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25/09/2014

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But now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

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Two years ago, Matthew Triddon killed a mother

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and injured 20 others in a series of hit and runs around Cardiff.

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Tonight, a report has found his actions would

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But it has identified shortcomings in his care.

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Health Inspectorate Wales say he was hallucinating when he went

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on a journey of mayhem and had stopped taking

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This was the end of Matthew Triddon's trail

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Skilful police driving finally managing to halt his white van after

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CCTV footage showed how he swerved across four lanes of traffic,

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using his van as a weapon to target women with children.

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He was locked up indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.

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He injured 20 people and killed this woman, leaving her

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Her sister believes if he had been monitored more closely the

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It makes me feel that it was unnecessary.

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I truly believe, if he was monitored and had been

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taking his medication, my sister would still be alive today.

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It is two years since she was killed.

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This report was ordered as Matthew Triddon had been a user of

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It concludes the homicide could not have been predicted

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and it was difficult to see how it could have been prevented.

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However, it highlighted shortcomings.

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The report said there was poor communication between

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He had not taken his medication for almost a year

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before the incident, but there was no system to monitor whether

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The workload for the consultant psychiatrist was excessive, with

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There was no single care coordinator to guide him through the system,

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but instead was seen by nine separate GPs.

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The view was taken that so good was the progress that this

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gentleman was making was that he was a pathway to no medication

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It is important to say that our goal is to enable people to

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One of the saddest things from this case is that Matthew

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Triddon felt there was a stigma attached to mental health services.

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The judge accepted that Triddon was having hallucinations as part

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The report today highlights earlier occasions where concerns were raised

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Gutted because in my eyes this was preventable.

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Now my nieces have to live their lives without a mother.

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Police from South Wales have confirmed

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they're assisting colleagues in London in their search for

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A reconstruction of her last known movements has been staged today.

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Several members of the force's specialist search

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and recovery team are helping to look for the 14 year old.

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She was last seen on 28 August in West London.

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A mother who took her baby to see doctors 30 times in around a year,

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has been told she could not have done more for him.

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An inquest heard 14-month-old Noah Edwards died after contracting a

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An expert said the illness could not have been predicted.

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It is a dreadful virus and there is no cure for it.

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We don't want any other parents to go through what we have gone

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Schools in Wales must do more to stamp out absenteeism and truancy.

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That's according to the education watchdog Estyn.

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It says nearly a third of secondary schools here, aren't doing enough to

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improve their pupil's attendance - and that means poor or vulnerable

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All present and correct at this Year Nine literacy class at

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Staff here have worked hard to improve attendance rates from 85%

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Their philosophy, a positive not punitive approach to absenteeism,

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working with families and social services to understand exactly why

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some children in the past were failing to turn up day after day.

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It could be for students who perhaps are not engaging in the curriculum.

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It could be for social reasons where the students are having difficulties

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with relationships, with their peers or others in the school.

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It could be a range of family issues.

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Although school attendance has been slowly improving over the last five

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years, almost one in every three secondary schools in Wales have now

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According to the schools inspectorate, vulnerable pupils

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are most affected if schools don't do enough to tackle absenteeism.

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Those eligible for free school meals are nearly twice as likely to miss

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The absence rate for those with special needs is much

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Until recently, he was constantly missing from class.

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It is for pupils who struggle with mainstream education,

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offering skills like bike repair, carpentry and plumbing instead.

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Although Jock is not technically in class while he is here,

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If I didn't have somewhere like this,

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Just hanging around on street corners and hanging

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In its report, Estyn has made a number of

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recommendations to schools, local authorities and the Welsh Government

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It says in the future it wants to see far more children at their

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And staying with education, the school banding system for

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secondary schools is to be replaced by new colour-coded ratings for

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From January, the best performing schools will be

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rated green, followed by yellow, amber and red, for those needing

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Around 150 dairy farmers gathered in Carmarthen this evening

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to discuss growing concerns about the fall in milk prices.

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All four of the UK's dairy processors have slashed the price

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they're paying for milk in recent months. The body that represents

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prices. I think retailers and processors are taking advantage of a

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for them. We have yet to find out who has got their snout in the

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This money is just falling too quickly.

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Tonight, we keep the cloud. It will be my old. Overnight, a cold front

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moves south eastwards across the UK. Very windy for Scotland. Squally

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band of rain. We week future as it moves south eastwards. Adele and

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damp start for Wales tomorrow. Then the weather system will keep it

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blustery over Scotland. Just bringing light rain and thicker

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cloud as it moves south eastwards across the UK. Generally drying up

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and turning brighter from the north-west. Feeling fresher in brisk

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winds. 14 degrees for the Western Isles. Still in the low 20s in

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south-east England. Dryer enter the day for Wales. Maybe some cloud

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lingering in the South. 19 degrees possible for Cardiff. Cloud

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continues to break tomorrow night. Lighter winds, clearer skies,

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so-called than tonight. A chilly start on Saturday. Early mist will

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clear to leave a largely dry day. Lighter southerly winds. Similar on

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Sunday. Mostly dry but with variable cloud. Sunny spells and the

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temperatures in the high teens, really feeling quite mild again.

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High teens, really feeling quite mild again. High-pressure keeping

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things settled through the weekend and into next week. Temperatures on

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the warm side for late September. More on the website.

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We are back tomorrow at 6:25am. Goodnight.

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