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Patrick Joseph Connors and three others, jailed for forcing

a homeless man to work for their family

business for as little as ?5 a day.

They have been shown to have treated their victims

as commodities, and kept them in the most appalling circumstances.

The future of thousands of jobs in the Welsh Steel industry.

Tonight, we're in India, ahead of tomorrow's

The company is expected to hold a press conference after the board

meeting, and that is perhaps when we will hear more from them.

The letters which make up the EU referendum.

How much does Wales really benefit by being in?

Why one of the UK's biggest producers of ready meals

And, the weather turning cooler and cloudier tomorrow,

but a bit more promising for the bank holiday weekend.

The police described it as modern-day slavery.

Three men have been found guilty for kidnapping

and forcing a homeless man to work for them against his will.

The Crown Prosecution Service said the men were guilty of exploiting

and controlling their vulnerable victim in a callous manner over

One man was kept for 21 years. The police described the conditions as

horrific. Caroline Evans is at Cardiff Crown

Court. Modern-day slavery is said to be

increasing in Wales but this prosecution for forced Labour may

never had happened had it not been for a story be covered in 2013, that

of Darryl sister who went missing for 13 years, found on a farm on the

outskirts of Cardiff. The publicity around his story led one of the

victims in this case to recognise his own treatment is wrong.

They came to court denying all charges against them. The

prosecution said Patrick Joseph Connors had bought a man and

controlled him for more than 20 years, beating him and kidnapping

him whenever he tried to escape. When he stepped back from the family

business, his son, Patrick Dean Connors and nephew William Connors,

would seek his permission to put the man, Michael Hughes, to work. The

court heard evidence from the two victims. The other, and unnamed man.

The conditions they lived were atrocious, said the prosecution.

Police said the treatment showed a disregard for Humanity.

It is about how they were treated, they were used as, to tease, to make

money. At last they have justice. The court

heard how Patrick Joseph Connors ran a tarmac in business. The positives

and said he chose the -- clients who are vulnerable and charged inflated

prices when he paid the men as little as ?5 a day. One finally went

to the police after seeing television coverage about one man

whose case sparked a wider investigation. In Kidderminster,

Darryl is being taught by his powers not to trust everyone but they fear

for other vulnerable people. For a ten, 11, 15-year-old boy who

thinks his parents are picking on him and walks away from the

situation, he could find himself in exactly the same situation as

Darryl, approached by a couple of these people, and being told, we

will look after you, find you something to do, we will look after

you come you will be our friend. You have to be aware.

His case was, says the man who coordinates the anti-slavery policy,

a wake up call for Wales. He said reports are increasing, last year,

up to 134, partly because now people have the confidence to report their

suspicions. People are now prepared to make that

call and report incidences. Of course, people are enslaved, the

victims, they now have the confidence, they can see hope. We

want to send that message of hope that we will rescue you and look

after you. The CPS says this latest case took

an emotional toll on the victims. The judge said Michael Hughes had

been sold to Paddy Connors and conditioned to be a surf. He said he

carried out the kidnappings to bring his slaves back to him. The victims

will remain anonymous. All victims of modern day every given the

automatic right to anonymity. The abilities hope their stories will

encourage other people to report their experiences of suspicions.

In victim impact statements read in court, Michael Hughes said the

defendants had stripped him of his early adult life, that he had felt

he had nothing to live for. The other man said he had turned to

drink and drugs, in order to cope, and he now suffers with

osteoporosis, the results of malnutrition. The police are

investigating this case say the effects of this type of crime live

with the victim for a long time, and they are asking the public to be

their eyes and ears. The rest of the day's news.

A doctor, who had previously worked in North Wales,

has joined the so-called Islamic State militant group

in Syria, the BBC has learned from leaked IS recruitment papers.

37-year-old Issam Abuanza left his home in Sheffield in 2014.

On his Facebook page, he is seen carrying

a gun in a holster while wearing doctors' scrubs.

Dr Abuanza worked at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd from May 2007 to July 2009.

Work to recover the bodies of three men, including

Chris Huxtable from Swansea, who died in the Didcot

power station collapse in February, has been halted.

The site owners RWE NPower say the remainder of the structure

is too unstable, and work cannot continue until the

A proposed management buy-out of Tata Steel's UK operations has

not yet managed to raise enough money, according

Carwyn Jones made the comments during First Minister's Questions

today, the first since the Assembly election,

and is due to fly to Mumbai later, for talks with Tata bosses over

the future for thousands of jobs in Wales.

Here's our political editor, Nick Servini.

It is another crucial point for the future of steel as Tattie decides

which bidders will go to the final stage of the sale process. Up to

three companies are expected to be selected at several in the running

for parts that include Porter Tolbert and Shotton. Among those in

the frame is a potential management buyout team called Excalibur led by

the Tutte director Stuart Wilkie, and Liberty, which already has an

operation in Newport. The First Minister welcomed reports that they

were would consider working together.

The management buyout option contains a lot of technical

expertise but has not yet raised the money. Liberty are a substantial

business but has not normally been involved in the heavy end of

production. That is a useful tie-up. I hope, tomorrow, Tata will look

carefully at the bids and will, we will consider strongly the option of

the management buyout, possibly linked with Liberty.

A remarkably revealing statements about the financial status of the

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Carwyn Jones is flying to India to meet with Tata bosses tomorrow.

the latest from Mumbai and the BBC's correspondent,

The Tata Steel board will be meeting in Mumbai tomorrow to review

the financial situation of the company, and is expected

to discuss the bids received for the sale of its UK operations.

In April, Tata Steel announced it wanted to sell

off its entire British business which is suffering heavy losses.

Seven companies had expressed an interest.

Liberty House and Greybull Capital already into talks before

the announcement, in April, to buy parts of its UK business.

And a Chinese and Indian firm. of the Port Talbot plant.

The British Government has said it is willing to pick up to a 25%

The company is expected to hold a press conference after the board

meeting when we should hear more from them.

The big question we'll all be asked in a month's time,

do you want to leave the European Union, or remain in?

Both sides of the debate fiercely disagree on which option

Now, a study by Cardiff University claims Wales received

about ?245 million pounds more from the EU than it

The finding has been challenged by Leave campaigners.

Here's our political, reporter Paul Martin.

The EU debate is anything but child's play, as the argument

Wales Office Minister Lord Bourne was at this children's toy

and clothes manufacturer in Newport today, campaigning

An attempt from Cardiff University to calculate whether Wales makes

a net gain or net loss financially from being part of the EU.

It estimates, in 2014, Wales received ?245 million more

It is very different from the UK-wide picture, largely,

because of money that goes to poorer parts of Wales and

On a tour of the company warehouse, Lord Bourne

I know from representing Wales for 12 years in the National Assembly,

all of my constituents benefited massively from the EU, the trade

benefits, agricultural benefits, universities benefited, consumers,

West Wales and the Valleys. There is no such thing as EU money,

this is UK taxpayers's money being recycled via the European Union. The

argument of this report that this is European money lost to Wales, is

completely irrelevant. especially quantifying

Wales' contribution, and that using a different method

produces a lower figure for the In any analysis, there are going to

be assumptions that can be challenged. The Scottish

Government's annual look at this, their report, we found a tried and

tested methodology that might be of use in the Welsh case.

flow of data, forecasts, warnings and analysis.

what are voters making of the debate?

There is information, it can get

There is confusing. We know any body that --

There is we know everybody can make anything

out of figures. The report shows

out of figures. different in terms of its financial

relationship with the EU. They also note the net benefit they calculate

to Wales is a relatively small amount of money in terms of Welsh

public spending generally. The report today is the latest piece of

analysis for both sides of the debate to argue over. And for voters

to try and make sense of. Much more to come

before seven o'clock. These schoolchildren performing

alongside personal actors in the Royal Shakespeare Company.

has helped me a lot with my confidence.

It helps me express myself, through acting.

Hundreds of workers at one of the UK's biggest food

manufacturers have announced they're going on strike.

They company's trying to change staff terms and conditions, in order

A union says 160 people at the RF Brookes site in Newport,

who make ready meals for Marks Spencer and other supermarkets,

But the site's owner says the claim about the new minimum

Mike Smith is paid extra when he works weekends,

But he faces losing his job if he doesn't agree

Part of the deal includes a rise in the hourly rate

It meets what the Government calls a living wage

of ?7.20 an hour but many feel the deal is unfair.

Allowance for weekend working disrupting lives.

We should not lose this to finance a living wage.

Mike works at the RF Brookes factory in Rogerstone

800 staff here make ready meal curries, for Marks and Spencer

The Two Sisters Food Group which owns the site in

Rogerstone said it would be misleading and inaccurate to suggest

they are reducing the shift allowances, those extra payments for

anti-social hours, as a result of the UK Government's decision

to force companies to pay at least ?7.20 an

It says its pay offer represents an increase

for the vast majority of

The union insists management brought up the

living wage in negotiations, and 20% of its members will lose money.

It wants the UK Government to ask more questions when companies change

When the UK Government brought in a living wage, it was to raise

Unfortunately, companies have used it to take terms

It is not acceptable we should put the burden

The UK Government says changing other parts of workers'

contract was not in the spirit of what living wage aimed to achieve.

An overtime ban starts here on Friday.

Some council-run care homes in Denbighshire look set to be

transfered to external operators, as the authority looks

The council's Cabinet says options can now be considered

on four homes and day centres in Corwen, Denbigh,

The decision follows a three-month public consultation.

The former head of Aberystwyth University has

criticised its decision to open a campus in Mauritius,

after just 40 students enrolled in the first two terms.

Professor Derec Llwyd Morgan has described the venture as madness.

But the university says the figures show a successful start

to a project they hope will expand significantly.

And Wales' captain Sam Warburton is expected to miss

the game against England at Twickenham on Sunday

He hasn't played since suffering the injury

playing for Cardiff Blues against the Ospreys in April.

I think this weekend will be too early for Sam.

But he's taking part in parts in the rugby.

He has done everything bar contact work.

So, he is getting stronger, feeling much

fans from Britain, around half of them without tickets,

are expected to travel to France for Euro 2016.

in the centre of Lens where Wales take on England next month.

Although alcohol will still be allowed in the fan zone.

French authorities have already told English and Welsh

fans without tickets not to travel to Lens.

For fans who may be travelling out to France but haven't got

a ticket for this game, my suggestion would be

to stay where you are, watch it in the fanzones in other

For example, in Bordeaux, where a lot of Welsh

fans are staying, there is a big fanzone.

We'd encourage them to remain there and not travel up

This year marks 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare.

The anniversary has prompted a host of new productions of his work,

including a play in Cardiff that puts Welsh school

Our arts and media correspondent, Huw Thomas, has been

To paraphrase William Shakespeare, though they be but little,

The pupils of Rumney Primary School in Cardiff are preparing

for the stage, accompanying professional actors

from the Royal Shakespeare Company, as they stage

This has turned a sometimes shy bunch, into actors

prepared to perform in front of a big audience.

It has helped me a lot with my confidence.

And we have tried to act out parts of the script.

I enjoyed it, doing things like this, to help me express myself

This is where those new acting skills will be put to the test,

alongside a professional cast, and in front of an audience

What angel wakes me from my flowery...

As well as professional actors from the RSC,

amateur cast members from Cardiff's Everyman Theatre

But, getting to perform with such a prestigious crowd was a love

It has taken months of auditions and rehearsals, ahead

They have worked us, they have really worked us.

When you do a lot of amateur stuff, you get a little complacent.

You'll get some praise and you think you know it.

But then, you come here and you realise, no, you don't.

On TV, too, a Welsh influence is behind this new production

of A Midsummer Night's Dream which will be shown on Monday.

Bringing this stellar cast together is the former Doctor Who producer

It does feel part of a chain in doing this.

Like a chain of Doctor Who producers.

I just happen to be creating this one.

A completely different version will roll along next week

400 years after his death, Shakespeare lives on stage,

on screen, and in the imaginations of a new generation transfixed

To a Sunette on the subject of the weather.

Written, not by the Bard, but by Behnaz.

Temperatures reach a high of 20 imported my dog. All, in all, a

lovely day. Tomorrow, cooler and cloudy conditions. Things will pick

up on Thursday and towards the end of the week, and the weekend.

Tonight, we have some evening sunshine. Overnight, Cloud will

creep in to the north-east. Further south, a chilly night, temperatures

in towns and cities, 5-9dC, in the countryside, down to four, with

grass frost. The winds are light, from a north-easterly direction.

Tomorrow, a weather front will bring whether -- Rain to East Anglia. It

will reach us by tomorrow night. First thing, for the rush hour

across the south-east, a cloudy start, temperatures, nine Celsius.

Cloud in the north-east. And parts of Denbighshire. Anglesey cloudy.

Parts of Gwyneth might see bright weather. Clouding over quickly.

Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, some hints of bright weather for a

AM but it will cloud over pretty quickly. When that front reaches the

South West. A small risk of isolated showers. The bulk of the country

will have a dry day, but Chile under that cloud. Temperatures up to 14

Celsius, the winds are light from the north-east. A little rain

reaching us late afternoon and tomorrow evening. Tomorrow night,

the rain pushes into North Wales. The Mid Wales and South Wales, a dry

night. Cloudy. Temperatures not dropping too much, down to eight

Celsius. The winds are light and variable on Thursday morning when

that weather front lingers to the north of us, being a nuisance. It

will feel warmer as we go through Thursday. The risk of the odd shower

across the north and west. Elsewhere, brighter, temperatures

creeping up, ranging between 12-17dC. The winds are light from a

westerly direction. Friday, and the weekend, more sunshine, warmer air,

but the risk of some thundery downpours. At least there is some

sunshine in between. Fielding -- Feeling milder by night. Those

conditions continuing into the beginning of next week. A promising

weekend as long as you dodge the showers.

The headlines, three members of the same family have been jailed for a

total of 25 years for the police have described as modern day

slavery. Cardiff Crown Court heard that the victim and a second man

were kept in horrific living conditions, and hunted down when

they tried to escape. It is all about how they were

treated, they were used as commodities, used to make money. At

last, they have got justice. The First Minister Carwyn Jones is

flying to Monday in India tonight to meet with Tata bosses to discuss the

future of thousands of steelworkers's jobs. He told

Assembly Members that a proposed management buyout of Tata steel's UK

operations has not yet raised the necessary cash.

I hope, tomorrow, Tata will look carefully at the bids and will

certainly consider strongly the option of the management buyout,

possibly linked with Liberty Steel. We broadcast an estimate during this

morning's Breakfast bulletins of the potential cost

of the introduction of the Welsh Language Standards,

in advance of tonight's Week