27/10/2016 BBC Wales Today


27/10/2016

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After hundreds of thousands of pounds from the Welsh Government,

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a Pembroke Dock engineering company is in administration.

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Spy planes targeting Isis - a multi-million-pound deal

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for military surveillance aircraft secures jobs in Flintshire.

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Hopes it could lead to more contracts.

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And the family of Miriam Briddon from Ceredigion -

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who was killed by a drink-driver - are in Downing Street,

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An engineering company based at Pembroke Dock has

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Main Port Engineering opened a new manufacturing site last March,

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with support worth ?650,000 from the Welsh Government.

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The aim was to create 30 jobs and safeguard

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David Grundy joins us from our Carmarthen newsroom now.

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Well, Lucy, Main Port Engineering has been a significant employer in

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West Wales for over 25 years. The company provides engineering

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services to the chemical, power and water treatments industries. The

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company's new building opened in June at the cost of ?1.8 million.

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Around ?650,000 of that came from the Welsh Government and that money

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was to create 30 new jobs but also to secure jobs. That was a 150

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people in the workforce at the time. Today, though, the site is closed,

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all calls going to voice mail with a simple message saying the

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administrators have been called in. The night it emerged HMRC revenue

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Customs -- HMRC have forwarded a winding-up petition. That is to go

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to Government on Monday morning. One of the company's suppliers was Murco

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oil refinery. They told us 95 jobs had to go.

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A lot of them were my personal friends before

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they became my employees so, yes, it was very very upsetting.

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It was a worrying time - to lose that much of your

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So what will happen now, David? That is the big question. The company

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says it has called in administrators and will reopen on Monday morning.

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Also on Monday morning the High Court is due to your HMRC's request

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to wind up the company. This is a big employer in Pembroke Dock,

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contributing to the local economy every year. It will be a tense few

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days for staff. But tonight the Welsh Government has issued a

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statement saying it is an unsettling time for the company, its employees

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and their families, and should the company be wound up next week they

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will be looking to offer support to those employees. David Grundy, thank

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you for that. The UK Government says it's looking

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at whether there should be a change in the law in the wake

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of the Ched Evans case. The Welsh footballer,

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who now plays for Chesterfield, was cleared of rape in a retrial

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earlier this month. Labour has condemned the decision

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to allow the jury to hear the sexual The Attorney General says this

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isn't "routinely used", Ministry of Defence experts oversaw

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a controlled explosion at Swansea University this afternoon

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following concerns about the safe Emergency services were also

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at the scene, as parts of the Singleton Campus

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was evacuated to ensure staff A 23-year-old man has

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denied murdering his Xixi Bi, who was 24,

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died at a property on Ely Road Jordan Matthews, who's

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from Llandaff, was remanded in custody and is due to stand

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trial in February. Ms Bi grew up in China,

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and had moved to the UK to study. They are the spy planes at the front

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line of surveillance against so-called Islamic State

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in Syria and Iraq. Tonight a ?130 million deal

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has secured Welsh jobs, Raytheon, based at Broughton

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in Flintshire, says North Wales is now well placed for further

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expansion into intelligence Keeping an eye on Isis -

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this is a view from the cockpit of the Raytheon Sentinel,

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the RAF's eye in the sky The plane can fly for nine hours

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at a time at 40,000 feet, surveying the land below

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using high-tech radar equipment, and it's helping pinpoint

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terrorists in the Middle East. And it's here in North East Wales

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that engineers maintain the planes which have their instruments

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and electrics installed The fleet of five Sentinel were due

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to be scrapped but in last year's UK Government Strategic Defence Review

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the aircraft was given a reprieve, a decision that has secured 40

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highly skilled jobs here and around It's great to be here in North Wales

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at Broughton, to announce a ?131.5 million contract to sustain

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the Sentinel here at Reece Dean, and to ensure that this

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really capable aircraft which provides an eye in the sky

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for our Armed Forces is going to be Raytheon have been in business

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here in Broughton for 20 years. The company took over

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the Hawker jet company, and moved production

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to the United States, but bosses were so impressed

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with the quality of the workforce that the company set up

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this service centre. Engineers here are in the process

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of servicing one of the fleet Today's news means that staff

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of all ages can have some job We are going to be here for how

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long, I can still learn everything, move around different areas

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and really get to know the aircraft. And Shannon and her colleagues

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could see their workload increase if the company can sell its

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high-tech services around the world. The market itself I think is a very

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strong market for ISR, the intelligence surveillance

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reconnaissance type platforms. There is a strong market

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across the world for that type of capability,

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and I think we are well placed here in North Wales

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to provide that capability. This entire area is controlled

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by Islamic State, so... Last year the BBC gained exclusive

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access on board one of the Sentinel planes as it flew a nine-hour

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mission over Iraq and Syria looking Today's investment will ensure these

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planes are fit for the skies above the Middle East for years

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to come, thanks in no small part to a highly skilled workforce some

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2000 miles away in Wales. The family of a young

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woman from Ceredigion, killed by a drink-driver,

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have taken their 100,000 name petition to Downing Street

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to call for tougher sentences. The motorist who killed

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Miriam Briddon will spend just The Government say they will hold

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a review into driving offences From Downing Street,

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Aled Scourfield reports. It's been a long painful journey

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for the family of Miriam Briddon since she was so tragically killed

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near Ciliau Aeron in March 2014. Today their journey took them

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from their home in Ceredigion all the way to the gates

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of Downing Street, in their battle for tougher penalties

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for drivers that kill Not only have we been fully

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supported by our local community, which has kept us going for the last

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two and a half years, but we have been supported

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across the whole of the UK. And we are very proud to be

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here to present this petition on behalf of ordinary

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families like ourselves. Miriam was just 21 when her

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Fiat Punto was struck by a car being driven by Gareth Entwistle,

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seen here hiding his face outside He pleaded guilty to causing death

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by careless driving whilst under He was sentenced to five-and-a-half

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years in prison but his sentence He'll serve just

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two-and-a-half years in jail. Miriam 's family have led a campaign

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for tougher sentences for drink-drivers and almost

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110,000 people have now signed a petition supporting them,

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which was handed in to Prime A spokesperson for the Ministry

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of Justice told me the Government is determined to make sure that

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sentencing fits the crime for people who kill or seriously injure

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others on our roads. A consultation on road offences

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and penalties will be launched Miriam's family told me

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they are hopeful there will be It's very hard to put into words the

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feeling of being here today. We have worked hard for 11 weeks now and we

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are handing this over today in Miriam 's memory. There has to be a

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change. Quite frankly, we have to get a point where a sentence that is

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a crime. People to understand and driving is not an accident in itself

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but is a choice people make with tragic implications. I think

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government are mindful. Those of us campaigning on this issue with the

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family need to hold them to account... The Britton family say

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they need to fight for tougher sentences, alongside their daily

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battle to deal with their own devastating loss.

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There's concern tonight that relaxing food hygiene rules around

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serving rare beef burgers could lead

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to an increased risk of an E.coli outbreak.

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Demand for gourmet or premium burgers

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served rare or medium has increased, and the Food

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Standards Agency has been looking at how meat can be made safer

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But experts say while the risks are low, serving under-cooked

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One of my concerns with rare burgers is that someone could get E.coli

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food poisoning and someone could die in consequence.

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Right now we can't stop people offering rare burgers.

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If the business can absolutely guarantee that there is no risk

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at all from the burgers that it serves rare,

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My concern, and the concern of the Chartered Institute

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of Environmental Health, is that nobody can guarantee that.

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The Food Standards Agency says serving burgers less than thoroughly

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cooked is unacceptable, unless a business can

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prove to their local authority their procedures

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A group of dentists and doctors from South Wales is going

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to the so-called Jungle in Calais this weekend, to give medicine

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and clothing to people who've been living at the camp.

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French officials said they've cleared the site this week,

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and migrants have been moved to other facilities

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But activists on the ground say many people,

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including children, are still in desperate need of help.

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I'm not really concerned with the politics of who wants to come to the

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UK are not. Ultimately these people are all deserving of basic care, and

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unfortunately in the Jungle that is not being provided. Refugee centres

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will tell you that the living conditions there are very poor, so

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you just want to help your fellow man, basically, and that is my

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philosophy. Overnight, some clear

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spells further south, but cloud thickening -

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patchy rain pushing into North Wales,

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mist and fog forming - The rain further north comes

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from this cold front, also bringing thicker cloud

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tomorrow, but it retreats back northwards as high pressure starts

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to build in from the south later Some mist and fog patches

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first thing tomorrow - dry to the south, mainly patchy rain

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and drizzle Across the UK, thicker

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cloud and patchy rain where the cold front lingers -

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drier and milder to the south of it and to the north of it brighter,

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breezy but colder - highs of just 11 Celsius

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across the north of Scotland - in the high teens

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where we see some brightness For Wales, any rain eventually

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peters out - often cloudy - Just a light breeze,

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allowing mist and fog Mild for late October at 13 Celsius

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in Denbighshire, 15 in Newport. Some improvements into the weekend

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as that high pressure continues to build from the south, keeping things

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relatively settled. Quite a gloomy high with a lot of cloud around.

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A misty, murky start to Saturday - quite cloudy - but where we get

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the breaks in the cloud - southerly winds will

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make it feel quite mild in any sunshine -

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quite mild in any sunshine - 13-15 Celsius.

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So often overcast but mild as we head into the weekend. It did feel

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chillier and under the clear skies mist and fog will be re-forming.

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Lucy, thank you very much. We're back at around

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6.25 in the morning. From all of us here,

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goodnight.

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