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Oct 7, 2026
Nick ServiniHOST
We'll also conclude the conference season coverage with, uh, a wrap-up of the Conservative and the Green Party conferences.
Nick ServiniHOST
But first, let's talk transport to Huw Thomas, our business correspondent, and Daniel Davies, our political correspondent, about the plans to tackle, uh, the M4 in the south and the Menai Strait traffic problem in the north.
Nick ServiniHOST
Uh, full declaration of interest, uh, for everyone here.
Nick ServiniHOST
I've got the scars on my back for covering this for so many years.
Daniel DaviesCORRESPONDENT
Mm.
Nick ServiniHOST
And maybe just this question actually is potentially helpful to get to the heart of it.
Nick ServiniHOST
In, in terms of the third crossing for the Menai Strait, did it get the go-ahead?
Daniel DaviesCORRESPONDENT
I think it did, yes, uh, as far as they can because they're locked into a process, and, and I'm sure there are lots of people who would like the government just to phone up a civil engineering firm and say, "Uh, can you do us a bridge over the Menai, over the Menai as quickly as possible, please?" I mean, in the democratic system that we've got in Britain and in Wales, it doesn't work like that.
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About a decade earlier, Jason William Dean's visits to Dorothy Quarry began when another planned dive had been canceled.
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On the morning of March 20th, 2004, Jason and a group of other divers were scheduled to dive in the Menai Strait, but bad weather forced them to abandon the idea, so they changed plans and headed to Daudi instead.
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Jason was 31 years old and working as a civil engineer.
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He was also an avid diver and once at Dorothy, the group agreed on what sounded like a fairly restrained dive.
Chris AldridgeHOST
Police say the body of a baby girl found on a shoreline in North Wales may have been in the water for several weeks.
Chris AldridgeHOST
A member of the public found the body on the Menai Strait shoreline in Bangor on Sunday evening.
Chris AldridgeHOST
North Wales Police said further tests to find out more about the baby were underway, and they were continuing the search for the mother.
Chris AldridgeHOST
A Scottish Sikh activist has been released from prison in India on bail after being detained for almost nine years without being convicted.
Philippa LaceyHOST
Mm.
Amy JeffsGUEST
Uh, the Menai Strait, that's a really important one f- uh, the, in a lovely Welsh... well, lovely is probably the wrong word for it, but poem called Pawgyr in, in, um, Middle Welsh, which, uh, locates the scratching cat in the Menai Strait.
Amy JeffsGUEST
Also the Triads of the Isles of Britain, this kind of demonic feline sea monster.
Amy JeffsGUEST
I feel like any cat that got turned into a sea monster would be cross.
Philippa LaceyHOST
[laughs]
Amy JeffsGUEST
... um, under his arm.
Amy JeffsGUEST
Uh, and a, the mother of the scratching cat of the Menai Strait is an elfin sow.
Amy JeffsGUEST
So, so many pigs.
Jules EaterbridgeCORRESPONDENT
being discovered on a shoreline in Wales.
Jules EaterbridgeCORRESPONDENT
Police say a member of the public found the body on the Menai Strait shoreline in Bangor on Sunday shortly after 5pm.
Jules EaterbridgeCORRESPONDENT
Searches are ongoing to try and trace the mother of the infant.
Jules EaterbridgeCORRESPONDENT
Detective Sergeant Kelly Wynne is appealing to the public for more information.
Ron BrownHOST
The body of a baby has been discovered along a shoreline in North Wales.
Ron BrownHOST
The remains were found by a member of the public near the Menai Strait in Bangor on Sunday.
Ron BrownHOST
Police are searching for the mother and are urging anyone with information to come forward.
Ron BrownHOST
The company running the Eiffel Tower in Paris says its chief executive will step down at the end of the year after female staff were replaced by male colleagues during a visit by a Hindu religious group.
David WilsonHOST
Okay, so the killing took place on the 24th of November in 2001.
David WilsonHOST
Mabel, the 90-year-old victim, lived by herself in a bungalow, a bungalow that looks out on the Menai Straits.
Martin FrizellHOST
Lovely view, partly, yeah.
Martin FrizellHOST
Seemingly...
JayHOST
Here is your questions for Tuesday the 29th of September.
JayHOST
Number one, the 1983 movie Staying Alive was the sequel to which 1977 film? So the 1983 movie Staying Alive was the sequel to which 1977 film? Number two, Britannia and Menai Bridges connect which island to the mainland? So Britannia and Menai Bridges connect which island to the mainland? Number three, according to an unproven legend, who once banned the eating of mince pies in England? I am putting the words unproven and legend in there because there is this long-held urban myth that this person did that, but there is also no undocumented proof that they did this.
JayHOST
So yeah, I'm going with this sort of unproven urban legend, if you like.
JayHOST
So according to an unproven legend, who once banned the eating of mince pies in England? Number four, a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course is called a what degree? So a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course is called a what degree? And your final question today, number five.
JayHOST
Question number one, the 1983 movie Staying Alive.
JayHOST
What's the sequel to which 1977 film? It is Saturday Night Fever.
JayHOST
Number two, Britannia and Menai Bridges connect which island to the mainland? It is Anglesey.
JayHOST
We've got a Jack appearing on a JDQ.
Ray AddisonHOST
Above Bangor, the city shrinks to a line on the water.
Ray AddisonHOST
The Menai Strait below angles sea beyond.
Ray AddisonHOST
Up here, farming is the backbone of rural life, but the future of Welsh agriculture is a political battleground.
Ray AddisonHOST
Plaid Cymru wants to displace food production in favour of environmental offsetting, while Reform Wales would rewrite the sustainable farming scheme around one simple principle – let farmers farm, produce food and keep rural communities alive.
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