21/08/2016 BBC Wales Today


21/08/2016

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The success of Team GB at the Rio Olympics must be used

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to change Wales into a nation of sports players

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That's according to former Paralympic gold medallist

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Welsh athletes won 10 medals for Team GB, surpassing the seven

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But she said making people more active is challenging.

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Because how many people do you know watch Wimbledon,

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Play it for a couple of weeks and disappear.

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You know, that's kind of what happens

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and people do dip in and out of our physical activity and sport as well.

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I think we're a nation that really likes watching sport.

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An investigation is underway after two shop robberies

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in the Waun Wen area of Swansea this morning.

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It's believed the same man is responsible for both.

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He wore a balaclava and demanded money while carrying

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Nothing was taken from the Premier Store

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But cash and tobacco was taken from the Spar on Carmarthen Road.

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Police are continuing to search for a man following the attempted

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Armed officers were sent to the Halifax branch

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South Wales Police say no one was injured and nothing was stolen.

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A large kitchen knife, gloves and a motorbike

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The family of a young woman from Ceredigion,

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killed by a drunk-driver are calling for a change in the law to allow

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The motorist who killed Miriam Briddon will spend just over

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two years in jail and Miriam's family say that's just not

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They've now launched an online petition urging the Government

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to toughen penalties for drink-drive offences.

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Miriam was just 21 when she died in the trash back in March 20 14. The

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car was driven by Gareth Entwistle who admitted causing death by

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dangerous driving while under the influence of alcohol. He was

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sentenced to 5.5 years but that was cut on appeal. Two months on

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Miriam's mother has launched an online petition as King for tougher

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sentences. It has already reached 77,000 signatures. Causing death by

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drink-driving is a very serious crime and we feel at the moment that

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the sentences given does not reflect the seriousness of the crime.

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Lenient sentences feel to deter offenders and it feels to give that

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to them is justice. When an innocent person is killed the sentence given

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should reflect the crime. Miriam's killer was sentenced to five years

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but he will only serve half of that in jail. The Ministry of Justice

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said it is currently reviewing penalties for drink-driving related

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offences. It is the matter for individual judges making decisions

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due to factor in individual cases. When Ian's family want fewer

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families to suffer the pain and loss they have improved. -- been through.

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An American activist who was recruited by the Church

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in Wales to strengthen its work with communities here has

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returned back to the US after his six month mission.

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Mark Yaconelli was appointed by the Diocese of St Asaph

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When you think of an American evangelist coming to the UK, you

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might picture Billy Graham addressing crowds at Wembley in

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He's going among the crowds to speak to them in the

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I have found people here who are doing that in new ways.

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People doing it through writing, through theatre, through cafes,

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Through reaching out to drug addicts.

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That's the way forward for the church.

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We know that feeling when you're a stranger no more.

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As well as training church youth leaders, Mark Yaconelli

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has been encouraging people to share stories in groups

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Catherine Johnson from Wrexham was inspired to relate her

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experiences helping migrant and refugees

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You become so connected to the people, so aware

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is that you just don't know how to walk away from that.

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A sentiment Mark Yaconelli can relate to as

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It's being taken to an eisteddfod and to the sheepdog trials today.

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All those are neighbours coming by to make sure we

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This is an incredibly kind and generous country.

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The dioceses of St Asaph says it

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will build on the work that has been done.

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We are all hoping that there will

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be a legacy group to take each of those threads forward.

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Encourage more youth and more youth leadership to go

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Mark Yaconelli may have arrived here as a

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stranger but he'll be leaving many new friends behind.

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The church in Wales hopes that the connections he's

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built-up in the communities who might have lost touch with

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traditional religion will continue to strengthen long after his return

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Let's take a quick look at the weather.

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There'll be more heavy rain showers across most of the country,

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Tomorrow will stay cloudy with more rain coming in from the southwest,

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it'll be heavy on higher ground, especially Snowdonia.

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I'll be back with your late update at around 10.20 this evening.

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at 1020 but until then have a lovely evening.

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It was a much better second part of the weekend, lighter winds, some

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spells of sunshine,

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