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Good evening and welcome to Wales Today, live from the Olympic Park.

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The start of the Paralympic Games is just hours away. They've trained

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for years and now it's time to compete. As many fulfill a dream to

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be here, there's been a cash boost hoping to ensure success for years

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to come. It is a dream come true. If you aspire to something and it

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specifically happens in your own country, that is something most

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athletes never get to experience. Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, who won

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11 gold medals, helps carry the flame on its final journey to the

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Olympic Park. Four years ago, Welsh athletes won 14 medals for the

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British team. 10 of them were gold. But can they win more this time

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Good evening. Also tonight: Protests to save the special care

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baby unit at Withybush Hospital. A consultant warns closure could

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spell the end of the children's ward too.

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And this video shows Phoebe's terrible pain as her joints

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dislocate. Now, her fight for Good evening and welcome to Wales

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Today, live from the Olympic Park. Just a few weeks ago, British

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Olympians celebrated their best ever Games here. But there are new

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residents in the park tonight. It's the turn of our Paralympic athletes

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to take centre stage. The opening ceremony is just two hours away and

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tomorrow, 11 days of sporting action will get underway. There are

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38 Welsh members of the British Team and there are high

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expectations. In Beijing, Welsh athletes won 14 medals, 10 of them

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gold. Today, there was an announcement of an extra �20,000 a

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year to help disability sports across Wales. Tomos Dafydd reports.

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The flame on its final journey. 11 time gold medalist, Baroness Tanni

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Grey-Thompson had the honour of carrying it in Central London.

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signals the start of the games and it's important for the athletes to

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know that the flame is coming closer and closer. A lot of the

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athletes want to get on with it now and start competing but the

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ceremony and everything leading up to it is an important part of the

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excitement. At the park, organisers say they're ready. The Olympic

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rings are gone, replaced by the agitos, the Paralympic symbol.

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There have been rehearsing for the opening ceremony all week but soon

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it will be time for the athletes to take centre stage and they can

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expect great support with more than 2.5 million tickets sold so far.

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But that shouldn't phase this woman. For sprinter Tracey Hinton, who's

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blind, it's her sixth Games. 20 years after her debut appearance in

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Barcelona, she's been named the women's athletics captain. I won

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two silvers and a bronze there and in 2000 in Sydney I won two bronze

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and silver. I did really well and I also have European and world medals

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as well. And hopes for this time around? Hopefully a medal. I don't

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know what colour yet but I will do my best. But getting on to the

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podium takes hours of training and a lot of money and the cash

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available to nurture talent has increased massively over the last

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14 years. In 1998, the body charged with developing disabled athletes

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in Wales had a budget of just �30,000. Fast forward 10 years to

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the successes of Beijing and that figure increased to more than

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�970,000. And over the next year, Sport Wales are allocating more

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than �1 million to help develop disabled athletes. Rachel Morris

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was a gold medalist in Beijing and was heading to London 2012 to

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defend her title. But a car accident while training has

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hindered her chances. However, she's still thrilled to be

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competing. It is a bit of a cliche but it is a dream come true. If you

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are aspiring to something and it happens in your own country, that

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is something most athletes ever gets -- get to experience.

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making sure the athletes look good on the big stage is Barbara Oakley

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from Merthyr. She's been asked by the Australian team to tweak their

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uniforms and training kit so they look their best. I feel awesome. It

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is immense. I have loved it. I am very proud and privileged that they

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asked us to do it. We are only a little shop. The Games have changed

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a lot since the early days and one of the first Paralympic competitors

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was Ron Davies from Aberaeron. Injured in a motorbike accident, he

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then competed for Southport Hospital's basketball team in 1952.

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Back then, it wasn't all about the winning. We had it all worked out

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because the quicker we got knocked out, the more time we had in the

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pub. The class of 2012 are waiting to compete and London is ready to

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welcome the world's Paralympians. John Morgan is Executive Director

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of Disability Sport Wales. You've been here soaking up the atmosphere

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and you've just come from the Welcome Meeting. What's the

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feeling? Are we on for the most successful Paralympics ever? It is

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just incredible down there. The general public is moving around and

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everybody is having a good time. The athletes are very focused and

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excited. The general consensus is that everybody feels that the

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Paralympics is coming home tonight. Tell us about this cash injection

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today. How long will that be spent? It is welcome news. People are our

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biggest priority and this money will be invested in coaching

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programmes. A lot of it will be invested in our Academy programme.

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A lot of the athletes have had so much support from these coaches

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that we really have to prioritise where we put that funding. Are you

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hoping that people watching at home will be inspired? Absolutely. I

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think they will be amazed by the sporting action. If people have

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never seen Paralympics bought, they will be blown away. If the Olympics

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was going to inspire a generation of sport, I think we can do that

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but I think the Paralympics will inspire change in the way that

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society thinks and feels about his ability. -- about disability.

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do you think the Paralympians will deal with the pressure? We are

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hoping they are going to come into the sporting arenas and step up to

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the plate and deliver. I just want everybody to get behind them

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because if they can use the energy from the crowd, I think we can do

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really well. The organisers of London 2012 say

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they want to inspire a generation to take up sport and exercise.

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That's badly needed, according to a Welsh Health Survey that says one

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in three of us in Wales don't do any exercise. Health guidelines say

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we should do 30 minutes of exercise at least five times every week to

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help prevent and manage a range of chronic illnesses. But not enough

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of us are doing it and the situation hasn't improved since the

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previous survey 10 years ago. It could make a real difference to

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our health and how we feel that a third of us in Wales never do any

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exercise, let alone go to the gym. The Welsh Health Survey which

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gather information between 2003 and 2010 showed that more than a third

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of women don't take any exercise and the picture for men is not much

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better. Health guidelines say we need to be doing 30 minutes of

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exercise five times a week. Less than a quarter of women meet that

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target and only 30 % of men. know that exercises related to a

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whole host of illnesses like heart disease and stroke. Diabetes has

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been rising consistently for quite a long time. The survey compares

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different parts of Wales. He Glynneath Port Talbot are the least

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active. Here, more than four in 10 people fail to do any exercise. We

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asked people how active they were this afternoon. Sometimes when I

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walk, it kills me. The prices of the gyms are too expensive. I do a

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bit but not a great deal. There is no way to go here. Critics say the

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Welsh Government's public health strategy needs to change,

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especially as rates of activity have not changed over the last 10

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years. The Government says the figures are not unique to Wales but

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they do admit the scale of the problem they face. A big part of

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this strategy is to encourage more teenage girls to take part in sport

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and exercise. Developing habits young which they then hope will

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last into adult had. 14-year-old -- this 14-year-old there's gymnastics

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six times a week at a club in Cardiff. Sport is a big part of a

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life. Just staying fit and having fun and eating healthy. I like

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being with my friends. Sometimes I feel I'm too tired. Most of my

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friends do athletics and some do dance. The Olympic Games and now

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the Paralympics have certainly provided a great shop window for

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the benefits of sport. It is hoped that more people will get active

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across the country and result in better health in the years to come.

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The Paralympics were the brainchild of a German doctor. Later, we'll be

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hearing from the nurse who worked alongside him during the Second

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World War. Plenty more from us here at the Olympic Park a little later

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in the programme. Now, Lucy Owen has the rest of the day's news from

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across Wales. A consultant at Withybush Hospital

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has spoken out, warning that losing the special care baby unit there

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could lead to the end of the children's ward there too. Around

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70 people held a protest outside today against changes which are

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part of a planned reorganisation of health care across West Wales.

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Hywel Dda Health Board says the unit doesn't meet national

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standards and centralising the service at Carmarthen would improve

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the service overall. Caroline Evans reports.

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There was plenty of support for the protesters from passing motorists,

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but perhaps more importantly for them, a leading consultant who

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works here came out to back their view that the changes will

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disadvantage people living around Haverfordwest. It increases the

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travelling time for people from here. The children's ward links in

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with special care for staffing so if we lose special care, we lose

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the children's ward as well. this stage, no decisions have been

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made. The health board is consulting and asking the public

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for views. But today it said none of its current special baby care

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units are up to national standards and changes are needed if it's to

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provide a higher level of service. But people here today said what's

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vital is to keep a service that they believe already saves lives.

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If you have to travel five minutes to the theatre to have a section,

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generally speaking, everything is OK. If you have to travel 45

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minutes, things are not OK. health board's preferred option is

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to site a new unit at Glangwili in Camarthen. But another option it's

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looking at is to close the unit at Glangwili and put a new unit at

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Withybush. Ruth Jones, Paul Williams, and their daughter spent

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weeks at the special baby care unit here. For them, having a service

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near to their home was vital. were going into the hospital twice

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a day most days. We have other children to look after so it was

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really important to be close enough to be able to travel there every

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day. The health board says it will not compromise the safety of babies

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and if the changes go ahead Withybush would retain the ability

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to stabilise and transfer mothers and babies. But that's not good

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enough for the protesters, who are planning to march on the Senedd.

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There were some violent summer storms today, which saw two people

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injured after their homes were struck by lightning. Several houses

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in the Pontprennau area of Cardiff were affected. In one house, the

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bolt travelled from a rooftop aerial before exploding in the

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lounge, setting curtains alight. Another man had a shock after

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touching a television the moment the lightning struck. It just

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electrocuted me and I was in shock. I fell on the floor and I was dazed

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for five to 10 minutes. My right arm was very numb from the incident.

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A car components company which moved to Wrexham from Welshpool

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last Christmas after landing a �12 million order from Vauxhall has

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gone into administration. 18 jobs are to go at Cobra, but the

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administrators are trying to find a buyer and save the jobs of the

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other 120 people who work there. A man from Powys has told a court

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he believed it was safe to overtake, seconds before a crash in which

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four members of the same family died. 24-year-old Gordon Dyche

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collided with a car which rolled into a reservoir near Llanidloes in

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April last year. He denies causing the deaths and says they were a

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tragic accident. Chris Dearden reports.

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A family man who knew the road well and who was driving safely. That

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was how Gordon Dyche hoped the jury would see him. He is accused of

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causing an accident which killed four people from Pontypridd. Only

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the driver, Denise Griffith, managed to escape from the car. Her

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husband died as did their two foster sons. Her mother was also

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killed when the car plunged into the reservoir. Today, Gordon Dyche

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told the jury he was driving behind two other cars to was Llyn Clywedog

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in Powys. He said it was safe to overtake and he didn't see Denise

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Griffith's car indicating to turn into a lay-by. He said he braked

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but it was too late. He said he felt useless as he watched the roof

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of the car disappear under the water. But the prosecution

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barrister asked Gordon Dyche why he had said to a paramedic at the

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scene, I should not have done it. I was late for work. It is my fault.

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Gordon Dyche said he was in shock and broke down in tears as he told

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the court it was a tragic accident he won't forget for a long time.

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Denise Griffith was in court today to hear the evidence. Both will

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return tomorrow when the jury is due to consider its verdict.

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Still to come in Wales Today: More farmers look to tighten security

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using CCTV after a big rise in the theft of quad bikes, fuel and tools.

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Last week, we brought you the story of a teenager from Flintshire with

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a rare condition which causes her joints to repeatedly dislocate.

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Phoebe Bruce from Hawarden had been fighting for funding to get

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specialist treatment in London. The 17-year-old has now been told she

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will get the money. It had been in doubt as she lived in Wales and not

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England. Matthew Richards reports. This family video shows just how

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painful Phoebe's condition can be. She has a severe form of Elhers

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Danlos Syndrome, or EDS, which causes her joints, usually her

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shoulder and elbow, to dislocate up to 18 times a day. It affects one

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in 5,000 people. Compounding the agony was a question mark over

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whether she was entitled to funding for a private medical assessment in

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London. She has been caused -- caught in limbo. She lives in Wales

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but is close to the border and all of the treatment has been in

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Cheshire. Now she needs more specialist treatment in England, it

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had been thought she could miss out on funding, until now. The Welsh

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Health Specialised Services Committee has approved �9,000

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towards Phoebe's treatment. She heard the news yesterday just

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before another dislocation saw her back in A&E. I was out with my

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friends when I found out. I had to wait a few minutes for it to sink

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in. It was the best news I have heard in ages. We are one step

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closer to where we want to be and where we need to be. Her family say

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this is expensive treatment and much more money will be needed

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through fundraising but it's an important first step. This money

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means she can be monitored 24 hours a day. If there are ways around it

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without having an operation, it would be fantastic. Whether Phoebe

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needs surgery or physiotherapy to help ease her condition, she's now

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much closer to getting the help she desparately needs.

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The Farmers Union of Wales says it's seen an "alarming" rise in

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rural crime across South East Wales. Within the last month, 21 breeding

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sheep were stolen from a farm in Usk and figures from a leading

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insurance firm show a 30% rise in thefts across Wales last year.

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Jordan Davies has more. Steve Powell is a farmer in

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Caerphilly and does not take any chances any more. He locks his quad

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bike and valuable power tools in a shipping container after being

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targeted by thieves. This one got stolen and it had not been here 48

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hours. They must have pushed it out of the art and took it down the

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road. It was hidden in a neighbour's Wood. What effect does

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it have on a working farm? It is a constant worry at night. A car

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pulls up outside and you are looking down the road to see what

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is happening. We work enough hours as it is. A growing number of farms

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are being preyed upon by organised gangs looking for open gates and

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equipment. Vehicles, while at and metal top of the list but

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agricultural unions are becoming concerned about some thieves

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understanding local knowledge when it comes to stealing livestock.

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Recently, 21 sheep were taken from a farm in Essex. According to the

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insurance firm, rural theft total �2.3 million in Wales last year

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compared to one per and �7 million the before. That is a rise of

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nearly 33 %. Combating rural crime is becoming big business. This firm

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selling trackers, sensors and alarms tours the country with its

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products. Diesel, quad bikes, machinery, they are all valuable

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and they are easy things to get your hands on. Farmers are fighting

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back and police are specifically targeting this kind of crime. But

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while prices remain high for metal, fuel and chemicals, rural crime

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will continue to bite hard working farms.

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Football and uncapped Crystal Palace midfielder Jonathan Williams

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has been selected in the Wales squad for next month's World Cup

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qualifiers against Belgium and Serbia. West Ham defender James

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Collins returns after missing the last game but Joe Ledley and David

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Vaughan miss out through injury as Wales prepare to play Belgium a

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week on Friday in Chris Coleman's first competitive match in charge.

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Swansea City continued their perfect start to the season with a

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3-1 victory over Preston in the second round of the Capital One Cup.

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Striker Danny Graham put the Swans in front, before two goals from

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Luke Moore settled the tie. Swansea manager Michael Laudrup gave debuts

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to record signing Ki Sung Yeung and also Kyle Bartley.

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Well, that's it from me. Let's head back to Claire now, as we countdown

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to the opening ceremony of the Paralympics.

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The parties getting busy as people get ready for the opening ceremony.

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-- the park is getting busy. I don't know how much you know

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about the Paralympics. They were the brainchild of German doctor,

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Ludwig Guttman. He helped treat servicemen injured during the

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Second World War and believed sport could help the men rebuild their

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lives. Peggy Richards from Swansea was a nurse who worked alongside

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him. She's been telling us about those early years.

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At Stoke Mandeville, a spinal injury does not stop you joining in.

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To coincide with the opening day of the London Olympics, the Stoke

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Mandeville Hospital played host to the International wheelchair Games.

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It was the precursor to what we now know as the Paralympics. Although

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she did not know it at that time, a young nurse was witnessing history.

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She had left her home in County Wexford to become a nurse at Stoke

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Mandeville. After the Second World War, there was a need for nurses in

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Britain. I went to Stoke Mandeville. New patients came in with fractured

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next or people paralysed from the waist down. The spinal injuries

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unit at Stoke Mandeville was run by a Jewish refugee called Ludwig

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Guttman. His methods were inspiring but uncompromising. He was very

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nice. He was very straight. If he didn't like something, he would

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tell you. Some would want to go home and some were not allowed to

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go home because they were not well enough. If they were disobedient,

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they would -- he would give them a lecture. He was quite strict that

:24:00.:24:07.

way. He believed that sport could transform the lives of his patience

:24:07.:24:11.

and began to stage activities on the hospital grounds. During the

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1950s, these international competitions became known as the

:24:16.:24:24.

Stoke Mandeville Games. Some would try and walk and collapse on the

:24:24.:24:31.

floor. You had to be very careful. I remember the crowds and people

:24:31.:24:38.

being happy. I was very happy there. After her time at Stoke Mandeville,

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she relocated to South Wales where she has lived ever since but she is

:24:42.:24:47.

proud of her work at that hospital which is now recognised as the

:24:47.:24:51.

spiritual home of the Paralympic movement.

:24:51.:24:53.

Well, the action starts tomorrow and there could be medal success

:24:53.:24:57.

for Welsh competitors on the first day. Let me take you through who

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we're watching tomorrow. Beijing gold medalist Nyree Kindred is in

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the pool. She goes in the 100 metres backstroke heats between

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9:30am and 10:00am, with the aim of securing a place in the final and a

:25:07.:25:15.

chance of a medal at 5:30pm tomorrow evening. And one of our

:25:15.:25:18.

best medal hopes starts his first ever Paralympics tomorrow.

:25:18.:25:20.

Paracyclist Mark Colbourne from Tredegar is in the kilo sprint

:25:20.:25:27.

finals between 2:00pm and 4:00pm at the Velodrome.

:25:27.:25:32.

It's been a grey day here in East London. Let's get the weather back

:25:32.:25:42.
:25:42.:25:52.

Moody is a good word of describing the weather. But the weather is

:25:52.:25:56.

improving as we go into tomorrow. At the moment, the yellow warning

:25:56.:26:00.

is still in place for those heavy showers. This is the radar from

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earlier showing the extent of the rain. Behind it, we had these heavy

:26:06.:26:09.

downpours and at the moment, we have some really heavy downpours

:26:09.:26:14.

across parts of the West. They will make their way inland as we go

:26:14.:26:22.

through tonight. A lot of cloud for all of us. Quite gusty conditions.

:26:22.:26:26.

A bit of a chilly start tomorrow morning and a few showers but most

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of us getting away with a dry morning. By the afternoon, it will

:26:31.:26:36.

become drier for all of us with bright spells for everybody. Top

:26:36.:26:41.

temperatures, a disappointing 14 degrees in Gwynedd. Tomorrow night,

:26:41.:26:46.

a much better end to the day for all of us. Some lovely sunshine.

:26:46.:26:50.

Clear skies and under those clear skies, the temperatures will do

:26:50.:26:59.

away into single figures. -- but a way. High pressure will continue to

:26:59.:27:05.

build over the next few days. Hopefully that will settle things

:27:05.:27:09.

down. Friday is looking dry with some sunshine. Much better weather

:27:09.:27:19.
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Just over an hour to go until the start of the Paralympics. The flame

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is making its way into the Olympic Stadium.

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These Games are already breaking new ground. It's set to be the most

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