01/11/2016 BBC Wales Today

350 jobs at a meat processing plant in Merthyr Tydfil are at risk.

And they're off to the best start, but tonight we'll hear why bad

experiences in childhood can have profound consequences

350 jobs at a food company in Merthyr Tydfil are tonight at risk.

2 Sisters plans to move its packing operation to one of its other

Unions have called it devastating while the Welsh Government says it

will work with the company to try and minimise the impact

Here's our Business Correspondent Brian Meechan.

Darkness tonight in the Merthyr Tydfil plant which 2 Sisters

It could be set to lose a third of its workforce at the factory that

Around 700 will remain working on the cattle and lamb slaughter

and cutting side of the business, which received ?1.2 million of Welsh

government funding six years ago for new equipment.

It's the packing operations, packing steaks and chops,

that looks set to be moved to Cornwall.

350 potential job losses will have a massive impact

We suffer from, or have historically suffered from,

poverty and disadvantage in that area.

We are actually on the up now in terms of the regeneration that

has gone on in the heads of the valley, along that

area, the good transport links that we have got.

So this is going to be a huge step backwards.

Merthyr has had positive news recently with 400 jobs to be

created at the new Trago Mills retail centre.

And General Dynamics will employ 750 people in the town

at its factory where it assembles and tests its new armoured vehicles

The announcement from 2 Sisters, though, is a blow to

the progress being made in Merthyr's regeneration.

The company's previous restructuring also had an impact on Anglesey,

where over 200 people lost their jobs at a

Unions say the potential job losses at Merthyr are devastating

for a loyal workforce but 2 Sisters argues that trading conditions make

The Welsh government says it will work with the company,

unions and employees to try to minimise the impact

A man from Ystrad Mynach near Caerphilly has been jailed

for life for murdering his 75-year-old mother with a chainsaw.

Robert Owens, had traces of heroin and cocaine in his blood

when he killed Iris Owens who was hangingout washing.

He'll serve a minimum of 12 and a half years in prison.

A murder investigation has begun into the fatal stabbing of a man

from Caernarfon described as a "good brother and son".

42-year-old Phillip Owen was stabbed in the neck and found dead on a road

The police are calling for anyone with any

What you experience in childhood will affect your long-term health

resulting in greater dependence on the NHS.

That's the finding of new Public Health Wales research.

So children who are exposed to abuse, domestic violence or other

stresses are far more likely to develop health problems.

It's prompted calls for public bodies to work more closely.

Our Health Correspondent Owain Clarke has this special report.

Learning to live more healthily need not be boring.

The winner of this game will be whoever has the healthiest foods

in their collection and fruit always trumps fast food.

At ten years old, Jessica and Alexander are already

aware of how important it is to look after themselves.

I want to be a dancer when I am older and you have

I might not be able to do sports in the future like football or rugby

because they would not choose you if you were not good enough.

Encouraging and teaching pupils to live healthily is a key priority

But bad experiences in childhood, such as being exposed to abuse

or domestic violence, or even seeing parents

separate, can have serious and lifelong health consequences.

New research suggests children who have had four or more

adverse experiences - around 14% of the population -

are three times more likely to develop lung or heart disease

They are also four times more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes.

Those who have had difficult childhoods are more likely

As your body develops, it is used to being ready to be

What we have got to focus on is, instead of mending broken adults,

we have got to build stronger children.

But a child can experience adverse incidents even before birth.

Things like domestic abuse, violence in the household, shouting,

Of course, those things are going to cause stress to a baby,

and will impact on that baby's development.

Emerging research suggests the effects could also be passed

through the genes from one generation to the next.

This is not just a challenge for the NHS.

A child who has had four or more adverse experiences is also 15 times

more likely to be a perpetrator of violence, and 14 times more

That's why the Police and Crime Commissioner

If there is a domestic dispute and a child is seeing it,

or a parent getting blind drunk, What effect does that have?

All of those things are likely to have an impact.

Back at this school, and the mealtime game

In trying to prevent health problems later on,

inspiring children to eat well and exercise is important,

but also essential is trying to ensure in the first instance

A man from Flintshire who was involved in a car crash

while he was on holiday in Greece 13 years ago has won his fight

against extradition to serve a prison sentence there.

Paul Wright from Mold was convicted in his absence of criminal damage

and sentenced to 15 months in a Greek jail.

My children still don't know what has happened today.

I've got an eight-year-old daughter and my son is six.

And I love them both with all my heart.

But not only that, how do we explain to...

How do you explain when your wife is in labour and you are not there?

So I think, anyway, the judge has seen that side of it and then he has

looked at the paperwork and decided, it doesn't add up.

History could be made this week as St Davids could become the first

diocese in Wales to elect a woman bishop.

It's the first time women can be considered for the role

after the Church in Wales voted through the change in 2013.

47 people from across Wales have spent today behind locked doors

and their debates could go on for three days.

What is important and historic is that now we have opened the gates

and made possible for women to be considered.

Up until now, we couldn't even consider women

So that has doubled the choice, if you like.

Rugby - and the Wales second row Alun Wyn Jones will not be

considered for selection for the Australia Test on Saturday

Tim Jones, a former player himself for Swansea, passed away

Let's see what the weather has in store.

Time to dig at the woolly jumpers. A few showers closing down into the

North and colder than recent nights. Some ground frost in rural spots by

the end of the night. Chile tomorrow morning, one or two showers for the

north-west but most other places dry. The cloud breaking. Across the

rest of the UK, there will be showers across the West and East --

north and east of Scotland and a brisk and cold wind. Many places

bright and crisp elsewhere with plenty of sunshine. Most of Wales

Finance bright tomorrow afternoon, plenty of autumn sunshine. A few

showers coming in from the Irish sea. The North West, having

temperatures lower than it has been. Tomorrow generally drive. The odd

shower the north coast. A cold night with a ground frost. Freezing in the

Brecon Beacons. Some dry weather on Thursday and sunshine in the

south-east but cloud increasing through the day together with

showers. Some more rain and showers on Friday thanks to low pressure but

some dry weather and sunshine as well with a high of 10 Celsius in

Caernarfon. A bit mixed for the weekend, with some rain and showers

but clear weather and sunshine as well. The winds picking up over the

weekend and that will make it feel cold on bonfire night.

Next tonight, the millions of pounds of taxpayers' money spent

That's Wales Today. Thank you for watching.

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