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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story:

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On a visit to Wales, the Prime Minister criticises Labour's record

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on education. I make no apology whatsoever for coming to Wales

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today and pointing out that when it comes to health care and education,

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we are in real danger of falling Tonight's other headlines:

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The salvage operation begins on the cargo ship off the coast at Colwyn

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Bay. Nancy Lane died after contracting

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hepatitis B during heart surgery. A health board says lessons have been

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learned. A Japanese car parts maker says it

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hopes to create a 500-strong And it's the latest treasure from

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the creators of Wallace and Gromit. Meet the Welsh illustrator who

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designed the characters for the Good evening.

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Wales' education system is in real danger of falling behind. That was

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the warning from the Prime Minister today. David Cameron has been in

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Wales to launch the Welsh Conservative campaign for next

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month's local elections. He visited businesses in Barry this afternoon,

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before heading to Llandudno to speak to supporters there.

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He also spoke to our Welsh Affairs Editor Vaughan Roderick, who began

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by asking him whether the relationship between his government

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and the Labour one in Cardiff Bay had deteriorated to a level where

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it was all about point-scoring and finger-pointing between both sides.

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I don't accept that very moment. We made some very clear policies to

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the people of Wales and to the Welsh Assembly Government. We said

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we would hold a referendum on extra powers. We have held that

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referendum and delivered those extra powers. We said we would

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devolve law-making powers, we have fulfilled that promise. We said we

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would look at the case for a letter fire in the Great Western rail line.

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We have found the money to make sure that goes ahead. We will also

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go ahead to the electrification of the Valley's line. Can you confirm

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that? Yes. It is in black and white. We have to determine the exact

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breakdown of the finance, but that is something we want to do.

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entire value line network? And set out in the draft budget. It does

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appear though, and people in Wales feel it is somehow unbecoming that

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they watched First Minister's Questions in Cardiff Bay and see

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Prime Minister's Questions with you when she was criticising the Welsh

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Government's record on to help -- on health. There's not much respect

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either way. I respect the Welsh Assembly Government will he First

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Minister. But I make no apology whatsoever for coming to Wales

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Today and pointing out that when it comes to health care and education,

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we are in real danger of Wales falling behind. Take education.

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Laughs than half of children and those of getting five A to C levels

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at GCSE. Our parents watching this programme happy with that? Of

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course not. It is not my job to say everything is fine. If I see a

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problem, and there is a problem with education, I think it is my

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job to point out and encourage politicians to do more, to have a

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more radical agenda. I'm very clear what works in education. You need

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to publish results, test children regularly, make sure schools can be

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compared with each other and challenge the system to rates those

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standards. Five no question, six months ago, the Welsh Assembly on

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all party bases introduced the 5p charge on backs. It is something

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you have considered. 90% of that, a lot of money has gone to charity.

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We you take that on? I have always thought that is a issue we should

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look at carefully and we are looking at it in Westminster. I am

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not embarrassed about this. The Scots have gone for a minimum price

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on our core. By think that is a good idea. That is why we are

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looking at introducing it. Devolution means we can learn from

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each other. We should respect each other and the different decisions

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we make, but we should not hold back if we think we are making

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mistakes. I think the plastic bag it moves that have been made are

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interesting. We are looking at them carefully.

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The Prime Minister David Cameron talking to our Welsh Affairs Editor

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Vaughan Roderick. And Vaughan is with me in the studio. Talk of a

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respect agenda, but how much respect is there between Downing

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Street and Cardiff Bay? You can see there's not much respect for the

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Welsh education system from David Cameron. He need to remember that

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this was a political decision. He was here as the leader of the

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Conservative Party. He was due to argue his case ahead of the local

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elections. He was being a little bit more blunt and outspoken than

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he would be if he was visiting in his prime ministerial role. You did

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see a pretty blunt accusation that the Welsh Government is failing on

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medication, failing on health and that is a message the Conservatives

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will be trying to drive home during the coming weeks, even though these

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elections are fought local councils. It was a very blunt accusation.

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What has been the response from the Welsh Government? No official

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response, again, because it is a political visit. But Labour would

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be very dismissive. They say, Hoare is he to come Shia and to criticise

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our health service when you see what he has done to the health

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service in England. They say the voters of wires had a choice about

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what they wanted to form the Welsh Government under a year ago when it

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did not choose David Cameron or the Conservatives.

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Work to remove diesel from the stricken cargo ship off the North

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Wales Coast has begun. The vessel was grounded on Tuesday night at

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Llanddulas near Colwyn Bay. Salvage workers are now onboard, although

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the operation is expected to take a number of days. Sian Lloyd reports.

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Two days on and the cargo ship remains in much the same position

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on the beach at Llanddulas, close to the coastal barrier. Weather

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conditions are very different to when this ship ran aground two days

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ago in recipes when there were very high winds. Those charged with

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carrying out the selvage say these improved conditions will play a

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vital part in the operation. Worked to remove the 24,000 litres of

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diesel from the ship's tanks is underway. Specialist equipment was

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brought to the scene earlier this afternoon. It is all fully

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contained in containers. The operation is to remove it from

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those containers into containers on land so what can be taken away for

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disposal. And the next stage of the operation is for the salvors to

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come up with a plan to remove the ship. There will be some

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inconvenience for drivers. Police say restrictions imposed will

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remain in place. The expressway is expected to be busy with Easter

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visitors, but police say public safety is paramount and to one lane

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of the spine carriageway will remain closed for now. It's not

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known how long the operation would take, but it is expected to be at

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least days. Moving the stricken vessel could take substantially

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longer. Meanwhile, an investigation is underway into what happened on

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Tuesday night. It is being co- ordinated by marine accident

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investigators, who have already visited the scene. The union which

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represents maritime workers is calling for a full inquiry on

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safety grounds. Fewer than 100 homes in North Wales

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are still without power after being cut off during yesterday's snow

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storms. Manweb, part of Scottish Power, say engineers are working

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flat out to restore supplies. Thousands of homes in Caernarfon,

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Anglesey and on the coast were affected.

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A health board has apologised after a woman who went into Morriston

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Hospital in Swansea for heart surgery died after contracting

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hepatitis B. It's thought the source was a probe used during her

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surgery. 178 other people also had to be screened. A report into her

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death found healthcare workers were not always clear on how to clean

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items or which cleaning products to use. Caroline Evans reports.

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A mother and grandmother, Nancy Lane from Aberaman was 68 when she

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went into hospital for heart surgery. She made a full recovery,

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but during the operation, she was exposed to the hepatitis B virus

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which later killed her. The hospital has been unable to

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establish for certain the source of the infection, but it was probably

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an electronic probe used during surgery. The board responsible for

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the running of this hospital admitted today there had been

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failures and poor practice. According to this report, an audit

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of theatre and the wards highlighted widespread blood

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contamination in the environment. It is not clear, it says, how long

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this situation existed. At special meeting of the health board at

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lunchtime, executives apologised and pledged that lessons would be

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learned. Afterwards, I asked the medical director what had gone

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wrong. The processes we were using at the time were based on

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manufacturer's guidelines. In retrospect, it was not a complete

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end of the process. So we are now more complying with the National

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Guide turns, which has been developed since the incident. --

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guidance. In a statement, Mrs Lane's family

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said no other family must go through what they've been through.

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We have grave concerns about the general level of hygiene and

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infection control at the hospital at the time.

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It is particularly distressing to learn that testing showed another

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patient was also exposed to the virus. That other patient is said

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to have survived with no ill effects. The equipment used in this

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case is now being sterilised in a different solution and for longer.

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The hospital is committed to tackling healthcare-associated

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infections as a top priority for the coming year.

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The health watchdog has condemned Cefn Coed hospital in Swansea as no

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longer fit for purpose after a member of staff was convicted of

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sexually assaulting a patient. Health Inspectorate Wales carried

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out an investigation into standards at the hospital, which mainly cares

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for mental health patients, following the incident in 2010. The

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health board says it accepts the report's findings and has already

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introduced what it calls substantial improvements.

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It's emerged that five universities in Wales will charge no more than

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�7,500 in tuition fees next year. It follows a change in the way

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undergraduate places are allocated to reward institutions prepared to

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charge lower fees than the maximum charge of �9,000. Our education

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correspondent, Nicola Smith, is in Newport tonight with the details.

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Nicky, what's behind this? Welcome to the University of Wales,

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Newport. Students take courses in everything from fashion to business.

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Come September, at first year students will be charged just shy

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of �9,000 for their course fees. That is a very similar situation to

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have a universities. The Welsh Government will help Welsh students

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pay those higher fees. That is a very expensive undertaking. To

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bring down the costs and make sure there is more money in the pot

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available for core funding, things will be done a little differently

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in 2013. The Higher Education Funding Council says it will report

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universities who bring their fee levels down to seven and a half

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�1,000. They will get extra places. There will also get extra places if

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they meet targets on things like research, income and overseas

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students. They say it is a better way of spending the money available.

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We need to be able to find a way to bring down the cost of the grants

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that we will be paying over all too Welsh students. So that we can

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afford, then, to meet the cost of high-cost subjects and also

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continued to maintain levels of research.

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While the winners and losers in It opted not to drop its fears. In

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your pot, they plan to drop their fees but they still face losing

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more than 300 students and they say they are deeply disappointed and

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will be holding emergency discussions to discuss what impact

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that will have on courses. The University of Glamorgan are set to

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gain more than 800 places so it's a different picture across Wales but

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one thing is certain -- one thing is certain, the pot is looking

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smaller. Two people have been questioned by

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police as part of an investigation into the financial accounts of

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Treorchy Male Voice Choir. The choir contacted South Wales Police

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after serious accounting discrepancies involving thousands

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of pounds were found by members in a recent audit.

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A Cwmbran based loan broker found to have conducted deceitful and

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oppressive practices has decided not to appeal against the loss of

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its credit licence. Yes Loans was stopped from selling loans in March

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after an Office of Fair Trading investigation found it had misled

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customers. The company says staff will be redeployed elsewhere.

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A couple from Abergavenny have described how they fled their other

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home in the West African state of Mali after being caught up in a

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coup there. Neil Whitehead and Diane English divide their time

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between Wales and a hotel they own in the city of Timbuktu. They've

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now fled to neighbouring Mauritania, after the fighting intensified.

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We got on the road out of town and rather suddenly, we drove into a

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gun battle. We didn't know who was firing at him. We couldn't see what

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was happening but there was quite a lot of firing. Then it traces

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started to fire across the road so we thought, we had better get out

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of here. Still to come in the programme: A

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former painter and decorator Gareth Evans will be hoping to put the

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gloss on his weightlifting career as he takes a step closer to London

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A Japanese car parts maker has told BBC Wales about its plans to create

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a 500 strong workforce in Gorseinon. Toyoda Gosei bought a factory in

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the town last year, making it the last foreign-owned manufacturer to

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come to Wales. Here's our business correspondent Nick Servini.

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Dashboards for cars are put together at Toyoda Gosei's new

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plant in Gorseinon. This factory was empty 15 months ago and it had

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been that way for a decade after a French firm pulled out. Since

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moving in, Toyoda Gosei has invested �10 million and taken on

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staff. Production got under way at the start of the year.

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We have the car business and in the summer, we will have the next model

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in line as well. We also have a new car manufacturer coming in next

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year and we plan to have more employees.

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Japanese used to be a language familiar to Welsh factory workers.

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That was in the early 90s went 70,000 staff were employed by

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foreign owned companies. More than 170 of their factories closed

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between 1998 and 2008 and Wales success in attracting new companies

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has deteriorated significantly. This is the last major foreign

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manufacturer to come here but will there be any more? Recent reports

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criticised the country's image overseas. Now there Welsh

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government says its working on improving international branding

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and managers here say changes in global supply chains means there

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are opportunities, particularly in manufacture ring.

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The disaster in Japan and the floods in Thailand had an impact on

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our customer base. I would hope they are looking at more -- more

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local supply chain rather than global suppliers because we don't

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have the issues here that other parts in the world do and it's a

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more stable environment. It's easy to be negative about

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inward investment after closures but when you come to a factory like

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this, you realise how beneficial it can be. It acts as a huge cash

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injection to a local community and that's why so many people want

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Wales to reclaim its position as the top place in the UK to attract

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All week we've been marking the 30th anniversary of the Falklands

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War and speaking to those with memories of the conflict. But of

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course there are still Welsh forces on the islands today. Jenny Rees

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has been catching up with some of them and their relatives back home

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Nicola Morgan's house is a busy one. Her 13-year-old twin sons and their

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10-year-old brother keep it that way. One person is missing. Big

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Brother Alex Jones is the way in the Falklands, serving with the RAF,

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following in the footsteps of his uncle.

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He used to come home and tell Alex stories and Alex used to sit there

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nice and quietly and from a very young age, he wanted to go into the

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RAF. I do worry about him. I wish I could see him. I think about him

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all the time but at the end of the day, it is his job.

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23-year-old Alex, seen in the middle, is one of a number of

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forces personnel in Wales currently based in the Falklands. We arranged

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for four of them to speak to us. He said he was part of the Joint

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Services police force, dealing with civilians.

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If that a difficult role? It's a nice change. It's nice to

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get out on the streets and talked to normal people and have decent

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conversations on the civilian street. All the same sort of things,

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we deal with the same problems out here.

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8,000 miles away from home, life on the island can be quiet. There are

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around 1,200 British forces at the garrison, 35 miles outside the

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capital. There is enough to do to keep us

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busy. Plenty if you are an outdoor type. There is wildlife as well.

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I've got a wife and a son in Southampton. My mother and sisters

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live in Wales. With my wife, I mean, I do get to speak to her on a daily

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basis so that is quite good. The rest of my family, not quite as

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much. The majority of the personnel who

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live here are ex-military from many years ago. They just welcome the

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likes of us. Back home, Alex is will model to

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his younger brothers. Josh and Jake want to follow him into the RAF. Is

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his mum proud? Very proud. I burst into tears when

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somebody asked me that the other day. It's because I miss him so

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much and he is so far away. Three Welsh weightlifters will head

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out to Turkey this weekend hoping to qualify for London 2012 Olympics.

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Among them Gareth Evans from Anglesey. He's now based in Leeds

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with the GB squad but was back in his hometown of Holyhead today to

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reopen his old club which has just Being a welterweight, Gareth Evans

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has been waiting -- lifting weights since the age of 12. He has always

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wanted to reach the Olympics and this weekend, he gets a step closer.

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They aim to reach qualifying standards for London 2012 at the

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European Championships in Turkey. A weight lifter from Holyhead going

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to the Olympic Games. It has never happened before. I have reached the

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Commonwealth Games and the Olympic Games are the pinnacle of any

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athlete's career. He now trains in Leeds with the

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rest of the GB squad but was back in his home town to open the

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Holyhead and Anglesey weightlifting and fitness centre. The club has

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undergone a �300,000 referred to and is hoping to attract the

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Albanians here to use it as a training base for the Olympics.

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They have a long history in the sport but so does the club. It has

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produced medal winners including gold medallist Ray Williams who now

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runs the centre. For a town of 7,000, it is a huge

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achievement and Gareth Evans is on the list of champions in the past

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and he has taken it to another level.

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A medal might be an outside chance for Gareth as he's only been doing

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this on a professional level for over a year. A former painter and

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decorator, he has had to move away from his family and give up

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everything to follow his Olympic dream.

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The new cricket season couldn't have begun much better for

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Glamorgan this morning. The Welsh county won the toss at

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Leicestershire and bowler Huw Waters took two wickets with the

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first two balls. But the pace slowed down after that great start,

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and Leicestershire recovered well. A children's author and illustrator

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from Flintshire is celebrating a double success after designing

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characters for the latest animated film from Aardman, the creators of

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Wallace & Gromit. Jonny Duddle spent the past week attending the

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premiere of Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, and

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collecting two awards for his latest book.

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Some of you are as ugly as a sea cucumber. Some of you are closer to

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a chair than a pirate. Some of you are fish I have dressed up in a hat.

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In Cinemas this week, The Pirates took years of painstaking work to

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put together, Jonny Duddle who doodles on a computer rather than

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paper, was there at the beginning. You do a lot of these and then the

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director will say, I like the head off, I like the body.

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The film's directors had seen one of his sketches and decided he

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would be perfect to help create the characters in their film. After

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four years of making and refining hundreds of drawings he's finally

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seen his creations on the big screen.

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I would be looking at a clay model in meetings so I've seen them

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revolve. The puppets, you could dissemble some of them and they

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become fully articulated so I had seen them before the film but to

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see them with a good actor's boys behind it, they really come to life

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and it's great. At the same time as working on the

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film Jonny has published two successful children's books, also

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with a pirate theme. The latest won two prizes at a major awards show

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last week. His adventures with pirates are over for the time being

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but he is now sketching for his next book, set in space.

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They call me the pirate captain. While he is preoccupied with

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spaceships, cinema-goers are still enjoying the sea-going version.

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Much better weather today but still a bit chilly. Warming up over

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It will turn a little milder but no chance of a heat wave. The Easter

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bunny will be pleased. The north and west enjoyed lots of sunshine

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today but over the Easter weekend there will be more cloud than

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sunshine. Some dry weather but not completely dry. It looks like we'll

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all see some rain on Monday. Tonight dry. The sky becoming clear

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everywhere for a time and turning cold. A widespread frost.

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Temperatures in Powys falling as low as minus four in the

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countryside. Less cold on the coast. Tomorrow morning a promising start

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in the south-east. Cold but bright. Some frost and sunshine but make

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the most of it. The rest of the country cloudy but dry. Now during

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the day, it will cloud over everywhere. The cloud bringing a

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few spots of light rain otherwise dry. Top temperatures nine to 12

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Celsius with a north-westerly breeze. Tomorrow night cloudy. A

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little rain or drizzle. Some hill fog but the cloud will keep the

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frost away. Temperatures staying well above freezing. Saturday

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plenty of cloud. A few spots of rain. The odd shower. Some dry

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weather as well. It may brighten-up in places. Temperatures around

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average with light winds. Easter Day largely cloudy and damp at

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times. Again some dry weather and a little milder. Temperatures 10 to

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13 Celsius with light to moderate winds. So not brilliant weather

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over the Easter weekend. Some dry weather but not completely dry. In

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fact on Monday it looks like we'll all see some rain. Not to everyone

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liking but a decent drop of rain for the garden. Last April was the

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warmest on record but it's a different story this year. Next

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week will bring a mixture of sunshine and April showers. And

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cold enough at night for a touch frost. By the way, Aberystwyth Cats

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Protection are holding a Grand Easter Fayre in Borth on Saturday.

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It should be dry. While Penllergaer Scouts are having an Easter Duck

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Race in Pontlliw on Monday. Plenty of fun is forecast and it will be

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And that is Wales Today. A quick update for you at 8:00pm, more

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