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A fifty stone man from the Vale of Glamorgan - who lost more than | :00:00. | :00:22. | |
half his body weight after paying for surgery in India - says, the NHS | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
in Wales needs to rethink how they treat morbidly obese patients. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Thousands of people are waiting for gastric operations - | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
because the criteria for carrying out the surgery here is stricter | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
But, with almost a quarter of adults classed as obese - funding treatment | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
At 50 stone, Zac Smith was eating himself into an early grave and in | :00:43. | :01:03. | |
his 30s, he realised he needed help. It was at the funeral of my | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
stepfather, I was down to carry the coffin and I could not walk down the | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
aisle of the Church to my seat. All I kept thinking was, what next? He | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
thought he would qualify for an operation, but he was turned down | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
under NHS rules in Wales. His only option was to go to India for a | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
?9,000 private operation, surgery to have a gastric sleeve that it helped | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
him lose weight. After losing so much weight, he was left with three | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
stone of loose skin. He asked the NHS for another operation to remove | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
it, but he was turned down. At 6-foot five, he was told he would | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
effectively have to reduce his weight to 12.5 stone. I do not know | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
how someone of my size, my height, how I can get the weight down to | :01:55. | :02:06. | |
that. So, it was back to India where he kept a video diary as he had | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
another operation. Fingers crossed. In Wales, there are 15,000 super | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
obese people who would like to have operations, but the NHS committee | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
which decides how money for surgical procedure should be spent says the | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
answer is likely to be known. The plastic surgery service cannot | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
commit, does not have the resources and we cannot... It is about making | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
choices. But a senior surgeon is warning that soaring rates of morbid | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
obesity are threatening the future of the NHS in Wales. If we do not | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
care about this, we are going to find our NHS falling apart within | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
the next 15 or 20 years. The government says it is planning to | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
increase these operations to catch up with the rates in England. With a | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
backlog and increasing demand, however, the pressure, like the | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
problem is growing. A deputy leader of Powys council | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
has resigned after using a racial Myfanwy Alexander used the n-word | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
in a debate about cross-border After initially refusing to step | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
down, Public Health Wales has confirmed | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
that one person is voluntarily staying off work | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
and limiting their contact with other people after possible exposure | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
to the Ebola virus. The individual DOES NOT have | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
symptoms, and there are no cases of ebola in Wales, but the precaution | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
has been taken after the person Campaigners hoping to reverse a | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
decision to close inpatient beds at Cardigan Hospital have been given | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
permission for a judicial review. The group argued the health board | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
should have consulted on the plan. Hywel Dda University health board | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
says - it feels it complied with its legal obligations, but will | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
continue to work with the court. Illegal off-roading - using | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
motorbikes and 4x4s - in forests Natural Resources Wales says it's | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
joined forces with North Wales Police and landowners to | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
restrict access to protected areas. It's claimed that vehicles are | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
damaging property Illegal off-roading means taking | :04:15. | :04:15. | |
a vehicle anywhere it's not meant This is one | :04:16. | :04:28. | |
of the more extreme cases - the driver of this 4x4 was jailed | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
last year for dangerous driving The forests and fields of | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
North Wales were a major draw for organisers of the Wales Rally GB | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
- but while this has been carefully managed to allow vehicles legal | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
access to the countryside that doesn't mean | :04:48. | :04:48. | |
the same rule applies elsewhere. We are in a special area of | :04:49. | :05:01. | |
conservation and this is an internationally important | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
landscape, where these sorts of activities are not allowed and just | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
because we have these organised events, it does not really mean | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
anyone else can come in and carry on as they choose. | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Haf Morris owns a farm in the Ceiriog Valley near Wrexham. | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
As well as facing abuse from illegal off roaders who use her land, she's | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
We had to put locks on the gates and literally the last lot came up and | :05:23. | :05:33. | |
drove through the gates, broke both of them in half and went up onto our | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
private land, onto the grassland and made a mess, because it was the end | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
of March and we know how wet the winter was. It is not just property | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
and the environment that they're the scars of illegal off-roading, those | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
who participate in this are putting themselves at risk of long-lasting | :05:52. | :05:52. | |
damage. Sergeant Wesley Williams is | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
on patrol in parkland in Wrexham. It's a hotspot for youngsters | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
on motorbikes. We have had a couple of accidents | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
where youths have come off the bikes and have had significant | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
life-changing injuries as a result. In an attempt to reduce the problem, | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
police and Natural Resources Wales have joined forces to build barriers | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
and increase signs across rural Legal routes are available usually | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
run by clubs and offer all the thrills without | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
harming the environment. Police are investigating | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
the death of a man in his 20s - thought to have been found | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre, His body was discovered on Monday | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
night and is being treated as unexplained - | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
the man's family has been told. A group -- trying to reopen a | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
leisure centre in Wrexham -- has had its bid for a 50 thousand pounds | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
grant rejected by councillors. Plas Madoc centre was closed earlier | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
this year as part of budget cuts. The Splash Community Trust are | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
working to get it reopened. The building is due to be demolished | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
by the end of September. Wales and Cardiff Blues centre | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
Owen Williams is making progress following a significant spinal cord | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
injury six weeks ago. The 22 year old -- who posted this | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
photo on social media while recovering at Rookwood Hospital -- | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
has seen improvements in his arms. He'll also be progressing to | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
sitting up in the next few weeks. A statement, released by the Blues, | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
says, while its still early days - At the Eisteddfod in Llanelli, | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
the Daniel Owen memorial prize was awarded for the best novel, | :07:16. | :07:28. | |
in the pavilion. The winner was Lleucu Roberts | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
from Rhostryfan near Caernarfon. She takes away the five-thousand | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
prize for her book. The judges said she showed she has a | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
sound understanding of human nature. You can keep up to date with all | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
the events at the Eisteddfod There's live coverage | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
of all the action from the pavilion, with English commentary, | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
as well as results, video highlights Let's get the weather - | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
Sue Charles has tonight's forecast. Some heavy rain across Wales, we got | :07:52. | :08:07. | |
this photograph of flash flooding earlier and the heavy rain will move | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
into the north across Wales tonight. Some heavy bursts are likely at | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
times and the Met Office is warning that up to 40 millimetres could fall | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
overnight and it will be a mild night with overnight lows of between | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
14 and 17 degrees. A great start, but the rain should ease, some cloud | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
around, but drier, brighter and breezy conditions and that front | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
moves north eastwards, bringing rain across the east of the UK. Turning | :08:37. | :08:50. | |
drier and brighter, just the odd isolated shower, but for most, | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
decent sized bells, highs between 17 degrees in Glasgow and 22 in London. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
Showers and sunny spells in Wales. Thursday is one of the best days of | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
the way, largely dry with sunny spells, a small shower will risk, | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
lighter winds, Friday starts try and bright, the risk of rain later, a | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
better chance of staying dry further north -- drive. -- dry. This is the | :09:16. | :09:29. | |
remnants Which? Remnants of a hurricane crossing late Saturday | :09:30. | :09:40. | |
into Sunday -- remnants. A mixed picture, generally dry and brighter | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
on Saturday, but it could be wet and windy on Sunday. | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
Week in Week Out is next tonight -- investigating obesity surgery | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
That's Wales Today thank you for watching - from all of us | :09:56. | :09:59. |