07/09/2014 BBC Wales Today


07/09/2014

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quite get there and England won by three runs. That is all the sport.

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A Welsh couple returning from holiday in France were shocked

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to find a stowaway had held onto the axle underneath their motorhome

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Geoff and Chris Mullin say they think the man climbed under

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Safely back in Barry but this couple's Holliday had an unexpected

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ending. They had crossed from the continent in a motor home when their

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friends travelling behind them said they thought they could see a leg

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hanging under their vehicle and when they stopped in a traffic jam a man

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jumped off. I was looking forward and all of a sudden I looked to the

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side and I could see a gentleman walking along the hard shoulder. I

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turned and said, blimey, there must have been somebody under there. We

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wondered where he had come from the hard shoulder on the M25 but he was

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not fazed at all. He just stared in the window quite insolently and just

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carried on walking. The couple think he got onto the axle as the couple

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were leaving Calais and coming through the Channel Tunnel. After

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arriving at Folkestone they travelled at speeds of up to 65

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miles an hour and did not stop for three hours and in that time they

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travelled along three motorways. The problem of migrants getting into the

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UK illegally is top of the political agenda. Earlier this week people

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were filmed to scrambling to get on a ferry at Calais and the Home

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Office has been in touch with the French authorities about the issue

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and says it will do whatever is needed to make the border friends of

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the couple could not believe what they were saying. We were shocked

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really. We did not expect it, half expected it jokingly but to see him

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actually appear from under the vehicle after all of that time, it

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was quite a shock. We keep going over and over it in the mind, what

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would've happened if he had fallen off and we could have killed him and

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we are very upset. The man ran off into a field next to the motorway

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and the couple say other motorhome owners should be warned about the

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issue in case the same happens to them.

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The First Minister Carwyn Jones says further devolution

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offered to Scotland should also be offered to Wales.

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Political parties campaigning for a No vote in Scotland's

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independence referendum say they'll devolve more powers to Edinburgh.

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But the Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has accused Mr Jones,

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and the Welsh Liberal Democrats of cherry-picking further devolution.

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An elderly woman has died and five people have been taken to

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hospital after a crash between two cars in Monmouthshire.

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It happened just before midday on the A4-66 near Tintern.

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One of the drivers has life threatening injuries.

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The family of the injured Cardiff Blues rugby player

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Owen Williams say he hasn't lost his passion for the sport.

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Williams suffered a significant spinal cord injury while playing in

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His father and brother say the public support

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I cannot put into words, that supported incredible and that is

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what is keeping him going and driving him every day. He does read

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Andy uses his iPad in front of him and he goes on Twitter and social

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media every day to see that everyone is getting behind him and it is

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fantastic. The broadcaster Dewi Griffiths

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has announced he's to retire after He made the announcement

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during his BBC Radio Wales programme A String of Pearls which he has

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presented for the past 26 years. The 83-year-old,

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who helped launch the BBC Wales Sports department, will host his

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final programme on September 28th. Manon Carpenter has added

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the Mountainbike Downhill World Championship title, to the World Cup

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title she won last month. The 21-year-old from Caerphilly beat

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rival and former champion Rachel Atherton in Norway,

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by the narrowest of margins. Let's get the weather forecast now,

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with Alina Jenkins. Hello. After a fine end to the

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weekend we have a chilly night ahead. Temperatures in some rural

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spots dipping down to two or three degrees. We start the new week on a

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lovely note with plenty of sunshine to be found. A little bit of cloud

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in North Wales but it will break up through the afternoon as the Tour of

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Britain heads towards London don't. More fine, dry and settled weather

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to come as we go into next week. We'll be back in Breakfast

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with updates from 6.25am. Welcome to look ahead to what the

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papers will

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