21/07/2016 BBC Wales Today


21/07/2016

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not just the party but the country. Join me now

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250 jobs are lost in Port Talbot - after the engineering company -

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Baby Ezra was born seven weeks early - his mum says he owes his life

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to Glan Clwyd Hospital - now North Wales' Health Board

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approves plans for a new neo-natal Unit there.

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And supermarkets come under fire for what is called fake food.

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A Port Talbot engineering firm which has supplied the steel

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industry - including the town's TATA works -

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for almost 40 years - has ceased trading.

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250 people have lost their jobs since the company began facing

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Our Economics Correspondent, Sarah Dickins, reports.

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The machinery is silent after 37 years of working for Port

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Fairwood Fabrications ceased trading a few

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You own it and your father set it up a

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My father passed away earlier this year.

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Over the last four years we have put ?38 million in wages

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alone and that is just in the last four years.

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There was a future here, you know, it is heartbreaking.

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Six months ago 250 worked here.

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They carried out round-the-clock emergency

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maintenance for TATA and were involved in building the new blast

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The Swansea Bay tidal lagoon was what Fairwater hoped would keep

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its metal fabrication business going but that is still on the drawing

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This company has been caught in the vacuum of an industry which

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is declining, steel, and one which is still trying

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In January when Tata announced major cutbacks, this

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company wrote to the Business Secretary Sajid Javid

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Tata was devastating for the company.

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It also suggested that the

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Swansea Bay tidal lagoon was a way forward for this company

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Well Tata is still in limbo and the tidal lagoon

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The last 66 workers left as the gates

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There are many companies in the area also affected by delays and

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It is difficult to predict with any certainty

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but clearly if there were

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major projects such as the tidal lagoon going ahead on the doorstep

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here, that could only be beneficial for Fairwoods and the supply chain

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and manufacturing industry not only in Talbot but back

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Many across private and public sectors are trying to hold tight,

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waiting for a series of decisions to be made.

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Plans for a new ?18 million pounds Neo-Natal Unit for North Wales have

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moved a step closer - following approval

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The unit would offer specialist care for premature and seriously-ill

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It comes after proposals to temporarily remove

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consultant-led Maternity Services from the hospital, were shelved.

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Four week old Ezra Eeles owes his life to the medical staff

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at Glan Clwyd hospital's special care baby unit.

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Born seven weeks early he's just the sort of emergency case

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the new Neo natal centre will specialise in.

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His mum Clare from Llanddulas in Conwy says it will make a big

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But it's not big enough, with the babies you can

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see coming in and out, it definitely needs to be expanded.

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neonatal intensive care centre some of the most seriously ill children

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face the prospect of being treated many miles away

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The full business case for the new project got the approval

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of the Betsi Cadwaladr university health board at a meeting

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We will have more cots and staff and be able to look

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after more of those poorly BBC locally.

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who'll need specialist care which will need

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to go to mainly Liverpool and

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England but even for them, we will be able to bring them back quicker.

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But until recently there was turmoil at Glan Clwyd hospital with staff

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shortages prompting the board to consider temporarily removing

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Many people campaigned against the plan saying patients

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would face long and stressful journeys to either Bangor

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A purpose built neo-natal unit is what campaigners wanted

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It has been identified since 1999

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that this unit has been needed and

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it has been ignored and continued to

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We have been through several consultations, discussions,

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One plaid Cymru AM believes services at Bangor's Ysbty Gwynedd could be

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There's been a constant under the radar drift of

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For me that is not good enough for the

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population I represent and I will make sure that

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we maintain full services in all fields.

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The full business plan of the ?18 million unit needs

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the blessing of the Welsh Government before it can go ahead.

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But once it does, it could be open by 2018.

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Even before the controversy, campaigners here have long supported

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the idea of a neonatal unit and now that idea

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North Wales Police have charged a 25-year-old man

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with the murder of a mother at her home in Penygroes.

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22-year-old Emma Baum's body was discovered on Monday morning

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in the back garden of the house she shared with her

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David Nicholas Davies will appear before Caernarfon

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New figures show there's been a 21% increase in the number of violent

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crimes recorded in Wales - up by more than 9,000

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But the rise here was smaller than the 27% recorded

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The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has criticised his challenger -

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Pontypridd MP Owen Smith - for what he describes

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as the "slightly odd" way he resigned from the shadow cabinet.

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Speaking at the official launch of his campaign

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to retain the leadership, Mr Corbyn said Mr Smith quit -

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despite telling him he was happy in his top-team and wanted to stay.

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Owen Smith was in the shadow cabinet until two weeks ago.

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He came to see me to say he was happy in

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the shadow cabinet and wanted to stay there and then left the meeting

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and resigned which was a slightly odd thing to do.

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But he of course - he is very welcome

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to come back and I hope he would.

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Well, Owen Smith disputes Mr Corbyn's account of the meeting,

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Speaking to our Parliamentary Correspondent, David Cornock,

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Mr Smith also denied he is anti-devolution.

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The former shadow Welsh secretary said he wanted First Minister,

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Carwyn Jones, to play a bigger role in Labour at Westminster.

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Carwyn knows me well and he knows that isn't true.

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I am also someone who has to think what we have to hold in

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common, ways to hold the UK together so I

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have said for example, in the

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Labour party, the leader of our party in Wales should be much

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decisions being taken in Westminster.

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I would have Carwyn Jones alongside other leaders from

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the Metropolitan bits of England's and the leader in Scotland sitting

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regularly as a regional shadow national shadow cabinet to make big

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areas where there is not about defence and economic

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responsibility not only in Wales but where there is clear interest

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This year's Royal Welsh Show in Llanelwedd came to a close today -

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with final attendance figures 2% lower than last year.

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Around 236,000 people visited over the four days -

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A spokesperson for the show pointed out that many schools didn't

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break-up until Wednesday - which could explain

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Some of the best of Welsh produce has been on display

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But some supermarkets have come under-fire at the Royal Welsh

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Some people say the packaging - using fake farm names -

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make people think they're buying British, when they're not.

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Woodside and Boswell farms, some of the fake farm names used by

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They sound British but are actually from Ireland and Denmark.

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The NFU say this is misleading consumers and it is unacceptable.

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We do not want consumers to be misled.

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We have commissioned a survey which shows that over 60% have been

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There is now a strong letter going to the National Trading

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Tesco are not the only supermarket to do this,

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Aldi have now decided to use only British meat in

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So that people can buy their favourite food all

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But how confused are consumers about where these kinds of

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We are going to conduct our very own unscientific

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We choose the cheapest to be honest because we're on a budget.

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I think it is cheating people but there is

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nothing on there to say it is

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How to get more people to buy the food

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It has been a hot topic for the show ground this

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week but with household budgets stretched, will shoppers vote with

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The deal for an American consortium to buy a controlling stake of 60%

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in Swansea City Football Club has been completed.

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The US investors Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan -

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who lead the group - confirmed the deal in

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Swansea Supporters Trust retain a 21% shareholding in the club.

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Staying with football - and ALL the Welsh Premier League

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sides have now been eliminated from Europe - after FK Vojvodina

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beat Gap Connah's Quay in tonight's Europa League qualifier.

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A double from captain Dejan Meleg made it 2-1 -

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Let's get the weather forecast now - any more

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sunshine on the way, Behnaz?

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Yes, more sunshine on offer. Sunny spells as you go through tomorrow

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with the potential for patchy rain, especially in the West. A few

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isolated showers babe laments of clouds temperatures will range

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between 13 and 17 Celsius. We have this weather front of being quite a

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lot of cloud with it and drain as well. High-pressure not far away the

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dry start for rush hour. We do have a few showers ahead of this but a

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lot of dry weather to look forward to. The best of the dry and warm

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weather the further south and east you are. The sunshine is strong

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enough to break through the cloud so it will be pleasant when the sun

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gets out with highs of 18 to 24 Celsius. Tomorrow night, some

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evening sunshine to look forward to with a few isolated showers.

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Temperatures will be comfortable overnight, ranging up to 16 Celsius.

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Westerly winds will bring fresh air for the weekend. Saturday will be

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the best day in terms of sunshine. Still the risk of isolated showers,

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especially along the coast. All change on Sunday. Cloud and rain

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spreading in from the south-west. Back to you.

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We'll be back with updates in Breakfast from around

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From all of us on the late team, thanks for watching.

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Nos da. Goodnight.

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