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degrees. A bit of cloud and the risk of a few showers. That's

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A week on from this hospital being heavily criticised for its care of

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patients - in an exclusive report the inside story of what's going on

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It was quite demoralising when we came into work to do the best that

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we can do and we don't come in to the job to give bad care.

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The manager of Gleision mine where four workers

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drowned - the court hears how he saw colleagues swept past him.

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Caught on camera - rules on open prisons will be tightened after

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police break up a million pounds drugs ring run from inside jail.

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For the first time - the underwater footage of the cargo ship Swanland

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And I'll speaking to one of our big medal hopes as Team Wales are set an

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ambitious target of 27 medals for this summer's Commonwealth Games.

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The chief nurse at a hospital heavily criticised for serious care

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failings has told this programme that staff weren't sufficiently

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"geared up" to deal with a big rise in the number of elderly patients.

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After a damning review of the Princess of Wales Hospital

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in Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot hospital a week ago,

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the local health board says safeguards are now being beefed up

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Wales Today has been given exclusive access to wards at the Princess

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of Wales hospital to assess the impact on patients and staff.

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Here's our health correspondent Owain Clarke.

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Hello. How are you doing? Leonard is now on the road to recovery after

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suffering what he describes as a funny turn. He was shocked by what

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he heard on the news last Tuesday. Because his own experience of being

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treated here, he claims, has been totally different. If it wasn't for

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these people, I wouldn't be here. Elsewhere, elderly care Val well

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below what is acceptable and the Ward we visited was full of older

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patients. It sounds odd to say at this in the last five or ten years,

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the average age of patients in any major hospital has gone up by about

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ten or 15 years, which is very peculiar. That is likely to continue

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to be the case. What caused the failings which meant some elderly

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patients were not given enough food or water? Was it caused by a few bad

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apples or deeper problems? I think the numbers of frail elderly coming

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into hospital are growing year-on-year. I think that has

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caught sniffing out across ABM, across Wales. I don't think as a

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nursing profession we were fully prepared for the number of frail

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elderly that we have on our wards now and that is a enormous -- an

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enormous education issue. Since the report was published, several nurses

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have been given counselling and morale across the board, these

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nurses told me, has been severely dented. I was shocked and deeply

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upset. We all have parents and children and family who could be

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admitted here and from my perspective, my ward and by nurses,

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I believe they give good care. I believe everyone works extremely

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hard. People pull together and get the job done. How do you make sure

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that you are taking the boxes and recording everything properly? It is

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very much a balancing act. It is difficult. I would be lying if I

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said it wasn't but you have to prioritise and the patients are what

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come first and their safety and care. I do think it is being

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visible, being out there and good communication. Because without that,

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we are going to fail. The review claimed at this hospital there were

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not enough nurses trained to look after elderly patients and some of

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the patients I met certainly picked up on those pressures. I think we

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need more nurses to be honest. Sometimes they are short of nurses.

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Any particular times of day? Mostly in the afternoon and night. You have

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to have a lot of patients because you can't expect the nurse to come

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in two minutes. You have to wait at least ten or 15 minutes, unless it's

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serious and you start shouting and raving. They can then. Managers say

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more nurses have been recruited and procedures have been tightened up

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across all four of the hospitals which employ over 5500 nurses but a

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number of them have been suspended from duty. How many managers have

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you sacked because of this? Well, one of the things... No doubt you

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have read the report carefully and its concluding paragraphs, the

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authors of the report are clear that the best thing you can do is go for

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a huge heads will roll mentality so we make changes, we move people

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on... No, let me finish. We move people on and take action but we

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actually think in respect to people that work in our system, whether

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they be the most junior staff or the most senior staff, we don't do that

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in the public gaze. Some patients argue there shouldn't be snap

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decisions. If you've got a problem you've got to fix it but sometimes

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that doesn't mean a knee jerk reaction. Sometimes it needs a

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support role, rather than a storm trooper role. Staff here do feel

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they are working under a cloud but say they are committed to giving

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patients the best possible care and on the whole, they remain loyal to

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this hospital despite its now tarnished reputation.

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A jury's heard how a mine manager saw colleagues swept

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past him, as water filled the tunnels where they were worked.

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Swansea Crown Court was shown a police interview with Malcolm

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Four men drowned in the disaster, at the Gleision mine

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Mr Fyfield and the owners, MNS Mining, DENY manslaughter charges.

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Our reporter Cemlyn Davies was in court.

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A game since I'd the glacial colliery. This is where the water

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came flooding through. The image gives an idea of its force and

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power. These men all drowned in the disaster. Today, for the first time,

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the jury heard from the man accused of their manslaughter as a police

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interview with Martin Fifield -- Malcolm Fyfield was played in court.

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Malcolm Fyfield told police the water was way out of control and it

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involved the men at the face. He said he jumped to one side and saw

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his colleagues being swept past him. He said he held on as tight as he

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could to the side but then he was also dragged into the flow. He said

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he found himself breathing in water and after that he just remembered

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seeing the faces of his family. At that point in the police interview,

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Malcolm Fyfield broke down in tears. He said he then tried to this as the

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-- to resuscitate two of the men underground but his efforts were in

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vain and he escaped through old workings. A month later, this man,

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Detective Sergeant with South Wales Police at the time, arrived at the

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house of Malcolm Fyfield to arrest him. He told the court Malcolm

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Fyfield was extremely distressed and distraught when he was arrested. His

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head was fouled, he was physically shaking and sobbing. -- his head was

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bowed. Asked if he had ever seen anyone else reacting to being

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arrested in the same way, he said, from memory, no. Malcolm Fyfield

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said there was nothing to suggest so much water was held behind the

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coalface. He had only seen some ponding of water. Trilling had only

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lead to a minimal amount of water trickling through. Malcolm Fyfield

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denies four counts of manslaughter through gross negligence and the

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mine operator deny counts of corporate manslaughter.

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Rules on criminals in open prisons will be tightened

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after police broke up a million pound drugs ring from inside jail.

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BBC Wales has been given access to undercover police footage

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In the wake of this and other recent high profiles cases the Ministry of

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Sitting behind a wheel of a prison minibus, this is Matthew Roberts, a

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convicted drug dealer who has been allowed out on trust from an open

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prison in South Wales. In his/her hand he has just received a sample

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of drugs that he plans to distribute through a network he is organising

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but he is unaware he's secretly being filmed by undercover

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detectives. Within that pot is a sample, a test of the larger

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commodity to come and we say that white powder is mephedrone. He was a

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serving prisoner in Monmouthshire. He was allowed out to dry a prison

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vehicle around South Wales. The network he setup was planning to

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flood the area with mephedrone. Acting on intelligence, the regional

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organiser crying unit and the National crime agency kept the gang

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under surveillance. It was clear from the beginning that he had

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become a significant threat to Wales in the provision of drugs and we had

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to utilise our capabilities to catch him in the act. Robert and his gang

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have been convicted and sentenced to a total of 36 years but this affair

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has raised new questions about the regime inside open prisons. A former

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inmate told us the system is easily abuse. It is the availability of

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anything. Anything you want is their will stop Anything you shouldn't

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have? Anything you shouldn't have, you could get. Drugs, drink,

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whatever. This together with the case of

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Michael Wheatley, a convicted armed broke the -- armed robber who

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escaped in Kent has raised questions about how prisoners are assessed for

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a day release. It is too late if the failure is

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already occurring. That is when a prisoner may go underground and be

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an idea has never -- ideal prisoner but actually they are running crime.

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They are now back within a secure prison. The prisons officer declined

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to be interviews but said he accepts the system for allowing prisoners

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out on temporary licence has been too relaxed and major changes will

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be introduced. Much more on that story on Week

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in Week Out tonight at 10:35pm Remembering the last witness to

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the surrender of the German Army - Derek Knee negotiated the terms of

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surrender with Hitler's successor. I had no idea I had been sent

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on a surrender mission. I thought it was just some talk that

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somebody hadn't understood A jury has returned a verdict

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of misadventure on six Russian crewmen, presumed to have drowned

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when their ship sank near The Swanland was on its way

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from Raynes jetty near Colwyn Bay to the Isle of Wight when she foundered

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in a gale off the Lleyn Peninsula. These never before broadcast

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pictures show the Swanland as she is now, upside down at the bottom of

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the sea, lying under 260 feet of water. Here one of only two

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survivors is found with Maxine signalling to an RAF helicopter. He

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was swept into the sea by the second of two massive waves. The first had

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buckled the ship. The Swanland was 33 years old and her age didn't help

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when she got into difficulties, the coroner said. Maintenance had met

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legal requirements. It was the way she had been loaded at Colwyn Bay

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which was a major factor. The cargo of limestone was loaded into the

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centre of the ship. It caused pressures which put her at risk.

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Experts have questioned how well the ship had been maintained. During

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because of the inquest, the jury was told that in 2009, the owners of the

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Swanland took on a new inspection regime, something they were entitled

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to do. That in the two years before the sinking, less maintenance was

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carried out. Marine accident investigators said that was odd. In

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their report into the sinking, the sinking, B Marine Accident

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Investigation Branch said it was apparent annual surveys done in 2010

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and 2011 lacked rigour. It report lack of maintenance is likely to

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have been a major contributing factor to the vessel's failure.

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Today the operators didn't want to be interviews but off-camera I had

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been told they had spent a lot of money on the Swanland. The Maritime

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and transport union has demanded a toughening up of ship inspections. I

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would like to see a more intense approach to this. There are hundreds

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of ships sailing around the coastline today which will go and

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inspected. It sparked one of the biggest search operations ever

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mounted off the North Wales coast and a second life raft was found,

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empty. Six crew died and only one body has never been recovered.

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The usually quiet world of the National Library of Wales

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tonight finds itself embroiled in a row about management pay.

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A 10% increase in the pay packet of at least two senior managers

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at the National Library of Wales has led to workers threatening to

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Our reporter Charlotte Dubenskij is in Aberystwyth.

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Charlotte, what's the background to this pay row?

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Good evening. The National Library of Wales says this payment was made

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to senior members of staff and it was the result of an independent

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review by the Welsh government's HR. It is the result of the

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responsibilities of those members changing due to a restructuring at

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the library. It is the equivalent to a 10% up to their pay this year and

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we understand a third member of staff is up for that temporary

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increase. In 2012 and 2013 we know that members of the team were being

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paid around ?62,000 a year. If we use that as a benchmark, this

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increase could be around ?6,000 for each member of staff. The unions are

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livid. They say the National library isn't transparent in its decisions

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and more than 200 staff haven't been given a consolidated pay rise since

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2008. A pay rise is on the table for those members of staff and that will

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be discussed with unions next month. Two days to go until polls opened,

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the Welsh Conservatives have renewed their attack on UKIP as the election

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campaign nears its climax. They have repeated their claim that only they

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can perform the EU with a promise to hold an in out referendum if they

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wind the general election next year. Have the Conservatives been clever

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enough to get Kay Swinburne back into the European Parliament? GE has

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come out in favour of the EU. On the doorsteps of Wales, the party says

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it has been a harder sell. Kay Swinburne says her message to try to

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deal with the UKIP threat is that the Conservatives are the only ones

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who can deliver a renegotiation of our membership ahead of a

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referendum. Most people believe in a European project of sorts. They also

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believe that they don't sign up to the direction it's going in. They

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understand the need for reform and making the system more

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democratically responsible will make them feel more engaged with Europe

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so that is starting to resonate. The parties have done close analysis

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on the build-up to this election. This is a turnout election, it is

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about getting your core vote out. For Kay Swinburne, that means plenty

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of visits to places like this, Cardiff North. It is about

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converting support into votes. The Conservatives look to follow one

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from the result five years ago when they topped the poll in Wales.

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One of the victims of a shooting in Newport last year was a drug

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dealer who owed ?20,000 to a gang from Manchester a court has heard.

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25-year-old Gary Rabjohns is one of four men who deny conspiracy to

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murder, after a car was shot at then rammed

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Residents in Newport awoke to see this outside their homes last year.

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Smashed and crumpled from being chased and shot at, it's alleged one

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of those travelling in this car had stolen from another man in a four x

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four Jeep that rounded off the road. Today one of those suspected of

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being in that four x four gave evidence in his defence at Newport.

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25-year-old Gary Rabjohns said he didn't want to incriminate anyone by

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giving the names of some of his friends and acquaintances. He said

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he knew Mr Phillips, one of the men in the car that was rammed off the

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road in Newport. He said Phillips was a drug dealer who owed money to

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a gang in Manchester and was stealing to pay off the debt. He

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also spoke of messages sent on BlackBerry messenger before the

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shooting, suggesting Phillips was in Newport and a fight might take place

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but he said he didn't want anything to do with it. Gary Rabjohns and

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three other men deny three counts of conspiracy to murder and the trial

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continues. How many medals can Wales win at

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this summer's Commonwealth Games? Today, the organisation which funds

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most of the sports said it expected Team Wales to win at least 27 medals

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in Glasgow, that's eight more than Our sports reporter Ashleigh Crowter

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is with one of our medal hopefuls Hello, Jamie. We are at the National

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Centre were a lot of the preparation is being done for the Commonwealth

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Games. We are at the National judo centre where one of our top medal

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hopes, Natalie Powell, is working hard. The games are just nine weeks

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away and we will be having a word in a few moments but first let's speak

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to Sara Powell. You have set the target of 27 medals. It was 19 in

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Delhi. Like a big jump. This is a bold target but this has been set

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with the sport. They know their performances and we have every

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confidence we can deliver this medal target. You are the people who hand

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out the money. How much money do you give to these boards was Mac -- to

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these sports? We invest 3.5 million in our priority sports and we expect

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them to deliver the results. Hopefully we will see the success.

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Elite sport costs the same based on the size of any entry so if we

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deliver 27 we will be doing exceptionally well. -- of any

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country. If I can interrupt you, Natalie. You are one of our big

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medal hopes. Hopefully you can win the judo medal. I've had a good year

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so far. I have just broken into the top ten so I am regressing well. I

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hope I can win. Do you feel any extra pressure with targets? No, it

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doesn't really bother me. If I get in a situation where funding gets

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cut, I will have to address that but at the moment I'm just looking at

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high-performance and hopefully if I perform well, I will get the medals

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and the money. We wish you well and the rest of the team.

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He was the last witness to the surrender of the German Army

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Derek Knee, from Barry, who's died at the age of 91,

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was Field Marshall Montgomery's official interpreter that day.

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He negotiated the terms of surrender with Hitler's successor

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Admiral Donitz - an historic event that led to

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His memories of May 4th, 1945, never left him.

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Derek Knee was only 22 years old when he found him

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self negotiating the surrender of the German army, bringing

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A fluent German speaker, Derek served as a field intelligence

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Then one day in May 1945, completely out of the blue,

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he received orders to make his way to Field Marshall Montgomery's head

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I had no idea I was being sent on a surrender mission. I thought it was

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just some talk that somebody in an important position hadn't understood

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and wanted me to translate. Of course, it didn't prove to be that

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at all. On a windswept morning on Luneberg

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Heath, four German officers presented Monty with a letter,

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effectively outlining the German Montgomery immediately handed

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the letter to Derek. It was in German. The Germans

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couldn't provide an English translation and the British, except

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for me, couldn't understand it. So I was given it. I held it and

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translated it but one of the Germans actually burst into tears.

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In less than 24 hours, the German forces in North West

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Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands had surrendered unconditionally.

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Four days later Europe celebrated the end of World War II.

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Derek Knee was the last living witness to that

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But the significance of that day in 1945 - and Derek's role in history -

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Derek Knee, who's died at the age of 91.

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Now, last night storms struck parts of Wales.

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That was the moment lightning hit a tree in Greenfield in Flintshire

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filmed by Arwel Roberts, who's been waiting years to get

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We have had some dramatic weather over the last 24 hours and the radar

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shows a cluster pushing across South Wales earlier this afternoon but

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those heavy showers will clear northwards and then it turns dry

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with cloud around. Largely clearing skies allowing it to become chilly

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with mist and fog patches developing. Those of six or eight

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Celsius. Tomorrow's early mist and fog patches but they will soon clear

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and remaining largely dry through the day with sunny spells but we

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could see some thicker cloud building later. The heat will

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trigger a few showers but very isolated. Dry foremost with

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temperatures slightly above average at 15 or 19 Celsius. Tomorrow night

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a deep area of low pressure starts to push these fronts up from the

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south, which could bring some very heavy rain so the Met Office has

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issued an early warning for rain. Through the early hours that heavy

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rain moving up from the south. 40 or 50 millimetres, two inches on high

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ground, before it moves northwards and eventually clearing to sunshine

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and showers on Thursday. The chief nurse at the Princess of Wales

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Hospital in Bridgend criticised for care failings had told the programme

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staff were not geared up to deal with the big rise in the number of

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elderly patients. I will have the headlines at 8pm and again after the

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BBC News at 10pm.

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