27/07/2016 BBC Wales Today


27/07/2016

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Our top stories tonight: A four-year-old boy has died

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in a house fire in Pontardawe - his mother and three

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Police and the fire service are investigating.

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The latest on the Swansea woman who claims she's been imprisoned

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And hitting new targets - we're out with paramedics

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as the latest ambulance response times are released.

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A four-year-old boy has died in a house fire in the village

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Firefighters managed to rescue Jac Davies from an upstairs bedroom

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in the early hours of this morning, but he died at the scene.

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His mother and three siblings all escaped.

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The cause of the blaze is being investigated

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Our reporter, David Grundy, has the latest.

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All day people have been leaving tributes outside the family's home.

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Emergency services were called at 1:40am this morning.

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The children's mother, Jennifer, managed to escape

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with her six-year-old daughter and her 11-month-old son.

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But her two other boys were still inside the house.

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The fire broke out just after 1:30am this morning.

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Jennifer Davies and her three children, two boys and a girl,

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Neighbours using ladders had to rescue four-year-old Jac

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While they were taken to hospital for treatment of the effects

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of breathing in smoke, he sadly died here at the scene.

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Too upset to speak, Jac's mother wrote her tribute calling him her

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The note continues, "You're my life, my world, my everything.

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"Go ride your train up to heaven and wait for me."

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Always talkative, had everything going for him.

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But a joint investigation by the police and Fire

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At this point in time, the fire investigation is ongoing.

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Until we get the report from the officers we

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But we will be a reassuring the statement as soon as we know

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from the investigating officers what the possible cause is.

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It's believed the house was fitted with smoke detectors and they may

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have raised the alarm to help Jac's mother, sister and baby

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Without those alarms this tragic fire could have been even worse.

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The High Court has been asked to come to the aid

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of a 21-year-old woman from Swansea, who claims to have been imprisoned

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He's believed to have taken Amina al-Jeffery, who was once a pupil

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at Olchfa Comprehensive School, to the city of Jeddah

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Tonight, one of her friends told us she was very popular at school.

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She was a bubbly girl. She never kept herself to herself. She got

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along with people. Had plenty of mates in school. Nothing out of the

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ordinary, just a normal teenage girl. As far as parting ways at the

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end of school, that was the normal thing, really. To find out today now

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everything that has gone on since we have left school is gobsmacking,

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really. I had to double-check that it was the same person.

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A fire involving rubber panels, which caused disruption in Cardiff

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city centre this evening, was started deliberately.

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Black smoke was seen over Callaghan Square and some nearby

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South Wales Fire and Rescue service say around 60 people called them

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Plaid Cymru has asked the Welsh Government to explain why

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it believes that holding the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Wales

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would cost twice as much as the 2014 event in Glasgow.

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Yesterday, ministers said a Welsh bid was not feasible,

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after a study revealed costs of between ?1.3 and

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The Welsh Government said the figures were "based

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The ambulance service in Wales has turned a corner and is "getting

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better," but continues to face big challenges as demand increases.

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That's according to Health Secretary, Vaughan Gething.

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The latest figures for June show the service responded

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within eight minutes to over 77% of life-threatening 999 calls -

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its best performance since new targets were introduced last

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Our health correspondent Owain Clarke has more.

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His years of experience means paramedic Mr Roberts knows

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And that helps when a call like this comes in.

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I've joined him in a rapid response car that can easily weave in and out

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Tom, a former aircraft engineer, has fallen.

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Right, are you more comfortable now that

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She was worried he'd knocked his head.

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After the checks, all agree Tom doesn't need to go to hospital.

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I didn't call for back-up, so the emergency ambulance that

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might have come is now at a higher priority call.

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But had this happened last year, an ambulance or even several may

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well have been sent in an effort to arrive within eight minutes.

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But now that target's been scrapped for all but immediately

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The Ambulance Service Director of Operations explains why.

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We could have invested tens of millions of pounds in hitting

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But it wouldn't have made any difference to patients

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because we know that around 20% of our previous red patients weren't

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Our system previously categorised calls as potentially

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life-threatening and that was a very vague term.

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Since the new system came into force in October, far fewer 999 calls have

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been classified as needing an eight minute response.

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In June last year under the old system, the target applied

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In June this year it was for just over 1,500 incidents.

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For all other calls the Ambulance Service is given more

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The smaller number of calls that you have to get

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to within eight minutes, theoretically, the easier

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However, it's really, really important that we do get

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What we've been able to demonstrate it we can get to a lot more

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of the calls for those people that have immediately life-threatening

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conditions than we were ever able to before.

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Critics have previously described all of this

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as a dangerous experiment - an attempt by the Welsh Government

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But supporters claim the new system gives far more information

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not just about speed, but also about quality of care.

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For example, between January and March, ambulance crews spent

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22,000 hours stuck outside A departments waiting

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And there are differences across the country in how many 999

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calls end up with patients being treated in hospital.

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But, overall, the Health Secretary argues that the Ambulance Service,

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so often in the news for the wrong reasons, is now firmly

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I'm really encouraged by the fact there's been

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lots of honesty in the data about what the Ambulance Service

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does well and what it doesn't do so well.

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And also to see quality and improvement acting

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Not just to say, "Here challenges, don't blame us."

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But, "Here are challenges and this is what we will do about them."

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Back in the rapid response car, we hear a child has been injured

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This is an eight minute call and we pull out

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But before we arrive it turns out to be a false alarm.

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For some emergencies, speed is critical.

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But according to this paramedic, the trick is to know when.

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The cost of covering overtime payments for consultants at Welsh

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hospitals has gone up by over 60% in the last three years.

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shows that the total bill went from more than 5 million

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pounds in 2013 to 2014 to more than ?8 million

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The Welsh Government says it's working to recruit more consultants,

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and is addressing specialist shortages.

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It's a large amount of money, let's be honest about this.

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But what these figures do reflect is the lack of consultants able

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We know, for instance, that in May 2016 just gone,

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the demand for new referrals to outpatients and clinics has gone

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up by about 4% compared to just one year ago.

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The number of young people trespassing on the railways in Wales

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has increased by almost 20% percent over the past year

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according to British Transport Police.

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They say the problem is at its worst in the summer months,

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when days are longer and children are off school.

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These shocking pictures reveal a number of close calls for people

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trespassing on the tracks, including the following

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They were lucky - Victoria Swift wasn't.

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The 14-year-old from Rhosllanerchrugog, near Wrexham,

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died after being hit by a train near a pedestrian rail crossing

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Her family can't understand why anyone would risk their

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When we lost Victoria it took a long, long time to just...

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Well, I wouldn't even say we still normal today.

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Still today we have days where we wonder why.

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You see her friends having babies, getting married.

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We just think what would she be doing now?

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And all because she went on a railway track.

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If she'd have just gone there she would still be here.

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"Do we really want to put my family through that?"

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Victoria Swift died in 2007, but it wasn't until last

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year that this crossing was finally closed.

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This will protect young people living in this area,

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but there are fears the message isn't getting across everywhere.

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British Transport Police say there's been a 19% rise in trespass

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incidents in the summer months with longer days and warmer

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There were 128 reported cases of trespass last summer

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in Wales alone, 20 more than the previous year.

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Make sure that your child knows the dangers of going

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That they understand the dangers of going onto railway tracks.

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And if, for example, they're playing nearby

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and a football went on to the lines by accident, would they know

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Would they go running on the tracks to retrieve their football,

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or would they know to stand back and to contact British

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Most of those caught on the railways tell police

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But as many families are painfully aware,

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Now it's taken five years to build using a team

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of 1500 workers and today, an iron age farmstead

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was officially unveiled at the National History Museum at St

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The original thatched roundhouses would have stood on Anglesey,

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2,000 years ago and could have housed a tribal chieftan

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The weather forecast for Wales now with Derek.

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It turned out nice today, with some sunshine this afternoon. But it's

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all change again tomorrow. Low pressure bringing some rain clearing

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two showers. Dry for tonight, some clear spells, but later in the night

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brain will start to cross the Irish Sea with some spots on the far north

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and west of Wales. Tomorrow morning, the East will start off dry. Right

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for a time but it will not last. Being in the West will spread

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eastwards during the morning, being accompanied by low cloud, mist and

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market conditions. Across the rest of the UK and eastern England will

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have a dry and bright morning, but rain in the West will spread

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eastwards during the day. Should brighten up in the South later in

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the afternoon but with one or two heavy showers. Right in the north of

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Scotland tomorrow with some sunshine. Also some showers. Breezy

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on the south and west coast tomorrow through the English Channel with a

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high of 22 Celsius in London. That will feel monkey. Wales tomorrow

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afternoon turning drier and brighter. A bit of sunshine but some

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showers as well. Breezy on the Bristol Channel coast and the top

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temperature 21 Celsius in Monmouth and fuelling monkey. Some dry

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weather tomorrow evening and then later more in the way of rain and

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drizzle and another mild, Monty night. The rain and drizzle were

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clear away tomorrow and then drier and brighter weather will spread out

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from the north with some sunshine turning pressure. Into the weekend,

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the wind will come from the west or north west and that will bring some

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cooler, fresher air with it from the north Atlantic. The weekend only

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make out a shower but a lot of dry weather, sunny spells and watch out

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for some cold nights. We'll have updates in breakfast

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from 6.25am tomorrow morning. From everyone on the late team,

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thanks for your company.

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