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Welcome to Wales today, our top stories: destruction across the | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
country as more than 35,000 public sector workers' strike. If they | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
think this is destruction, there will be far more to come. Our | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
belief is that other unions will be on board. By autumn it will be the | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
biggest strike in this country for 30 years. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
More than 1000 schools are closed or disrupted as 17,000 teachers | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
walkout. For a lot of teachers it is it -- parents it is a real | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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nuisance. Lot of children are off Our other headlines: stabbed on the | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
way to play skittles, a scathing report finds Gwen Poole's death | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
could have been avoided. Cardiff Blues consider legal action | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
after Dai Young moves to the Wasps. And saving the red squirrel, the | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
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campaign gets a funding boost as Good evening. A public sectors | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
workers across Wales are joined in a one-day strike in a row over | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
changes to their pensions. More than 35,000 people attended rallies | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
and picket lines all over the country. More than 1000 schools had | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
lessons disrupted, some were shot on to get there as 17,000 teachers | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
walk out. Jobcentres, museums and the National Assembly were all | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
affected by the action. Our Business correspondent is outside | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
the main tax centre in Cardiff where many workers stayed away from | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
their desks. Behind me the third biggest a tax | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
office in the UK, one of the big employers in Wales affected by | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
today's action. It was not just those directly employed here that | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
were affected, parents where as well. In terms of the workers, this | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
was a real point of principle today, the No the changes to their | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
pensions will affect the rest of their lives. For the UK government, | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
a point of economic necessity and claimed that the country cannot | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
afford these pensions. What ever the truth, there was no doubting | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
the strength of anger among the workers. | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
They would normally be in classrooms and government offices, | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
but around 500 of the civil servants and teachers marched | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
through the streets of Cardiff this lunchtime. The UK Government says | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
proposals for them to work longer and to contribute more to their | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
pensions are fear. But more than 35,000 public sector workers in | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Wales today shows a disagreement by going on strike. At the rally in | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
Cardiff, they were warned to prepare for the fight of their | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
lives. I do not accept that working people, because they are living | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
longer, should not get a good pension. Cameron and Clegg have a | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
good pension. We are not going to give it up or I were welfare state. | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
We will have a damn good fight. was not just the capital, lock it | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
and rallies were staged his throughout Wales. Around 100 people, | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
mainly teachers, took part in this rally in Wrexham. The PCS Union | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
added DVLA in Swansea said that between 50 and 80% of staff stayed | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
away. At the National Assembly in can -- Cardiff, as a Conservative a | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
Ms turned up as normal, along with at least one Lib Dem, but Plaid | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
Cymru and Labour members did not. PCS members were also on strike at | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
the National Library in Aberystwyth. Here at the main tax office in | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
Cardiff, picket line the gates. Among those striking was Steve | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
Linton. He is a 42-year-old clerical worker who earns �19,500 a | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
year. Under the current arrangement he will retire when he is 60, after | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
40 years of service, and receive a final salary scheme worth roughly | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
half his annual wages. Under the proposals he says he will have to | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
work until he is at least 66 and will have to pay an extra �50 a | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
month in pension contribute -- contributions in order to receive a | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
pension which he hopes will be the same. The pension that we get at | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
the end of it, it is the third page, that is why we except law were | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
wages. It is almost an unwritten part of a wages. You should be | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
rewarded at the end. Or at least be able to live once you retire. | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
financial experts is changes are inevitable, mainly because people | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
are living longer. The Government has known for a very long time that | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
the UK taxpayer cannot afford to continue to fund the generous | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
levels of pensions in the public sector compared to the private | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
sector. In the private sector, the average pension for people retiring | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
now will be much lower than those in the public sector. The UK | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
coalition government claims that even under these new proposals, | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
public sector pensions will still be better than those on offer in | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
business. I think it is unreasonable for the unions to | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
except ordinary taxpayer to work until the a 67 or 68 to allow | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
public sectors to work in at 60, receiving better pensions. Union | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
leaders claim to have the support of the public behind them, that may | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
well be partly true, particularly in Wales without public sector is | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
dominant in many communities, but that only goes so far. That | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
goodwill may be tested to the limit if there are further strikes down | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
the road. The biggest impact on the general public was the knock-on | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
effect of those school closures. Around 1000 schools in Wales were | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
shut completely or partially affected. He is our education | :06:22. | :06:31. | |
correspondent. Morning assembly in Cardiff. The | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
singing is still strong, even though numbers were well down. | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
There is approximately 210 or 220 children not attending school today, | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
being denied their education. The reaction I am having from parents | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
is that they are supportive of what is actually being done today, | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
because of their issue to do with a war pensions. Roughly one quarter | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
of schools closed completely, this school in Bangor was among them. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
University and college lecturers were also on strike, along with | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
17,000 teachers from their nut and NTL. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
Hundreds of teachers, lecturers and public sector workers have come out | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
in Swansea today, a city in which the schools have been eagerly quiet. | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
Almost every single one is close are partially closed. For what it | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
is the teachers who are making the noise. Teachers do not want to be | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
on strike today, we are here today making a stand because we are | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
concerned about the future of our were children. The current | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
proposals mean that we are going to have 68-year-old teachers teaching | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
the year-old, it will be ridiculous. This skill in Bangor was open to | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
all its classes, as were 50% of schools nationwide. There are | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
knock-on effect to these strikes. People need to take time off, they | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
can lose holiday, it is costing the economy a lot of money for the | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
inconvenience to try and arrange childcare will these strikes | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
continue. It is not really helping anybody. For those dupe -- for | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
these children in Carmarthen, the strike met the day in the park. | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
Dead parents mind the extra hassle? They do a marvellous job. They have | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
the right to speak out in this way. Parents in our school this morning | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
where quite confused due to the fact that some schools were Open | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
and some were closed. Negotiations with the UK government are ongoing, | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
but these teachers say, if necessary, they will strike again. | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
Despite the disruption today, it is worth remembering that the majority | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
of public sector workers across the UK were not on strike today. One of | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
the big questions is what will happen, particularly with Unison, | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
them the union which is in top with the UK government on this issue. If | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
it goes on strike in Wales, around 90,000 workers will be affected. | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
Let us speak to dominate -- Dominic MacAskill from Unison. That is the | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
big question, are you going to go on strike? Unison it fully supports | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
action of the teachers and civil servants today, standing up for | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
their pensions. Their fight is were fight. The only issue is around the | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
timing. Unison decided it would exhaust the negotiations with the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
government, albeit we have been very unhappy with the public | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
statements that have been made outside their negotiations, and | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
also we have got 1.2 million members in the UK who will be | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
prepared to ballot. That sounds like you are preparing for strike | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
action? We are hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. The | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
noises coming through is that the Government is looking for windfall | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
tax on public sector workers, rather than trying to make any | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
sustainability for public sector pensions. The fact is that a Hutton | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
report and it Tory-dominated Public Accounts Committee produced a | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
report which demonstrates that public sector pensions are | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
affordable and sustainable. The government is now changing its | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
language. It is about fear and us. We will have to leave it there. | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
Thank you very much. There are plenty of discussions and plenty of | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
work left on this issue. A scathing report into the | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
treatment of a paranoid schizophrenic who went on to stab a | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
grandmother to death in a random street attack has found her death | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
was preventable. 66-year-old Gwen Poole had not known Martin Davies | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
when he stabbed to with a bread knife near her home in Llanbradach | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
near Caerphilly two years ago. The healthcare inspectorate for Wales | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
said there had been failings in the system. | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
It was here in his quiet village that Gwen Poole met her death, | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
stabbed by a kitchen knife as she waited for a lift to go to skittles. | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
Martin D Davies pleaded not guilty to her murder, but guilty to | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He was a | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
violent paranoid schizophrenic who had been receiving treatment for | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
mental health issues since childhood. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
He suffered from hallucinations, voices in his head telling him to | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
kill somebody. On this street he did just that. He stab a | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
grandmother who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
time. Now, this report by the healthcare inspectorate for Wales, | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
has listed a catalogue of failings in his gear and has concluded that | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
Gwen Poole's, site may have been preventable. In 2008 he was | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
discharged from the Cygnett Hospital in Somerset and | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
transferred closer to home to an acute psychiatric hospital in | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
Blackwood. In December of that year a decision was taken to discharge | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
him into the care of the community mental health team who found him a | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
column -- accommodation in new treaty go. Just a week before he | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
killed Gwen Poole he was moved to Llanbradach to stay with his | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
brother. On 24th March 2009 he stabbed Gwen Poole. Earlier that | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
day he being taken to the shops by a mental health worker to buy a | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
bottle of of what cost. It is a catalogue of things that go back to | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
when Martin Davies was a child. He was in crisis from the age of seven. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
There were many interventions we feel could have been brought to | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
fruition at a more timely manner, we feel many of their actions were | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
indefensible. He then went on to present himself to the and E | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
departments asking for admission and help. He was not given the care | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
and support he needed. Today, both local authority and health board | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
excepted the floors are highlighted by the report. They were confident | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
that changes they had endured would help. It is important to make sure | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
that when people are in crisis, they should be able to pull on | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
resources available. One of the changes we have made is to make | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
sure that a crisis intervention team is in place seven days a week. | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
But in Llanbradach there is anger at the feelings of the mental | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
health system. Marilyn Hyde were lives on the spot where Gwen Poole | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
was killed. It is dreadful. If it was predictable it should have been | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
stopped. We should not be put at risk because of other people not | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
doing their job. It has affected the community very badly, it should | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
not have happened. She was a lovely lady, just going about doing her | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
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Plenty still to come on the programme. Dai Young is confirmed | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
as new coach at Wasps. Speculation grows about who will take over at | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
the Blues. I doubt there will be a lack of applicants for the coaching | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
job. The talent in the squad, it his day-job that a lot of coaches | :14:26. | :14:36. | |
would love. And Glamorgan have been stripped of the right to hold an | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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England Test match at the Swalec Stadium next year. The trial of a | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
man accused of murdering Karen Skipper in the 1990s has heard that | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
her ex-husband, could have been the killer after all. The defence | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
claims that Cardiff Labour John Pope is innocent. | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
It is the second time that John Pope has stood trial for this | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
murder. Last December, the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction and | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
ordered a retrial. The murder happened when Karen Skipper had | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
been out walking with her dogs late one Saturday night. Her partially | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
clothed body was found in the river. Her hands were tied behind her back. | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
Initially, her former husband became the prime suspect that at | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
his trial in 1997, he was found not guilty. Today defence lawyers | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
representing John Pope told the court there were any number of men | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
who could have killed Karen Skipper, including the mystery man who has | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
never been identified. But the main suspect, they say, remains her late | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
husband. On the other hand, John Pope, they say is a man of limited | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
At the time of the murder, John Pope told police he did not know | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
Karen Skipper. When he was arrested, he said he had met her three weeks | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
before her death, when he pulled a thorn from her dog's form. The dog | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
had bitten him and that explained how his blood was later found on | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
her trousers. Today, giving his evidence, you said he was not sure | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
when the dog had bitten him. He may have said it was three weeks before | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
the murder because of something the police had said. He told them that | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
he had not know Karen Skipper because he did not realise she was | :16:33. | :16:43. | |
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the woman with the dogs. The case continues. The coroner in the | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
inquest into the death of a fitness instructor, who was stabbed to | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
death while on holiday in the United States, has recorded an open | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
verdict. Lavern Ritch from Penarth was killed in New Jersey four years | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
ago. In April, Robert Davies was jailed for more than 20 years for | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
his manslaughter. Onto tonight's sport, and the news that Glamorgan | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
has lost a Test match it was due to host next year. Our sports reporter | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
Ashleigh Crowter's at the Swalec Stadium tonight. Ash, what | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
happened? England were due to play the West | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
Indies here in Cardiff next year, but now that match will take place | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
somewhere else. The reason is financial. Glamorgan have been | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
forced to ask for extra time to pay the fees, owed to the ECB, for | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
staging the recent test match here against Sri Lanka. Tickets sales | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
were poor and bad weather didn't help either and Glamorgan clearly | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
failed to make the money they'd hoped. The ECB have agreed to that | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
request, but as part of the deal, Glamorgan will now lose the Test | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
next year. Other grounds will be free to bid for it. It's clearly | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
quite embarrassing for Glamorgan to be given a match and then forced to | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
hand it back but in a statement, the club say the deal with ECB has | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
guaranteed the ground's future as a venue for international cricket, | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
with a least one Test, probably in 2014, five one day internationals | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
and T20 match guaranteed to be played here over the next five | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
years. And of course, that includes September's one day international | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
against India, which goes ahead as planned. | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
Meanwhile, on the field, Glamorgan lost their Championship match | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
against Derbyshire on the final day's play here in Cardiff. The | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
Welsh county were bowled out for 283 in their second innings, | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
setting Derbyshire 130 to win. The visitors reached it fairly | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
comfortably, winning by six wickets. Former Wales captain Dai Young is | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
the new director of rugby at London Wasps. The 43-year-old has signed a | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
four year contract with the English Premiership side. He resigned from | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
the Cardiff Blues this morning where he'd been coach for nine | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
years. The capital region is considering legal action after | :18:56. | :19:06. | |
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Wasps rejected their claim for compensation. It has been a badly | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
kept secret. For weeks, he has been linked with Wasps, so there was no | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
surprise when David Young was finally unveiled. After nine years | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
at the Cardiff Blues, his departure has not been without controversy. | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
Everyone is chucking stones at the minute. I feel quite proud of what | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
I have do not be Cardiff Blues. It has not been enough for some people. | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
I have certainly moved the club on every season since I have been | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
there. You cannot coach one-club they ever. I had to move somewhere. | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
If I was going to move somewhere, it had to be a club that I felt I | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
could develop again as a coach. Storm clouds are gathering. A | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
dispute over compensation could end up in the courts with the Cardiff | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
Blues demanding �100,000. We do not believe we have acted improperly | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
over appointing David Young. It is difficult to see where compensation | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
is payable. I think we need to keep on talking and see where Cardiff | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
won to take it. -- want to take it. David Young ones to take this job | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
and this challenge. It has been his decision to do that. So David Young | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
depart after nearly a decade with the Cardiff Blues. He guided them | :20:24. | :20:34. | |
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to two trophies in nine years. They became the first Welsh region to | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
win and European competition. The hunt for his replacement has | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
already started. Gareth Baber and Justin Burnell are tipped to take | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
over. I doubt there will be a lack of applicants for the coaching job. | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
The talent in the squad, I think there will be a lot of coaches in | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
world rugby who would love to coach the calibre of squad that we have | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
at the Cardiff Blues. replacement could be announced soon | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
a possible legal wranglings over his departure could take longer to | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
sort out. It is a very big night for the | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
football club. They are playing their very first match in European | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
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competitions. They added MacShane - Lee Trundle had put Neath ahead but | :21:31. | :21:41. | |
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We will of course bring you the results of those matches in our | :21:44. | :21:54. | |
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bulletin at 10:25pm. The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
stayed close to home on day four of their week-long tour of Wales. This | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
morning they opened the newly- refurbished train station in | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
Llandovery which closed in 1992. They then met volunteers and | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
supporters before officially opening the new Myddfai Village | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
Hall near their home in Llwynywermod. | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
Once, red squirrels were relatively common across Wales. Now they only | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
survive in three or four pockets. But efforts to protect one of their | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
last strongholds have received a boost, with �300,000 of Heritage | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
Lottery Funding. On Anglesey, the cash will be used to safeguard | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
their habitat and encourage local people to get involved with | :22:27. | :22:37. | |
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conservation work. Few of us have probably ever seen one in the wild | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
but they are hanging on, just. On Anglesey, more than a decade of | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
conversation -- conservation work is paying dividends. In other areas, | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
numbers are still fragile but it -- on Anglesey the population is | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
increasing. We take boxes like this and put them up of the trees. The | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
squirrels will use them. It is a nest box for squirrels. One of the | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
tools that the friends of the Anglesey red squirrels use. | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
How important is it to give them a helping hand? It is really | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
important. It benefits them and it benefits us. We can learn more | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
about the behaviour and ecology and use that to fine-tune compers -- | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
conservation in the future. They are also doing their best to remove | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
Grey squirrels. This lottery funding is a big boost. | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
illustrates what you can achieve if you have community support. And | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
also landowner's support. They have been behind us for all these years. | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
This gives us an opportunity to have a new chapter and get red | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
squirrels across the island for the first time. And this really has | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
been a wildlife success story. 15 years ago, there were just 40 red | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
squirrels left on Anglesey. Now there are more than 400. And they | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
are spread out as well. They are beginning to turn up everywhere. | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
There are even supports that some of them are crossing to the | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
mainland. -- reports. If you want to see a red squirrel in the wild, | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
Time now for the weather forecast. We have had mixed weather this | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
month but it looks like getting off to a good start this month. I | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
cannot promise clear blue skies. Clown is likely, but some sunshine | :24:39. | :24:49. | |
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as well. Tonight, another thrash night. Temperatures dropping into | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
single figures. The ridge of high pressure moving up across Britain | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
and that means settled weather. Tomorrow, bright and sunny. As we | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
head further north, we will have some cloud order. Some sunshine. | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
Dry and fairly cloudy for the West Coast, into the south-west. | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
Temperatures in Carmarthen starting off at ten Celsius. Tomorrow, the | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
cloud will spread out. But still bright in places. Some showers | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
possible but much of the country dry. | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
In Flintshire tomorrow, rather cloudy. Temperatures rising to 60 | :25:36. | :25:46. | |
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degrees Celsius. -- 16 Celsius. On the weekend, generally dry. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
Variable cloud. Some sunny spells, pleasantly warm. At the moment, | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
Monday is looking warm. Lots going on this weekend. St | :26:00. | :26:10. | |
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Mary's Church is having a summer BBBC Wales roadshow will be in | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
Llanelli on Sunday. I will be there with a few were the faces. Plenty | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
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Yes, there is plenty going on. A reminder of the top storey. Public | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
sector workers had been on strike today over changes to pensions. At | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
least 35,000 people attended rallies and picket lines. More than | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
1,000 schools were disrupted. Let's go back to our Business | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
correspondent, Nick Servini. Very strong words from union | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
officials and a lot of disruption. 1,000 schools were closed or | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
partially shut. But some big questions tonight. How much | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
sympathy and support is there among the general public? And what has | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
gone to happen to those negotiations with the UK | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
government? Will we see the bigger public sector unions take straps -- | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
strike action in the autumn? A quick look ahead now to what's on | :27:26. | :27:34. |