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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story: Paying for tomorrow's

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students. Labour's Education Minister heckled in the chamber.

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Criticism tonight that we won't find out about any changes until after

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the election. Our other headlines tonight: Under

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pressure. A warning tonight about family doctors at breaking point.

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General practice is on its knees. The demands are increasing and the

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complexity of the work is increasing and the workforce is shrinking.

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How far should you have to travel to have your baby? Why Pembrokeshire

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mums might have to go to Carmarthenshire.

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The first snow of autumn brings travel disruption to many upland

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areas. And the teenage wing Hallam Amos

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will make his debut for Wales against Tonga on Friday. The first

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minute of my first cap will be tough but I have played against big men

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before in training. It is just another game.

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Good evening. The Education Minister has been heckled in the chamber this

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afternoon over the timing of his plans to review higher education in

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Wales. Huw Lewis says the review is due to be completed after the next

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Assembly elections in 2016. Opposition parties say that is

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deliberate so voters won't know what his party's policy will be. At the

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moment, universities charge around ?8,000 a year in tuition fees. Welsh

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students pay the first ?3,500. The rest of the bill is picked up by the

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Welsh Government, regardless of where they study. Live to our

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Political Editor, Nick Servini. This has been one of the most talked

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about policies in recent years. In the past 24 hours it has been no

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exception. Last night the education minister announced the setting up of

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an independent commission to look at things like the long-term funding of

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higher education, widening access. Not controversial in itself but

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controversy surrounded the timings of when it will be completed. The

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accusation is that folders will be left in the dark in a major policy

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when they go to the polls for the assembly elections in two and a half

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years time. The Welsh Government said today that this needs consensus

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on all the different sides but the minister was given a rough ride.

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Sixth formers like these will benefit from the current policy to

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subsidise university education. The question is how long will it last?

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The education Minister Hugh Lewis says as well as being affordable it

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is popular in the country so is that the view among pupils? I think it is

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effective. It is better than England. ?3500 is still a lot of

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money. It puts people off because a lot of people can't afford it. They

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don't go on to higher education. One of the main criticisms of the policy

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on tuition fees is that tens of millions of pounds is drained from

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the Welsh system. In the last academic year around 6700 students

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from Wales completed their first year at universities in England

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taking with them ?33 million of Welsh Government many. In the same

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period, 12,700 Welsh students stayed in Wales, contributing to more than

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?64 million to universities here. Around 9000 students came to study

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in Wales bringing ?50 million. Figures like these will be

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scrutinised by the new independent commission. The commission itself

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was broadly welcomed but the timing was not. It will report back until

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after the next assembly elections. The Minister first had to defend

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this timing on BBC Wales this morning. You are kicking this into

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the long grass so you don't have to tell the electorate what your policy

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will be. That is a simple-minded interpretation. Then from opposition

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parties when an emergency question was tabled. You know I am very keen

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on collaboration but I have already asked for the review to happen here

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but what I don't do is provide a cover for an unsustainable and

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simple-minded policy. Why can't this commission report earlier so as to

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inform the electorate of the policy. If this commission does not report

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until 2016 it will take at least two years for that new funding mechanism

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to be put in place and a further three years before the whole corps

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holed moves through universities. Instead of getting to grips with the

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fundal -- fundamental issues that matter however made it clear that we

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will see a general election in 2015 and we will see a Welsh general

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election in 2016. What we must have from this review is an enduring

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settlement which is above and beyond the sound and fury of any particular

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election campaign and hence the timetable. The Minister says a

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robust plan needs to be worked out to try and improve the accessibility

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of universities for those for low-income background. We are

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pleased that we will have a place on that review and that the student

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perspective will be counted. We need to have a full-scale look at what it

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is we do and how we can do things properly. There are many within the

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higher education sector who want the commission to lead to a change in

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policy. The policy position in Wales depends on supporting Welsh citizens

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wherever they study but it has consequences. One of the

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consequences is that the amount of our resources is more limited. What

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about Welsh university students themselves? Any change could lead to

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them paying more. Paying for university tuition fees has been one

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of the most high-profile policies in recent years and that profile shows

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no sign of dying down. Higher education on tuition fees are

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tricky political territory and they? At a UK level the Lib Dems had their

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fingers burnt when they backtracked on a pledge not to raise tuition

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fees. They Welsh Government has to be careful. He were Lewis wants more

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time and today he was talking about things like the general election

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campaign. -- Hugh Lewis. He actually went further this afternoon and made

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the point that the sound and fury as he described it of an election

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campaign gets in the way and it is the wrong time to discuss these

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issues. The response to that from the opposition parties is that an

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election campaign is exactly the time to discuss it and all of these

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policies should be put to the voters. One scenario could be that

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the opposition parties come up with specific policies into a half years

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time on tuition fees but the Labour Party will say trust us, we are

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going to have to wait until the results of this commission. In terms

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of when it goes from here, despite all the criticism, then of the

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opposition parties are saying they're going to pull out at this

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stage. Family doctors in Wales face a

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"crisis" and "enormous pressures" mean the profession is "on its

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knees". That's the warning tonight from the Chair of the British

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Medical Association's GP Committee in Wales. Dr Charlotte Jones has

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told BBC Wales that increasing demand coupled with a shrinking

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workforce means GPs are often "too exhausted" to treat extra patients.

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Here's Our health correspondent, Owain Clarke BBC Wales has learned

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that staff at Withybush Hospital in Pembrokeshire have been told there

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are plans to move consultant-led maternity services to

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this is Doctor Charlotte Jones who chairs the committee representing

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Welsh GPs. Today she told me about the pressures facing the profession.

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GPs are feeling the pressure. Those GPs working in the daytime are

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exhausted. They don't feel able to do out of hours work. All the GPs

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are taking early retirement. We are hearing reports of GPs leaving both

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training and from partnerships. The problem is she said at common but

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more acute in rural areas. The BMA is worried about the increasing

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costs for doctors and getting themselves insured when they treat

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patients beyond normal hours. That and not enough doctors in our

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opinion available to do the work. Therefore we feel that with the

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changes to insurance fees the doctors have to pay, there are going

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to be less and less doctors. In some surgeries patients find it difficult

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to book appointments. So are GPs doing enough to keep patients out of

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hospital? If we had more services available in the community and more

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staff to support the work we might well be able to keep patients out of

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hospital. But some people need hospital admission and where

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patients need hospital admission no GP will deny that. What are the

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answers? Increasing the amount of funding which goes into general

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practice. And Dave at -- David that from where? There are difficult

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conversations to be had. Doctor Jones and the BMA are hammering out

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a new deal for the GPs with the Welsh Government. But that is no

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denying that family doctors are not the only workers currently feeling

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the pressure. BBC Wales has learned that staff at

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Withybush Hospital in Pembrokeshire have been told there are plans to

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move consultant-led maternity services to Carmarthen in the new

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year. Hywel Dda Health Board maintain no decision has been made

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yet, but, as Abigail Neal reports, there are already serious questions

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being raised about the proposals. Sharon Murray is due to give birth

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in January next year. She's hoping she can do that in Pembrokeshire,

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but like many, she has fears for the future of her local hospital. They

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are going on about getting rid of the children area of the hospital so

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we're thinking of moving up to Carmarthen so we are closer to the

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hospital. Hywel Dda Health Board announced in January that they

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wanted to transfer the special care baby unit from Haverfordwest to

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Glangwili in Carmarthen. Now, BBC Wales has learned that staff were

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told there are also plans to transfer consultant-led maternity

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care from march next year. Staff were shocked as they had no idea at

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all. It was an off-the-cuff message. I don't think patients

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really know. The health board says these recent proposals are a

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necessary consequence of their recent decision to concentrate

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specialist care at Carmarthen. But campaigners would argue these go

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well below -- beyond the lengthy consultation and that that is

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fundamentally unfair. The patient watchdog in West Wales is worried

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this could lead to the loss of paediatric services and ultimately

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emergency cover. It would be a serious concern because if you

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remove that you remove the cover. It affects the ability to offer a

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24-hour accident and emergency service. This will put people 's

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lives at risk. This afternoon, the local Assembly Member, Paul Davies,

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called for an urgent statement from the Health Minister, Mark Drakeford,

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but was told it would not be forthcoming until Hywel Dda had

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handed in their proposals. In a statement, the health board told us

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they are committed to openly discussing the current situation

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with staff and meetings are taking place. They say proposed models will

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be submitted to Welsh Government in the next few weeks. But campaigners

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want to act now. They are calling on the Health Minister to intervene and

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say they plan to lodge an application for judicial review.

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The development of so-called 'City Regions' here has taken another step

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forward with the announcement that two new boards have been created to

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help deliver the plans. WRU chief executive Roger Lewis will chair the

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South East Wales City Region. There have also been appointments for the

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Swansea Bay project. The Economy Minister says they should play a

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critical role in providing leadership and vision. I am honoured

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to be invited to chair the board. But most importantly I think I'm

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passionate about the ambition of this board. I think this can make a

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profound change positively to the lives of people throughout the ten

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local authorities that make up the South East Wales city region.

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A man from Gwynedd has been jailed for ten weeks and banned from

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keeping horses for ten years after causing unnecessary suffering. Evan

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Evans, who's 69, was found guilty earlier this year of keeping 51

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horses in "appalling" conditions and failing to meet welfare needs.

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The organiser of a firework display which took place close to the M5,

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where a pile-up killed seven people including a couple from Newport, is

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not a risk taker, a court's heard. Geoffrey Counell denies failing to

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ensure public safety for the event in Taunton in 2011. Yesterday, the

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jury heard that smoke from the display blocked the view of drivers.

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The case continues. An inquest has opened and adjourned

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into the deaths of a couple killed when a plane crashed in Flintshire

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on Friday. Gary Vickers and Kaye Clarke were returning from a trip to

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Europe when the light aircraft came down at Hawarden Airport. The

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hearing heard that inquiries into the crash were expected to be

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extensive. They forecast snow in parts of Wales

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overnight and the forecasters got it right. Upland areas in Conwy,

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Denbighshire and Gwynedd seem to have had the biggest falls, although

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the Rhigos Mountain Road in South Wales was closed. Between

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Trawsfynydd and Bala, one car left the road after skidding in

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treacherous conditions. Roger Pinney reports.

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A lucky escape for one motorist this morning. The scar left the road

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between Bala and Trawsfynydd. -- this car. Further along, some

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abandoned their vehicles. Across the bland areas of North Wales motorists

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were urged to drive with care. This is the second car that is the second

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car that has gone off the road this morning. Conditions are bad at the

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moment. A lot of people have been caught out. It is quite slippery. I

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hour ago it was fine but it has come down quickly. The snow was not

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confined to the North. In mid Wales there was a dusting on the hills.

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The Rhigos mountain road was cold. -- was closed. The picture postcard

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scenes could be seen in North Wales. First icy blast of winter then and

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it seems some of us were caught out. It caused problems for some but it

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was an inconvenience more than anything else.

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So is there more snow to come? We'll have a full forecast before 7:00pm.

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Snow on the mountains, gale force winds and rain heading our way. I'll

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tell you all about it later. And the teenage wing Hallam Amos

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will make his debut for Wales against Tonga on Friday.

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The wait to find out if Swansea Bay will be the UK's City of Culture in

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2017 is almost over. Tomorrow morning, the team behind the bid

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will find out if they've managed to beat off competition from Dundee,

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Hull and Leicester. Our arts correspondent, Huw Thomas, takes a

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look at what each competing city has to offer.

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Swansea Bay, cradle of talent the movie legend, music icons and

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theatrical stars and the birthplace of Dylan Thomas. The Bay Area from

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the Nelly to put Albert thinks it was already got cultural

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credibility. For 2017 it says it will create a new musical festival

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and make the most of its connections. But is it Lester's time

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to shine. It boasts the biggest Dee Valley Festival of light outside of

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India. Hull has taken the competition studiously and has made

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a slick video to promote the town. They are promising 365 days of

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culture if they win. They are considered by some to be Swansea's

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main rivals. Or could then the win. It is the home of comic book star

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Dennis the Menace. What are the judges looking for? They will be

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looking for the potential growth and development and regeneration. Is the

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culture of Swansea related to its industrial past? Or rather seeds and

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is the challenge passing to another generation. Londonderry was the

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first city of culture this year and the team backing Swansea Bay say it

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will be worth ?70 million to the economy. As we near the end of our

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city of culture year, it is easy to see the transformation that has

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happened in the city. It has transformed it. The year has gone

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with a bang in Londonderry. Swansea Bay has spent ?10,000 on its bid to

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become the next city of culture. And we'll bring you that

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announcement and all the reaction in our programmes tomorrow. As well as

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celebrating our traditional arts and culture, Wales has a wealth of new

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musicians aiming for success. But in these days of downloads, YouTube

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videos and streaming sites, how easy is it for bands to get their music

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heard and to forge a successful career? Sachin Krishnan reports.

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Rehearsing for the latest live appearance. They have been recording

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and playing live for the past year. But for bands today trying to forge

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a career in the music industry, they told me it is just a small part of

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what they need to do to make themselves known. In addition to

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Facebook and Twitter there are things like sound cloud, just ways

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of getting your music at their and making it accessible. It is easier

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but that is so much new stuff and it's difficult to stay on top of who

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is doing what. So what can successful artists potentially earn?

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Figures from PRS shows that for the sale of a ?10 CD the songwriter can

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expect to receive around 65% -- 65p to 85p. Money for playing a song on

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raid your varies but it can be up to ?59 for a three-minute song played

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on Radio 2. Live music rings songwriter is around 3% of the price

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of all tickets. The big debate faxing the music industry at present

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revolves around artists who put their music on streaming sites. PRS

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told me is time a song is played it brings in a fraction of a penny for

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each play on the site. With so many ways of accessing music online, it

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may be surprising to learn that final sales at their highest for a

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decade. From one of the owners of one of the last independent music

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shops in Newport, physical releases can help bands to stand out. Bands

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need to think of themselves as a business as well as an artistic

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unit. They need to think about the whole package. What they are trying

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to achieve and how to get their music to the public. This band are

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hoping the next you will see the release of their debut album. A

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major step for a fledgling band trying to make it in what is an

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industry which is constantly changing and evolving like never

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before. Wales rugby coach Warren Gatland has

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given most of his star players a weekend off ahead of the third match

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of the autumn series. He's made 11 changes for Friday night's test

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against Tonga, with 19-year-old Dragons wing Hallam Amos picked for

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the first time. More from our sports reporter, Ashleigh Crowter.

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Ten days ago he was not even in the squad. Now 19-year-old Hallam Amos

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is preparing to make his debut. He is one of the brightest talents in

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the dragons backline but he might have been a footballer had it not

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been for the intervention of the famous Welsh winger from the 1970s.

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I came to Monmouth School and John Bevan was there. He played for Wales

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and the Lions. I started my career as a prop. Then I slowly moved out

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and out and John Bevan Stepney at full-back. It is a mark of Wales'

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growing strength in depth that this site has plenty of experience. Luke

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Charteris partners Ian Evans at lock and Ryan Evans captains the side

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from number eight. James Hook will make his first start for Wales in

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more than two years and is paid with Lloyd Williams at halfback. Cardiff

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Blues Centre Owen Williams will win his third cap alongside Ashley Beck.

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Leigh Halfpenny and George North will be on hand to help Hallam Amos

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through his first full international. Tonga bring a

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physical challenge to focus the minds of even the most experienced

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players. We'll say they want the referee to protect them if the

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tourists take things too far. They had a man sent off the last time

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they played Wales. Physical, and compromising. They like to hit

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targets. We know what is to come. This is the first time I have played

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Tonga but there will be an element like Samoa and Fiji. Most of those

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who played against Argentina they are being rested for the game

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against Australia, the defining match of the autumn.

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So, any more snow on the way, Derek? On the hills and mountains, Jamie,

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but tomorrow most of us can expect rain. Strong to gale force winds as

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well. The rain clearing to showers. The radar picture shows today's

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showers. Some of them heavy. Most of the showers in the west this

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afternoon. Elsewhere, dry with some lovely sunshine. This evening, most

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places will start dry with a frost. However, cloud and rain will spread

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across the country overnight. A little snow on the mountains. The

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wind picking-up after midnight and becoming strong. Coldest this

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evening in Mid Wales, the South and East, but temperatures rising later.

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Tomorrow's chart shows low pressure moving south over the North Sea,

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bringing rain, gale force winds and wintry showers. So here's the

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picture for 8:00am in the morning. Different to today in the North.

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Temperatures higher, but wet and windy. Heavy rain for a time and a

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strong to gale force wind. Unpleasant conditions for

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travelling. Further south, the rain more patchy but windy, especially on

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the hills and coasts. During the morning, a band of heavy rain will

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move south. Hail and thunder possible but clearing by midday. So

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a brighter afternoon with sunshine and scattered showers. The showers

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heavy in places and wintry on high ground. Top temperatures, 6C to 9C

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but feeling colder in the wind. Gale force winds in the north and west.

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If you're heading into the mountains, sleet and snow will clear

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to wintry showers. And they'll be bitterly cold with severe gales on

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the summits. Tomorrow night, some dry weather but blustery showers as

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well. Wintry on higher ground. Gales on the north and west coast with

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temperatures staying above freezing. Thursday, a bit better. A few

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showers in the north and west but turning drier and brighter. Less

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windy too but still a chilly breeze. Friday and the weekend, mostly dry.

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Variable cloud, some sunshine and frost. By Sunday, with little wind,

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there is a risk of freezing fog patches. So a taste of winter this

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week but no sign yet of any widespread, heavy snow. If you're

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travelling tomorrow, watch out for strong to gale force winds. Heavy

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rain in the morning will clear to showers in the afternoon.

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The main news again from the BBC: The chairman of the Cooperative

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Group, Len Wardle, has resigned because of the drugs scandal

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surrounding the man he chose to lead the Co-op Bank, Paul Flowers. Mr

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Flowers, a Methodist minister, apologised at the weekend after he

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was filmed allegedly buying cocaine from a man he met on a dating

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website. The education minister has been

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heckled over the timing of his plans to reveal higher education here. He

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were Lewis says the review is due to be completed after the next assembly

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elections in 2016. I'll have an updates for you here at

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8:00pm and after the BBC News at 10:00pm. That's Wales Today. From

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all of us on the programme, good evening.

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