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police operation across the UK has resulted in the arrest of up to 600

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suspected paedophiles. Welcome to Wales Today. Our top

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story: A new ?1 billion motorway,

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a new road around Newport, I work 8-4 because if I finished

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at five I would never get home to see the children. Hopefully, I can

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work 9-5 again. This is where the Welsh Government

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want the new road to be built but environmental campaigners and some

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of Labour's own AMs are furious. A scout leader,

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a foster carer and an ex-police officer among 59 people arrested

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as part of a UK-wide operation A week before the Commonwealth Games

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800 metre runner Gareth Warburton is suspended

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after failing a drugs test. The Holy Grail, the cup used by

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Jesus Christ in the Last Supper. And pilgrims have travelled here

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for hundreds of years to see this priceless relic now

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the police are looking for it too. A new ?1 billion motorway for Wales

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has been announced tonight. It's the Welsh Government's solution

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to improving congestion Making the announcement, the

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Economy Minister Edwina Hart said But opponents say there are cheaper

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options, Our economics correspondent

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Sarah Dickins reports. It was more than 50 years ago that

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the M4 was wheeled into Wales with its tunnels and carriageways. Before

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the last two decades its congestion has become more intense and has been

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lively debate about upgrading it. Last September plans went to

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consultation with these three rooms look at in detail. The most

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expensive was the one you have black fruit and that is the one that has

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been chosen. After considering the responses, the environmental report

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which accompanies the draft plan consultation, I have decided to

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adopt the plan which includes a new section of motorway being built

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between junctions 23 and 29. We reclassify the M4. We provide

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cycling friendly infrastructure providing walking friendly

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infrastructure. The Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru have

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opposed the loos have -- as have for Labour ministers. In looking at the

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environmental considerations which are few concerns to me, I'll be

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planning for the long-term as we have been talking about in the

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well-being and future generations built or are we making a short-term

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decision that doesn't look at the long-term environmental

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consequences? The argument is it is needed to get Wales moving. It will

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attract as says. Go compare in place more than 200 workers alongside the

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M4 on the western edge of Newport. Most of them can view of the

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motorway. Congestion affects their business. We have people coming in

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late because of it. Breakdowns and all the rest of it. We have to send

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people home early. On a selfish level, it'll make things easier for

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us. More practically for future employees, it means that it'll be

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easier to attract talent here. There is always an economic argument this

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isn't the best way to improve the Welsh economy. That is the evidence

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whatsoever that the road will improve the economy of South Wales.

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The problems of South Wales are complex, is about inequality.

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Building a large new road may seem like an attractive solution that it

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is the big boys toy that doesn't address the problems. Its villages

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like this on the outskirts of Newport that'll be effected when

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they start new road. There are concerns what kind of impact it

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could have on the environment. It is a beautiful countryside around here.

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I don't think it should be spoiled. Depends on what people want.

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Personally, we don't want to come around here. It is an area of Wales

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which is unique in terms of the landscape and the area. Their RS

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species which live there. It be damaging and this is without going

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down the route of climate change impact. Of course, this announcement

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comes one week after the Welsh Government unveiled its future

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generations built. If that becomes law this M4 Project will have to

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prove it isn't just good for transport but for Wales in the

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widest of sensors. Let's talk to our political editor,

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Nick Servini. There will always be opposition to

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any new road but across the political spectrum,

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that's quite unusual? It is. From a number of Labour

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backbencher is having it shouldn't come as any surprise. This is the

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single biggest capital project carried out by the Welsh Government

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since the start of devolution. It was announced after four o'clock on

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the last day before the summer break. Even the Conservatives raised

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their eyebrows. In also was announced, a matter of days before,

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a cross-party committee was due to report and is looking at this issue.

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As you rightly point out, there is acknowledgement it was always going

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to have opposition. One of the biggest challenges politically is to

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meet this accusation that about half ?1 billion of road money will blow

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the budget on this one scheme. It is meeting this accusation from other

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parts of Wales. What will the Welsh Government have to do to win

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support? It isn't often that a Minister Mac are doing a heart

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agrees with the Prime Minister but that is what she has done. The M4

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had its foot on the neck of the Welsh economy. She has come out in

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support of that. You first of all is persuade people she represents

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businesses and industry and can win the job 's argument that this will

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create employment. Our environment correspondent Iolo

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ap Dafydd is in Newport, not far from where

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the new road will be built. Iolo this will have a big impact

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on the area? It will have a big environmental

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impacts. It'll have a big social impact as well. This area behind

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me, it'll impact them and all the way around the south of Newport. The

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elemental impact, Adrian Hart said she had considered that. --

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environmental impact. Friends of the Earth have said this will trash the

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Welsh environment along the Gwent levels. There are four areas of

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special scientific interest here. The river is an area of

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conservation. There will be a new crossing across the river to take

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this relief road down the south of Newport. Natural resource is Wales

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have echoed what we heard in the report. They say there is concern

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about is pollution, damage to sensitive areas, water quality, a

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greater flooding risk is not a landfill sites will have to be moved

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and one last thought, there will be a public enquiry given the magnitude

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of the scheme they could be cause for a judicial review.

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A scout leader, a foster carer, an ex-police officer

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and a social service manager are among 59 people arrested in Wales

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The arrests were part of a UK wide operation targeting people accessing

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indecent images of children online. Caroline Evans reports.

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As crime goes online, so at the detectives. Working on intelligence

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from the National Crime Agency for six months officers in Wales have

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been closing in on suspected paedophiles. We arrested 51 people,

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search their properties and seized their computer equipment and any

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other electronic devices where they may have been storing child abuse

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images. Across Wales, 30 arrests were made in the South Wales force

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area, 14", eight in North Wales and seven in Dyfed Powys Police among

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them a foster carer, a Scout leader, a former police officer and the

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social services manager. Two of the 59: The sex offenders register, the

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rest had not come to the attention of the police before. Was there any

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sense this was co-ordinated? Paedophile ring? We didn't see of

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that in southern Wales. Obviously, we have gathered a lot of

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intelligence, a lot of images and that analytical work is to who is in

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connection with who is ongoing. Some of the images being viewed and

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passed the images being viewed and passed around. Some were on what

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became known as the dark web. At the high-tech police unit at present he

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explained to me what this means. The dark web is website that I'm on the

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Internet but talented and indexed by the normal search engines. They can

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be accessed by bespoke software and search engines. It is believed that

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kind of hide your identity. But there are methods available to us

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that can identify and locate those offenders. The police said today

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that two of the people who were arrested during the course of this

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operation have since taken their own lives. 12 people have been charged

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with either possessing orders to beating indecent material. The rest

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are awaiting decisions from the Crown Prosecution Service. Officers

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involved in this case they their actions have helped protect 58

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children. The SAS officer in charge

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of choosing new recruits has told an inquest all risk can't be

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eliminated, after a Royal Marine Ashley Hicks fell 100 feet

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down a gorge in Snowdonia. The Navy say a number

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of lessons have been learned. The coroner at Caernarfon recorded

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a verdict of accidental death. Unemployment in Wales has fallen by

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6,000 in the three months to May. The number of people out of work is

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now 96 thousand, with the rate of unemployment remaining at 6.6%,

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better than the rest of the UK. A man accused

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of beating his girlfriend's baby to death while babysitting,

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says he can't explain the injuries. Michael Pearce, from Nelson

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near Caerphilly, admitted being in sole charge of six-week-old

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Alfie Sullock last August A six-week-old baby boy that was

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said to have rarely cried, who was allegedly beaten to death

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by his mother's boyfriend. The prosecution says this man,

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Michael Pearce, repeatedly hit Alfie with a shoe and plastic bottle

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causing extensive brain damage. At the start of his defence today,

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Michael Pearce said he left the room Alfie was in for no more

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than 30 seconds and when he returned He said he checked Alfie

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and administered mouth to mouth Paramedics were called to a house

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on this street in Nelson at 9:11pm. Four minutes before, Michael Pearce

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had sent a text to Alfie?s mother Alfie was taken to this hospital

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in Merthyr Tydfil before being transferred to

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the University Hospital of Wales The jury has been shown photos

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of him with bruising Today, Michael Pearce was asked

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if he could explain anything he did He denied shaking or slapping Alfie

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or hitting him with a bottle or He said he didn't pick up

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anything and didn't do anything. Michael Pearce denies murder

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and the case continues. Much more to come

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before seven o'clock. Airbus lands ?35 billion

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of new contracts which means And some hot and tropical

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weather for the coming days. A member of the Wales team

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for the Commonwealth Games has been suspended from competing

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after failing a drugs test. 800 metre runner Gareth Warburton

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has been charged with an anti-doping offence, just a week before

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the start of the Glasgow Games. Let's talk to our sports

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reporter Ashleigh Crowter. Gareth Warburton is

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an experienced international He ran at the 2012 Olympics,

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and in the next fortnight he was due to be competing in Glasgow

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in what would have been His face was actually used

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on the front cover of the programme for last night's

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Welsh Athletics international. But now he will miss the Games as

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he's been suspended by UK Athletics from all competitions after being

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charged with 'anti-doping rule violations' that basically means

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that testers have found a prohibited substance in a sample taken

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from Gareth Warburton, Any reaction from Gareth Warburton

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himself? He's issued a statement in

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which he says the failed test came And he says he has never knowingly

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taken any banned substance, arguing that during

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his whole career he has always been He goes on to say that he recognises

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that responsibility for the situation lies with him and he says

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he'll work with the anti-doping authorities to co-operate fully with

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the legal process. He ends

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by apologising that he won't be able to join Team Wales in Glasgow and

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wishes his team-mates all the best. It's certainly really disappointing

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news for Team Wales who've now lost Of course this case is very

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different to those of Non Stanford, Becky James and Helen Jenkins who

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all withdrew because of injury. But losing an athlete to

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an anti-doping violation is not the sort of headline Team Wales

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would have wanted, The way the NHS in Wales measures

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death rates doesn't give an accurate picture of quality and safety,

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according to an independent review. Professor Stephen Palmer of Cardiff

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University examined the current system, after above-expected rates

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were found at six Welsh hospitals. His review however did conclude

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there should be further work to understand why there's been

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a rise in mortality at Glangwili We need,

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and Wales is ahead of the game on this, we need to be reviewing all

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deaths in Wales through case notes. So if there are factors that suggest

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a death could be prevented, which is probably

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in a small proportion of deaths, We also need to be doing clinical

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audits as part of the UK programme so hospitals in Wales should be

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fully engaged in clinical audits. It's time to "draw a line"

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under the war of words between That's the appeal from

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Stephen Crabb, the new Secretary of State for Wales,

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on his first full day in the job. Our parliamentary correspondent,

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David Cornock, reports. The border between Wales

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and England. Or the dividing line between life

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and death as the prime minister put Today, in his first

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Parliamentary appearance in his new job, David Cameron's Welsh Secretary

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signalled a fresh start in relations Let's use this opportunity to draw

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a line under all of this and restore a much more constructive tone

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in our dialogue and work towards achieving positive things for people

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and businesses in Wales because Labour welcomed that

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but wanted to know if Mr Crabb was still hostile to more power being

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transferred from Westminster. I think there will now be challenges

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to the Secretary of State as to what It was only a few years ago

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in opposition that he wrote: Mr Crabb said he was "open-minded"

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about the idea of more devolution. Former Welsh Secretaries have

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offered their experience. The job is essentially, these days,

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not one that runs many things. It is about relationships, the

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relationship between governments, the relationship between Parliament

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and between people. That is not going to be the easiest thing of the

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world to do in the general election year but it is an important part of

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the job. So what else is in the Crabb

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ministerial box? He has to broker a deal with

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the Department for Transport here over who pays to

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electrify the Valley rail lines. He'll be working with the

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Foreign Office to make sure Wales makes the most of the NATO summit

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in Newport now just 50 days away. He'll be hoping to avoid this place,

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the Supreme Court, where recent UK government challenges to Welsh laws

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have been thrown out. If you had one piece of advice for

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him? It is to ensure that you make as many friends as possible.

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Sound advice as Mr Crabb prepares for

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his first meeting with Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones tomorrow.

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Following yesterday's reshuffle, four Conservative Assembly Members

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who were sacked as official spokesmen and women

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for the party five months ago, have been reinstated.

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Mohammad Asghar, Nick Ramsay, Antoinette Sandbach,

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and Janet Finch-Saunders rebelled against the Welsh Tory leader

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Andrew RT Davies in a vote on the devolution of income tax.

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The plane manufacturer Airbus has received ?35 billion worth of orders

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over the last three days at the Farnborough International Air Show.

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BBC Wales has been given access to the company's facilities,

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including exclusive filming on the plane that transports

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the wings manufactured in Broughton to Toulouse for final assembly.

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Our business correspondent, Brian Meechan, went on the flight.

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Wings manufactured by Airbus in Broughton are

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in most cases flown on the uniquely designed cargo plane, the Beluga.

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Workers at the site say the company?s

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There are quite a few people just in the local area and further

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It is good for the local area because they take

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We have been given the chance to film the journey of a set of wings.

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Airbus is one of the biggest employers in Wales.

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The Beluga?s an essential part of how the business operates.

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With over 5000 Airbus aeroplanes ordered but not yet made,

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there continues to be plenty of future work at Broughton.

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We have seen an industry that grows in terms

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of travelling public, the number of passengers doubles every 15 years.

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Collectively, including the Toulouse site, we are

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It is an important part of the European economy.

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But a restructuring of the company in the last year did result in over

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This is where the Welsh made wings meet the French

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made front of the fuselage and the German built back of the fuselage.

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Around 30 planes are built in this one site in Toulouse every month.

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As well as Airbus there is GE Aviation, General Dynamics

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Around 23,000 people in Wales are employed in the sector.

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We have five percent of the UK's population and with 23,000 people

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in aerospace and defence, we have 10 percent of the industry.

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The UK aerospace industry grew by 10 percent last year.

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The many thousands of workers whose jobs are dependent on it will

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The quest for the Holy Grail has taken a new turn.

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The police have launched their own search after thieves stole

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a religious relic claimed to be the cup from which Christ drank

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The Nanteos Cup, a wooden chalice named after

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the mansion in Aberystwyth where it was once kept, has been taken.

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It had been loaned to a seriously ill woman in Herefordshire because

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The quest for the Holy Grail has taken many forms

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One of the most famous was Indiana Jones' hunt for the religious relic.

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Now police officers are following in the footsteps

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of the movie legend by searching for the supposed Holy Grail or the

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Gerald Morgan has written a book which includes the history

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of the cup and the many claims that surround it including that it was

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brought to Britain by Joseph of Arimathea after the death of Christ.

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That it had been kept in on the street which he founded at

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Glastonbury. That was until the monastery was closed when the monks

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fled over the hills to Wales, to the Abbey. They had passed the cap from

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one to the other until the last survivor of them.

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And it's said that last surviving monk then passed

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It was then passed to the family who owned this state. The holy Grail

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rested here at the Mansion house for hundreds of years. The van owners to

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kids with them in the late 1950s to Hereford.

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Legend says the cup, made of olive wood or wych elm, is sacred and

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people believed it to have healing properties and the sick made

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pilgrimages to Aberywyth to drink from it as this news report shows

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And that's why it had recently been loaned to a seriously ill woman

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before it was stolen from her home in Herefordshire.

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Dr Bonnie Buntain from Arizona had heard

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of the myth and was in Aberyswyth today to take a tour about the cup.

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I think it is very precious that Wales culture has this cap and the

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history behind it. I feel sad as an American that it has been stolen.

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The holy grail or just an ancient relic, the search

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by police will go on this evening for this piece of Welsh history.

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The showers clearing and becoming dry overnight. It'll be a mild

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night. Just to give you an idea of the temperatures, 16 Celsius in the

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west and 22 in Cardiff. Tomorrow we could have 26 Celsius. Through

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tonight, the showers will clear and behind it who will see cloud that it

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is dry. Some clear skies away from the coasts where we will see some

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mist and fog. A mild night at images ranging between 12 - 16 Celsius.

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High pressure just about remaining in charge tomorrow through tomorrow

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night we will see this area of low pressure making its way from the

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south and settling things. It'll bring with it the warmer air.

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Tomorrow morning, a cloudy start and it will brighten up. We look forward

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a dry day but still be uncomfortable at times. It'll be hot. Tensions

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between 19 - 26. Through tomorrow night, temperatures not dropping

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very much. It might be uncomfortable for sleeping. It is a dry tonight at

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first, overnight since I was making their way in from the south.

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Temperatures, 13-19. Those night-time temperatures. It will be

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uncomfortable. Friday, something blue showers in the north and they

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were statically. It's a bright enough for most of us as we go

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through the morning. The best of the sunshine across eastern counties.

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The breeze picks up and it will feel rather warm and humid. The Met

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Office has issued an early yellow warning for the showers on Saturday.

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They will be thundery and we will see some hail with it. It is going

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to be a challenging day on Saturday especially of eastern counties. We

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will be keeping an eye on that. We could see some localised flooding.

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Sunday, a better day. Fewer showers and hopefully not causing any

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problems. Back to our top story.

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A new ?1 billion motorway has been announced.

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The government today, by committing to this answer to the M4 problem has

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been irresponsible. We're going to be paying the price for that for

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many years to come. Infrastructure problem -- projects will suffer in

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Wales. Let's have a word with our economic correspondent. There is

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also a huge economic debate around this. It is as economic league

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controversial as political. If billion pounds is spent Israel that

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is going to help those companies. That is obvious. But that is much

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more controversy about this theory that building a new motorway will

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attract jobs and investment. Many people are saying where it is the

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evidence for this? If you are going to spend ?1 billion to try and solve

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the problems of the Welsh economy, basically poverty is one of the main

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thing is, would you build a road on my team-mate the road a bit less

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congested, have some public transport and tried to get

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employment into some of our poorer areas? It is controversial as it is

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economic rate. People are telling the government, where is the

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evidence? This Seagate love this project the web is the evidence that

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building a road tracks well-paid jobs? Many thanks.

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I'll have an update for you here at eight o'clock and again

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That's Wales Today thank you for watching, from all of us

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