29/01/2014 BBC Wales Today


29/01/2014

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good evening. Giant sandbags are being delivered by helicopter to

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improve flood defences along the Gwynedd coast. High tides are

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expected this weekend and homes and businesses are at risk. The village

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of Llanbedr near Harlech was hit by flooding earlier this month.

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Help from above and for some it cannot come soon enough. The new

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year was far from a happy one for the people of Llanbedr. Their homes

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were inundated with sea water when there homes were breached. Some

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needed to be rescued by lifeboat. The waters have temporarily subsided

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and the hiatus means help can be flown in. Giant sandbags are being

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delivered to add extra protection. Speed is of the essence with very

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high tides due before the end of the week. The race is on to transport

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301 tonne bags of slate and stone. Using conventional means of

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transport would take too long. That is good news for this couple who

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heard from neighbours that their home had been hit. We are hoping

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with the helicopter dropping of the bags it will spare us from another

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big flood on the high tides that are coming on Friday and Saturday.

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Unnatural resources Wales has been here since the last floods. Staff

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say this weekend's high tides need to be closely monitored. We are

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expecting high tide at the weekend. They are higher than the tides of

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one month ago, but there is much less of a storm surge predicted. But

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we are keeping a close eye on that. We have done a lot of modelling

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work. The work we are doing will help the local community here. The

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wardens who usually protects Snowdon have been moved here to supervise

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the delivery of the sandbags. The National Park authority has lent its

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support to speed up the assistance being offered. One of our footpath

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teams are with the helicopter to get the bags onto the helicopter and

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into place and we have done work with licensing to get things to

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happen as quickly as they could. There will be an anxious wait this

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weekend for tides to reach their peak. Residents will be hoping these

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airborne defences will keep the water at bay. Plans for a state

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owned commercial bank for Wales are a step closer. The Economy Minister

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has gone ahead with plans to see how big would work. It would be a

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one-stop shop offering financial support for companies. Finance Wales

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make you feel you have no right to be asking for money. It makes you

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question if you are doing the right thing. If it was not for friends,

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family and certainly an order book that was filling from previous

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customers, then I think I would have considered them to be right. Looe

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this is about a genuine dialogue about how we take things to the next

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stage. Without Finance Wales some businesses would not have been

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successful. The Welsh Ambulance Service has missed its target of

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reaching 65% of life-threatening incidents in eight minutes. The

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figure in December was 57.6%, down from 63.2% in November. The Welsh

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government said the response times were better than they had been for

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the same period in 2012. Public Health Wales is calling for children

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and young people who have not had the measles jab to get vaccinated

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urgently. It comes as four cases of measles have been confirmed at Gower

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College. There have also been a further five cases across the

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Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire areas. The former

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head of a Primary School in Cardiff has been struck off the teaching

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register. The General Teaching Council found 15 of 24 allegations

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against Jane Vaterlaws, the former head of St Alban's Roman Catholic

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Primary School, were proven. She is said to have asked a struggling

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people to stay at home on inspection days and shared details about the

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people with the child's father who was in prison. Cancer patients

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across Wales who currently travelled to England for advanced radiotherapy

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treatment will now be able to get it here. A cutting edge machine has

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arrived at the Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff. But critics say

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one machine is not enough. It is one of the most advanced

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health technologies in Europe. It targets cancer cells with pinpoint

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accuracy and offers treatment up to four times faster than currently

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available. The side-effects are also greatly reduced because smaller

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areas of the body are affected. How are you? It is designed to help

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people like Ruth Jones. She has been having standard radiotherapy

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treatment for a month at the Velindre Cancer Centre, that would

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have been eligible for this. The machine I was on was not overly

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uncomfortable, I just feel that the new technology they have got will

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make the job for everyone quicker and easier. The technology which

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costs ?4.6 million has just arrived. It is the first of its kind

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in Wales. This is the business end of the machine, so the radiotherapy

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is delivered through the treatment head. That will rotate around the

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gantry. One of the key things with this machine which sets it apart

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from some of the others, is there is a CT scanner built into the head of

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the machine. That allows us to make sure the treatment we are delivering

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is going to exactly the part of the body we think it is going to. Until

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now patients who were suitable for this treatment had to travel to

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England. That led to campaign groups being set up by cancer patients in

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Wales is calling for the latest technology to be brought here. She

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told me whilst Cardiff is leading the way, Wales is lagging behind. It

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is a disappointment to me we have not been more ambitious. The Welsh

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government have been happy to sit back and let that situation exist in

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Wales, but I am glad they have been listening to people like myself and

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clinicians who wanted to get their hands on this vital equipment. The

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Welsh government says the machine will be able to treat a sufficient

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number of patients and all those in Wales who need it will have access

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to services. That access will be available in October when the

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machine is up and running. Now it is time for the weather.

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It has been a very wet month this January. It is the wettest January

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since records began in 1956. Some rain for some of us to night. Sleet

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in places and snow on high ground. Elsewhere, it is dry and there is a

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warning of icy patches in Powys and northern counties. A cold start

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tomorrow and a little light rain and sleet in the South East. Otherwise

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it is dry. It is brighter in the North West. Across the rest of the

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UK watch out for icy patches from the Midlands northwards into

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Scotland. Some rain and wintry showers across England and a heavy

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rain warning for East Sussex and Kent. The best of the dry weather is

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in north-east Scotland. Lighter winds than recently and feeling cold

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in the North East. Tomorrow a few wintry flurries in the East and

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North East, otherwise dry. Feeling cold, but the wind will be fairly

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light. Tomorrow night a little light sleet and rain in the North East,

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clearing away. There is a risk of icy patches again. Friday may start

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dry, but it will not last. Again some heavy rain and strong to gale

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force winds. It will be blustery on Saturday with sunshine and showers

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and with a high spring tide there is a risk of flooding on the south and

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west coasts. Some sunshine on Sunday.

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Tomorrow we continue our build up to the six Nations by going behind the

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scenes with Wales' strength and conditioning coaches who have helped

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Wales win the last two too enamoured with their ground-breaking approach

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to fitness training. Next you can see more on the investigation into

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Finance Wales' job creation record on the Wales Report. From

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