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connection with a murdering Belfast back in the 1970s. That is all from

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the BBC News Welcome to Wales Today. Veronica

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Teal was verbally abused at her Powys care home. Her family caught

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staff on camera. I cried. I cried for my mum. I couldn't believe it.

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Tonight, calls for an investigation. We'll have a special report.

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Learning from the best - the under-performing schools selected

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for a new improvement programme. A warning from health officials over

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a dramatic rise in cases of syphilis across north Wales.

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It's the city where Dylan Thomas first performed Under Milk Wood.

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Tonight we follow in his footsteps in New York.

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And sunshine, rain and heavy showers today. A garden flooded on Anglesey.

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I'll have the bank holiday weekend forecast.

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Good evening. There are calls for a nursing home

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in Powys to be investigated after an elderly resident was verbally abused

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and neglected. The poor treatment of Veronica Teal came to light after

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her family put a camera in her room. They've told this programme that

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they're horrified at their mother's treatment at the home owned by the

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Pentecostal Hope Church. India Pollock has this exclusive report,

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which you may find upsetting. This is 72-year-old Veronica Teal,

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pick sure taken last week in a new nursing home. Compare it to a few

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months ago, lying in her bed sobbing. She was living in Newtown,

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her family installed a Camara in her room because they were worried. What

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they found, shocked them. It is horrible. I tried to block it. I

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tried, I did not watch as much. It broke my heart. It is my mum. She

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has never been treated like that which adds to my naivete. Veronica

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Teal had a stroke 20 years ago, she cannot use her legs and can only use

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one arm. She also has difficulty with her speech. In November last

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year, her family decided she needed full-time care. Her daughter chose

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this nursing home because it was church run, independent and

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purpose-built. While she can understand everything, she cannot

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respond the way she would like. Her care plan says she will only use one

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word. The plan says everyone working with her needs to give her time and

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assistance to respond. Her son gave me the footage and I have watched

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168 hours are bit. What I have seen is distressing and far from the

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dignified care you would expect for your loved ones.

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Veronica Teal's care plan also says she needs assistance with personal

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care and a hoist must be used to transfer her from her chair to her

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bed. Sometimes they do use a hoist, but regularly they don't. The home

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says staff were misguided but are now aware they have two used seen

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some good care in this footage. But in the week of footage I have seen,

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staff have only helped her brush her teeth once. The home says that is

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because she can ask for help. They never ask her if she would like to

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go to the toilet and I have seen her left sitting in her own excrement.

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Again, the home says that is because she can ask for assistance. On one

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occasion she was left for 26 hours without her catheter bag being

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emptied. Her care plan also says she needs

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encouragement to eat. I spoke to the manager of the home

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and Reverend Alan Hewitt, the chair of Trustees and pastor of the

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church. They declined my request for an interview but gave me a

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statement: The trustees regret an isolated incident of verbal abuse

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was brought to their attention. The member of staff involved has been

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disciplined and is undergoing further training. The trustees are

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confident the residents continue to receive excellent care.

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The Royal College of Nursing in Wales says this member of staff's

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behaviour is not acceptable. To add chilli tell somebody that they have

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no time for patients, or patients like them or residence like them, is

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unacceptable in my book and I would hope the management of that nursing

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home are fully investigating. I will be contacting the care Council in

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Wales to ask them to look into the matter. Social services says it has

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been investigating and will share the outcome of the investigation

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tomorrow. I saw Veronica Teal last week, she is much happier and has

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settled into her new home. We can speak now to Dr Aled Jones

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who's an expert in care for the elderly.

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It was only last night the panorama programme investigated similar

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incidents in England. How does this compare? Harm has occurred here,

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whether it is psychological, physical or mental. We know there is

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a link between psychological harm of this nature and physical harm. The

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care home does say it is an isolated incident, but is it also bowled to

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identify why this kind of abuse happens? It happens in spite of our

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policies and procedures being in place and codes of conduct. We have

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to look inside across nursing homes and care homes across the sector.

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Nursing culture and team culture, things happen in the workplace that

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make people tolerate behaviour they would not do normally. So workplace

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culture in this sector needs further monitoring. You say there are

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policies and procedures in place, is there enough? Yes, what we don't

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need is any more policies and procedures, we need better

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implementation of them and better monitoring. As a society, a sense we

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value older people and their care than we do at present. The findings

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of the investigation are expected. Social services will meet Veronica

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Teal and her family tomorrow so we will bring you more updates at

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6:30pm. It's his number one priority and a real game-changer.

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That's how a new flagship policy has been described by the education

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minister Huw Lewis. Schools Challenge Cymru will cost ?20

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million a year and aims to raise standards in under performing

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schools. Similar schemes have been running successfully in London and

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Manchester for nearly a decade. Here's our Education Correspondent,

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Arwyn Jones. Too many schools in Wales don't

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measure up. Many in our poorer areas are set to get a boost. At Willows

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in Cardiff Bay have seen an improvement in their results over

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the past two years and does part as Schools Challenge Cymru, they will

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get help. They will draw up a plan looking at the school's weaknesses

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and needs. All the support they need will be paid for out of the ?20

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million fund. I would expect for the challenge adviser to be aware that

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as a headteacher, we know the school and we know where the gaps are with

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our pupils. We know what to do to make those gaps appropriate and

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ensure we are held to account for putting those gaps right. The school

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motto does say it all because part of the challenge is to ensure there

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is that belief can achieve. They will be setting some ambitious

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targets for all 40 schools. In terms of GCSEs they will be expecting

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significant improvements within the first year. In February I visited

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schools in London who have been part of a similar scheme launched ten

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years ago. It was a huge success and enable schools to build on what they

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had. They did drink in consultants and experts who worked alongside my

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teachers to get them to focus on the things that were critical, develop

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the teaching soap the learning of the children improved. The scheme in

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London was funded for nine years which is less than what has been

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promised by the education minister here. This rogue ram will be here

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for the next two years. -- this programme. We will have to evaluate

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it, and I would like us to move on to a second phase of Schools

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Challenge Cymru. But that two-year commitment to the programme is

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there, it is concrete and it is very real. But those involved with the

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Schools Challenge Cymru, say it is not about money but making sure

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schools work together. After criticisms of the Welsh government

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for lacking strategy, the hope now is that this policy will stay the

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course. I sent there is a policy for this. Teachers and head teachers

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want to know there is a policy to get behind. The Welsh government has

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been criticised for its handling of education. The idea here is, by

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raising the standards of our most challenging schools, they will raise

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the standards for everyone. Three people have been stabbed at a

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house in Caerphilly. It's thought three men forced their way in to the

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home in Lansbury Park last night and attacked a woman and two men, who

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are all in their twenties. They were treated in hospital for stab wounds.

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One of the men is in a serious but stable condition.

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There's been a significant increase in cases of the sexually transmitted

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disease syphilis in north Wales. In the last year 39 cases were reported

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to Public Health Wales. Normally there are around seven. The rise was

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first seen on Anglesey but has now spread across the region.

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I don't think we are seeing all of the cases because some of these

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patients do not have symptoms. Some of them may not come forward for

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testing. Yes, we are probably seeing the minority and probably there are

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more cases. It is important they come forward for testing. They can

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then get it treated easily. Pembrokeshire Council is to write to

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its own Chief Executive asking him to pay back unlawful pension

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contributions. Bryn Parry Jones and a second unnamed official were both

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given cash payments to avoid tax, totalling ?51,000. An investigation

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by the Wales Audit Office led to the payments being stopped.

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Labour has launched its campaign for the European elections with a set of

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key pledges. The party urged voters to send a message to the UK

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government about the cost of living, and to reject the UK Independence

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Party. Daniel Davies reports. Opinion polls are looking up for

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Labour. It launched its campaign at Swansea university's new EU-funded

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campus, a symbol of global ambition, says Labour. What about Labour's

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ambition? It'll want to do better than the 2009 European election when

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its share of the vote slumped by 12%. That pushed Labour into second

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place behind the Tories, with Plaid Cymru and UKIP taking the other two

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seats. The last European election was pretty bleak for Labour. It was

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the first time the party had failed to top the poll in a Wales-wide

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election since 1918. The outlook is much better this time and the

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challenge for Labour for the party is to win a second Welsh seat in the

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European parliament. The last election in 2009, I remember well

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because it was at the last of the last Labour government and in the

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middle of the expenses scandal. But this time on the doorstep, things

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are more positive. We have been out working hard every day for the last

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few weeks and we have had a great response. It would take a political

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earthquake for Derek Vaughan to fail to get re-elected. Labour has set

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its sights on making sure its second candidate Jane Bryant joins him in

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Brussels. The response on the door has been very good and positive.

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People are quite keen to give a bit of a kick to the national government

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at the moment. Labour is putting the cost of living at the centre of its

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campaign. It's stressing its pledge to freeze energy bills if it wins

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power in Westminster. A reminder that though these may be the most

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important European elections in a generation. According to Welsh

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Labour, they're also a dry run for the general election next year.

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A company in Caerphilly has won more than ?360 million worth of contracts

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from the Ministry of Defence. General Dynamics in Oakdale will

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work on the engineering and support for a radio system used by the armed

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forces. It says the investment has secured more than 140 jobs at the

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site. It is hugely important because it

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allows us to retain the skills we have developed over the years here

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in South Wales. Without this it would be difficult to retain the

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critical expertise we need in this business.

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Trains are starting to run again on a section of the Cambrian Coast

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Railway in Gwynedd, which was completely washed away by storms in

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January. The line at Llanaber, north of Barmouth, has cost ?7 million to

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rebuild. It means that trains are now able to go as far north as

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Harlech, but the rest of the line to Pwllheli will stay closed until at

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least the summer, while a new bridge is built.

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34 Welsh beaches have been given the international Blue Flag award for

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their high standards and water quality - one more than last year.

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Aberdaron and Barmouth in Gwynedd, and Cilborth beach in Ceredigion

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have been recognised for the first time. 31 beaches have been given the

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Green Coast Award, which recognises unspoilt environments.

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The Hay Literature Festival will be broadcast on BBC television, radio

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and online. It's the start of a three-year partnership, bringing the

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coverage on Sky Arts to an end. BBC Wales Television, Radio Wales and

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Radio Cymru are among the networks broadcasting live from the festival

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which begins at the end of this month.

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New York 1953 where Dylan Thomas first performed his most famous

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work, Under Milk Wood. He died on another trip to the city months

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later at the age of 39. As events take place around the world to mark

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the centenary of the poet's birth, Tomos Morgan has been back to The

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Big Apple to take a walk in his footsteps.

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The beginning at the beginning. Dylan Thomas performed Under Milk

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Wood in New York City for the first time in 1953. It is a place he

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described as the city of towers. During his four trips here in the

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early 50s, he wrote how he struggled with the scale of the city in

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letters home. I have no idea what I am doing here in the middle of the

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last empire on earth. Here I have to take things to sleep. Everybody uses

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the telephone every time, it is like breathing. Fire Brigades, ambulances

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all with their sirens, wailing and screaming, seem never to stop. His

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name is synonymous with a range across the city. To mark his

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Centenary, an app has been developed showing those key locations.

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Tourists can visit his favourite horns on an official Dylan Thomas

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walking tour led by a Welshman. Now we are in the Cherry Lane Theatre in

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the heart of the village. He arrived here in typical fashion, forgetting

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his notes. Unfortunately a friend remembered that she had a book of

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his poetry and went to get it. It was in Manhattan at the 92nd St

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theatre where Swansea's famous poet found a much bigger audience. The

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stage is set just like it was for the first performance of Under Milk

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Wood on the 14th of May, 1953. It was in this very seat he sat and

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performed to a crowd of 1000 people. Although Under Milk Wood had been

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scheduled for a number of months, it was touch and go to the last minute

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whether it would have finished in time. People did not know it was

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going to be funny. So they were very reverent and hushed until the humour

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begins. A few people laughed at first and then it becomes

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uproarious. A few blocks away, members of the St Davids Welsh

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Society of New York are practising for their own performance. There are

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more people performing than in the audience. It did not matter whether

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they had talents, they wanted to bring these people together to

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become the village. The majority of his time was spent in bohemian,

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Greenwich Village where he seemed most comfortable. But one of his

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favourite drinking holes, he is still remembered. He liked to

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drink. He was here to drink. He wasn't here to socialise. At night,

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he would talk. He liked being around his peers. His peers were miners and

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semen. It was up the stairs he took his final steps, only to boast of

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drinking 18 whiskeys. This was his last address before his untimely

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death on November the 9th, 1953. The jailing islands of hotel bedrooms,

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from which one must escape at once. The and said provider for power that

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shoots its building up to the stars. Everything is not terrible here, I

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have met many kind and intelligent, humorous people. A century since

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his, many visitors to New York share his fear and fascination with the

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city. A place where his legacy remains.

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And on tomorrow night's programme we'll be live in Laugharne, the town

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that inspired Under Milk Wood. Celebrations are taking place all

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weekend there to mark the centenary and we'll be catching up with one of

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his many fans - a former US President! That's at 630pm.

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The Ospreys should still have a chance of making the top four spot

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as they are currently in action in Italy. After trailing throughout the

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night, Ashley Brett put the Ospreys ahead. The score is currently 27

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points to 23. Mixed weather across the country, so

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how is it looking for the bank holiday weekend?

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Very promising. I cannot promise unbroken sunshine, but plenty of dry

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weather over the next few days. There will be differences from day

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today such as cloud cover. The radar picked shows today's rain and

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showers. Heavy downpours in places but hit and miss. Sunshine and

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showers in Powys. Temperatures in Powys falling as low as six Celsius.

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This is the picture for 8am. Much better than today. A lot of cloud

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around. Low cloud and fog on the Brecon Beacons. Should be brighter

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in the south-west. Temperatures seven to 10 Celsius. The weather

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will in crude during the day with the cloud lifting and breaking. A

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dry afternoon. Just the odd shower in Pembrokeshire. Peeling cooler

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tomorrow with a light breeze. Plenty of cloud and dry weather. A high of

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12 Celsius with a light breeze. Tomorrow night, much of the country

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is dry with a lot of ground frost in mid Wales and eastern parts. Six

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Celsius. On Saturday, high pressure over the UK. The warm front through

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Ireland may affect us for a time. Saturday is dry and bright with the

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best of the sunshine in the East. More cloud further west and perhaps

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a few spots of rain turning up by the evening. On Sunday morning, then

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maybe the odd spot of light rain in the north-west. A lot of cloud in

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the north and west. The best of the sunshine is in the south-east with a

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high of 12 Celsius. Bank holiday Monday looks nice. Hazy, milky

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sunshine with high cloud. A southeasterly breeze and seven

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Celsius on the north coast, 18 in Flintshire. Some nice weather this

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bank holiday weekend. I cannot promise wall-to-wall sunshine, but a

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lot of dry weather. Enjoy it if you can because the signs are it will

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break next week with some rain. Enjoy the dry weather over the next

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few days. Enjoy the dry weather over the next

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The main headlines: Gerry Adams is still in police custody. He was

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arrested last night and is being questioned in connection with the

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murder of a mother of ten, Julie McConville in 1972.

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There are calls for a nursing home in Powys to be investigated after an

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elderly resident was verbally abused and did. The poor treatment of

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Veronica Teal came to light after her family put a camera in her room.

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They are horrified at her mother's treatment.

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I am disgusted and I am glad my mum is out of it, but there are other

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people there. You should be allowed to have dignity and care.

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If you have got a story about care services you want to share with us,

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get in touch with us by e-mailing us.

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We will have a quick update at 8pm and more News at 10:25pm. But from

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the team here

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