17/08/2016 BBC Wales Today


17/08/2016

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UK Independence Party's leader in Wales, Nathan Gill,

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says he is leaving the party's group in the Senedd and will instead,

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And Hannah Mills will have to wait another day to get her gold medal

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after the final event was postponed. UK Independence Party's leader

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in Wales, Nathan Gill, says he is leaving the party's group

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in the Senedd and will instead, But he won't leave the party

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and will stay as a UKIP Member It follows weeks of infighting

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over his position in the party. I, Nathan Gill, do swear

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that I will be faithful Just over three months

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since the election and the Ukip assembly group is down

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from seven to six. Nathan Gill was the face

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of the party's election campaign, but he was then beaten

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by Neil Hamilton in a vote

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to become group leader. The relationship has been

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strained ever since, with Gill's supporters

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criticising Hamilton and Hamilton and his supporters

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attacking Gill for double-jobbing, Today Nathan Gill decided

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enough is enough. He said the infighting had

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become a distraction. Since Hamilton has been

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elected group leader, there's been calls for Nathan Gill

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to step down from one of the roles, although structurally Nathan really

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cannot do that, he cannot be replaced as an MEP,

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so he cannot step down from that position,

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and as the face of the campaign and leader in Wales,

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it seems a bit of a slight to turn round and think, therefore you must

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give up your job in the assembly. And I think that as a result

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Nathan Gill is feeling rather harried out of position

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through no fault of his own. Hamilton's immediate

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response to the news - to say the group won't

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notice much difference. I would rather be a group

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of seven and a group of six, --

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than a group of seven, but given that he is a part-time AM

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and we don't really see much of him, in practical terms it is not

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going to make a great He should now do the honourable

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thing and resign his seat as an AM, The factionalism represents a wider

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split in the party across the UK. Put simplistically, a split

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between those like Nathan Gill, loyal to outgoing leader

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Nigel Farage, and those I think it's a symptom

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of the wider turmoil. The party, not just in Wales,

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but across the UK, are in turmoil and it is a symptom

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of their infighting as well. I think we might even see more

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of this, more disruption within the party in the next coming

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months and years. Candidates in the running to replace

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Nigel Farage as Ukip leader They were overshadowed

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by Nathan Gill's decision. One of the candidates, Lisa Duffy,

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called for Nathan Gill to now To some extent, today sums up

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the difficulties Ukip faces. On the one hand, the ongoing problem

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of infighting and personal disputes, and on the other, the bigger

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picture, the challenge for these candidates

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to try to set out a vision for the party post-Brexit

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and post-Nigel Farage. To Rio, and Wales' Hannah Mills

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will have to wait until tomorrow to be awarded gold in the sailing -

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a medal that will make it a record The final event was postponed

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due to a lack of wind. Instead, Hannah and her partner

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Saskia Clark will race tomorrow. They currently have a 20-point lead

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going into the final, and simply need to

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finish to win gold. If the weather stops them

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from racing again, they'll still be awarded the gold medal based

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on the preliminary races. We've had a marathon-long week

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so far, conditions have been wacky and tricky and up and down,

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so to have no wind The number of people out of work

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in Wales has fallen again and is now The latest Office for

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National Statistics figures shows Wales had an unemployment rate

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of 4.3% between April and June, Frog Bikes is owned by a couple

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from Surrey who chose to move their manufacturing

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from China to Wales. And we have got a big boot and

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nurses within South Wales that are pretty much untapped because of a

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lot of the redundancies that we have undergone over the past few years.

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Cash donations from the public collected by Machynlleth Town

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Council after the murder of five-year-old April Jones

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shouldn't have been accepted, according to an audit report.

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The council banked more than ?71,000 of public money before transferring

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it to April's Fund - something it didn't

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There's a risk that higher education in Wales will become second-rate

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if tuition fees here aren't increased in line with England -

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that's the warning tonight from Swansea University's Vice

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Chancellor, Professor Richard Davies.

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Fees at universities over the border will go up next year,

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but before any changes are made here, the Welsh Government

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want to see the findings of a review into funding

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Wales' only FTSE 100 company, Admiral, has reported a 4%

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rise in pre-tax profit, to more than ?193 million -

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It says prices have risen for UK car insurance

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and that the market is less volatile.

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Football, and in the Championship, Cardiff City beat Blackburn Rovers

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thanks to two own goals from the same Blackburn player.

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Shane Duffy gifted Cardiff an early 2-0 lead,

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Time to take a look at the weather now.

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It has been a lovely few days, with the weather turning more

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We do have wind and rain on Friday and very changeable

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We do have some rain over South Wales, further north

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is dry with clear skies, those temperatures not

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Low pressure controlling our weather tomorrow, this system bringing quite

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a bit of cloud with it and a little rain as well.

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First thing tomorrow morning, a little rain just across mid Wales,

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to the south dry, further north, dry,

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We will start to see drier conditions as we head

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For the rest of the British Isles, a lot of dry weather to look forward

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to, a little bit of rain for Northern Ireland and Wales,

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otherwise it's dry with sunny spells, highs of around 23 Celsius.

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Here in Wales tomorrow afternoon, best of the sunshine

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along the north coast, the north-east, parts of Powys,

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otherwise it is hazy sunshine with highs of around 22

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The winds are light, and there is the risk of a few showers.

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A fairly quiet night at first, but then overnight we'll start

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to see thicker cloud, patchy rain, spreading in from the south-west.

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A mild night, those temperatures no lower than around 15 Celsius.

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Friday, we do have wind and rain spreading in from the south.

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Might see some dry intervals later on in the day, temperatures cooler,

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Saturday - blustery, heavy showers, could be thundery

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at times, strong winds, not a nice day to be out and about.

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The chance of something drier and brighter as we head to Sunday.

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We'll be back from around 6:30am in Breakfast tomorrow morning.

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From all of us here on the late team, goodnight.

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