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30/04/2014

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as most people. Though that won't

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Good evening. More needs to be done to improve our flood defences and

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the money spent maintaining them should be trebled. That's according

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to a major report looking at the devastating winter storms along our

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coastline. Natural Resources Wales also say communities need to become

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more self-sufficient and resilient in future. Here's our Environment

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Correspondent, Iolo ap Dafydd. The storms last winter were

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exceptional. They hammered the Welsh coastline. We can expect more

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extreme weather in the future, according to Natural Resources

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Wales. It's advice for the Welsh government is for sustained

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investment, that it needs to spend three times as much as it does at

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the moment just to maintain the existing defences. Aaron estimates

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are that the money needs to travel in 25 years, so we are spending 100

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35mm hounds a year. A significant amount of money, especially at this

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time when government finances are tight. ?12 million has been spent

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building this wall. It was completed in 2012. Providing approval is

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provided next year, a bigger scheme will be built next year to protect

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hundreds of homes. On January the 3rd, the stream here

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and the tide almost came over the top of the embankment. Six homes

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were affected. Had the tide and water been ten or 15 centimetres

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higher, a few hundred homes potentially would have been flooded

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across this area of Newport. Last December, Rhyl was flooded after

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defences were breached. Natural Resources Wales once community to be

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Morse sufficient and resilient to flooding. Four months later in real,

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work is going on to repair the defences. -- in Rhyl. Homeowners,

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who are continuing to repair their houses after the devastating floods,

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needed take more responsibility as well, according to Natural Resources

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Wales. can take all of the responsibility.

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But at a time like this for me have had serious flooding, they need some

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help and advice, maybe some instruction. There

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help and advice, maybe some that we can prevent flooding all

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over the place and if there has to be some selective areas given up to

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the sea, then you have to understand why this is the case. Since the

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storms, the Welsh government has allocated over ?10 million. It will

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need time to consider the 47 recommendations before deciding

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which ones to accept. The Leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage,

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was forced to cancel a walk around Swansea City centre due to security

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concerns. A number of protesters had gathered before he was due to arrive

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to officially launch the party's manifesto ahead of the European

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elections. UKIP says Wales is becoming increasingly Eurosceptic

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despite receiving billions of pounds from the European Union.

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One of the reasons that post-industrial Wales receives money

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from the European Union is that so many of its industries have been

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closing down. If you look at the industrial policy and energy policy

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the European Union puts in place and over which the Welsh Assembly and

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the Westminster Parliament have no power and no say at all, you will

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see that high energy prices and overregulation RDA industrialising

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Wales and the rest of our nation. The Prime Minister has paid tribute

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to five service personnel who were killed in a helicopter crash in

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Afghanistan last weekend. Among them were Captain Tom Clarke from

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Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan and Lance Corporal Oliver Thomas

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from Brecon. These tragic deaths remind us of the continued

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commitment and sacrifice of our Armed Forces. I know that our

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deepest of these are with their families at this very difficult

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time. Bridgend Council says it will look

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for alternatives to a pay freeze in order to save money. Unions are

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unhappy at a proposal to offer pay rises for only the lowest paid while

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other Welsh Councils are proposing rises for all staff. Bridgend

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Council says the freeze would have saved a million pounds to help

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protect jobs and services. E-cigarettes are set to be banned in

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all council buildings in Caerphilly, including leisure centres and

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libraries. It's one of the first councils in Wales to stop staff

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using them. Rhodri Lewis reports. The rise of the e-cigarette has been

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astonishing. More than two million people now use them across the UK.

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That figure's trebled in two years. But Caerphilly council says the time

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has now come for them to go the way of normal cigarettes and be banned

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inside its buildings. In the interest of continuity, long time

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ago we banned ordinary cigarettes and we now feel the time is right to

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ban e-cigarettes to enable our staff to give up smoking. It will be

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enforced in all other council buildings in the borough. These

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include libraries, leisure centres and community centres. The decision

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got a mixed reaction in Caerphilly this afternoon. Disgusting. The

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simple reason is it is not cigarette smoke, it is only vapour. We have

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only just got used to be not smoking in public places and now they have

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e-cigarette. Ban them. But one leading expert says e-cigarettes may

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actually be the most effective way of helping people quit smoking.

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There is no question of looking at someone using that and thinking they

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are smoking. So it is not dangerous to be near someone who is using an

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electronic cigarette, there is really no evidence and very little

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reason to believe that it will be normalised smoking, so what is the

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problem? The Welsh government is still considering its own ban across

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the country, the only part of the UK to do so. The new rules in

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Caerphilly will be introduced within weeks.

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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have finished their two-day tour of

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Wales by visiting Caerphilly and the Vale of Glamorgan. They opened a new

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printing press at a factory in Hengoed, before visiting Atlantic

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College in Llantwit Major. A new surfing centre at the site of

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a former aluminium plant in the Conwy Valley has been given the

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go-ahead. The facility, described as the first of its kind in Europe open

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to the public, will allow surfers to ride artificially created waves on a

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massive man-made lake. Cricket and Glamorgan drew their

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latest championship match at Leicestershire. Set 321 to win,

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Glamorgan finished their second innings on 250 for seven.

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As celebrations take place to mark the 100th anniversary of Dylan

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Thomas's birth, our reporter Tomos Morgan has been to New York, where

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he spent his last days, to find out what he means to people there.

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The city of towers was Dylan Thomas's discussion of New York. You

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can see why. He came a four times to promote his work. We will be here to

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look at the place which was such a part of his history.

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Look forward to that tomorrow, but is there much to look forward to on

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the weather front? Look forward to that tomorrow, but

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is there much to It looks promising for the bank holiday weekend but we

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have some heavy under a shower is in place for tomorrow. There will be

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some surface water flooding. There are showers spreading across the

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country with some mist and hill fog as well. Tomorrow morning, a few

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places are dry but that will not be the case everywhere. There will be

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rain and showers, heavy showers in the south-west. Misty in places as

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well. They will be outbreaks of rain across much of the country. Some

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heavy and thundery downpours in places with a Met Office warning in

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force. Northern Scotland will brighten up and a wide range in

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temperature, a chilly eight Celsius, a warmer 17 in London. In Wales

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tomorrow afternoon, it is a case of dodging the showers were stopped

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they will be heavy and thundery in places but it will be hit and miss.

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There should be some sunshine in the West. The showers were slowly fade

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away and cooler air will filter down into mid Wales and the North. Friday

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is a better day in prospect. The odd shower but generally drier. Plenty

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of cloud and feeling fresher. If you consist of sunshine. Tomorrow night,

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it will be chilly with some ground frost. There will be high pressure

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over the UK on Saturday, which means dry and settled weather. Saturday a

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decent day, dry with decent temperatures. There is more dry

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weather to come on bank holiday Monday. Overall, some decent Monday

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for the bank. -- for the bank holiday.

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And that is Wales Today. We'll be back with updates in the morning

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from around 6:25am. For now, though, from all of us here, good night.

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