we will of course return to swansea a little later, and hear from course return to swansea a little latered from the party, and announced he will run as an independent candidate to become london's mayor. mr stewart will leave parliament at the next election. our political correspondent, iain watson, had the latest from westminster earlier. it was just it wasjust in it was just in the summer that he was a contenderfor the it was just in the summer that he was a contender for the conservative party leadership. now, the autumn, he says that the old—style party politics is effectively dead, it is suffocating. he has to break out of the embrace of the party political system. interestingly, he announced to his local newspaper that he was standing down as the mp for penrith and the border, quitting the conservative party, and said he would not be standing against local conservatives there is an independent. they're notjust a few hours later, he said he would be standing as an independent when it comes to the london mayoral race next year, and would be standing against the conservative candidate

i've come to see a breeder in swansea with expert vet mikejessop.nment. if they're bred well, psychologically—balanced dogs, well, there's no problem. important things for me are up to date vaccinations and up to date health check. like every licenced breeder, steve must have his dogs checked by a vet every year. they have got to certify that the dog is fit to breed, so they should know this dog is living in good quality conditions, that is being managed as per the regulations. steve's records also prove that all dogs have been vaccinated. the big scary disease is parvovirus, because it's so contagious. it's a gastroenteritis which is largely fatal. so if they're vaccinated, it'll stop the progression of that disease quite quickly. the man who sold danielle her puppy said it had been vaccinated against parvovirus, yet winston died after contracting it. we paid winston's breeder a visit, posing as buyers. how are you? just like danielle, we're shown into what the breeder calls his dog show room. what breeds have you got here, then? he's offering to s

i've come to see a breeder in swansea with expert vet mikejessop.ngs for me are up to date vaccinations and up to date health check. like every licenced breeder, steve must have his dogs checked by a vet every year. they have got to certify that the dog is fit to breed, so they should know this dog is living in good quality conditions, that is being managed as per the regulations. steve's records also prove that all dogs have been vaccinated. the big scary disease is parvovirus, because it's so contagious. it's a gastroenteritis which is largely fatal. so if they're vaccinated, it'll stop the progression of that disease quite quickly. the man who sold danielle her puppy said it had been vaccinated against parvovirus, yet winston died after contracting it. we paid winston's breeder a visit, posing as buyers. how are you? just like danielle, we're shown into what the breeder calls his dog show room. what breeds have you got here, then? he's offering to sell these daschunds for £1,200 each. a puppy should be checked by a vet before any vaccination. but

chloe hutchinson, she's the liberal democrat candidate for swansea east, currently held by labour.or labour in chingford and a conservative seat. dr anwara ali who's standing for the conservatives in the seat of harrow west that's currently held by labour. how do you feel about us still being in the eu? i didn't want to leave the eu, so i am happy that we are still in, but in scotland we have got to take our own decisions about the way forward for the future. what about you, claire? in the referendum i voted to remain, but now the countryjust feels so stagnant that i would be more than happy for us to leave now. how do you feel about the fa ct we leave now. how do you feel about the fact we will not be leaving at 11 o'clock tonight? yes, i think that hopefully, and there is nothing definite, that hopefully this general election will help to solve theissues general election will help to solve the issues that they have got in parliament of these childish games, back and forth, back and forth. jake, what about you?” back and forth, back and forth. jake, what about you? i am really tha

the bbc‘s fi lamdin is at his former rugby club in swansea. good morning to you. are playing behind me. just coming a registered, used to play with alun wynjones. registered, used to play with alun wyn jones. tammy a registered, used to play with alun wynjones. tammy a little bit about how he will be feeling now.|j wynjones. tammy a little bit about how he will be feeling now. i think it will take it in his stride, he is a very calm character. he has been here before, done it before. he is captain of the lions. he will be fine. being described as wales's best character ever, what was he like playing here? i would not epitomise you to be what it was, but he has dedicated his whole life to be where he is anti deserves everything that he gets. what a leader. what a talisman for this country. thank you forjoining us. just coming over to some of the younger members for the club. guys, how are you feeling this morning? nervous. can they do it? yeah! i think it'll be at least 20 — 30 to wales. brilliant. thank you very much, let us have your right. over here, if they get

let‘s head to swansea now and speak to former wales hooker richard hibbard. richard, good morning. to the semifinals. it is the last big push now to get into the final, and i think in the last 18 months we have been building for it. and gats, he needs a massive sendoff and the boys will give him that. i spoke to kieran bracken, he talked about semi—final weak and how much is at stake. how do you think those players approach it? especially with a bit of an injury worry as well? not a worry, they know one of their key players, liam williams, is out of this as well? exactly. the world cup in total, i think it is getting your squad through most of it, and especially for the big games. it will just be crossing especially for the big games. it willjust be crossing the t‘s and dotting the i‘s this week. it will just be getting ready for south africa. fresh as they can be. knowing that england are waiting, how much of a motivational tool will that be, do you think? a huge tool, i think. wales and england fighting, i think. wales and england fighting, i think the whole nation were wanted, n

adam price told his party's annual conference in swansea that they need to look beyond brexit, and heand thrive as a european nation, or it will die as a british backwater. that is the choice we face and on that choice our fate depends. meanwhile, the green party have gathered in newport with their co—leader jonathan bartley opening the party conference. during his speech, mr bartley stated the green party would abolish the home office and replace it with a ‘ministry for sanctuary‘, before setting out the party's position on another brexit referendum. we may disagree with those on the other side of the debate over europe, we may disagree with the corruption of the referendum but thatis corruption of the referendum but that is not a reason to ignore and sideline those who voted to leave. applause we have always said that the referendum must be the start, not the end, of a democratic process. if we wa nt the end, of a democratic process. if we want to stay in europe, we must win the argument on europe. doctors have achieved the remarkable feat of enabling a paraplegic man to move all of

let's cross to our correspondent fiona lamdin, who is at a rugby club in swansea.t people to pay any attention to my questions. they are absolutely focused on the screen. i am at his former club, this is where he played asa former club, this is where he played as a teenagerfrom former club, this is where he played as a teenager from the age of 14 to 16. many of the people behind me played with him. they watched him rise through the ranks and they are immensely proud of him. let'sjust see if we can get a couple of words and see how they think the match is going so far. we are just coming around here. how do you think wales are playing so how do you think wales are playing so far? amazingly. we had a stronger forward side. my stronger forward side. we are doing well on the defence. the attack. we have got more ball. moriarty has been outstanding. north has been outstanding. go, wales estimation much less when this? can they win this? definitely. brilliantly. we will let you concentrate. we will go to stuart who is one of the coaches and he has played with alan the wh

adam price told his party's annual conference in swa nsea his party's annual conference in swansea buthey need to look beyond brexit and he offered disillusioned voters a new political home. wales will live and thrive as a european nation, or it will die as a british backwater. that is the choice we face, and on that choice our fate depends. meanwhile, the green party have gathered in newport with their c0— have gathered in newport with their co— leader, jonathan bartley, opening the party conference. in his speech, he stated the green party would abolish the home office and replace it with a ministry for sanctuary. before setting out the pa rty‘s sanctuary. before setting out the party's position on another brexit referendum. we may disagree with those on the other side of the debate over europe. we may disagree with the corruption of the referendum. but that is not a reason to ignore and sideline those who voted to leave. applause. we have a lwa ys voted to leave. applause. we have always said that the referendum must be the start, not the end of the democratic process. if we want to

adam price told his party's annual conference in swansea that they need to look beyond brexit, and offered will live and thrive as a european nation, or it will die as a british backwater. that is the choice we face, and on that choice, our fate depends. meanwhile, the green party have gathered in newport with their co—leader, jonathan bartley, opening the party conference. during his speech, mr bartley stated the green party would abolish the home office, before setting out the party's position on a second brexit referendum. we may disagree with those on the other side of the debate over europe. we may disagree with the corruption of the referendum. but that is not a reason to ignore and sideline those who voted to leave. applause we have always said that the referendum must be the start, not the end, of a democratic process. if we want to stay in europe, we must win the argument on europe. now, there was a wonderful look of disbelief on the face of britain's katarina johnson—thompson when she became heptathlon world champion in doha last night. after a career scarred by disappointments,

adam price told his party's annual conference in swansea that they need to look beyond brexit, and heed disillusioned voters a new political home. wales will live and thrive as a european nation, or it will die as a british backwater. that is the choice we face and on that choice oui’ choice we face and on that choice our feet choice we face and on that choice ourfeet depends. choice we face and on that choice our feet depends. —— choice we face and on that choice ourfeet depends. —— ourfate. meanwhile, the green party have gathered in newport with their co—leader jonathan bartley opening the party conference. in his speech, mr bartley stated the green party would abolish the home office and replace it with a ‘ministry for sanctuary‘, before setting out the party's position on another brexit referendum. we may disagree with those on the other side of the debate over europe. we may disagree with the corruption of the referendum. but thatis corruption of the referendum. but that is not a reason to ignore and sideline those who voted to leave. we have always said that the referendum be t

mr price will be addressing his party's conference in swansea this afternoon. in newport this afternoon. the conference is expected to focus on tackling global warming and campaigning for another referendum on the uk's membership of the european union. at least 15 people in england have tested hiv positive while waiting tojoin a trialfor a pill which prevents the disease. taking daily ‘prep' tablets can stop a person from becoming infected, but places on the trial have been restricted as ben hunte reports. i was stunned. it wasjust like, oh, my god, how has this happened? david is one of the people identified by hiv consultants who acquired the virus whilst waiting for a place on the impact trial. he says he couldn't afford to spend £30 a month buying prep privately. trying from two different clinics to get onto it, and not being able to get onto it, and then getting hiv, i was very, very angry. why is it that you weren't practising safer sex whilst waiting? i generally had regular partners, as opposed to casual ones. one slipped through the net somehow, or he'

he joins me via webcam from swansea. thank you very much forjoining us.rjoining us. it is a very busy day of the week for you. thank you for the invite. it is not unheard of for a married man to be ordained as catholic priests. when the anglican church decided to ordain women, there was a move away from anglican church into the catholic church by priests who couldn't accept that. how well are they welcomed by the roman catholic church? i've experienced the ministry through friends of married roman catholic priests and to be fair, they've had a tremendous welcome in their ministry over many years. i have had an opportunity to see that and those are genuine and heartfelt welcome and those are genuine and heartfelt welco m e two and those are genuine and heartfelt welcome two married priests when that has happened in certain circumstances. if pope francis is trying to promote the idea of ordaining married men in the idea of ordaining married men in the amazon, where there is a shortage of clergymen, how does he reconcile that with the concerns of those conse

swansea band dream state premiered their new song on radio 1 last night.s of millions of streams online. but it's not been easy getting here. when she was at university, their singer cj got addicted to drugs and alcohol. radio 1 newsbeat reporter will chalk‘s been to meet her. i knew i had a problem when i was in my room alone, just drinking and smoking. and i remember i had a baggie of mdma and i would just crack into it by myself. six years ago, cj gilpin had to drop out of university with addiction problems. now the band she is in, dream state, has had tens of millions of streams online. they are releasing their debut album and cj is in recovery. we went down to one of their rehearsals. back then, when i was in uni, there was a pressure to succeed. i didn't feel at the time like i was. so, for me, like, marijuana especially and wine, would become my kind of way ofjust kind of bearing all my problems and hiding from it. and then codine for a while. the drugs and alcohol became a crutch and university tried everything they could in the last year to kind o

let's speak to the party's leader adam price who's in swansea.ur party position on brexit? we wa nt to ta ke your party position on brexit? we want to take it back to the people and that is what should happen now because it is the only way properly to resolve the crisis we are in actually. we're waiting to see the details, of course, we have had seven page summary of boris johnson's proposal, we have not seen the wider proposal but what should happen in any case with any deal is it should be taken back finally to the people. it should happen now before an election because what we do not want is all the other issues we should be talking about, the state of poverty in wales, about a mile away from here, half the children in swansea live in poverty and those other kind of things we need to be focusing on but we have going around in circles for 3.5 yea rs going around in circles for 3.5 years and it is time to get it done but to get it done democratically by taking back to the people, give them the final say. here is the actual deal, not perfection,

adam price told his party's annual conference in swansea that they need to look beyond brexit, and offeredand thrive as any european nation or die as a backwater. that is the choice we face and on our choice our fate depends. meanwhile, the green party have gathered in newport with their co—leaderjonathan bartley, opening the party conference. during his speech, mr bartley stated the green party would abolish the home office, before setting out the party's position on a second brexit referendum. we may disagree with the corruption of the referendum but that is not a reason to ignore and sidelined those who voted to leave. we have always said that the referendum must be the start, not the end of a democratic process. if we want to stay in europe, we must winds the argument on europe. the former conservative leadership candidate, rory stewart, has resigned from the party, and announced he will run as an independent candidate to become london's mayor. mr stewart will leave parliament at the next election and this afternoon he's been explaining his decision.( the tory whip being withdrawn was

police but also by armed forces who are supported by and equipped is in order to be in swansea's to villages and to money and people living in this something they know that this state is not far the state is a present to its forces now you're saying you're very rested people does that mean that you know who is responsible for the violence in this area. the forces are just the people they're suspects and. brought before the procureur general this is just before just this in order to conduct an investigation in order to know who are responsible for this criminal actions of the full line is that we spoken to say that the government backs these doggone militia groups that are active in attacking forlornly villages is your government supporting doggone militias you know that you have a new government in this country from may 5th following the signing of a political agreement which will come on may 2nd we have a new government we face a new political agreement we think there will be. the 1st point of the road map is to organize a national conference to give you opportunities to mullions political

we had a lovely photograph this morning from swansea, with shafts of light coming through the clouds.there in western areas of the uk, with more persistent rain moving through northern ireland and into western scotland and northern england and wales and patchy rain from the midlands as well. further east there could be a few showers here but largely dry with some brightness. largely cloudy this afternoon compared to this morning. maximum temperatures today getting up maximum temperatures today getting up to 13 or17. maximum temperatures today getting up to 13 or 17. tonight, the rain across scotland will continue and it could be heavy at times. elsewhere some rain at times across england and wales which could be quite heavy. later in the night, a more significant band of rain will affect southern areas of england. temperatures in southern parts will stay up to 13 or 14 celsius. further north a bit chilly out with clearing but it‘s macro clear spells in scotla nd but it‘s macro clear spells in scotland and the far north of england. there will be an area of rain focused on wales and the

that is part of the story of lola, who lives in swansea, who was one of the past two women with ashleyjudd, as we reach publication we both realised our horror that the breast cancer surgery is going to collide with the publication of a story. we say, how can critical in goal at at this time? the same time, we could not lose her. she culture own daughter's into the kitchen and said she had something to tell them until than the harvey weinstein sorry for the first time. they were shocked, but then laura was shocked because the girl started opening up to her about things that happened and in exmoor and in, the morning we woke up i need to publish the story, there was an e—mailwaiting need to publish the story, there was an e—mail waiting for laura that saidi an e—mail waiting for laura that said i have been doing life changing health issues and standing up to bullies is important and that is what i want my children to learn. this change your hasn't it? yes and no, if he had told us to years ago that we be setting here in manchester we probably would not have believed it. it seems to be a sto