03/06/2016 BBC Wales Today


03/06/2016

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Private Cheryl James from Llangollen did take her own life but a coroner

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says Deepcut Barracks failed in its duty of care.

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And speaking in Cardiff, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says EU

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free movement should be seen as an opportunity.

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But Leave campaigners say they're winning the argument on immigration.

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More than 20 years after she died, the parents of Private Cheryl James

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from Llangollen say they're deeply saddened by the conclusions

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of the second inquest into her death.

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A coroner has ruled that the 18-year-old killed herself

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but the Army also failed in its duty of care at the time.

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They have waited too long to fully understand what happened to their

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This is their reaction after two decades of unanswered

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We are deeply saddened by the coroner's conclusions, having

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sat through all of the evidence ourselves.

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Listened carefully to every word, read every statement and

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In short, it is our opinion that it did not

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The Army has made many profound changes since

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1995, which the coroner has acknowledged.

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But we do recognise that change is a continuous process.

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Private Cheryl James, training to serve her country.

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Within six months of signing up she was found with a

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gunshot wound to the head at Deepcut barracks in November 1995.

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Not all questions about how she died could

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be answered yet the Army decided it was suicide.

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By 2002, four soldiers had died of gunshot wounds at Deepcut.

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BBC's Panorama reported allegations of bullying and sexual abuse.

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criticised, families called for a public enquiry.

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Tony Blair's government ordered a review instead.

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In 2006 that review found harassment, discrimination and

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oppressive behaviour at Deepcut, and also the deaths were probably

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In 2012, Liberty, the human rights group, forced

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Surrey Police to disclose evidence they gathered at the time but never

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By 2014 and a fresh inquest was ordered.

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Another chance to look at what happened.

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Surrey Police have long accepted mistakes were made

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The force should have maintained primacy for

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it and has previously apologised to the family for those errors.

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Today we would reiterate those apologies.

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Private James was on guard duty, on a gate alone with a gun.

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The coroner described it as a potentially

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dangerous activity but there was a wholesale lack of awareness

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at Deepcut that it was breaking Army rules.

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It had failed to in its duty of care towards young recruits.

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It has long been claimed that bullying and abuse

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Private Mark Beard has even told the inquest that Cheryl told him

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she had been ordered to have sex with a

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But the coroner said today at its hardest,

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"I Find Private Beard's evidence totally without

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Today a coroner was convinced that Private James did

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Her legacy, he said, is a complete re-evaluation of how

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Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has told BBC Wales that free

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movement around the EU should be seen as an opportunity

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But earlier, the leader of Welsh Labour's campaign

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for the UK to remain in admitted there's confusion among the party's

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traditional voters about its position.

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Leave campaigners say they're winning the argument on immigration.

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Here's our political editor Nick Servini.

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Brynaman feels a long way from the war

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being waged in Europe on the

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television and radio stations across the country.

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But here the arguments are much the same as Peter Hain

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found out as he tried to put Labour's message across that the UK

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should Remain in the face of concern over immigration.

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We are asking you to vote In in the referendum.

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Well, I'm like this. Really?

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Really. So what are you thinking?

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Immigration. Yes.

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I'm not being nasty. Close the gate.

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The man leading Welsh Labour's campaign to stay inside the

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union says confusion has been caused by the domination of Tory infighting

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in the campaign so far and he said it has been a

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How tough a sell is it on the doorstep in a

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place like this? It is much...

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When you engage in conversation it is

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Definitely winnable, as you saw with that lady.

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It is extraordinary in a way that so close

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to the referendum, the party which has every Welsh MP and every

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Assembly member wanting to remain admits that there is still so much

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confusion among its traditional supporters on where it stands on

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Heading north to Conwy and those campaigning to

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leave the EU, say Labour's problem is that it is not listening

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to people when it comes to their concerns about immigration.

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Let me tell you about ordinary people who

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worry about their levels of pay, who worry about making ends meet and

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worry about unfair competition from people who don't

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spend a lot of time here, have no commitment to family,

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can undercut their wages and can reduce the level they get paid

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That is the argument and Labour is not listening.

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From small-scale hustings like this in the Rhondda

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tonight to hundreds of Labour members in Cardiff City Hall with

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the leader Jeremy Corbyn saying it was time to make a case for the EU.

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In a wide-ranging speech covering workers' rights to the environment,

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he made no substantial reference to immigration but earlier told me

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it should be considered an opportunity

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I don't see it as a problem or a fear.

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An opportunity to go and work in Europe and vice versa.

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Labour says it is playing catch up with a few weeks to go and votes

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in every remote corner of the country could count.

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We're just days away from the start of the Euro 2016 tournament.

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Wales' footballers head to Stockholm tomorrow for their final warm-up

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Fans will be hoping the players won't pick up any more

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I think when you go into games starting to think of injury,

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You've got to approach these games like any other but an

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injury on Sunday would perhaps rule you out.

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At Cardiff City, Russell Slade has left his role as head of football

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The former Bluebirds manager was moved to a new role

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at the end of the season, and was replaced by Paul Trollope.

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The American takeover of Swansea City, worth an estimated

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hundred million pounds, is on the verge of being completed.

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A consortium is in talks to buy a 60% stake in the club.

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Cricket, and Glamorgan have claimed their second

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They bowled Hampshire out for 141 at the Swalec Stadium,

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Here's Derek with the weekend forecast.

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What a week it has been. A bit of a fly in the ointment. Cloudy tomorrow

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with a few scattered showers. The best of the temperatures on Sunday.

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Cloud will spread from the north-east gradually tonight. Milder

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than last night but cooler in the south-west, where the sky will

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remain clear. Tomorrow morning, centre for Pembrokeshire. Dry and

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feeling muggy. Across the rest of the UK, eastern England is grey and

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mystique with heavy showers in places. Sunshine for the north-east

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of Scotland and during the afternoon it should brighten up towards the

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East Coast. A couple of heavy showers breaking out. Warmer in

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London. 23 Celsius. Again, it will be cooler on the coast in the

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north-east. In Wales tomorrow afternoon there will be more cloud

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around them today. Showers breaking out and if you catch one is could be

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heavy with a rumble of thunder. Having said that, a lot of places

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will stay dry and the sun will break in places. A muggy 21 Celsius.

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Scattered showers tomorrow evening will fade away to leave a dry night

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and it will feel quite close with temperatures being in double

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figures. Sunday promises to be a sunny day and warmer with

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temperatures into the low to mid 20s. The risk of a couple of

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thundery showers in the south and West later in the afternoon and

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evening. On balance, Sunday is the best day of the weekend and next

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week will be warm or very warm with sunny spells and feeling humid with

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the risk of showers and thunderstorms.

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We are back at 6:40pm tomorrow evening. That is all from us

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tonight. Have a lovely weekend. Goodbye.

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