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pretty soggy. Thank you. That is all from the BBC. We

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Patients react furiously as the First Minister defends Hywel Dda

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Health Board's decision to postpone some winter operations. What is

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happening is discrimination against people who live in West Wales. I

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would say to the people in the rest of Wales at the same position as me,

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watch out because this could be happening to you soon.

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Our other headlines tonight - Former soldiers struggling with their

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mental health are being put at risk from a therapy used by a Welsh

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charity. They've protested about fracking

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here but could a dash for gas really cut your energy bill?

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A major health scare for captain of Cardiff Blues, Matthew Rees. Out of

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the game for months. The forgotten Welsh scientist who

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proposed the theory of evolution. It's not Charles Darwin.

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Good evening. The First Minister has defended a health board's plans to

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halt non-urgent orthopaedic operations over the winter. Carwyn

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Jones said it's sensible for Hywel Dda Health Board to plan for

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increasing emergency demand. Opposition parties have accused the

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Welsh Government of being detached from reality and insisted patients

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would be forced to wait longer in pain. Here's our Health

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correspondent Owain Clarke. He is often in agony. For this man

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just getting around the house is a challenge and where he is afraid his

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hip will give away. He is waiting for operations have it replaced. He

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was told today he will not get a final date any time soon. It's

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because, he says, the decision by the health not to take on emergency

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-- nonurgent orthopaedic operations over the winter. There is a lot of

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plain, pain. Nobody is disappointed, seriously

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disappointed, if the operation is cancelled because of emergencies but

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to completely stand down all the surgical teams who do elective

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surgery for six months, seems to me to be a dramatic oversimplification

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of a problem. He uncertain where it leaves him but what about others?

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The health board asks a series of specific questions about how many

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patients will be affected. What with the likely effect on waiting times?

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Light-coloured hospitals open more beds? -- why can't hospitals open

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more beds? It said it needed to play the operating theatres. It said it

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spent ?6 million employing temporary staff last year to treat temporary

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patents. This afternoon, the opposition parties were looking for

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answers. People are stuck on waiting list in pain. When can the people of

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Wales expect to see you take responsibility? How many elective

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operations are you assuming will have to be cancelled to make space

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for winter pressures? How can you be so flip and in the face of such

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proposals as for five months one of our major health boards will not be

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undertaking such procedures? He is setting out to be disingenuous or he

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has not listened to the answer I gave three times. I will say it

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again. Hywel Dda health board is not cancelling all non-urgent elective

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orthopaedic surgery, it is reducing the amount of work to better manage

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the capacity over winter which is what his party has been calling for.

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There will also cause this afternoon for the Welsh Government to publish

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the winter plans of other health boards. We contacted them all as

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skiing how would they cope this winter. Cardiff and Vale told that

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it plans to increase the number beds available. Swansea Bro Morgannwg

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said they would do this. Nadine Bevan will recruit more staff and

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another said it will work with ambulance services to make sure they

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are not overstretched. Betsi Cadwaladr health board says why

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little work with councils and ambulance services it will

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concentrate on emergency care. Meanwhile, however health board said

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its aim is to minimise the distress caused to patients by cancelling

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operations as short notice. The First Minister said that a

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sensible. Philip Jones was watching. I find this amazing that he would so

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lively -- but I usually back them. What is discrimination about --

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against people who live in West Wales. I would save to the people in

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the rest of Wales will in the same position as me, watch out. What is

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clear from all of this is managers at all of our health board don't

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think they will be able to maintain the normal level of non-indigent

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care this winter. What patients who faced living in pain for Monger is

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asking, why not. Bash for longer. Let's talk to our political editor

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Nick Servini. It has dominated First Minister 's

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questions since summer. It is dominating the debate since the

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start of devolution. Particularly dominated First Minister 's

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questions for the first time, all three opposition leaders putting

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together a sustained attack against the Welsh Government over this

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decision by Hywel Dda. The attacks were variations along the seam of

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the Welsh Government was out of touch with what is going on. There

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was bad-tempered debates about the word, cancelled. First Minister

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pointed out no scheduled operations are being cancelled by the board.

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But the reality is, as a result, there will be few worth nonemergency

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operations during the course of the winter. Politically, as a result,

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they will have to deal with people that all have to wait longer for

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things like hip replacement treatment in West Wales. Did we get

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on idea today of how well prepared the Welsh NHS is for winter?

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Preparations have been going on for months. But Carwyn Jones admitted

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the only found out about this decision by Hywel Dda light

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yesterday. The significance of what has been announced is whereas in the

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past hospitals have told this and the certain conditions in the winter

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they may struggle to cope, here we have a plan that has been set out

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which is an admission that under the current system and less different

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arrangements are made this health board will struggle to cope this

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winter. Veterans struggling to overcome

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mental health issues, including post traumatic stress disorder are being

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put at risk by a form of therapy used by a Welsh charity. That's the

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finding of an undercover investigation by BBC Wales. It

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reveals how the NHS has asked the Porthcawl based charity, Healing the

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Wounds, to stop the form of treatment called NLP. Tim Rogers

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reports. For those who were there, the memory

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of four is never forgotten and sometimes Coleridge comes at a

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price. For men like this Welsh veteran, the consequent can be

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post-traumatic stress disorder. She and others have turned for help to a

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Welsh charity called Everything Everything. The man who does not

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want to be identified says the treatment he was offered left him

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feeling suicidal. I did two whole days and on the third day I left. My

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wife at the time came to collect me. It was such a relief. I was left

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feeling worse than the four I started attending Healing the

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Wounds. Healing the Wounds offers therapy called NLP. The aim of which

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is to change patterns of mental and emotional behaviour. In ten nights

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Week In Week Out, we asked a veteran to go undercover to investigate the

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treatment. Here, he is being cancelled by Caryl Richards, a

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founder of Healing the Wounds who's a practitioner of NLP. In this

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sequence she tells them how quickly the treatment can work. 20 minutes.

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It was a guy who served in the regulars. He saw most of his

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battalion wiped out. He did not need much at all. One of Britain's

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leading psychiatrists tells the programme that the treatment that is

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being offered is not appropriate. If this group, who are not medically

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qualified and don't know a person's treatment history, that could cause

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some real problems. It could be dangerous. The use of NLP is not

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regulated and now that our cause for this to be tightened up. Because

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that is no regulation, anybody can set up as an NLP practitioner. The

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quality of their work is not monitored by anybody. That obviously

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puts potential risks out in the field. What we need is some proper

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arrangements for the oversight of the quality of the work that is

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being done by any charity that is giving some support to veterans.

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Healing the Wounds said it is collecting data to prove its

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treatment is effective. It has helped more than one handed veterans

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including 13 who asked them for help after exhausting other support from

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the NHS. Ash 100 veterans. You can see more on this story on

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Week in Week Out here on BBC One Wales at 10:35pm tonight.

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Health bosses have launched legal proceedings to move a group of

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French travellers from a car park at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport.

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NHS officials had written to them asking them to take away the 13

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caravans by four o'clock this afternoon but the travellers who are

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occupying around 65 spaces, remain there tonight. It's believed they

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could move on tomorrow. On Gower, work has been carried out

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to prevent people living in Oxwich from being cut off following the bad

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weather. Sand from the beach had blocked a river which was

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threatening to flood the main road leading to the village. Six flood

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alerts remain in place across Wales this evening.

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The Ministry of Justice has been fined ?140,000 after personal

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details of more than a thousand inmates at Cardiff prison were

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emailed by mistake to the families of three prisoners. The error was

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discovered when one of the families contacted the prison. They should

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have been adequate supervision in place. I understand that the

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processes were there, we weren't necessarily followed. Was no audit

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trail of what was this member of staff had and what supervision she

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did have. There were processes that that it seems they were not

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followed. Its supporters say it could cut

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bills and help keep the lights on. But today MPs have been told that

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fracking, which involves extracting gas from shale rocks underground,

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may not mean a cut in the cost of energy after all. An expert has told

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the Welsh Affairs Committee that even if the technique can be used in

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Wales it would only have a marginal impact on bills. David Cornock's at

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Westminster for us. What exactly were the MPs told?

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Among those supporters of fracking, the Prime Minister. David Cameron

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very keen on the technique and wants to see it expanded across the UK.

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Very early days but it is very controversial. We have seen protests

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at the Senedd, fears about earthquakes or contamination of

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water. That is part of the water MPs on the Welsh affairs committee have

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launched an enquiry into its possibilities in Wales. They have

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been looking at the economic arguments, talking to experts such

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as a professor from the Tyndall Centre for climate change. His

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argument that if ministers technique work, the technique might not mean

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that girls do actually come down. -- that Bill is actually come down. The

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only person who has said the bills will come down is our Prime

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Minister. Part of the European gas network, it might make some small

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margin change to the Butler is no suggestion shale gas will

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significantly reduce hills. Welsh Government has been criticised on

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this approach to fracking. Very strong criticism from friends of the

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Earth. Their argument is that the Welsh Government needs to be better

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prepared for when the planning applications comment to exploit this

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technology. Friends of the Earth says they have been negligent on

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this. The Welsh Government says the regulatory regime rests here with

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the UK Government and not in Cardiff Bay.

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Much more to come before seven o'clock. He proposed the theory of

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evolution but this is not Charles Darwin.

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And there's more heavy rain on the way and risk of flooding in places.

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Stay tuned for a full forecast. Some of the contracts are worth over

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?200,000, so why are some Welsh businesses feeling left out when it

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comes to bidding for certain Welsh Government contracts? Our business

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correspondent, Brian Meechan, is here. What's the cause of this

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frustration? Welsh research companies bid for the

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Welsh Government in order to get contracts to evaluate their

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policies. What we now know from Freedom of information request

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released a Plaid Cymru is the vast majority of those companies have not

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been able to read the thing of being prevented from bidding in certain

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cases, albeit in a small number of cases. But they are certain pieces

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of research. For example, the Welsh language, on the Welsh Government

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's's flagship jobs programme and an initiative that the Welsh Government

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was running to try to get public bodies to buy from Welsh companies.

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The reason why they have been locked down of these contracts is because

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the was government decided to use a UK Government method and it is only

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one Welsh company that was listed will be able to access that method

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in order to do their bidding. What is the Welsh Government saying? It

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says it is a small number of contracts that are involved and the

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contracts that were used provided good value for money. They say was

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companies and organisations were said contracted to do a lot of this

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work. The critics are arguing if these companies were subcontracted,

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they could have do the work in the first place and kept the full fee.

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The Federation of Small Businessesd as saying this is an example of how

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public contracts are badly held -- handled sometimes. The government

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spends money through small businesses will stop it is important

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that value is felt in the communities those companies are

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based. It is a simple equation. It is a matter how big the contract

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is, it can have an impact on small, local businesses. The critics are

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not arguing for preferential treatment, that'll be against EU

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rules. They are saying was companies should be unlevel playing field. --

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should be on a level playing field. 35 rugby players are celebrating

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their inclusion in the Wales squad for next month's autumn

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internationals. But one man who was expected to be there, faces a very

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different challenge over the coming weeks. Our sports reporter Ashleigh

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is at the Wales Rugby HQ in the Vale of Glamorgan.

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We are at an event tonight where hundreds of Welsh rugby fans who've

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recently bought a Wales rugby shirt at getting the chance to pick it up

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from the start of the Wales team in person. The likes of Sam Warburton

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and Leigh Halfpenny are colleagues for club and country. They play with

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Matthew Rees who is away from the game who told he needs text the

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killer surgery. He would have been in the Wales squad. -- testicular

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surgery. It'll be the first time Warren Gatland has called the squad

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together since the Lions squad. Jamie Roberts and Alex Cuthbert are

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both injured. Others have forced their way in. Especially the three

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uncapped players, Rhodri Williams, Corey Allen and ospreys wing, Eli

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Walker. Rhys Patchell has also -- is also retained. The returning Rhys

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Priestland is expected to battle it out with Dan Biggar for the

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non-detention against South Africa. I think we have a settled squad. We

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have youngsters. We have picked the largest squad. We are trying to put

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out very strong side against South Africa and Australia and Argentina

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and perhaps give one or two of those least experienced players an

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opportunity in the Tonga game. James Hook will provide cover but that is

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no place for another France -based player, Lee Byrne, who said he was

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addicted to be overlooked. He added that in his view, the squad had been

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picked on blood that were being players for the world cup. But

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today's news about Matthew Rees put everything into perspective. The

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Cardiff Blues skipper faces an enforced break from the game after a

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testicular surgery. His club and country said they hoped he would be

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back on a rugby pitch very soon. We persuaded Wales captain somewhat

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button to take a few minutes away from talking to the fans and having

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his photo taken to talk to us. -- Sam Warburton. A few words on

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Matthew Rees, it must've been a sharp to all of you. We only found

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out this morning. We wish him all the best and it'll be a tough time

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for him. What we have heard it he is going to have some surgery and hope

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things to return to the game in six weeks. We wish him all the best.

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With the likes of Matthew being away, you can count on plenty of

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experience in your squad. You have 13 Lions. How much confidence has

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what happened in Australia over the summer given new? It'll have a

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positive effect. The last six times we played costs -- Australia, they

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have been split the close. I think this year is going to be the year

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for us. To be on the winning side against Australia would be massive

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for us. It is the most eagerly anticipated match of the autumn

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series. But you are missing Jamie Roberts. If anybody has seen Scott

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Williams play lately, he has been on fire, he is brilliant. We have got

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plenty of experience to fall upon. Losing Alex Cuthbert is

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disappointing. When you look at the back three players we have selected

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anyway, that is a lot of talent there. We are fortunate to have

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great players behind them. All the best for the autumn internationals.

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You can watch all the games on the BBC. One final word tonight, Warren

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Gatland paid tribute to Stuart Williams, the Pontypridd prop who

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died at the age of 33. All of the Wales squad sent their condolences

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and their players and best wishes to his family. Very sad news.

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When the theory of evolution was published in 1858 it rocked the

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scientific establishment. It suggested that humans evolved from

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apes and that in nature, it was survival of the fittest. The idea

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was proposed by two men, Charles Darwin, who became a household name,

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and a Welshman, Alfred Russel Wallace, who has been largely

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forgotten. Now it's hoped a series of events throughout the UK marking

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the centenary of Wallace's death, will rebuild his reputation. Carwyn

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Jones reports His theories changed how we understand the natural world

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and ourselves. Born in Usk in 1823, Alfred Russel

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Wallace was an outsider without wealth or connections who became a

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globe trotting naturalist. It was during these far flung expeditions

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that he conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection.

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By chance, Charles Darwin was developing a theory of his own

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although Wallace was very much his own man. He was working on the same

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things as Charles Darwin at the same time. All the evidence points to the

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fact he sorted this thing out at the same time and it was an independent

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observation. This year marks the centenary of

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Wallace's death, and here at Swansea Museum an exhibition of his life and

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work reveals an obsession with the natural world. He discovered 5,000

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new species, 200 of which still bear his name, like the Wallace flying

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frog. When he and Charles Darwin jointly announced to the world their

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theory of evolution in 1858, it was known as the Darwin-Wallace theory.

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But it's now Darwin's name and achievements that are remembered,

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while Wallace has been largely forgotten. This leading academic

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believes that although Darwin was a more prolific and productive writer,

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the two men were viewed very differently by Victorian Britain.

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They came from different class and Darwin was a well-established

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reddish sized gentleman connected to everyone and Wallace was just

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Wallace. But there are signs that Wallace is

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finally being seen as the missing link in the story of evolution. This

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theatre group is dramatising the scientist's life, and they'll be

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touring their production across the country and overseas, where Wallace

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is held in far higher regard. The recognition of his talent,

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ironically, is there globally. We don't have it in the UK in the same

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way. There is a tremendous risk act for him in Brazil. We will be

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tooling Singapore in November. They idolise the man. This exhibition is

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one of the series of events taking part throughout the UK to mark the

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centenary of Wallace's death. It seems this was high and ears finally

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getting the recognition he deserves. A new bridge across Rhyl harbour has

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been officially opened today. Hundreds of people turned up to

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watch the event. The bridge, which lights up at night, has been named

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Pont y Ddraig after a competition involving schoolchildren in the

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area. It's hoped it'll regenerate the area.

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Over now to Derek for the weather forecast.

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We've had more than our fare share of rain recently. There is more to

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come this week but I can promise some dry weather as well. As far as

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heavy rain is concerned there is a yellow warning in force for southern

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counties tonight until 6am tomorrow. And another warning for Friday. Some

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rivers are swollen with six flood alerts currently in force. Tonight,

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further rain and showers will spread across the country. Heavy downpours

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in places with thunder, squally winds and localised flooding.

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Another mild night. Temperatures not falling below 12 to 14 Celsius. The

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reason for all the rain is low pressure. A wet start for some of

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us. Showers or longer spells of rain. Heavy in places. Some strong

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and gusty winds as well. The southwest drier bar the odd shower.

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During the day, the weather will improve. Still a few lighter showers

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in the north but generally becoming dry and brighter with some sunshine.

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The wind easing and feeling a little cooler. Top temperatures 12 to 15

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Celsius with a west to south-westerly breeze. In the Vale

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of Clwyd tomorrow, showers in the morning, better in the afternoon.

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Breezy with a high of 13 in Rhuddlan. Tomorrow night much of the

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country dry. A clear, calmer and chilly night too. Some ground frost

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in the north. Thursday the best day of the week. Morning and fog patches

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will lift. Most of the day dry and bright but more rain and freshening

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winds are expected by the end of the day. On Friday a wet start with a

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risk of flooding in places. The heavy rain will clear northwards

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followed by heavy, thundery showers. As for the weekend, drier on

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Saturday apart from a few showers. More rain later. Sunday windy with

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sunshine and blustery showers. Our picture tonight is from Mark Hughes.

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A rainbow on Great Orme. Thanks. More rain and heavy showers tonight

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into tomorrow morning but improving with some sunshine.

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Tonight headlines. The former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John

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Major has called for a one-off tax on the profits of the big energy

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companies. Tonight at the headlines, the First Minister has defended

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whole of our health board's plans to hold non-urgent orthopaedic

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operations of a cope with emergency demand. Opposition parties have said

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patients will be forced to wait longer in pain. .

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I'll have an update for you here at eight o'clock and after the BBC News

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at Ten. Good evening.

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