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Syria? And we speak to Howard Jakonson on his novel about Donald

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Trump. Here on BBC One, it's Picking up the bill

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for residential care - now you can keep more

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of your savings. Power games - the row

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over where electricity pylons should run,

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involving a High Court judge and the granddaughter

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of King Henry Tudor. And he was the voice

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of sport for a generation. Tributes to David

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Parry-Jones, who has died. Who should pay for us

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if we go into care, and how much of our savings

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should we have to spend? Changes allowing people to keep more

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of their savings when they move into residential care have come

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into effect, with the limit But some in the industry fear care

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homes could lose funding. The Minister for Social Services

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visiting a care home. She says the changes announced

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by the Welsh Government today will enable more people to

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keep more of their money. Until now, people have only been

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able to keep ?24,000 before paying But over the course of this

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assembly, we'll be taking extra steps to take that up to ?50,000

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that people can keep before starting The most recent census shows that

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16,500 people over the age of 65 are in a residential

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care homes in Wales. Up to 4,000 of them pay

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for the whole of their care, and 1,000 should benefit once

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the limit is lifted to ?50,000. But there are worries

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about the pressures put on care. My only concern is the fact that

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there's not going to be enough money in the local authorities'

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budgets to be able to fund people properly, and not just spread

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the limited resources too thinly. Then providers find

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that they haven't got a viable business and have to close,

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and the distress that Residential care can cost,

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on average, ?30,000 a year, forcing some people to sell their homes

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or deplete a lifetime of savings. Cynthia Edwards' mother

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is in a care home in Wrexham She says the increased limit

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will take some of the worries away from those arranging

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care for loved ones. That is a big consideration

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for families when they're looking It is - and the fact

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that it is likely to go up again Music therapy is part

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of the timetable at this But some in the industry have

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concerns about the way things like this could be at

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risk under the changes. Care Forum Wales, which

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speaks for the sector, says there is already a

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?40 million per year funding gap, It is a positive step,

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but like everything else it masks You know, social care is,

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as the Government rightly stresses, a sector of national

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strategic importance. It currently is in something

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of a dysfunctional state, even though it underpins

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the NHS in Wales. What we need to do now is aim

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for a much more planned approach. A number of improvements to

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social services have been promised, with an extra ?55 million

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in the next year. Today's Welsh Government

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announcement is music to the ears But there are those in the social

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care sector and local government that fear that unless a major

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financial shortfall is addressed, A driver has told Cardiff Crown

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Court he doesn't remember the crash which killed his

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five-year-old step son. Joseph Smith suffered multiple

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injuries when the car he was travelling in

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hit oncoming traffic on The court was told he wasn't

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using a booster seat. Dean Collins denies causing

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death by dangerous driving. A 55-year-old man has been

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jailed for five years after he burned down his farmhouse

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in Whitland, in Carmarthenshire. Charles Chestnut set his

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?200,500 home alight Swansea Crown Court heard

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how firefighters found him having a barbeque

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after he started the blaze. Workers at the Wrexham-based

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Dee Valley Water Company are in consultation

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with its new owners, Bosses say there are "areas

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of duplication", and they haven't been able to find

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alternative roles for 14 people. Concerns about the future

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of Dee Valley were raised before A High Court judge is being asked

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to overturn a decision to allow 12.5 miles of electricity pylons in rural

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North Wales because of their impact The cables would run close

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to Berain, the birthplace of Kathryn of Berain,

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a granddaughter of King Henry Tudor who's also known

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as the Mother of Wales. Lawyers for the UK Government insist

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the link to two windfarms The Queen's High Court,

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sitting on Anglesey, the setting for this challenge

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to the UK Government's Secretary It is a Grade II listed building,

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and Kathryn of Berain used to live John Jones is the one

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fronting the case, owner and farmer at Berain -

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a farmstead in the hills He's been told by his lawyers

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not to talk about the dispute, but he was happy to tell me

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about his home and its place There is historical boundaries

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that have been here for 500 years, All the hedgerows are in

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the same place as they were We are here as custodians,

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and as generations that have been here before us,

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there will be generations after us. If we're only here for a period,

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we have to work with what we've got, The line of pylons running from two

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wind farms north of Saint Asaph Close enough, it's claimed,

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to have a significant effect This is, after all,

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beautiful countryside. Knock a door in this area

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and you often get this response. It should be underground,

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that's what I think. They don't have to go

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underground all the way, that when they come to villages,

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you could put them And that's the nub of it -

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should or could the cables be put Developers say the pylons would look

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something like these. Wooden poles up to 15 metres tall

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and spaced 100 metres apart. They insist putting them underground

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would be too costly. They also argue they have

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considered all the options. This case is what's

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called a judicial review. It's a questioning of the

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procedure which led to permission for the pylons being

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given in the first place. In a nutshell, the UK

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Government and its advisers are being challenged about how much

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weight they gave to the historical significance of Berain,

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and whether they fully considered putting the cables at

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least partly underground. The judge, Mr Justice Lewis, has

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said he will reserve his judgment. The First Minister, Carwyn Jones,

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has promised a fair deal - at the Welsh Labour campaign launch,

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for the council The party controls more

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than half of the 22 local He admitted that divisions

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among senior Labour figures at Westminster,

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could have an impact on the way I'm not going to pretend to you

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that things are good in London - I don't think people would believe

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me if I said anything different. We've seen good examples of Labour

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councils delivering across Wales. Really good, energetic

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Labour councillors as well, and candidates, who were

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working for their communities. And in Welsh Labour,

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a party that's united. to the broadcaster,

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David Parry-Jones, who's died. In a career spanning many decades,

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he famously commentated on Llanelli's historic win

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over the All Blacks in 1972. He also presented

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Wales Today for many years. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's

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disease eight years ago, David Parry-Jones, a distinctive

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voice during the golden age And he was in the commentary

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box for that match - the day Llanelli humbled

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the mighty All Blacks. He was equally as proud

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of commenting on the game as I was as a player to

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have played in the game. He was so kind, because I didn't

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have a clue as a novice. His contribution to rugby union

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football is incredible. His contribution to

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the BBC, outstanding. You know, he spoke

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fairly about Wales. When he did a game,

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he was down the middle, 50-50. But beneath it he was

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a very proud Welshman. He was born in Pontypridd,

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proud of his education at Merton College, Oxford,

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and started out as a journalist with the times, before

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working in television. Well, this is one answer

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to the closed bank problem. Not just on a Saturday morning,

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but any day of the week, really. A familiar face on a BBC Wales Today

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in the '60s, '70s and '80s, David Parry-Jones's

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eloquence and charm made him popular with colleagues

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and the occasional celebrity. He was a wordsmith,

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and he was always looking for new ways of describing things,

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even describing a simple thing like, you know, a catch in cricket,

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or a pink in rugby. This is David Parry-Jones,

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about to set off on the second A class act, he was a class

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act, David Parry-Jones. Yeah, I'm just trying

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to make a note... In later years he was cared

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for at his home in Cardiff by his long-term partner,

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the Radio Cumbria presenter, Betty George, after being

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diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The couple filmed a documentary

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together, raising awareness of the challenges of living

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with a condition, prompting a Betty George described him

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as a kind, gentle and handsome man. David Parry Jones, who's

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died at the age of 83. Let's see what the weather

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has in store - Derek's Thanks very much. Good evening. Last

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weekend was the warmest of the year so far in Wales. The temperature in

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a few places soared up to 21 Celsius. A different story today, of

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course. Much cooler and a reminder that it is still only April. A dry

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story tonight. A few clouds and the odd isolated light shower, but no

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more than that. A cool night. Chilly in the wool spots with a touch of

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ground frost. I pressure on our doorstep tomorrow. -- chilly in the

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role spots. -- high pressure on our doorstep. Dry white refund shall not

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much in the way of winds tomorrow. Across west of the UK, many places

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dry with a mixture of broken clouds, bright with sunny spells. Not dry

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everywhere - windy in the North with some rain for the north and

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north-west of Scotland. The temperature in London should reach

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15 Celsius. In Wales tomorrow afternoon, looking pretty good. Dry

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and bright with sunshine and a few clouds which tend to increase in the

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North later in the afternoon. Temperatures 10-14 Celsius with a

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west or south westerly breeze. Tomorrow evening cloud will spread

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across the country. Generally dry overnight rain approaching the north

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coast. Later in the night the breeze will pick up as well. The rain is

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tied to the conflict which will slide its way southwards during the

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course of Wednesday. Wednesday, more unsettled, breezy. Rain spreading

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south during the afternoon. Behind that, brighter skies and a

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sprinkling of showers. For later in the week, Thursday and Friday,

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plenty of cloud with them dry weather. Also a few spots of rain,

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but not amounting to much. Then it's not looking too bad for the Easter

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holiday weekend. Not that one, but a lot of dry weather and sunny

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intervals, too. That's an funny, I wish you a good night. -- that's all

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from me. That's Wales Today,

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thank you for watching. From all of us on the

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programme, good night.

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