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Melissia Pesticcio is found guilty of causing

Sophie Taylor died being pursued in a late night car chase.

A beautiful daughter, sister and friend, capable

And in return, all she ever wanted was to be loved back.

Plans to develop this historic mill into a heritage tourist

The man behind it says he's horrified by a report's criticism.

Newport beats off competition - and is chosen for a new contact

But are warning the industry could have peaked.

How school children across Wales are being encouraged to talk

Laura Moulding has been sharing her experience of hearing

They would tell me things like I was going to be murdered,

I was going to be raped, my family were going

And it's not exactly something you want to be hearing

when you're only seven, eight years old.

This dog died from a mysterious illness shortly after

Calls for more research into Alabama Rot.

No group of death this time round - Wales will face Australia

and Georgia at the 2019 rugby World Cup.

A 22-year-old woman was driven to her death by a love rival in a

late-night drive. Melissa Pesticcio and

Michael Wheeler pursued Sophie Taylor in separate cars

causing her to crash They'll be sentenced

for causing death by Caught on CCTV, the high-speed

pursuit late at night last August. Three cars, three people involved in

a love triangle. 22-year-old Sophie Taylor, a call centre worker, was

chased by 23-year-old Melissa Pesticcio, who was angry and

jealous. Also giving chase, 22-year-old Michael Wheeler, who had

been in a relationship with both women. It began with the

confrontation in this street in Cardiff, where Michael left. It's

spilled over into the road. The court was shown CCTV footage of the

car being chased out of the area by Melissa Pesticcio, and later joined

by Michael Wheeler in his Vauxhall. The pursuit landed in this area. The

jury was told it was a fast and furious style car chase. The court

heard Melissa Pesticcio had already sent a message to her friend

saying... The prosecution say that file, trashy language gives an

indication of her feelings towards Ms Taylor. It ended in tragedy here

at this junction. Michael Wheeler's cart was said to have round the

victim's BMW, causing it to crash into this block of flats. The

22-year-old Sophie Taylor was killed, her passenger seriously

injured. There was a screech and a bang. When I came out to see what

happened, it was obvious it was an accident. The car was badly damaged,

crumpled on the passenger's side. Despite Michael Wheeler's car being

the vehicle who hit Sophie's, the court heard it was Melissa Pesticcio

started and maintain the dispute. The cheery agreed it was Pesticcio

who was responsible for the crash. We been left devastated by the loss

of our beautiful princess, and the horrific injuries suffered by Josh.

The thought of how frightened and around my daughter and her friends

must have felt on that fateful night, being chased through the

streets of Cardiff. And I was not their protector from harm's went

help her when she needed me. They acted together in their relentless

pursuit of Sophie and Joshua. They drove Sophie to her death, and left

Joshua with horrific injuries from which he may never recover. It took

the jury less than one day to find Melissa Pesticcio guilty of causing

death by dangerous driving. Michael Wheeler had Reddy pleaded guilty to

that offence. They'll both be sentenced on Friday and are both

facing a jail term. The Chief Executive

of Bluestone Holiday Resort has mounted a vigorous defence of plans

to develop a nearby 19th century National Park planners have

recommended the project William McNamara has told this

programme that there has to be sensitive economic development

within the National Park - He's been speaking to our

reporter Aled Scourfield. William McNamara was speaking to me

after plans to develop Blackpool Mill behind me

were deferred by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority

at his request to be discussed He told he was both disappointed

and horrified by the content of the highly critical report

about his plans to create a heritage tourism attraction -

a development that planners say could be damaging to this tranquil

spot which is popular with walkers. Nestling on the banks of this river,

Blackpool mail is a hidden treasure of Pembrokeshire. The grade two

listed building, it was built in 1813. A by nearby Bluestone has run

into stiff opposition. Plans were Heritage Centre along with a narrow

gauge steam train and other attractions were deferred today

after a stinging report by planners. A damning report prepared by

Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority is highly critical of the

plans. A planning officer describes the creation of a steam train as

nothing more than a theme park attraction. It goes on to say that

this scheme could harm the special qualities of the National Park. '

says the plans to transform the site would create 80 jobs with ?2.5

million being invested. The chief executive of Bluestone is no

stranger to conflict with the National Park. He told me he was

disappointed with the tone and content of the report, which he

claims contains inaccuracies. His previous battle to build Bluestone,

which employed 700 people, went all the way to House of Lords. William

McNamara Tomic was essential to economic government and jobs for

people who live within the Park. We live in a row Pembrokeshire, we

operate in it. People need jobs and they need a future, and they need

hope valley. That's what this is about. It's about creating a future

for rural West Wales, without destroying the natural beauty that.

But opponents of the scheme say that element is totally out of keeping

with this tranquil area. It's really the scale of the development in the

context of the setting of this mail. It sits in a valley surrounded by

trees. Really characterised by the small meadow, the woodland and the

waterway. And we feel that bringing those other elements just sends it

beyond what is a reasonable scale. Further discussions will be held

between Bluestone and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park

Authority before the future this Victorian gem is decided.

Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority told me that they didn't

wish to respond to Mr McNamara's comments, but it's clear

that there will have be some tough discussions in the months ahead

Before the future of this place is decided.

300 jobs are to be created over the next five years at a new contact

centre that's to open in Newport next month.

Carpeo Estates Planning will be offering services including

arranging affordable wills and funerals.

But could technology mean we could have reached the peak

Here's our business correspondent, Brian Meechan.

Carpeo is the latest addition to the thriving Welsh

It will create 60 jobs this year, with further growth planned.

Starting salaries will be ?22,000 a year, slightly lower

than the Welsh average, but higher than many

These products require a level of empathy and a voice is quite

important with that, and Wales is recognised

Secondly, really we were looking for an area where we were getting

The company decided to come to Newport rather than Teesside,

in part due to a ?500,000 grant from the Labour run

Ministers say it will create a range of jobs linked

The contact centre industry in Wales has been on the up.

It employed 10,000 people in 1999, which has now

It is estimated to be worth over ?650 million

But work like this faces a challenge from technology,

with automation expected to mean fewer employees will be

So, Benjamin, you want me to help you reset your password?

Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly,

allowing computers to understand what customers are saying

and have a meaningful conversation with them.

This professor has researched the future of work.

He thinks jobs in contact centres could have reached a peak.

Contact centres where they rely on relatively standardised processes

certainly would be ripe for disruption and automation.

I think over the longer term, we will see a continuation

and probably an acceleration of some of those key trends.

Robotics may see the end of the lower paid

But because the advisers are then dealing with more complex calls,

the time will be longer, so they will need as many

Opposition politicians are welcoming the new jobs,

but Plaid Cymru says other parts of Wales aren't benefiting from

The Conservatives argue that it shows the strength

Three Flintshire men have been jailed for a racist attack

Mold Crown Court heard how Przemyslaw Zylinksi was seriously

injured in the attack in May last year.

Chad Stagg and Daniel Butler admitted wounding with

intent and were sentenced to youth detention.

Stagg's father Anthony Stagg admitted wounding and was

It's being called the Brexit election.

Polls say it tops the list of voters' concerns.

But what about all the other things at stake on polling day?

And will the EU cut us a better deal based on the election result?

Our political correspondent Daniel Davies reports.

Do you buy the line that this is the Brexit election?

So much of what was on offer at the last general election just

two years ago has fallen into the shadows.

Like the prospect of a hung parliament.

This time, the polls predict an increased majority

for the Conservatives, even though Theresa May insists

on talking about a coalition of chaos between her opponents.

Or the deficit, so important so recently.

But the Tories have scrapped their target

And Labour is talking about borrowing more.

David Cameron isn't even an MP any more, and who would have thought two

years ago that today, Labour's candidate for

the job of Prime Minister would be Jeremy Corbyn?

What's the most important topic for you in this election?

Well, it's the streets, keeping them clean, tidy.

And the health service, even though that's run from the Assembly

I think the government at Westminster could put more money

into the Welsh assembly them, into the kitty.

Despite what shoppers in Pontypridd say, polls suggest Theresa May has

What the latest polling evidence suggests is that Theresa May has

been largely successful in making this the Brexit election.

We asked in the most recent Welsh poll, what are the most

To a representative sample of voters.

And you normally expect the economy to come top,

This time, it's Brexit and clearly Brexit.

Theresa May says she wants a mandate to barter for a better Brexit deal.

Things started badly, according to an account in a German

newspaper about a dinner she hosted with EU officials in Downing Street.

When it comes to the EU negotiation position,

it's all set up in the guidelines that were decided upon by

And that's basically the document everybody will stick to.

And it won't make any difference, neither for politicians

in Brussels nor in Berlin, whether this government has a 50

seat majority or a 100 seat majority in the House of Commons.

And over the next month we'll be asking what you would do

Our reporter Jenny Rees will be travelling around Wales,

finding out about the issues that matter to you.

We've come to Carmarthen Farmers' Mart armed with the my manifesto

What are the issues that are important to you for next

month's general election - what would you prioritise?

If I was Prime Minister, what I would do is leave

That would free the jobs for the younger people.

If I was Prime Minister, what I would be looking

for is to have fair prices on products we produce

If I was Prime Minister, I would review how big businesses

conduct there financial affairs, with a view to clamping

We'll take all your ideas to Downing Street, after the results

but who will Wales face when it kicks off in 2019?

And there was a frost in places early this morning.

19 Celsius in Cardiff this afternoon.

Warmer tomorrow, but the dry spell is on its last legs.

Now from exam stress - to acute mental health problems -

Welsh schools have to deal with a range of mental

Now a new campaign is being launched to encourage school pupils to talk

"Time to change Wales" is being pioneered in nine schools -

Jordan Davies has been Blackwood Comprehensive

What if we were all as honest as Laura about our mental health?

They would tell me things, like I was going to murdered,

I was going to be raped, my family would be in car crashes.

It's not exactly something you want to be thinking or hearing

when you're only seven or eight years old, or around that age.

Laura is helping to deliver new sessions like this

As they said in this morning's assembly that you were at,

three people in each class will struggle at some point

It's part of a new campaign to get pupils to open up

Mental health charities say 10% of children in Great Britain will

This green card is a time out card - if your feeling a bit anxious

in class and need five minutes to yourself, you can get one

It's one of the ways this school is dealing

Away from the classroom, I speak to Holly, Evan, Jess and Huw.

How important you think it is to talk about this?

It's quite important because maybe people who you know have been

through the same situation and they can help you out

and help you cope, so it's not just you,

I'm comfortable talking to some of my friends and certain

members of my family, but it's quite a taboo

subject so people tend to keep quiet about it.

If I don't understand something, I get really anxious about it,

and I'll skip it and forget to go back at it until, like,

And I know I get a bit anxious on stuff like that.

Why maybe wouldn't you speak to your friends about it?

It's quite an awkward subject, and there's...

Other people might find out about it.

Pupils at Blackwood are supported through a range of issues,

from anxiety about exams to the two students currently transitioning

The work here is about ending the stigma around mental health.

Teaching a new generation it's OK to talk.

It's a rare and mysterious disease which has been affecting dogs

But even the experts don't know how exactly how

Now there are calls for more research into the disease,

Vets held a conference today to discuss some of the 98

cases across the UK, including six in Wales.

It was an exciting Christmas for Fleur, a five-year-old whippet

But just a few months after this was filmed, she became sick

I checked her paw, and there was a big sore between the pads.

They were symptoms of what's known as Alabama rot,

painful lesions of the skin leading to fatal kidney failure.

Are all in all, from the time she was sick, it was a week before

What's confusing is that Gabrielle's other dogs walked and played

in the same areas as Fleur, yet didn't contract the disease.

This vet has seen two of the six cases confirmed in Wales since 2012.

There are many more causes of lesions on the feet and legs.

If it's something that you can't understand

explain words come from and your dog is showing systemic signs

of sickness, then it's definitely worth getting checked out.

Experts don't want people to worry about what is still

But they met at a conference today to try to tackle the problem.

We want to drive forward with our research so we can understand more

What we want to be able to do is treat these dogs better

And we also want to be able to provide owners

with preventative advice, what can they be doing to reduce

the risk of their dog getting this dreadful disease.

It is rare, but when it happens to you, the outcome is devastating.

Gabrielle backs the call for more research, but she and her family

are still left with more questions than answers.

Wales have found out who they'll face at the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

Wales Coach Warren Gatland says it's a tough, competitive draw,

Gatland was in the Japanese city of Kyoto earlier for the draw.

Just like in 2015, Wales have been paired with Australia.

Then it's likely to be Fiji or Samoa and a qualifier from America,

probably Canada or the USA - we'll know for sure

A good draw for us. I think the toughest one in there is probably

the England grip again, you, that blocks fairly challenging with

France and Argentina. We're pretty happy with the draw. Lets talk to.

Your old coach seems pretty happy, do you agree? The two teams we could

have drawn, New Zealand and Argentina, we have avoided them.

Every group is tough, but I think like he says that, group C is one

you wouldn't want to be in. We play two teams, Australia and Georgia, in

the autumn as well. It'll be interesting to see how we get off

and then, it's a shame there's still two years to go. A lot can change,

but at this moment you would be pretty happy with that draw. We have

played Australia plenty of times, lost the last 12 against them. Any

chance of beating them this time round? We do win, we know all about

them, there's no excuses. Australian rugby is in a bit of turmoil, so you

never know how good they will be. Normally they get it right on the

big occasions. It's definitely a team we can beat. It could have been

New Zealand, could have been England again. I think we're fairly happy

with Australia. Talking about the domestic game, takeover talks at the

Dragons. So to the blues. Do you think this current model of regional

rugby is sustainable? It seems to be at a crossroads. If you look around

the world, only three countries are not centralised, England, France and

Wales. You look at the economies of those two compared to us. We are

struggling to compete. Thankfully the Dragons did vote yes yesterday,

but it seems like the first step for all four regions. Thank you very

much for your time this evening. Some football news...

Officials at Swansea City say they're "extremely disappointed"

after free tickets given to supporters appeared

on ticket-selling websites for more than ?60.

Swansea's players had paid for 3,000 tickets to get as many fans

as possible to the game at Sunderland on Saturday.

The club says any supporters found buying the tickets risk

Team Sky's Geraint Thomas remains second overall in Giro d'Italia

after safely finishing today's fifth stage.

It was won by the Colombian Fernando Gaviria in a sprint

A beautiful day for many of us today, let's get a full check on the

weather forecast for Wales. Thanks very much.

I'm sure many people would like it to stay sunny

for the rest of the month, but some wouldn't

Clouds are gathering over France and Spain and some of those

At the moment, though, it's bone dry.

Stunning in Swansea today with a few cirrus clouds.

Some cloud in the south late in the night with showers over

Temperatures in parts of mid and north Wales falling low

Here's the picture for eight in the morning.

Plenty of sunshine, warming up nicely too.

Cloudier in mid and south Wales with a shower or two.

During the day cloud will spread north.

You might catch a shower which could be heavy and thundery

Still some hazy sunshine and warmer than today.

Top temperatures 16 to 21 Celsius with light winds.

In the Vale of Clwyd tomorrow, dry, some sunshine.

In the Vale of Glamorgan, cloudier than today.

Tomorrow evening, scattered showers, heavy and thundery in places.

Some rain later in the night, and a warmer night than recently.

So on Friday some rain and showers, heavy in places.

Some drier, brighter spells as well, and feeling muggy.

A little rain but a lot of dry weather as well.

Sunny spells and turning fresher and breezy.

So the dry spell is on its last legs.

Washington is awash with rumour and speculation tonight

after President Donald Trump's shock dismissal of James Comey,

In the President's words, Mr Comey was not doing a good job.

There's been widespread criticism of the move.

We'll be back with a quick update for you at eight,

But that is Wales Today, from all of us on the programme,