: "How is it that they can quite easily now, at the stroke of a pen, reclassify a project when Wales loses out from doing so, where, just in January this year, they claimed that in the context of HS2, it was impossible for them to fix the injustice of the classification that they inherited from the Conservatives?
"I'll never have a relationship with my mother now," said Jessica.Swansea Crown Court previously heard, due to inflation, the sum stolen by the "greedy and spiteful" Hills was now worth about £65,000.
Katherine Hill put the money in an instant access Barclays Everyday Saver account, despite being advised not to, and both she and her dad had cards to access it - draining the contents within a year.Between March 2016 and March 2017, the account where the money was held was emptied in 10 withdrawals, with £35,000 withdrawn in three transactions alone, the court heard.Gemma and Jessica grew up in Neath Port Talbot with their parents, and said Hill was a "good mother".
"She was like my best friend", said Gemma, now 26, adding "no-one saw this coming".She said Hill did not have a good relationship with her own mother Margaret Hill - who split from her father when Hill was a teenager - though the girls did not know why.
Margaret Hill died in 2014, while [Katherine] Hill was divorcing the girls' father, Chris Thomas.
At the time Jessica was just 12 and not told about the inheritance, but Gemma, who was 15 "understood a little bit more".Despite Tuesday's announcement of new government investment, work on Sizewell C started some time ago, with the main site being cleared and land being dug up for a new link road.
Chris Matthews, a trainee paramedic from nearby Leiston, said a new nuclear power plant would be a boost to the town."I've lived here 10 years, always in the shadow of two historical power plants so I don't really see what difference a third is going to make," the 36-year-old said.
"It's going to be good for the town, for the local economy. There's the negatives of the traffic, but actually that's bearable when you can see the increased revenue and income coming into the town," he added."Ultimately if we want this country to be independent and self-sustaining we need the resources and the electric to be in-house, so it needs to come from somewhere."