24/12/2013 BBC Wales Today


24/12/2013

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struggled with an Australian barrage all tour. Let's hope this guy has a

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Good evening. Heavy rain has brought flooding to parts of south and west

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Wales and continued to cause travel disruption. Fire crews have been

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dealing with calls from Pembrokeshire right across to

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Monmouthshire and there are still a number of flood warnings in place.

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Paul Heaney reports. Much of the Monmouthshire

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countryside is underwater. This pub and restaurant in the village of

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Trelech are bailing themselves out to try to save their Christmas

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trade. You can see up to here, that is how high the water was when we

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came down. That went into the pub and filled the pub with water as

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well. What does it mean for the business? We have had to phone all

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our Christmas Eve bookings for food, Christmas Day bookings, we can't do

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anything at all now. Fire fighters may have been invaluable here last

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night, but industrial action is planned by the Fire Brigades Union

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between 7.00pm and midnight tonight in a dispute over pensions. The

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weather conditions over the last 24 hours have shown what a magnificent

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job our firefighters do. There are contingency plans with each service

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in Wales to deal with any issues and they will have a major incident

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plan. With scenes like this in Carmarthenshire, travel plans for

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many have also been disrupted. A landslip on the line between

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Machynlleth and Newtown stopped trains on the Cambrian Line. And

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staff at Chepstow racecourse are hoping the Welsh National on

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Saturday won't be affected despite two days of heavy rain, although

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Boxing Day's race at Ffos Las in Carmarthenshire is now off.

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A postmortem has been carried out on a woman whose body was recovered

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from a stream in Gwynedd. Police and rescue teams were called to Nant

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Ffrancon near Bethesda yesterday. It's believed the woman, thought to

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be in her 40s or 50s, was checking her water supply. An inquest is

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expected to open after Christmas. Police aren't treating it as

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suspicious. The Russian authorities have dropped

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criminal charges against an activist from Newport accused of taking part

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in a Greenpeace protest in the Arctic. Anthony Perrett is among 30

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people who were arrested in September as they staged a protest

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at a Russian offshore oil rig. They've now been granted amnesty.

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It is a great relief to have the criminal proceedings finally

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dropped. My partner is with me in St Petersburg and it is one of the most

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beautiful cities in the world so not too worried about getting back for

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Christmas. The Archbishop of Wales will use the

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example of Nelson Mandela's life to focus on forgiveness and

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reconciliation during his Christmas message. Dr Barry Morgan will say

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the former South African president refused to hate those who had

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imprisoned him. He also says his highlights of 2013 included a vote

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on women bishops. I think for the Church in Wales, it

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is the bill to make it possible for women to be ordained as bishops.

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Some people are asking when that is going to happen. They have missed

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the point. The fact is, what the bill made possible was that at least

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women could be considered as candidates and that is the really

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important thing. The rest will come later.

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Well, after a miserable few days, are things going to improve for the

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rest of the festive period? Derek has the Christmas forecast.

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We have had just about everything thrown at us today. Thankfully the

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wind will continue to ease tonight but Father Christmas will need to

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watch out for some showers. Heavy in places with hail and snow on higher

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ground, including the Brecon Beacons. Christmas Day promises to

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be calmer. There will be showers around, most in parts of Powys and

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the South. A little bit of snow on some hills and mountains. Some dry

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and bright weather tomorrow as well and the wind lighter than today.

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Tomorrow night, a few showers here and there. A cold night. And on

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Boxing Day, fog and frost will lift and a few showers dotted around.

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Otherwise dry with sunshine. There is more wet and windy weather

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arriving by Friday. Don't forget, there'll be full

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updates on the weather and any disruption that's causing on our

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website, but that's it from the Wales Today team. From all of us,

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happy Christmas. it from us - we are back on Boxing

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Day at One o'clock. Merry Christmas. Hello. The weather has been a little

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kinder today to travellers and last-minute Christmas shoppers

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across England and Wales. Not as bad as we feared across Northern

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Ireland. We have a warning out across parts of Scott and

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