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Our health editor Hugh Pym will be taking questions live this evening

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at 8 o'clock. Now Thousands of Welsh steel workers

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take their message to the heart of Europe to urge support

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for their ailing industry. Give us a fair chance

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for our future. We will make a bit of noise today

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and hopefully it will put pressure Labour promises a hundred thousand

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apprenticeships if the party wins Are anti-depressants

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prescribed too easily? A professor of psychiatry says

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doctors are "all but forcing" One of Wales' worst marine

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disasters. 20 years after the Sea Empress

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spilled oil across the Pembrokeshire A set-back to Rhys Webb's hopes

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of being re-called for the rest And some of the biggest

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names in snooker are here but will a Welshman take

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the Welsh Open title for the first A senior EU commissioner has told

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this programme they're already putting tariffs on Chinese steel

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products coming into the UK. It comes as steel workers from Wales

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joined thousands from across Europe at a protest in Brussels to demand

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action from the European Union They say cheap Chinese steel

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is threatening their business. Hundreds of job losses have already

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been announced at Tata Steel here. From Brussels, here's our business

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correspondent Brian Meechan. Save our steel! A message loud and

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clear. Some of these Tata workers in the company's worked here not only

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worried about the long-term. Some are facing redundancy as 750 jobs go

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at Port Talbot. We want to make a bit of noise and we want to put

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pressure on the European Parliament to put sanctions on the Chinese

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deal. It is about fighting for our jobs. These survival of the UK steel

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industry. It is a desperate situation and we need urgent action.

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We have 50 steelworkers from Tata in south Wales joining 5000 workers

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from across Europe at the home of the European Commission in Brussels.

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They are not marching alone. They are marching with the bosses of

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tartar, including the head of Tata Steel in Europe. That shows the

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management and workers are united in their message to stop the dumping

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from China. They were joined by 5000 others from across Europe. China

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denies it is dumping steel, selling below its value or what it costs to

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make, but critics argue it is clearly happening. Tata's European

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boss says we need to learn from their mistakes of the past when

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energy costs took years to deal with. We are here for free and fair

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trade. We want the commission to apply the instruments to keep action

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against dumping steel from China which is affecting the market in

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Europe. It has got to be fast and effective. The Welsh steelworkers

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stopped outside the European Commission headquarters and were in

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good spirits, but I met with one of Europe's most senior figures to see

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if their voices were being heard. There are 37 trades defending

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measures in place at the moment, 16 relate directly to China, so we are

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doing quite a lot and every time there are accusations, we start

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looking at what is the reality and if there is a need to do any

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anti-dumping or trade defence measures. The UK Government has been

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criticised for not backing tougher measures to raise the cost of

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Chinese steel. In Brussels, the businessmen Anna Soubry rejected the

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complaints. It is important we don't get diverted into what might happen

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in the future in relation to China. If you look at tariffs, it could

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take years to change that. This industry has not got the time. It

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wants action today. We have already lost in six months well over 5500

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jobs, never mind the effect it has on the supply chain. The

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steelworkers certainly had their day in protest. Whether they get the

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response they want at the speed they wanted is another matter.

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Brian, doesn't this all highlight how significant China has become

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It really does. China is a major force. It is the second-biggest

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economy in the world and it has had a negative impact on Wales, as we

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have seen a lot of manufacturing jobs go to China and other parts of

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Asia and there is no doubt that Chinese steel is having an impact

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Welsh steelmakers. However, we have seen Chailly invest quite heavily in

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biomass. Two plants in Wales. We have seen China invest ?300 million

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in Cardiff Metropolitan University so that money is coming in. When of

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the difficulties when you get into tariffs is that they can escalate.

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It began become a tit-for-tat approach. Countries just start

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slapping tariffs on each other. We have seen that with the United

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States and the European Union. It is not specific to China. That is

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something countries try to avoid. So it is not an entirely

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straightforward matter. Labour has announced six key pledges

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for May's Assembly election. The First Minister Carwyn Jones

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promised funding for new treatments on the NHS and better

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school standards. But opponents say Labour's Welsh

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government has failed to deliver. Our political correspondent

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Daniel Davies reports. The motto applies to building

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aeroplanes and putting together Carwyn Jones visited the Airbus

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factory in Flintshire today promising a future Labour government

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would create more apprentices. One of his six big ideas

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for May's election. There will be more to come

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when we publish our manifesto but these are the promises we ask

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you to measure us by in 2021. If it wins it would create 100,000

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apprenticeships over five years. There would be a fund to pay

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for new treatments on the NHS. Labour says it would offer a tax

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break to more small businesses Schools would see a ?100 million

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fund to improve standards. Parents would get an extra ten

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weeks of free childcare And the amount of money elderly

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people could keep if they have to sell their home to go into care

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would double to ?50,000. We are talking about older people,

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talking of opportunities for youngsters, talking about jobs,

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health, economy, education, These are the things that affect

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people's everyday lives and they expect political

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parties to make promises on improving their

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lives and rightly so. The opposition says Labour has had

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plenty of time to improve people's lives in the 17 years it has

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already spent in power. Sadly we have had 17 years

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of stagnation with Labour and we are always told

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it is going to get better tomorrow. These pledges are the same as at any

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election that Labour bring forward. You can't really believe

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a word they say. Labour has been in charge either

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alone or in coalition since the Assembly

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was created in 1999. Delivery, that is what he

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promised five years ago. Now he says the job is only half

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finished and he needs another five Daniel, if any of this

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is to become reality, Absolutely. There was a poll out

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this morning suggesting that maybe Labour are some way off that

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majority. Still the biggest party by quite some margin but the majority

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that eluded them at the Le two elections still looks quite elusive.

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That poll also showed despite a dreadful row in the party over

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choosing candidates, Ukip is still polling well. We will keep an eye on

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that. But if Labour or anyone else. Of that majority, possibly parties

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behind closed doors haggling over which of these policies they want to

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work together to implement. Just a couple of things to point out in the

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announcement today, 100,000 apprenticeships. That is not

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dramatically more than the Welsh government creates already but

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people in industry say if Labour or anyone else can guarantee a steady

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supply of apprentices and the funding that requires, that is no

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bad thing. On the new funding for new treatments on the NHS for

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improving school standards, that really goes to the heart of the big

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rows in the Assembly over the last five years and more. Has Labour

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delivered better public services under devolution? The opposition

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will say no, this is more of the same. The challenge for Labour is

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this, if they think Labour Ash Wales is on the right track, you would not

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expect them to tear it all up and start again. But perhaps people

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expected more. A man accused of raping a student

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during fresher's week in Cardiff was preying on single,

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drunk women, a court has heard. Reemus Hamza is alleged to have

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attacked the 20-year-old near Cardiff University

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as she walked home alone Police are appealing for information

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on the whereabouts of a woman from Cardiff who's been

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missing since Friday night. Janine Loddo was last seen

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in the Popworld club She left the club, formerly known

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as Flares, without her phone and coat, which have been

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handed into officers. Her family say it's out of character

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for her not to make contact. Are anti-depressants drugs

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being prescribed too freely? According to a professor

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of psychiatry from North Wales, GPs are failing patients and should

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demand more information The latest figures show the use

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of anti-depressants has As part of the BBC's

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In the Mind Season, In Wales, not tens but hundreds

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of thousands of us depend on them. Anti-depressants like Prozac

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and Seroxat are said to be among the most successful

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drugs of all time. It is estimated one in six of those

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of working age in Wales, that is more than a quarter

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of a million people, It was a gradual feeling of sinking

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lower and lower and lower, and then you find yourself

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in a situation where it is very In Caernarfon, Manon Wilkinson has

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spoken out about the You have zilch motivation to do

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anything and you have serious obsessive suicidal thoughts

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and that is when I really worried The most commonly used

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anti-depressant drugs make billions for the pharmaceutical industry

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but are they being too Figures supplied to us showed an 8%

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increase in the last year alone. Professor David Healy is a long-time

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critic of drugs businesses. The anti-depressants have been sold

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as working wonderfully well and coming pretty well

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free of risks. If doctors really knew

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about the risks, they would be They would say, you don't

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necessarily want to have these They can do good but

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they can be tricky. And Malan Wilkinson agrees other

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therapies should be used Prescription drugs and

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anti-depressants provide a very fast and easy answer to an extremely

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difficult, long-term issue. It is all about medics being seen

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to be doing something and very often, from personal experience,

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drugs or anti-depressants, very rarely, not at all in my case,

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address the root cause But is it really this

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straightforward? Critics claim doctors

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are overprescribing and the statistics seem to back that

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up but what about Amitriptyline? It is an anti-depressant

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but it is commonly prescribed How does that feature

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in the figures? And Phil White, a GP

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in Menai Bridge, says drugs are often supplied in the short

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term because little else Anti-depressants medication

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is one treatment option, counselling, referrals,

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another treatment option and a combination of both is also

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suitable for some people. However, waiting times for some

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of these non-medical treatments are so long, you can't

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leave people hanging on. Be under no illusion,

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anti-depressants will continue to be There are plenty of critics but many

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too who depend on them. And throughout this week we're

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exploring mental health as part Tomorrow, the services on offer

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for people experiencing a mental Back to tonight, much more to come

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before seven o'clock. They cast off for a world record

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attempt to row the Atlantic. Soon after this, they

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capsized off Africa. Tonight, the mum from Anglesey

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on her daughter's worst nightmare. And on course for maximum break

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but unimpressed with the prize money - Ronnie O'Sullivan deliberately

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misses out on pocketing ten grand. Remembered for causing one

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of the worst marine disasters Wales has ever seen, the Sea Empress oil

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tanker grounded on this day in 1996 20 years on, Milford Haven Port

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Authority has told this programme it's now a world leader in safety,

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having developed the software which is used in one of world's

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busiest shipping areas - It was one of the UK's

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largest oil spills. The Sea Empress was en route

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to the Texaco oil refinery in Milford Haven, when she grounded

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on mid-Channel rocks at St.Ann's The pilot radioed for

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immediate assistance. All steerage on the

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vessel had been lost. We are getting reports that 147,000

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tonne tanker has run aground in south Wales and is said to be

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spilling oil. There was a week-long drama

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as the World watched. A salvage operation was underway

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to move the vessel. 72,000 tonnes of crude oil and 370

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tonnes of heavy fuel spewed The grounding was found

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to be due to pilot error. 20 years on, now Milford Haven Port

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Authority says its pilots are leading the way,

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using the latest technology needed to bring these vessels into port,

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developing an app now used in the world's busiest shipping

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area, the Panama Canal. And all vessels of a certain

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size have an escort tug I think the lessons that were

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learned from it and taken from the incident have been applied now. A

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lot of investment and an awful lot of training. We have got eight or

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nine of the largest harbour tugs in the world in the ports. They are

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very modern, recent new builds, very manoeuvrable and extremely powerful.

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Boats like this one run out of Milford Haven 20 miles a day. To

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bring in vessel is like this tanker. Now the pilots are extensively

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trained by simulator. That was not the case 20 years ago when the Sea

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Empress ran aground. The crude oil spilled

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on to more than 100 beaches, The popular holiday resort of Tenby

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saw its golden sands covered in a heavy smothering

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of emulsified oil. Former councillor Barry Davies said

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hundreds worked night and day There were cheers in the eyes of the

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locals. This is known locally as the jewel in the Crown. It is a huge

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tourist amenity location for the whole of the UK and they could see

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their futures in huge jeopardy. The oil suffocated and poisoned

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thousands of birds. We think there were 3500 dead birds

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picked up but the workers clearing the oil were just clearing the oil

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off the beaches and there were lots of dead birds mixed in with the oil

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so we have no idea how many were really affected.

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The total cost of the clear up was around ?60 million,

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but the environmental cost was felt for many years after and has

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The Chief Constable of Dyfed Powys Police has announced

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Simon Prince, who began his career in 1990, says it's been an "enormous

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privilege" to have led the force, having spent three

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Cases of flu in Wales are at their highest level amongst

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people under 45 this year rather than the elderly,

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They say the latest strain particularly effects the young

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Up until the end of last month, nearly 3,500 people visited their GP

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with flu-like symptoms, with 120 needing hospital admission.

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Different viruses have different age profiles so last year we saw H3N2,

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which we know affects older people more than younger people.

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This year it is a H1N1 virus, which has been around since 2009,

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it is contained in the vaccine so we know the vaccine is a good

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match, but it does affect younger people more than older people.

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A mother from Anglesey says she's relieved after her daughter

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was rescued by a cargo ship after a world record attempt to row

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Olivia Wilson and three other female crew members were stranded in stormy

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seas for 16 hours off the west coast of Africa after their

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Jan Wilson says her daughter described it as the worst experience

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Seen here in the middle with long brown hair,

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Olivia Wilson and her three fellow crew set off from Gran Canaria

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on January 26th for their journey across the Atlantic.

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They hoped to break the world speed record for a female team of 45 days

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and also raise money for children's charities.

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But at the halfway point, near Cape Verde off the West African

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coast at the weekend, disaster struck.

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Huge waves broke equipment and capsized the boat.

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Back home in Pentre Berw on Anglesey, Olivia's mum Jan waited

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She said it took over three hours for them to be transferred

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from their little boat to the ship and because she was last off,

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at that point, she said it was a real leap of faith.

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The 28-year-old is far from inexperienced, having served

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in the Royal Navy and Royal Artillery.

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Now en route to Quebec, Olivia and her crew should be back

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on land next week for an emotional reunion with her relieved

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Football, snooker and rugby in tonight's sport.

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We start tonight with news of a set-back to Rhys Webb's hopes

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of being re-called to the Wales side to face France a week on Friday.

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The scrum-half has not played for Wales since suffering

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a serious foot injury before the World Cup last September.

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He returned from injury for the Ospreys yesterday

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but suffered a head injury in the win over Munster.

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Ospreys say he's extremely doubtful to play in the Pro12 game

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It is disappointing for us but more importantly to Rhys.

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He has come back from a long lay-off.

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I don't think it will keep him out too long but it is something we have

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got to make sure, particularly with these head injury assessments,

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we have to make sure that players are at the forefront

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Wales' Six Nations title ambitions are still alive after the win

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Three tries were enough to overcome Scotland.

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George North got the third, beating five men as he raced

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So, let's take a look at the Six Nations table tonight.

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Wales are on three points after recording their first win

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of this year's championship, while France, who beat reigning

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champions Ireland, are second - a place above Wales.

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Football, and Wales are unsure if Gareth Bale and Joe Allen will be

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fit for their friendly matches against Northern Ireland

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Bale, who hasn't played since last month, is expected to miss

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Real Madrid's Champions League game against Roma on Wednesday

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after suffering a minor setback in his recovery from a calf injury.

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It's important that the players play as many games as possible and have

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that rhythm going into the end of the season but at the same time

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it is important that injuries such as these are fully healed

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Some of the best players in the world of snooker

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It's been 17 years since a Welshman took the title.

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He's through to the second round but all eyes were

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on Ronnie O'Sullivan, who deliberately avoided securing

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a maximum 147 break, saying the prize fund

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For instance of the best snooker players in the world, Cardiff is the

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place to be over the next seven days, but Willie Welchman Willem the

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title this year? It has been a long 17 year wait. He is the only man to

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win the Welsh Open, back in 1999. Mark Williams also clinched the

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title in 1996. Today he may have struggled at times but did reach the

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second round. Ten Welchman will have battled it out by this evening with

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Matthew Stevens and Dominic Dale playing later tonight. The Welsh may

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not be setting the world alight but one former world champion is not

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concerned about the state of the game in Wales. There will always be

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talent coming through because of the structure. They are putting these

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events on every weekend for young players to play in. As you know in

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any sport, competition is so important. You have got to have

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that. You coach personally. Looking at the talent in Wales, how are we

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looking at the moment? I am the best, obviously. On with the snooker

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and last year the venue itself was criticised. Five-time world champion

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Ronnie O'Sullivan said it was like playing in an aircraft hangar. He

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was more, the medley today but created the headlines by turning

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down the chance to score a maximum 147 as the ?10,000 prize money was

:24:02.:24:08.

not enough. He feels it is not enough money. A 147 is a very

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special moment and so you want it to feel special all around. I thought

:24:17.:24:22.

that was value for money for the punters today. The night the

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chairman of World Snooker said his behaviour was unacceptable and this

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respect Bill to the paying public. -- this respectful. It is a busy

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venue with 128 players accommodated. They have a lounge to relax but the

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most important area for the players is the practice room. A chance for

:24:45.:24:49.

some last-minute preparation. They are all aiming for that ?60,000 pot

:24:50.:24:51.

which will be won on Sunday. Staying in and watching the snooker

:24:52.:24:55.

is not a bad idea when it's It's not going to stay dry all week

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but today has been lovely. Caroline was up early this morning

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for sunrise on a snow And in Barmouth, these donkeys

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enjoyed plenty of sunshine down Now, the lowest temperature recorded

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in Wales so far this winter is minus seven Ceksius at Tirabad

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in Powys back in January and tonight The sky clear and the

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temperature is tumbling. A few degrees below inland

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with a widespread, hard frost. Here's the picture for

:25:28.:25:32.

eight in the morning. Bright, crisp and sunny too

:25:33.:25:37.

with high cirrus clouds. Breezier on Anglesey so not quite

:25:38.:25:43.

so cold here. Temperatures in the west a little

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higher, especially The best of the sunshine

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in the morning. During the afternoon

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it will turn cloudier. Strong in the north-west

:25:57.:25:59.

and feeling cold. Top temperatures between five

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and eight Celsius. Cloudier in the afternoon

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with a high of four The breeze picking up,

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with Harlech rising to seven Tomorrow evening, most

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of the country dry but rain in parts of the north and west will become

:26:21.:26:25.

more widespread after midnight. Most of the snow on higher ground,

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the hills and mountains. It should dry up in

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the west by evening. Thursday, any rain and light snow

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in the east will clear. The whole country becoming

:26:45.:26:47.

dry and brightening up. But on Friday it's all change

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again with fronts moving They'll introduce milder air,

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more rain and stronger winds. So changeable sums up

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the rest of the week. In the meantime, watch out

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for Jack Frost tonight and make the most of the dry

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weather tomorrow. And tonight's headlines from the

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BBC. Steelworkers from Wales have joined thousands from across Europe

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to protest in Britain's -- Brussels, demanding action from the European

:27:29.:27:31.

Union to support the industry. They say cheap Chinese steel is

:27:32.:27:33.

threatening their livelihoods. I'll have an update for you here

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at 8pm and again after the BBC From all of us on the

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programme, good evening.

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