19/02/2016 BBC Wales Today


19/02/2016

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Cameron is still on his feet giving details of the deal in Brussels. You

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can follow There's been a call for more

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investment in long term help for people who've had strokes,

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after new figures show more 7,000 people in Wales suffer

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a stroke every year. support which continued

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after he got home. I began to see that, yes,

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I could overcome this with help from them but also

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from myself and my Stroke care in the Betsi

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Cadwaladr health board region is the best in Wales

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but two-and-a-half years ago Changes in specialist stroke nurses

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and also investment in ongoing Each year in Wales, around 7,000

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of us will suffer an attack. You can have a stroke

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at any age but the older Survival rates have

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never been better and overall the NHS in Wales

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performs as well as, not better, the health

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service in England. In the Betsi Cadwaladr health board

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area, 69% of patients are admitted into a stroke unit within

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four hours of arriving The figure for the whole

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of Wales is just 30.6%. We have stroke nurses that

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work seven days a week so they will ensure that a family

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who comes into the unit gets prompt Friends and relatives

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are being asked not to visit patients at Bronglais

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Hospital in Aberystwyth. Two of the hospital's wards have

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been temporarily closed due The company behind the ?1bn tidal

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project for Swansea Bay believes it still has backing

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from within UK Government, even though an independent

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review of the industry In an exclusive interview for BBC

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Wales, chief executive Mark Shorrock describes a letter he's

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had from a Minister as, Our Economics Correspondent Sarah

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Dickins has the story. It has been long on the drawing

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board but now it has emerged that as well as launching

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an industry review last week, the UK Government sent

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a letter to tidal lagoon powers last week, the UK Government sent

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a letter to Tidal Lagoon Power's Mark is supportive of the review

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but argues the letter from the energy secretary

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suggests the UK Government is still

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interested in the project. In a very Sir Humphrey way,

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the government is giving us The engagement that I have

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with the civil servants across Government, specifically

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treasury and Department of Energy and Climate Change is now

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a very positive one. There is a buy-in to Swansea Bay

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tidal lagoon as a energy water He means the finance will be

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spread across 90 years, not the 35 years

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period used for energy In theory, meaning it

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will cost less for each year. When the UK Government last week

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announced it was to hold a review into the tidal energy sector,

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many people across Wales thought the Swansea lagoon project had been

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kicked into the long grass. It now seems it isn't

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as simple as that. The project has already been

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delayed for two years. the government review

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into the industry - Norway produces the cheapest power

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in Europe because they invested in hydropower stations

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and now they have 2p power. We are proposing we invest

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in our amazing tidal range and have cheap power

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for many generations. The company confidence

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could be misplaced. Other sources of energy have become

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cheaper in the last few months, putting more pressure

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on tidal energy to prove While Tidal Lagoon Power

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may believe it has had the thumbs up, there is a long way

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to go before building can begin. Wales is "on the up" -

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that's according to the First Minister as he launches

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Welsh Labour's re-election bid at the Party's

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conference in Llandudno. With less than three months

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until the Assembly Election, Carwyn Jones has been

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defending his government's performance half way

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through what he calls their "decade I believe we have achieved

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what we said we would do in 2011 but of course it is

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now time to be even What you never do in politics

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is sit back and say, look at what we've

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done and on the basis What we say is we have completed

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that part of what we wanted to do, time to move onto the next part

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and be even more ambitious A militant linked to last

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year's beach attack that killed and injured

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Welsh tourists in Tunisia is thought to have died following US

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airstrikes in Libya. Trudy Jones from Blackwood was one

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of 30 Britons who was shot and killed while

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holidaying in Sousse. Today marks 75 years

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since the German bombs devastated More than 200 people died

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and hundreds more were injured. It was one of the UK's worst

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affected towns, and it took many 87-year-old Fred Jones remembers

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the aftermath of three nights The noise is the one crop was

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frightening. They would screech. If they were louder, obviously, they

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were nearer. You would think, is this going to be hours? We did have

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an incendiary outside the house but never an actual explosion.

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Snooker, and there are no Welshmen left in the Welsh Open

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after Michael White was defeated by Mark Allen

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Rugby, and in the Pro12 the Ospreys won against Edinburgh -

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a try in the final minutes by Scott Otten gave the hosts

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a comfortable victory with a final score of

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Elsewhere the Newport Gwent Dragons lost to Italian side Treviso

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A look at what the weather has in store for us this weekend now.

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Tonight will be mostly dry, with some clear spells,

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Then tomorrow, after a dry start, cloud

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Rain will be heavy and persistent over the hills.

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Rather windy, but it will be milder in the south.

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For the rest of the British Isles we have snow across part of England and

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Scotland. have snow across part of England and

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and brighter it will be with temperatures ranging between four

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and 13 Celsius. Tomorrow hopefully the rain will turn more patchy and

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temperatures will be back in double figures ranging between nine and 12

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Celsius. Breezy conditions tomorrow afternoon and evening, turning more

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patchy. Some mist mild night with temperatures ranging

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between seven and 10 Celsius. mild night with temperatures ranging

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come. Brisk winds as well, with temperatures ranging between ten and

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12 Celsius. We will see the return of cooler conditions as we starts

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next week. Temperatures will return to where they should he was even

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some sunshine by the time we get to Tuesday.

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Remember you can keep up to date with all the developments

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on what the EU-UK deal means for Wales on BBC Radio Wales,

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From all of us on the programme, have a good weekend.

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For waking us up... CHRIS EVANS: Good morning, friends.

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