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Tonight's headlines: Reducing the risk of dementia -

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the campaign encouraging us all to adopt a healthy lifestyle,

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as a survey shows it's the illness we're most worried about.

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I had a friend, or a cousin, who has been

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stricken by dementia at a very young age and I realised that hopefully,

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by taking on an healthy lifestyle,

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going into old age with a better outlook, then.

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And a new wave of competition - the battle is on over

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who could build Swansea's Tidal Lagoon.

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Playing in protest - around 200 people turn out

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in Swansea fighting to save music services for young people.

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Wales' final training session ahead of their Six Nations clash

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with France - as one coach says Friday night games aren't

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And Wales is known as the Land of Song -

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now a new festival around Cardiff aims to become one the best-known

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Three-quarters of people in Wales are worried about getting dementia.

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But a new survey says almost half of us don't know that

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45,000 people in Wales are living with the condition.

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And more than 2,000 of them are under the age of 65.

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Today, the Welsh Government launched a campaign calling on us to take

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steps to try to reduce the risk for ourselves.

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Here at in Penydarren Park in Merthyr Tydfil, Chris

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shows me the basics of walking football.

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After 30 years of doing no exercise, he is just taking up the sport

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because he believes it will help ward off dementia,

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something that's already affected one family

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I had a friend, or a cousin, who has been stricken by dementia

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He has got two young dependent children and

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I realised that hopefully, by taking of a healthy lifestyle,

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I realised that hopefully, by taking up a healthy lifestyle,

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healthy body, healthy mind and hopefully

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going into old age with a better outlook, then.

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According to the Welsh Government, getting dementia

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is now among our top worries in Wales.

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And a survey of 1,000 people showed almost half of us don't know

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you can reduce your risk of getting it.

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Three-quarters of us, they say, don't know where to begin with that.

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In Caerphilly, these men took part in a

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35-year health study and the medical experts say what they found here has

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To some extent, we have it, there is a genetic element,

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but to a large extent, it is how we live.

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And so if we can adopt a healthy lifestyle,

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just in the same way that it may benefit our heart,

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what affects the heart affects their head, so it will also

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But Mary Christine, who has been living with dementia for seven

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But Mary Christine, who has been living with dementia for several

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She and husband Graham told me that by claiming lifestyle

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is a factor, the Government is turning attention away

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from the need for more health care services.

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You have got to live your life, you've

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got to enjoy it, you've got to have fun, you've got to do

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We joke about Alzheimer's in this House. There are no tears. You know?

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Can't afford to cry. The Alzheimer's Society says currently, only four in

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ten people with the condition in Wales get a diagnosis, the lowest in

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the UK. Last year, the Welsh Government put an extra five when 5

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million into support services and set up diagnosis targets. It is one

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thing to diagnose but you have got to be able to show people that once

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you have had a diagnosis that it leaves somewhere, as well. So our

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teams of people going into care homes push up the rates of diagnosis

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but also make sure that people who work in those care homes have

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practical things they can do to help people live longer and live better

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with dementia. The Government message is simple, stay fit and

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thin, don't smoke or drink, watch your help and try new things. Chris

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takes the view it is worth a punt. And anyway, he says he is having

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fun. A number of residents at a care home

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in Colwyn Bay have fallen ill One patient at the Eithinog home has

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tested positive for the H1N1 virus and a further five have been taken

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to hospital with Public Health Wales says it's

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working to stop the virus The Independent Police Complaints

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Commission says it will not now investigate the death of a dog

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that was deliberately run over The force had referred itself

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to the IPCC following the incident on the A55

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near Penmaenmawr on Monday. Its Commissioner says

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the force should carry out its own investigation -

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with input from the RSPCA A watchdog has criticised

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the Welsh Government for the way it set up and ran a ?50

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million investment fund. The Wales Life Sciences Fund was set

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up in 2012 to try to get more The Wales Audit Office says

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ministers should have handled potential conflicts

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of interest "more robustly". The Welsh Government says it'll

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respond in due course. A competitor has emerged

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to challenge the company behind the ?1 billion tidal

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project for Swansea Bay. Tidal Lagoon Power wants to be

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the first to generate electricity from a tidal lagoon -

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starting in Swansea. Now Ecotricity - which already

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generates electricity with wind turbines and solar parks -says

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it can do it for a lot less money. Our economics correspondent

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Sarah Dickins is here. Bring us up to date on this. Well,

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if you remember, Tidal Lagoon Power have been working on the Swansea Bay

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project and other ones were some time and in a way, the delay on

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recent things, they have got over things like planning, the delay has

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been about price, what is sometimes called the strike price and the

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Prime Minister recently said he was concerned about that price. After

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that, Tidal Lagoon Power said if we look at this project, a ?1 billion

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project, over 90 years, like you would water infrastructure project,

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it works out much more cheaply. The Government then said only a few

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weeks ago that it would hold a review into the industry. What we

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have discovered today is that Ecotricity, the Government review,

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wrote to the department responsible for this -- before the Government

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review. They said they could produce electricity from tidal lagoon is

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much cheaper. I have this letter, it was written on the 18th of January,

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before the review, and it says quite frankly that "Our analysis suggests

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that Swansea Bay is simply the wrong sized project in the wrong place and

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these constraints are at the root of the high cost of energy. All along,

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Tidal Lagoon Power has said Swansea would be more expensive because it

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is the prototype and Cardiff, Newport and others would be cheaper.

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What this letter is suggesting, what Ecotricity is saying, is that

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Swansea is too small, they would look at a larger projects, they

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would do it for that Lower price that Tidal Lagoon Power are talking

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about but over 35 years. What have Tidal Lagoon Power said? They can't

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be happy, this was very much their project and they have been working

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on it for five years. They say they welcome competition and they

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welcomed the review but this really does challenge some of the things

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they have been telling us, that the prototype Swansea needs to be more

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expensive. Thank you very much for that update.

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With just ten weeks to go until Wales goes to the polls

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in the Assembly election, the Welsh Liberal Democrats' leader

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has defended her decision to work with Labour's Welsh Government.

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Kirsty Williams says if she hadn't struck budget deals with Labour

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in the Assembly, "the entire institution would have collapsed".

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Our political correspondent Daniel Davies - who's meeting

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all the party leaders before polling day -

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Day one of the National Assembly in 1999.

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Kirsty Williams has been a member since the start.

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Another new arrival on the farm near Brecon, home to her and husband

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And unfortunately, elections in the spring as well.

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17 years as Assembly member, facing her toughest election

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yet, she says devolution has disappointed.

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I think that is a realistic assessment and it is

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certainly how many people I speak to feel about the Assembly.

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We had such high hopes that creating this new

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institution would transform the way in which we deliver public services

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in Wales and for many people, that just hasn't happened.

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She will do her best to convince voters to blame

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Labour for that and do her best to keep her seat,

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Kirsty Williams has helped keep this area a Lib Dem stronghold for nearly

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20 years but last year, voters here switched

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to the Conservatives and when spring rolls around,

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the Tories would love to convince them to do

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the Tories would love to convince them to do the same again and turf

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out their local Lib Dem Assembly member.

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The Tories point out she has worked with

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the Labour Government that she now complains about.

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You have done three budget deals with them, you have cooperated

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with them, you have kept Carwyn Jones where he is.

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Well, let's be absolutely clear, if the budget

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hadn't gone through, the entire institution would have

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collapsed and I don't think anybody in Wales would have thanked us

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for a failing institution and an institution that

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would see it budgets slashed and the money sent back to London.

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There is an alternative, you could have worked

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with Plaid and the Tories to run things yourself?

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And sometimes we do work together to try and extract

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concessions out of the Government, but I got into politics

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She says despite leading the smallest group in the Assembly,

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she has managed to get a Labour Government to deliver

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Policies like a law Mrs Williams wrote to guarantee

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minimum nurse staffing levels on hospital wards.

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After the election, the Lib Dems want to cap infant classroom

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On the economy, if and when the Assembly

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get the powers, the Lib Dem would take a penny off the basic

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Polls suggest they could displace Lib Dems in the Assembly.

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Voters haven't flocked to the Lib Dems in recent years.

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What can Kirsty Williams do to get them

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The politicians you vote for on May the 5th will have the power to make

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decisions about key areas such as health and education.

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As part of our series looking at How Wales Works,

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Arwyn Jones has been in the border town of Presteigne to explain

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In places like Presteigne, you get a very clear idea of how evolution

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works and what the Assembly does. That is because here, they are right

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on the border with England. A lot of public services there are now very

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different to hear. I have come to Presteigne's version of the

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Assembly, which happens to be an art centre, which activate to see what

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people think. A lot of things that directly control our lives -- affect

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our lives are controlled by the Welsh Government and over the next

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ten weeks, we will be asked to vote for our next Assembly member. What

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exactly are we being asked to vote about? The Welsh Government gets

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most of its money from the UK Government, so next year, ministers

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here will have nearly ?16 billion to spend on public services in Wales. A

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lot of that money goes on health, so things like hospitals and GP

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services. Another key area for the Welsh Government is education, from

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schools and colleges to universities, it's the Welsh

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Government which makes all the key decisions. Downstairs in our

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Assembly for the day, there is a Welsh class practising a song for St

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David's Day. Arts and culture are also devolved and here, the Assembly

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strikes the right chord. We run the woodland project and we get funding

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from Wales, the Welsh Government, it is very good environmentally and the

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trouble is there are big issues around climate change and the Wars

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going on and are not controlled in Cardiff, and they should be. I lived

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in Bangor for a while and people of their feel very isolated from the

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Assembly and I think we can do here. Everyone forgets about the middle,

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but we have a lot of needs here too. People still don't identify with it.

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They still think the decisions made by some faceless bureaucrat, but

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actually, we are much more democratic with the Assembly than we

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were when it was all done through a Secretary of State. The Welsh

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Government doesn't control taxes, although that may well change in the

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next couple of years, but at the moment, it does decide how much

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business rates shops like these have to pay. Now, this bridge and this

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river formed the border between England and Wales and while it

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doesn't dictate the weather, it does dictate how we respond to the

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weather, because it is the Welsh Government which is in charge of

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floods defences, coastal defences, as well as agricultural policies.

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Immigration is often among the most important issues of interest to

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voters in Wales, but whoever you vote for in May won't really be able

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to do anything about it. It is the Westminster UK Government has

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control over the UK's borders and foreign policy. So those are the

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main issues we will all be voting on and made of it. People often tell me

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they don't truly care about what the Assembly does but my point would be

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if you care about what happens in hospitals and schools and all a the

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other things we have been talking about in Wales, the chances are you

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probably do care about what happens in the Assembly in Cardiff Bay.

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And tomorrow night, as part of the How Wales Works series,

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we'll be in Tredegar - famous for being the birthplace

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of the NHS - to find out how it's changed since it was first created

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almost 70 years ago and the challenges it will face

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Still to come in the programme this evening.

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in Cardiff before tomorrow's Six Nations game -

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but Wales Coach Warren Gatland says their opponents

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British Breakthrough Act at last night's Brits.

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Around 200 protestors have gathered outside Swansea's Guildhall urging

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the City Council not to cut funding to its music service.

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This evening, councillors are considering a proposal to reduce

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funding for free music tuition in schools.

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But campaigners are concerned it could lead to the break-up

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of the service which is run jointly with Neath Port Talbot Council.

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There were plenty of familiar tunes on the steps of the Guildhall this

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evening, but this lot were here to entertain. West Glamorgan youth

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music is funded as a partnership between Swansea Council and Neath

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Port Talbot Council. Earlier this month, Neath Port Talbot opted not

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to cut its subsidy to the service but this evening, Swansea Council

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will hear proposals to reduce funding for music tuition in schools

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following a six-month review. These protesters are concerned that

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without the free tuition in schools, it won't be possible to produce the

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same level of musical talent but the council says reform is necessary in

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order to make the service sustainable. If you want people to

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achieve things like grade eight at the age of 16 or 17, you don't get

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that starting music lessons at 14. It takes many, many years and it

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needs the grounding right at the very beginning in primary school.

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This music service has provided a platform for some of Wales' greatest

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musicians and composers. Hoping to join the musical greats in the

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future is Katie. A member of the west Glamorgan youth Orchestra, she

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told me she is worried others won't take as much interest in music of

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the current provision of tuition is lost. Children won't have the

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interest and they won't have a private tutor, they just won't do

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it. Some people will be able to afford the music programme -- won't

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be able to afford the music programme and it will deter them. We

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have to pay in school now but it is still a really reduced price. With

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enough instruments in hands, the crowd of protesters seem to draw the

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attention of the Swansea Council leader. He reassured them the music

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service will continue but reform is needed to some extent. Earlier

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today, he told with the current level for funding school tuition

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doesn't make business sense when budgets are tight. I don't think

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either Council is saying things can continue as they are, because we are

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aware that the cost of the service, around ?31 an hour, is likely to

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increase because schools are able to procure music services far cheaper

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than that. What we need to do is make sure the excellent service we

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have got is competitive and therefore that schools will want to

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take that service and parents will want to take that service. The joint

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running of the service between Swansea and Neath Port Talbot

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counsels remains under consultation until next month so as Swansea

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Council make reassurances the music service will continue, campaigners

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hope the funding won't be scaled back any time soon.

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Rugby and the Wales forwards coach Robin McBryde says Six Nations games

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held on Friday nights aren't ideal for fans,

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but says there's nothing they can do about it.

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It comes after calls from the WRU for other nations to share

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the number of Friday night games in future.

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Wales have had their final training session ahead of the game

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They were playful and relaxed this morning.

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The squad has been given a clean bill of health,

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but Liam Williams was wearing a scrum cap

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With the roof closed, it promises to be another electric

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atmosphere, but Friday night games aren't favoured by everybody.

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An additional 74,000 fans travelling into the city of top of the usual

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rush hour traffic means just getting to the game could be a problem.

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It'll be the competition's sixth game on a Friday.

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We have come across the Friday night games in the past,

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players are getting more accustomed to dealing

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It's not ideal for the supporters, or us,

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France arrived tonight at the stadium having

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won their opening two games in Paris against Italy or Ireland,

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won their opening two games in Paris against Italy and Ireland,

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but neither will be as difficult as playing away from home.

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They've won just three of their last 12 away games.

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I think they're just a work in progress, you know,

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so take one game at a time and see what

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works well for them, what they need to improve

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on and they have done that in the first couple of games.

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I think under Guy Noves, he comes with credibility in terms

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He's been incredibly successful for Toulouse.

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In just over 24 hours, Warren Gatland's

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team will step out here in front of a packed stadium.

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They haven't lost to France since that World Cup

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semifinal back in 2011 and they know a win here tomorrow night will push

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them to the top of the Six Nations championship.

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The weekend of rugby starts early, with the Dragons hosting Pro 12

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The Welsh region will be looking for an improvement after the defeat

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against Treviso last week - their third in a row.

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Tonight's game is live on Scrum V Live from 7pm

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That's followed by Sport Wales, which will have an extended

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Swansea City, who take on Tottenham on Sunday,

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are too reliant on Gylfi Sigurdsson and Andre Ayew for goals according

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They've contributed 15 goals to the Swans' total of 24 -

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the joint-lowest in the Premier League.

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New striker Alberto Paloschi has yet to score for the club.

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More tomorrow - we'll be live from the Principality Stadium

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A new music festival comes to Wales this summer which the organisers

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hope will rival some of the UK's best-known cultural events.

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The Festival of Voice takes place at venues in Cardiff in June,

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with performances by Charlotte Church and Van Morrison

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Here's our arts and media correspondent Huw Thomas.

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Some of the voices coming together of the culture in the capital.

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Today, the owners of three very famous Welsh voices united to launch

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the Festival of Voice, a series of big concerts and intimate

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performances at venues across Cardiff in June. Organised by Wales

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millennium Centre, with a little help from Cerys Matthews. It makes

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complete sense to have this festival in the land of Song, to open the

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door wide and help people enjoy the noise we can make and celebrate the

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boys in Wales. Onstage, people will see Van Morrison singing solo and a

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special appearance by Bryn Terfel. Charlotte Church co-writes and stars

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the Last Mermaid, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little

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Mermaid, but she want you to leave Disney at the door. We are taking in

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a different direction, I don't think the Disney interpretation was very

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faithful to the original, being as she married the Prince in the end,

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but don't come expecting the Little mermaid, it isn't that at all. This

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glamorous cafe in London is the setting for the launch of the

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festival, a festival that is happening in Cardiff. But if it is

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to have the impact the audience is hoping for, they will need to

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attract the critics and the audiences from over the border.

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Wales millennium Centre will produce the new festival every two years and

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wanted to stake a place alongside heavyweight cultural events like the

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Edinburgh fringe and Manchester's International Festival. Rufus

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Wainwright is giving his only UK performance here at Festival of

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Voice, Van Morrison and Bryn Terfel don't do everything activate

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something every week, so we have been very focused on trying to focus

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on experiences people will get on a train or plane to.

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Ticket sales and the reaction of the critics will determine whether the

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festival is a success but the audiences hope the calibre of the

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voices on show will make it one of this year's unmissable events.

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And among the winners - Catfish and the Bottlemen

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A public vote meant they picked up the prize

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So how's it gone down in their hometown?

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A glittering night and a glittering prize.

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And from front man Van McCann, perhaps the shortest

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For followers of the band, the award will not come

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It was on a public vote and Catfish have

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been selling out venues across the UK.

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Back in the hometown, this Llandudno bar is where they first headlined.

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Ysgol John Bright is where it all started.

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Two current members of the line-up were pupils there.

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And they have plenty of fans among the current crop.

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There's quite a few fans in school, so there were quite

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I woke up this morning to a celebratory

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text message, you know, which was obviously really good

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to get and I was delighted that the boys, really proud.

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to get and I was delighted for the boys, really proud.

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Catfish And The Bottlemen follow in the footsteps of Duffy

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and the Stereophonics as Brits Breakthrough Award winners.

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Congratulations to them. Any award winning weather on the way?

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Derek, how is it looking? We have been treated this week are some

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lovely weather, blue skies, sunshine and frost. Not quite as nice this

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afternoon, more clout but still generally dry and apart from a few

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showers, or dry weather to come over the next few days, but a breeze

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picking up will make it feel colder. Tonight, most of the country dry, a

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few showers in the west and the odd shower may turn up in the South

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later on tonight. Not as cold as recent nights but still some frost.

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Temperatures in parts of mid and North Wales falling below freezing.

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Tomorrow's chart shows low pressure over Ireland and that brings the

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threat of some rain to the south-west. So at eight o'clock in

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the morning, breezy across Pembrokeshire and cloudy in the

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south with maybe one or two showers. Elsewhere, it is looking dry, should

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be bright in parts of mid and North Wales and feeling cold, only three

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Celsius in Caernarfon. During the day, a few showers will drift their

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way northwards, wintry on high ground with a few flakes of snow. We

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may see some rain turning up in Pembrokeshire but Flintshire should

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stay dry. More clout than sunshine tomorrow but bright in places.

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Breezy than today and chilly, highs between four and seven. On Anglesey

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tomorrow, most of the des dry though I wouldn't rule out a shower in the

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afternoon. In Montgomeryshire, mostly dry tomorrow with maybe a

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light shower in places, chilly five Celsius in Welshpool with a light

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breeze. If you are in Cardiff for the rugby, it will be chilly, mostly

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dry but we could see a few spots of light rain around the middle of the

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day, around six Celsius Baha'i. One or two showers in the evening,

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wintry in places, otherwise the cloud breaks and temperatures fall

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low enough for a touch of frost. Saturday, a cold day with a

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north-easterly breeze, especially in the south and south-east. The odd

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light shower in place but no more than that, drive for most of us and

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the Sun should break through at times. -- try. Then on Sunday, high

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pressure will topple its way across the UK, moving down from the north,

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meaning settled and dry weather. Sunday, chilly and dry, variable

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cloud with some sunshine. Exley, a dry start on Monday but rain on the

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way, the wind picking up, so a change on the way for the start of

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March -- next week. Derek, thank you very much. A

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reminder of the top story: the Welsh Government has launched a campaign

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calling on us all to take steps to try and reduce the risks of getting

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dementia. A survey says three quarters of people in Wales are

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worried about developing the condition.

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And that is Wales Today, we have a quick update at 8pm and more after

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the BBC News at ten. From all the buzz on the programme, thank you for

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watching and have a good evening. Goodbye. -- from all of us.

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