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Good evening. Tourism officials are hoping for significant numbers of | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
visitors to Wales during the Easter break. The industry is worth | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
billions of pounds every year to the Welsh economy and this weekend | :00:12. | :00:22. | |
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is seen as the start of the tourist season. Nick Palit reports. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
With the weather clear and dry, those involved with tourism in | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
Wales, they are hoping that many will be tempted to a day-trip. It | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
wasn't as warm as they would have liked but families were keen to | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
enjoy the fun of a traditional Welsh seaside. The Welsh government | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
estimates visitors spend around �3.3 billion here every year. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Industry leaders say a good Easter weekend gives confidence to the | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
whole sector at the beginning of the season and it is often weather | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
dependent. If today is anything to go by, the signs so far positive. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Tourism chiefs believe the increasing price of fuel could work | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
to our advantage in Wales. They are hoping the fact that Welsh resorts | :01:07. | :01:16. | |
are often a short drive from large centres of population will make | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
them popular. With the price of fuel being | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
wattages today, it is very important to us because we are that | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
much closer to L major sources of visitors: Birmingham, Manchester, | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
London, and possibly the West Country or Scotland. | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
Some visitors to Porthcawl today seem to agree. I we will go down to | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
10 the this year, in the summer, in the caravan. | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
We did feel the need to grow a broader a moment. There are | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
brilliant places to stay in the UK. If people enjoyed trips like this | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
in Wales, it is hoped the economic downturn will encourage | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
holidaymakers to choose Wales for longer breaks as well. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
One man has been cleared of the manslaughter of a drug dealer in | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Newport, but the jury are still considering their verdicts on two | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
others. The body of Tony Singh was found in his flat four days after | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
he was attacked in November 2010. All three have been cleared of | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
conspiracy to rob. Work to remove thousands of litres | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
of fuel from a stricken cargo ship off the North Wales Coast is | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
continuing tonight. The vessel was grounded on Tuesday night at | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
Llanddulas near Colwyn Bay. Once the fuel has been taken away, work | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
will begin to move the wreck. Meanwhile, the A55 nearby has fully | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
re-opened although speed restrictions are in place. | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Hundreds of people have been taking part in events to mark Easter. The | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Archbishop of Wales led a two-mile walk through the streets of Barry | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
representing Christ's journey to the cross. In Wrexham, there were | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
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dramatic scenes re-enacting the We've got a nice ground as well, | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
haven't we? My lord and master! | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
Dramatic scenes are re-enacting the story of Christ's death from those | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
in Wrexham's churches. Hundreds joined the procession to follow and | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
vents -- events. It ended with Jesus's Crucifixion. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
It comes across sometimes as maybe not that a vicious or violent but | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
actually, it is the death of a wonderful man. | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
We are bringing into life. It's in front of your eyes so you can | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
relate to it on another level. In Barry, Christians of all | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
traditions and ages came together to share the story. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
We thought, why not get all the churches together? And started | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
speaking to local ministers and they were enthused by the idea and | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
it has grown from there and it has been a big turnout. Some judges | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
have cancelled their services to be here. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
They took their message to the local railway station and the | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
town's Kings Square. At each stop, and addressed by the Archbishop of | :04:05. | :04:15. | |
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Wales as well as Bible readings and Judges now hope to develop the | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
tradition year on year to bring the story too far more people. | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
Swansea City remain 11th in the Premier League after losing at home | :04:30. | :04:40. | |
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to Newcastle United two-nil. With three games in eight days, has | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
won the manager Brendan Rogers opted to leave leading scorer Scott | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
Sinclair and Danny Graham on the bench. They didn't have the best of | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
starts. Newcastle in tangerine a tour through the defence. This | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
strike salt Swansea a goal down within the first five minutes. They | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
responded well, dominated possession and forcing some great | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
saves from the Newcastle keeper. Second half and they came close. | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
Swansea City piled on the pressure but an equaliser proved elusive. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
And it was Newcastle who got the crucial second goal. The same | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
scorer silencing the Swansea crowd. We are want to be challenging for a | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
Champions League position also for little Swansea to really dominate | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
the game like we did, it will be interesting to see the possession | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
statistics but on top of that, 13 efforts on goal. Over 20 shots and | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
13 on targets. We can find that we bit of luck. | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Swansea's third defeat at home in four games. They will have to | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
regroup before they travel to Queen's Park Rangers. | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
In the Conference a real blow to Wrexham's automatic promotion hopes. | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
They lost at home to Alfreton Town 1-0. The game between Newport | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
County and Telford has just kicked- off and it's goalless so far. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
Cricket and a mixed day for Glamorgan. They could only manage a | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
first innings total of 124 but the Welsh county's bowlers hit back, | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
restricting Leicestershire to 110 in their second innings. Glamorgan | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
will resume tomorrow requiring another 215 runs with 9 wickets | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
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Time for the weather forecast now Good evening. We have a lot of | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
cloud around for this Easter weekend but at least it's a bit | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
milder than the last few days. We have some patchy rain around but | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
not amounting to much. A cloudy story tonight with rain around | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
Anglesey and across to Wrexham, courtesy of a weather front. That | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
will peter out and it becomes dry and less cold than last night. Top | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
temperature eight Celsius. First thing tomorrow, a cloudy start with | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
patchy rain. Into the afternoon we will start to see some brighter | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
conditions but feeling cool with highs of 13 Celsius. Sunday will | :07:08. | :07:13. |