customer order and a weekly order can vary from 2,500 parts to

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3,000 parts for this particular product. The production line at his

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factory is busy now, completing orders for Toyota and Honda, but

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the effects of the earthquake were felt here. The majority of our

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orders come from Japan, which meant they had to cease supplying the

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parts. Therefore, production stops within our facilities. The Welsh

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Government made money available to businesses affected here through

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the ProAct scheme, designed to help viable businesses cope with the

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downturn. We made �4 million available so that they could put

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their workers on to short-time working but train them at the same

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time so they would not lose them when things started to improve.

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Japanese ambassador to the UK we say blossomed to remember the

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victims of the disaster alongside a daffodil, a symbolic gesture of the

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bond between Wales and Japan. Welsh Government's offer of

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providing financial relief to the companies affected by the

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disruption to the chain was highly reassuring. With 145 staff at this

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factory, it was more than reassuring. The company says it is

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now looking forward to the future with confidence.

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The BBC's largest drama studios in Britain officially opened today in

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Cardiff Bay. Roath Lock Studios is the new home for TV shows like

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Casualty, Upstairs Downstairs and Dr Who. Here's Nick Palit.

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This is Roath Lock, the new home for some of the most popular shows

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Successful dramas like Upstairs Downstairs, filmed in these studios

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and on location nearby, is showing off South Wales to a wider world.

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My father arrived at Ellis Island a Penny Less.

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This new Drama Village in Cardiff Bay was constructed in just 14

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months and is part of the BBC's commitment to produce more network

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drama outside London. We are always asked, is this going to be local

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jobs or people coming from outside, from London? In areas like drama,

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you are going to get a mixture of things. Of course you're going to

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get people from all over the world to work but our experience with

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programmes like Doctor Who, when you do that, if you start

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stimulating local interest, local Training and local jobs. The long-

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running medical drama Casualty, now in its 25th year, has a permanent

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new home here. For some of the Casualty actors, like Charles Dale,

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there's also a sense of coming home. The first thing I have got to say

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is, it is five minutes from my house, which makes a huge

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difference. He is brilliant to have the facilities, to have room in the

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studios, it makes such a difference. This Casualty set is one of nine

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set at Roath Lock Studios. They also make Doctor Who and Upstairs

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Downstairs. The whole facility is 170,000 square feet. That is the

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size of three football pitches. The studios were officially opened this

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afternoon by the First Minister Carwyn Jones. And the BBC, in

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conjunction with the National Theatre of Wales, also announced a

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new drama award giving writers the chance to develop their script.

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This is all about talent from the local area and that is everything

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from writers to set designers, a electricians. Roath Lock is just

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one part of the much larger Porth Teigr project in Cardiff Docks. An

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area which once exported coal to the world will now export culture

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across the globe. Good evening. Swansea City are

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celebrating the biggest victory since their promotion back to the

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top flight. They helped knock Manchester City off the top of the

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Premier League table with a 1-0 victory at the Liberty Stadium. The

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club are now setting their sights on climbing up the table in the

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last ten games. This should have been a mismatch.

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Millionaires against men of modern means. But there are some things

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that money can't buy. Luke Moore's goal just seven minutes from time

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sank the then premier league leaders to give Swansea another

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memorable day in this impressive season in the top flight. If you

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beat Manchester City and you perform like you performed today,

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against one of the best squads in European football, I can't think of

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too many better days. This was not a lucky win. Swansea were good

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value. They missed a penalty early on but continued to create chances

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against the world's most expensive squad. There is also great pride in

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keeping a 10th clean sheet of the season. A trip to Swansea is

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becoming one of the tougher strips of the Premier League season and

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the local fans are loving it. seem to be getting better. They are

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just learning from the last game and are pushing things a level up.

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Swansea are up there with the rest of them. We are not just a poor

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relation. It gives confidence to the team and a good a buzz around

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the city. Swansea are now 14 points clear of the relegation zone. No

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one thinks they will go down now. In terms of points, they are near

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it champions League qualification than relegation. Today, Chris

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Coleman had spade in hand to officially start the building work

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at the new Wales football development centre in a Newport and

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he thinks the only way is up for his old club. They were saved two

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games ago for me. I think they will finish mid-table. It is important

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they don't take their foot off the gas but they can have a real good

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finish to the season. Another big team beaten, Swansea fans hope it

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will keep happening four seasons to come.

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It was actually a great weekend all round for our leading football

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clubs. Cardiff City moved back into the Championship play-off places

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after a 2-1 victory away at Bristol City. They did have a bit of luck.

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Joe Mason getting helpful deflections for both Cardiff goals.

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In the Conference, Wrexham stay second after a 2-0 victory over

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Barrow. They're five points behind Fleetwood with a game in hand. And

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a big Wembley final could be just round the corner for Newport County.

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They'll take a 3-1 advantage into the away leg of their FA Trophy

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semi-final at Wealdstone on Saturday.

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On to rugby, and we're getting used to this now. Wales on the verge of

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another Grand Slam. Captain Sam Warburton is likely to be fit to

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lead Wales for the showdown with France. He was due to undergo a

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fitness test today after missing the win over Italy because of a

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knee injury. Here's Tomos Dafydd. The result against Italy may not

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have been as convincing as hoped, the performance not as fluid. But

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with tries from Jamie Roberts and Alex Cuthbert, another Grand Slam

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is within reach. Having done it in 2005 and 2008, prop Adam Jones is

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now aiming for his third Grand Slam in eight seasons, which would see

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Wales match the success of the '70s. If we win three, we have won three.

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I think it is more for the family. They grow up in the 1970s. Barring

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two freak results next week, Wales have effectively won the

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Championship with one game to go. Now, only France stand between them

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and the Grand Slam. Philippe Saint- Andre's side will arrive here

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having had their hopes of winning the Championship dashed after

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losing at home to England. But France have lost only once on their

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previous visits to the Millennium Stadium - a record Wales will not

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overlook. We told the players immediately after the game on

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Saturday it is going to be a tough week. We are not going to take our

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foot off the pedal. We have learned lessons from the past. Have you

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can't afford to step back. Training is going to be quite tough, quite

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competitive, just in order that we really finished strongly against

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France. And Wales have no new injury concerns for the game and

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the coaches hope skipper Sam Warburton will be back in training

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this week ahead of the Grand Slam showdown on Saturday.

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Let's get the weather forecast. The weather is in a quiet mood with

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a mixture of cloud and sunshine. Mist and fog patches as well. The

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reason for the settled weather is high pressure. Normally

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temperatures fall the higher you go in the atmosphere but when the

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pressure is high a temperature inversion can form. This means the

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top of a hill can end up warmer than the valley below. This has

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been the case today. Tom sent this picture to me on Twitter. It shows

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low cloud, mist and fog trapped below the inversion. While above it,

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it's warm and sunny. Tredegar was one of the warmest places in Wales

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today despite being over 1,000 feet above sea level, but at Aberporth

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on the coast it was much cooler under the cloud. Tonight, cloudy in

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places. Clear in others with some low cloud, mist and fog patches

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forming. The odd spot of drizzle but otherwise dry. Lowest

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temperatures around six degrees Celsius, but where the sky stays

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clear it will be colder with a risk of a ground frost. Tomorrow's chart

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shows high pressure right on top of Britain. Pressing down on us with

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hardly a breath of wind. So, tomorrow morning, a few places will

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wake up to sunshine, parts of the south and Mid Wales, otherwise most

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of the country cloudy. Misty and foggy in places. The odd spot of

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drizzle but generally dry. During the day, a few more places will

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brighten-up. The best of sunshine on the tops of the hills but

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generally more cloud than today. The wind light again and in the

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sunnier spots it will turn out warm. But like recent days it will feel

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cool under the cloud. On Wednesday, it's more of the same. Some cloud,

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mist and fog patches. On Thursday, cloudy in the south and west. A few

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spots of drizzle. Turning more unsettled later in the week with

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some rain and showers. Our picture tonight is from Chris Williams.

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Sunshine and fog on the beach in Hosepipe bans are to be brought in

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across south and east and England next month. Welsh Water said it

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would be too expensive to pump water from Wales to areas of

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England. X-Ray's on in half an hour. Here's

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Lucy and Rhodri with a preview. We will be talking about the sky-

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high prices some rugby fans are prepared to pay for tickets.

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owners are angry after being fined for walking their dog in an

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exclusion zone they say has not been clearly signposted. We are at

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7:30pm. We'll have an update for you at 8pm

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