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Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's main story: The family of a young | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
couple found dead in this swollen river tell us they're devastated by | :00:10. | :00:20. | |
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their loss. I feel sick and number. He was a good lad. Dozens of | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
officers searched the river here. I'll be talking to the man who led | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
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Children and pensioners were allowed in for free at our national | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
treasures, but was that discrimination? | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
People once flocked from all over the valleys to shop in Pontypridd. | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
But now, disappointment after a new town centre plan collapses. | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
walked down here now and there is not a decent shot to going to. What | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
is going to be put there now? It wasn't always sunny on the beach | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
this summer. The endless rain could see some of our coastline | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
downgraded. And after an incredible summer of | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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sport, a new programme to get kids The family of a young couple, whose | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
bodies were found in a swollen river near Wrexham, say they're | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
devastated by what's happened. Alicia Williams and David Platt, | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
who were both 25, were found in the River Clywedog near Felin Puleston | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
yesterday. It's thought they may have been trying to rescue a pet | :01:41. | :01:50. | |
dog. Sian Lloyd is by the river tonight. | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
The spot where I'm standing on now is actually -- was actually an | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
award yesterday. Local people have told me how high the water had | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
risen and how fast it was flowing. It was near here that the two | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
bodies were found by rescuers. Throughout the day, local people | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
have been coming to the spot to pay tribute and to lay flowers. Tonight, | :02:15. | :02:24. | |
to boxing gloves have been put on the fence. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
This was the River Clywedog yesterday. Days of rainfall turned | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
a normally peaceful river into a torrent. 25-year-old Alicia | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Williams, who has a young daughter, and her partner, David Platt, who's | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
also 25, were taking their five dogs for a walk along the riverbank | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
when tragedy struck. Mr Platt's uncle was at the river today, | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
stunned by the loss of his nephew, who he says was a decent and | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
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respectable member of a loving family. If your pet was in trouble, | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
you would go in. But they can't understand because he was such a | :03:00. | :03:10. | |
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powerful amp -- powerful lad. thought one or both of the victims | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
may have tried to rescue a dog which had got into difficulty in | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
the water. The strong currents meant that the bodies were found | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
several hundred metres apart. Mr Platt was recovered seven hours | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
after Miss Williams. The search has commenced by the search and rescue | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
team. After midnight last night, a body was found of a man in the | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
river. A local businessman saw some of the couple's dogs running loose | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
and became suspicious. He went to the river to witness emergency | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
crews trying to recover Alicia Williams body. He says the force of | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
the water was intense. Her the river had dropped about 4 ft but | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
the river has filled up tremendous power and it was still bursting | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
banks. It moved a tree by 8 ft behind us. If anybody had slipped | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
in, it would take quite a while for them to go further down the river. | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
The Environment Agency say that even apparently peaceful rivers can | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
be dangerous, and during heavy rain can be especially treacherous. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
river will remain dangerous for the next few days. Water will be coming | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
off the fields. It may look safe but walking along riverbanks, those | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
of us are still fast-flowing. It will take days for the levels drop. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
-- for the levels to drop. Post mortem examinations will be carried | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
out tomorrow. Meanwhile, friends and relatives are paying their | :04:29. | :04:39. | |
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respects to the couple who fell victim to our recent wild weather. | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
I am joined now by the man who led the investigation yesterday. Tell | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
us what you were met with when you arrive at the scene? The river was | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
running very high. It had broken the bank in quite a few places. The | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
water meadow surrounding the river had flooded as well. We heard the | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
story developing throughout the day. It is believed the couple went into | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
the water to rescue one of their Peps. Can you tell us about what | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
happened? I cannot comment on the pets because I don't know. We do | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
know... When we got here we were deployed -- redeployed 20 team | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
members. We searched the banks of the river. We searched the areas | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
downstream as well. We've had a lot of torrential rain in this part of | :05:34. | :05:43. | |
Wales for the past two days. But it seems this had swamped much of the | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
area. That is right. Most of the rivers around here had burst their | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
banks and we've had a lot of flooding in this area. It is very | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
difficult for officers involved in an operation like this. | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
fatality like this is always difficult to deal with. It was | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
quite hard. You are trained to come across all sorts of situations of | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
course. That's right. This is not the only fatality we've had this | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
year but we maintain a professional outlook and on behalf of the team, | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
I offer my deepest condolences to the friends and family. More people | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
are still coming to bring floral tributes. Back to the studio. | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
It's emerged the Welsh Government introduced a free entry scheme at | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
heritage sites, despite a high risk of it being declared illegal. In | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
2008, it was announced if you were Welsh and you were under 16 or over | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
60, you could get into some of our most famous castles and ruins for | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
nothing. But a freedom of information request released to BBC | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Wales has now shown that ministers were warned the policy could be | :06:59. | :07:09. | |
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declared unlawful if it was We think this is a good investment | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
and we think it will encourage people to visit CADW sites | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
throughout Wales. The then minister said this was good news ended | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
investment. They dream of free entry to castles had come true but | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
only if you lived in Wales. If you were a pensioner with a child from | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
anywhere else you have to pay. But everyone thought that was fair. | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
Being an Englishman, and envious. think we should all be able to get | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
in free. The it turns out the Government's own lawyer's he could | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
be right. We have been trying to get hold of this legal advice to | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
Government for nearly two matches. Finally, the information | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
commissioner had ruled that it is in the public interest to disclose | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
it. What he chose is that the Government was warned that if | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
challenged, this policy was highly likely to be discriminatory and | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
therefore illegal under domestic and European Union law. The scheme | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
was abandoned in March last year. But if this was quite possibly | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
unlawful the opposition parties are now asking could the same be true | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
of other Wales only policies like free bus passes and free | :08:22. | :08:31. | |
prescriptions. It raises questions about the veracity of other | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
policies. Some of us are concerns as to whether there might be | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
liability on the last Government. Up to date, the was Government has | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
not been releasing the advice it has been given. When we look at | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
something like availability of a benefit to a resident of one of the | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
home nations, there is the complication that under European | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
Union law, some of those benefits can be tied to residency and others | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
have to be made more generally available and the law is not clear | :09:08. | :09:18. | |
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on this point. In the past, the Education Minister has described | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
questions over the ed legality of his policy as tosh but today there | :09:25. | :09:35. | |
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was Government chose their words The CADW scheme has been scrapped | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
but the Welsh Government will now hope it does not lead to a rather | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
more tangled legal web. Betsan is outside Caerphilly Castle | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
for us tonight. How unusual is it that this legal advice has been | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
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made public? It is extremely unusual. The Government is always | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
reluctant to release this kind of internal legal advice. It took | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
quite a battle to see this in the end. We appealed to the information | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
commissioner and he said it was in the public interest. What it tells | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
us is that the Government's own lawyer's were telling them that a | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
policy they were pursuing was probably unlawful. So how difficult | :10:28. | :10:37. | |
might this turn out to be for the Government? I am sure this Labour | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
administration would remind us that it was a Plaid Cymru minister who | :10:41. | :10:50. | |
introduced this. Nobody challenged it. They will say they -- there is | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
no Derek Read across. But we've spoken to plenty of liars today who | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
say they don't really know. Nobody can know until these things are | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
tested in a court of law. That is what decides what is lawful and | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
what is not. Others are saying that if the Government is so confident | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
that there is no relevance and though read across to other Wales | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
only policies like student fees for instance, then why don't they | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
publish that lead advice for all to see? There is certainly no sign | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
that they are about to do that. Three teenagers have been found | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
guilty of a robbery near Rhydyclafdu near Pwllheli in which | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
a farmer was shot in the leg. 18- year-old Liam Roberts, 19-year-old | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
Steven Evans and 18-year-old Luke Evans were jailed for a total of 24 | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
years in youth custody at Mold crown Court after they admitted | :11:40. | :11:48. | |
joint robbery and possessing an air rifle with intent to commit robbery. | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
North Wales police welcomed the sentence today which reflects the | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
brutality used against the victim and his own home. I would like to | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
assure the community that incidents of this nature are extremely rare | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
and the shooting of an innocent member of the public is unheard of | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
in this area. This has been a complex investigation and I would | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
like to thank those members of the public who came forward with | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
information. A man convicted of murdering a | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
pensioner in Cardiff 25 years ago has been given another 16 life | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
sentences for a horrific sex attack on a woman at knifepoint in Bristol. | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
42-year-old Mark Shirley is already serving a life sentence for a | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
similar attack on another woman in 2009. The judge told him he would | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
probably die in jail. Parents in Carmarthen say they're | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
worried about their children walking to and from school after | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
discovering there has been a serious sexual assault along the | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
route to Ysgol Gyfun Bro Myrddin. A man's been charged with an attack | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
on a 14-year-old girl who wasn't a pupil at the school. It happened | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
during the summer holidays in an underpass designated as a safe | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
route. Abigail Neal reports. $WHITE Bro Myrddin school is on the | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
outskirts of Carmarthen. To reach it on foot, there's only one way to | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
get across the A48 safely. You have to go underground. This underpass | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
is the designated safe route to school, but after a teenage girl | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
was attacked walking through here in August, parents now believe it's | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
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anything but. Leigh Richardson has two daughters at the school. | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
always thought it wasn't a safe route. We are more concerned about | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
the traffic than this happening but the in the pass is quite a scary | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
place to be an full and 11-year-old and a 13-year-old walking through | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
that now knowing what happened there, my kids are particularly | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
scared about it. As a Welsh medium school, many pupils travel long | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
distances by bus to get to Bro Myrddin. But two years ago, the | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
council scrapped free buses for those who lived less than three | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
miles away in line with legislation. That meant more children having to | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
walk this route. Now, parents and teachers want the council to re- | :13:56. | :14:06. | |
think that policy. I want the council to consider, as they have | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
in the past, what they can do as a response. There are dark days of | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
winter nearly upon us that it has to be said that these are dark days | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
financially for councils in Wales and economies of scale have to be | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
made. Carmarthenshire Council told us there are no plans to change the | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
policy because it would require more funding, which isn't available. | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
The incident happened outside of school term time and they say that | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
where a child lives within statutory walking distance, it is | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
the parents who are responsible for children getting to school, | :14:36. | :14:44. | |
including accompanying them. Still to come in the programme: | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
What now for the centre of Pontypridd after a multi million | :14:46. | :14:55. | |
pound shopping development falls through? | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
It was a dismal summer in terms of weather and one of the likely | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
effects is that many of Wales' beaches will lose their Blue Flag | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
status. After heavy and persistent rain, samples taken by the | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
Environment Agency indicate that up to a quarter of Welsh beaches are | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
"at risk" of losing the status next year. It's because of more | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
pollution from farmland and tougher European rules on water quality. | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
More from our environment correspondent, Iolo ap Dafydd. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
It has hardly been good beach weather during most of the summer. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
Months of misery and another blow now which could affect 12 beaches | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
next year. Blue Flag status is given for reaching the European | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
standard of excellence for water quality and local amenities. Five | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
beaches have already lost their Blue Flag status for next year. | :15:45. | :15:55. | |
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They include several in North Wales. But BBC Wales has found out that | :15:55. | :16:05. | |
other beaches are at risk as well and they include this won in Paris. | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
-- this one in Barry. Confirmation is expected by the Environment | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
Agency in November. 2000 samples over a period of May Tizzard Pemba, | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
on much beaches where you'd expect people to want those women. -- | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
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you'd expect people to want to go swimming. The last samples for this | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
year were taken this week for analysis. A billion pounds has been | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
invested since 1995 on treating waste water near the coast to | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
improve bathing water quality. analysis says we are likely to see | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
a drop. Even though the water quality remains above the guideline | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
standard, it won't be good enough to meet the new excellence standard. | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
The dry economic concerns as well because beaches with a good | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
reputation attract visitors. It is important to small businesses | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
around here. They advertise it as a Blue Flag beach and when people | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
read the websites and things like that they see the blue flag ban or | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
and they appreciate that the beaches clean. The a third of Blue | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
Flag beaches are in Wales and water quality keeps improving but tougher | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
regulations next year and pour water samples this year is likely | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
to lead to fewer Blue Flag beaches next summer. | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
Welsh Rugby International Andrew Bishop has been ordered to pay more | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
than �1,000 in fines and compensation after assaulting a | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
passer-by on a night out in Cardiff. The Ospreys player from Treorchy at | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
first denied the charges, but later admitted common assault after being | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
shown CCTV footage of the incident. There's been disappointment in | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
Pontypridd after plans for a new multi-million pound shopping centre | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
collapsed. A number of national retailers had expressed an interest | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
in the development. So what now for the town? Sachin Krishnan reports. | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
It's easy to see why the Taff Vale shopping centre was being replaced. | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
Built in the 1960s, it had long since been considered an eyesore in | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Pontypridd before it was demolished ahead of the site's planned | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
redevelopment. With around �15 million set to be invested, | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
Poundland and Wilkinson's were two chains who had signed up to the | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
project. But after funding problems and delays, now the plans have | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
collapsed with the developers, Taff Vale Limited, believed to have | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
called in the receivers. We went into Ponty today and it was the | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
talk of the town. There is so much work going on Europe the moment. | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
And everybody is -- everything is being brought into the -- up to | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
scratch and this was going to be the icing on the Cape. I am really | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
disappointed. The shops are closing. We need a boost to the economy so | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
it's not very good. We needed these shops. There is not a decent job to | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
go into. What is going to be put there now? When coal was still king, | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
Pontypridd was THE destination for shoppers from across the South | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
Wales Valleys. But decades on, it's out-of-town supermarkets and | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
Cardiff where the focus has shifted. The new Taff Vale was seen as the | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
centre-piece of a redevelopment of Ponty town centre, which includes a | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
�10 million facelift, improvements to roads and around the station. So | :19:33. | :19:42. | |
what now for the site? Us there are lots of things we could do. | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
don't have a contemporary modern art museum in Wales to showcase of | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
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the modern-art be a producing. Why not have a museum? We don't have a | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
People's History Museum either to show the industrial history of | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
urban South Wales. Pontypridd was at the heart of that industrial | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
heritage. Or why not something to reflect the sporting heritage? | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
Rhonnda Cynon Taff Council have expressed disappointment that the | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
Taff Vale project won't be going ahead but say they remain committed | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
to finding a way to redevelop the site. Getting one of our most | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
historic town centres bustling again has still got some way to go. | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
Good evening. Well, it was a fantastic summer of sport, but now | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
the work really begins to make sure all that inspiration from the | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
Olympics and Paralympics doesn't go to waste. Today, a new programme | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
was unveiled which will radically change the way that primary school | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
children in Wales learn to play sport. It's hoped they'll get | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
hooked for life. There's a new appetite for sport at | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
Laugharne Primary School in Carmarthenshire. But this isn't | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
rugby, hockey, netball or cricket. The school's been part of a pilot | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
scheme for Dragon Multi-Skills and Sport, a new programme from Sport | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
Wales which aims to help children develop everything they need to | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
enjoy sport for the rest of their lives. There are 48 different | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
skills to learn, packaged into a series of games. This one's called | :21:07. | :21:17. | |
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'Crazy Capers'. Hero loads of robes around in a circle and there is one | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
in the middle and end up the run from that one and take them back. | :21:24. | :21:33. | |
It is helping us to get faster. Ball skills help as well. | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
multi-skilled programme gives them course skills they can apply to any | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
sports they want to do was teenagers. That fundamental because | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
children enjoy things when they are confident in their own abilities. | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
If they go to a club and find they don't have the skills the rest of | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
the children do, they are put off and they won't go again. | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
sports-mad nations of Australia and New Zealand have had similar | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
schemes in place for a while. It's got the support of the Welsh | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Government and 98% of primary schools are already part of the | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
Dragon Sport scheme, although it's not part of the curriculum. It's | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
hoped sports clubs and community groups will start using it too. | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
want every school to have the same games because it will mean | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
something to the children and they can make connections. Parents might | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
be able to play some of these activities on the beach or in the | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
park with their children as well. The Olympics has certainly created | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
a buzz about sport. Pupils were firing questions at Olympic swimmer | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
Georgia Davies all morning about her experience in London, which was | :22:41. | :22:49. | |
built on the foundations of her own sporting childhood. At school, I | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
did netball and hockey and cross country. I also played football and | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
rugby. I did athletics in the summer. I have been brought up to | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
be active and it's the best way to the. I have met so many friends | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
through it and it has helped me develop into the swimmer I am now. | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
Not every child is destined for Olympic success, but this new | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
scheme should help more young people achieve their full sporting | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
potential. Football, and Swansea City | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
goalkeeper Michel Vorm has signed a new contract with the club, which | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
should keep him at the Liberty Stadium until 2016. The Dutchman | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
was voted player of the year in his first season with the Swans. He's | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
also looking forward to coming up against the man who first signed | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
him, Brendan Rodgers, after Swansea were drawn away to Liverpool in the | :23:33. | :23:43. | |
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fourth round of the Capital One Cup. Of course, it is special, because | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
he became a big name here over the last two years and did very well | :23:54. | :24:03. | |
here. That is how we learned his spot at Liverpool. -- he earned his | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
spot at Liverpool. Welsh cyclist Becky James says she | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
doesn't mind people talking about her as the next Victoria Pendleton. | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
The 20-year-old sprinter from Abergavenny won the 500 metres Time | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
Trial at the National Championships in Manchester last night and has | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
more medal chances later in the week. I'll always do my best and I | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
want to keep developing my training. Victoria Pendleton was 31 so I 11 | :24:25. | :24:34. | |
years to step up and get myself on the map. | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Let's take a look at the weather and it's been a little brighter for | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
The weather went up a few gears today. Much drier and brighter than | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
recently. River levels are dropping but a few remain swollen. There is | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
still one flood warning in the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
Chester and five flood alerts. Dry for most of this evening. Just the | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
odd shower. And then after midnight, a front will bring some showery | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
rain. The breeze picking-up with lowest temperatures around 8C to | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
12C. Tomorrow's chart shows low pressure between Scotland and | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
Iceland with a cold front moving southeast across Britain. So | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
tomorrow morning, a cloudy start for most of the country. A few | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
spots of rain. One or two showers. Much brighter in the north-west. | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
Sunshine in Gwynedd and the odd shower. Pembrokeshire dry with some | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
sunshine in Haverfordwest. During the morning, the whole country will | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
brighten-up. You may catch a shower but it's hit and miss. A lot of | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
places having a dry afternoon with sunny spells. Top temperatures | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
around 14C to 16C with a moderate to fresh westerly wind. In | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
Pembrokeshire, I wouldn't rule out a shower tomorrow but most of the | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
day dry, bright and breezy. A high of 14C in Goodwick. Tomorrow night, | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
the odd shower here and there. Otherwise dry and clear. Breezy on | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
the coast. Lighter winds inland with a low of 6C in Monmouth. As | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
for the weekend, Saturday looks quite nice. Breezy but dry with | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
sunny spells. Just the odd light shower in the north. On Sunday, the | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
south-east may start bright but rain will spread from the northwest. | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
So turning wet and windy. The rain heaviest in the west. The southeast | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
dry for longest. So Saturday the best day of the weekend. Sunday | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
goes downhill. The start of October looks changeable. Often windy with | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
showers or longer spells of rain. Typical for the time of year. Our | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
picture is from Roger Cooke. Cumulus clouds over Swansea. Thanks | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Roger. Some rain in Swansea after midnight, but clearing to sunshine | :26:48. | :26:58. | |
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Him Ken Knaggs and Midland. The family is a lovely young couple | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
were found in river in Wrexham have said they are devastated by what | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
happened. Alicia Williams and David Platt who were both 25 were found | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
in the River Clyde of yesterday. It is thought they may have been | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
trying to rescue a pet dog. And Chelsea football captain John | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
Terry has been banned for four matches and fined more than | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
�200,000 for racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand. John | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
Terry was found guilty of the offence by the English FA despite | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
being cleared of a similar offence in court. | :27:34. | :27:37. |