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Hello, welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's top stories: A partial | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
victory for parents. They win more time in the fight to stop school | :00:07. | :00:15. | |
closures, but is a delay really benefiting anyone? If the | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
consultation is relaunched in October and comes back much the | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
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same, we'll be back out there Also tonight: | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Good news at this hi-tech medical company. The workforce is doubling, | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
but there are fears we're being left behind by England's new | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
Enterprise Zones. Patients in wales are waiting too | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
long for treatment, and the situation is far worse than a year | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
ago. Not what the manager expected - the | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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drainage works that uncovered a medieval monument beneath his hotel. | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
I've been cleared by the surgeon to play, so I'm fine, good to go. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
And, Dwayne Peel says he's ready to play. Wales bosses say he's not. So | :01:10. | :01:19. | |
who's telling the truth? Good evening. Hundreds of parents and | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
pupils have stepped up their fight against school closures. The latest | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
protest as councils try to cut down on surplus places in the classroom. | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
The campaigners gathered in Mold outside a special meeting of | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
Flintshire Council, and the parents won a partial victory after a | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
consultation on plans. What they wanted was the process | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
stopped. What they won was a delay, a breathing space, in Flintshire as | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
elsewhere in Wales the prospect of school closures hasn't proved | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
popular, with pupils among the first to leap to the defence of | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
their own particular institution. think it is a really good school | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
and I reckon I've got lots out of it so far. I think it will be a | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
shame to knock it down. It is a really friendly school and it is | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
fifth in Wales, so it will be really upsetting if it merges or it | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
is closed down. The issue is thes mismatch between school places and | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
the number of pupils to fill them. Flintshire has a series of options | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
ranging from amalgamations and shared sites to closures. | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
This High School would have merged with another under one head. | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
Another would have closed altogether. Elsewhere Welsh medium | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
and primary schools would have been introduced on one site. Now council | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
has decided to extend the deadline into December, opening the | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
possibility for other solutions. give as real opportunity to go back | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
to the drawing board, all options to be discussed and the suss pluses | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
to be discussed in a proper manner which don't include Argoed. We need | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
to have lengthy discussions with the group leaders involved and try | :03:17. | :03:26. | |
to find a way forward which will involve most of them. Haven't we | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
been here before? Protest after protest. The issue of surplus | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
school places has been cropping up across the country. The carrot for | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
authorities cutting places and by extension closing schools was | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
moirch from the Welsh Government, called 21st century schools funding. | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
But spending cuts mean that pot is smaller, with a warning that the | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
process will have to slow. Flintshire is hoping to get some of | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
that cash as well. A battle won by the protesters today but it is only | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
a battle. What the council has done is agree to delay its consultation. | :04:03. | :04:13. | |
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The proposals haven't gone away. Why can't it be sorted more | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
quickly? It is very difficult. Local authorities have to follow | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
the rules and the rules state you have to consult. If you don't | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
consult properly the parents we've heard tonight can go to the courts | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
and ask from a judicial review. At the end of the process the local | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
authority doesn't make the decisions. It's the Minister for | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
Education, Leyton Andrews. If he believes the authority hasn't | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
followed the rules properly he can ask them to go back. Local | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
government has to do something about this issue. A-level results | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
are out tomorrow. How much of this ruckus over organisation is | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
affecting the children? It is all about education isn't it? Lots of | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
children and parents like their local school. But at the end of the | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
day local government is going to have less money to spend on | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
education in the next few years. The Assembly is rightly saying, we | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
want that money to go further. We've had a report which says that | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
surplus places need to be attacked. In Flintshire recommendation one | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
was look at your places and develop a modernisation programme. | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
Flintshire needs �40 million to bring it up to the schools -- bring | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
schools up to the standard we would all want for our children. What | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
should they be doing? Today's postponement doesn't help anybody. | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
They've got to get it right, in the eyes of the parents, the Assembly | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
and the authority's members. You can't postpone this any longer. It | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
is an issue that has to be addressed, to spend money in the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
right places. In Flintshire you have secondary schools with 1,000 | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
pupils and others with 427. One primary school has less than 30. It | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
Costas lot to education children in a very small school. Many would | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
argue that with less money we have to make sure the money goes further. | :06:06. | :06:14. | |
Jeff Jones, thank you. There was some disappointing news | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
on unemployment today, as the number of those out of work in | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
Wales rose unexpectedly. The figures show 122,000 people are | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
unemployed here, up 10,000 on the last quarterly figures. That's 8.4% | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
of the workforce. Since the start of last year, the figures have | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
ranged from a high of 9.3% in the first quarter of last year before | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
coming down to the 8.4% we see today. Business leaders say more | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
could be done to get people back to work. Welsh unemployment is also | :06:35. | :06:43. | |
higher than other parts of the UK. One of the things we would like to | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
see is the work trial scheme extended from six months to the | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
first day somebody signs on for jobseeker's allowance. A individual | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
would voluntary go into a business, maybe increase their confidence, | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
upscale, and the benefit to the business would be maybe business | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
growth adding to that business and maybe creating a permanent position | :07:06. | :07:14. | |
for that individual as well. Welsh un employment is higher than most | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
parts of the UK. 8.4% of people here are out of work, compared with | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
7.9% in England, 7.7% in Scotland, and only 7.3% in Northern Ireland. | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
Well, the Welsh Government says the figures show how volatile the | :07:24. | :07:34. | |
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economy is. So, how will politicians tackle the jobless | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
figures? The Welsh Government is being urged to decide quickly on | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
new Enterprise Zone amid fears we could be left behind by England. | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
Today the UK announced its full list of English enterprise zones, | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
four of which lie just across the border. The zones are designed to | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
breathe new life into economic black spots by offering incentsives | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
to businesses. Flintshire, Barry and Cardiff would all like to said | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
up new zones, but so far no decisions have been made here. More | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
from James Williams. It may not look like much now but Flintshire | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
Council believe this is land could unlock the economic potential of | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
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forth Wales, creating 5 ,000 jobs. Councillors want it to be | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
designated an enterprise zone. �10 million has been set aside for | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
the scheme. A scheme is set up in the Wirral, so it is important we | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
make decisions. We know the Welsh Government are not necessarily | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
against the idea. But let's go forward, let's make decisions and | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
get those jobs for people. This site is within a stone's throw from | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
England. Developments across the border are creating a sense of | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
urgenty in this part of Wales, as the Westminster Government | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
announced this year it would be establishing an enterprise zone in | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
the Wirral, new Liverpool. The site, with 20 others in England, would | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
benefit from superfast broadband, lower taxes, to encourage growth. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
It has led to fears it could attract businesses away from Wales | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
unless the Government acts soon. haven't had an announcement by the | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Welsh Government yet and knowing the lack of rapidity of decision | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
making by the Welsh Civil Service it is going to be unlikely if a | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
decision is made before Christmas that these be in by this time next | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
year. That will mean that the English region will have had 12 | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
months to contact and develop their links with companies and attract | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
investment. Enterprise zones were introduced to Wales by the Thatcher | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Government in materialy 1980s. In 1981 Swansea was the first site in | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
the UK, followed by sites in Pembroke shire and Delyn. Now | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
Flintshire and Glamorgan councils want to reintroduce the policy in | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
their patches. Not everyone is convinced. A leading London think- | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
tank questions their worth. Up to 80% of zones created in the 1980s | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
were moved from within the same town or city and across the country. | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
Because you are concentrating in a small area of land and creating an | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
unlevel playing field for businesses in that area there's a | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
danger that rather than creating jobs you are moving them around. | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
The Welsh Government says they are currently looking at options for | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
Enterprise Zone. Flintshire Council must hope that decisions are made | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
before businesses direct their attention elsewhere. | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
How to encourage enterprise in Wales is becoming a significant | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
debate. The Welsh Government says it is keen to trumpet innovation. | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
One firm in east Wales has doubled its workforce this year. It has | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
created a new device which monitors blood clovements it allows patients | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
to work out the correct -- blood clots. It allows patients to work | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
out the correct dose they need. The company is about to export to | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
America. Everyone knows that chips can be bad for your health but | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
these could have the opposite effect. Cick ro visk is using -- | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
microvisc. To monitor coagulation correctly you should be taking | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
results on a weekly basis. The Food and Drug Administration in the US | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
advises tow do it weekly. You are not going to go to your doctor | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
weekly, so the user can simply and quickly take their coagulation time | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
at home in exactly the way as a diabetic would take their glucose. | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
A drop of blood is added to a strip containing a microsensor. That's | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
inserted into a hand-held monitor which gives people an idea of their | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
clotting levels. This disk contains enough sensors to make more than | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
2,000 strips. They are nanosensors. The chips move up and down and work | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
out how long it takes for the blood to thicken. This is Joe. He had a | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
stroke eight years ago and takes warfarin, a blood-thinning drug | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
used by 8 million people in the western world to lower the chance | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
of further clots. I get a reading, if I get a reading which is 1.5 and | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
I know should be between 2 and 3, I can increase the dose myself and | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
test it within a couple of days or a week, whatever they tell you to | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
do with this machine, and take it from there. The company has doubled | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
its workforce from 20 to 30. Next year they will begin full-scale | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
manufacturing with the hope that patients will have the means to | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
diagnose themselves at the touch of Still ahead tonight: He's lined up | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
for his team photo with Sale. Dwayne Peel says he is ready to | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
play, but Wales bosses say he is still injured and can't be | :13:12. | :13:22. | |
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considered for selection. The NHS in Wales is still missing | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
its target of treating 95% of hospital patients within six months | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
have been referred by a GP. And the situation is far worse now than a | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
year ago. 18 months ago, in January last year, only 1.5% of patients | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
were waiting more than six months for treatment. In June last year, | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
the figure was 3.5%. And the latest figures to be released show the | :13:42. | :13:52. | |
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figure is now more than 7%. Arwyn Jones is at the Senedd. | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
What is the explanation? Why are waiting times going up? Well, if | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
you speak to the Welsh government, they will say it is because we are | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
an ageing population. More specifically, the additional | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
pressures that puts on orthopaedic services. If you look at the | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
statistics, you will see it is because orthopaedic services are | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
dragging down the rest of the NHS. The reason for that is because | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
there is an ageing population with greater demand for things like hip | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
surgery, for example, any replacement surgery. And with that, | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
greater demand so an increase in the chances of the waiting list | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
going up. But the opposition in the assembly don't accept that, do | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
they? No, they placed the blame firmly at the door of the Welsh | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
government. They say it is because the policy of reducing the role of | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
the private sector in the NHS in Wales, and that in turn reduces | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
capacity. Then the result is more people waiting longer for their | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
services. They say that the Welsh government is put in politics ahead | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
of the needs of patients. They refer not any to the fact that more | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
people are waiting six months, but also the number of people waiting | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
over nine months for their treatment has rocketed over the | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
last 18 months. What is the Welsh government saying it is going to do | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
about it? Well, they have already announced that there will be an | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
extra �65 million made available over the next few years for | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
orthopaedic services, and they are confident that will get to grips | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
with the issue. So much so, that they have said by the end of 20th | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
March 12 they will be hitting their targets. So, once referred by their | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
GP, 95% of patients in Wales will then receive fair treatment within | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
that six-month bracket. A father and two children overcome by fumes | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
in their tent whilst camping have been discharged from hospital. That | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
children's mother died in the incident. It is believed the fumes | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
were caused by a barbecue in or near the tent. | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
An inquest has heard how a man found in a park in Bangor during | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
the cold weather last December died of hypothermia. Patrick Cleary, 48, | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
was discovered close to the city's Cathedral a week before Christmas. | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
A verdict of accidental death was recorded. The new Vice Chancellor | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
of Aberystwyth University says she is prepared to look at the | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
possibility of working more closely with Bangor University. The Welsh | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
government has backed plans that would see many higher education | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
institutions merge. But in her first interview since arriving from | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
Edinburgh, Professor April McMahon told us she hopes Aberystwyth is | :16:26. | :16:36. | |
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given an opportunity to show what it can offer on its own first. | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
This -- there is no shortage of good luck cards at Professor | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
McMahon's new offers. And the Vice Chancellor knows it is an uncertain | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
time for the university. The education minister has told our | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
higher education institutions to adapt or die. Leighton Andrews | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
supports plans to reduce the number of Welsh universities from 10-6, | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
but that would mean asking some of them to merge. I believe that it is | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
right to say that they have been too many small institutions in | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
Wales. If you are asking me if Aberystwyth there is one of those, | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
then clearly I have a strong view that we can be a had -- healthy and | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
sustainable University. So a merger with Bangor is not on the cards | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
just yet? We have been asked to look at it over the longer term. It | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
would only be reasonable to look at all the possibilities, but I would | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
like to see us given the opportunity to show what we can | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
deliver while maintaining two very important and quite different | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
brands through the Universities of Bangor and Aberystwyth. In May, | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
Aberystwyth became the first Welsh university to announce it will be | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
increasing tuition fees to �9,000 next September. And, even though | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
she had not started her new job then, Professor Mike Ma'am was part | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
of the decision-making process. -- Professor McMahon. The previous | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
funding regime for higher education, given the numbers that now come | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
into the system, I'm afraid that it just was not sustainable. April | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
McMahon's appointment was controversial because at the time | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
she was not a Welsh speaker. Seven months on, she has made significant | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
progress learning the language. But, barely a fortnight into her new job, | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
she already realises even greater challenges lie ahead. | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
Aberystwyth University is already full for next year, the only Welsh | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
university not offering any places through clearing to students. They | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
will get their A-level results tomorrow morning, and most of our | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
universities are expecting a rush of calls. His our education | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
correspondent. This is the clearing centre here at | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, where, tomorrow A-level | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
results day, these phones will be ringing pretty much non-stop. It is | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
going to be incredibly competitive yet again this year as applications | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
are up, but unfortunately thousands of students will miss out on a | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
university place. There will be celebrations, too, and we will | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
bring those scenes do you from across the country. Join us | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
tomorrow night on a Wales Today from 6:30pm. | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
If you're waiting for those important exam results, have a look | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
at the BBC News website where there is a full list of phone lines and | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Web links to Welsh universities for students still looking for a | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
university place. Now, when one hotel manager in | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Conwy started drainage work on his grounds, he didn't expect to | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
uncover three medieval walls. They are believed to be from Maenan | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
Abbey near Llanrwst and are thought to be nearly 700 years old. Kate | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
Morgan reports. They may not look like much, but | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
these are the stones of one of the original medieval walls of men and | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
Abbey. They are nearly 700 years old, and one of three 13th century | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
walls found at this hotel recently. We started some work on the hotel's | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
drainage system a few weeks ago, and we started within -- with one | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
change. Within an hour of digging the came across one medieval war. | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
The abbey was built here in 1283, but was destroyed in the 16th | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
century when Henry eighth shut down the monasteries, and there has been | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
no trace of it until now. From what we can gather, the Abbey was a very | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
impressive building, which would have been something totally amazing | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
in this area. Experts have already covered two of the walls with | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
Tarmac to protect them from damage, but the hotel manager says he wants | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
to find a way to uncover them safely and make them are a feature | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
of the grounds. Rugby, and a row has broken out over the decision | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
not to include scrum half Dwayne Peel in Wales's pre-World Cup squad. | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
The Welsh management say he is injured, but that has been | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
contradicted by both Dwayne Peel and his club Sale, who both say he | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
is fully fit and ready to play. With 79 caps and buckets of | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
experience with Wales and the Lions, Dwayne Peel is the player most | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
coaches would love to have in their team. But, five days before Warren | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
Gatland names his World Cup squad, the Sale scrum half looks set to be | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
overlooked. He had been set to return to the squad for their last | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
two warm-up games but was not called up. This is how the | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
management explained their decision on Friday. He is up and running, | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
doing all the fitness stuff, but he can't do any of the contact. He had | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
a bumper last week and as a result has become unavailable to us in | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
terms of preparation for this game. But that just isn't true, according | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
to Dwayne Peel. He says he has been in full training for several weeks. | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
I started the first week in June. I am fine now and have been cleared | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
by the surgeon to play. I am fine, good to go. He has been available | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
since July. As fit as a butcher's dog. The reason he has not been | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
picked is on their selection policy. There is no doubt that his decision | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
to play rugby in England has affected his international | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
prospects and his touch -- chances of playing in the World Cup. He | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
missed all of Wales's summer fitness camps. There's been a | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
number of occasions where he has not been available to us. He was | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
not available until 4th August, which hampered his opportunities. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
We have been pleased with the progress Mike Phillips made in the | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
first two games, and the two youngsters are really put in | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
pressure on him. And so, for all his skill and experience, Dwayne | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
Peel seems to be well down the pecking order with Wales, and is | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
facing the prospect of watching the World Cup on television. | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
Football, and Cardiff City will try to extend their unbeaten run to | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
four matches tonight when they play Brighton in the championship. Both | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
teams have a perfect record in the league so far. Cardiff go into the | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
game of the back of a thumping 3-1 win over Bristol City on Sunday. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
It is something we have talked- about and we wanted to become | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
reality. Major when people look at the fixed to live and see they have | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
got carted away they are in for a hard game. Hopefully we can build | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
of Sunday's performance against Bristol. Commentary of that game | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
will be live on BBC Radio Wales this evening. | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
Glamorgan are playing cricket in Colwyn Bay this week. They made a | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
reasonable start to their match with Leicestershire. At the close | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
of the first day, the Welsh county Summer seems to have disappeared | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
for the moment. It is looking lovely there at the moment, how | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
does it look for the rest of the week? | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
It is looking mixed, but we have got more in the way of summery | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
weather heading our way. It is a beautiful evening he in Cardiff Bay, | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
feeling warm in the sunshine. Tomorrow more in the way of cloud, | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
but also some sunny spells. Much of the brighter intervals tomorrow | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
morning will be across the north and west. More in the way of cloud | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
across the south-east. Tonight, for all of us brightening up nicely. | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
Becoming dry for all of us in the overnight period, and we will see | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
more in the way of cloud pushing into parts of the south-east and | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
into the early hours of tomorrow morning. Temperatures 9 - 13 | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
Celsius with light winds. The pressure chart for tomorrow shows | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
an area of low pressure sitting across France, so that weather | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
front bushing in from the south- east. More in the way of cloud for | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
the south-east, but brighter conditions across the north and | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
west. Through the day, we will start to see thicker cloud making | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
its way in from the West, and with that comes a few showers, merging | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
into longer spells of rain. By the time we get into the afternoon it | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
will be cloudy with a few showers, but not as bad as originally | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
forecast. Tomorrow's top temperature 14 - 17 Celsius. Under | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
the cloud it will feel rather cool by the afternoon. Light winds from | :25:31. | :25:41. | |
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As we go into tomorrow night, we would start to see the showers | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
clearing the way. It won't be as warm as deceiving. Clearer | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
conditions through the night and into the early hours of Friday | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
morning. Overnight temperatures dipping as low as eight Celsius, so | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
it will be a cooler night than tonight. That sets the scene nicely | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
for Friday, which is likely to be the best day of the week. Lots of | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
sunshine from the word go. The day to be out and about and even to | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
have a barbecue. Make the most of it because Saturday is looking | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
rather changeable. Cloudy from the word go, on and off throughout the | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
day. Much better on Sunday. Brighter conditions coming through | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
with temperatures creeping up to about 21 Celsius, the best day of | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
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the weekend. Make the most of the The main headlines again: David | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
Cameron has praised the courts for handing out tough sentences to some | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
of those involved in last week's riots and looting in England. Some | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
senior Lib Dems say sentences have been disproportionate. | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
Unemployment in Wales rose unexpectedly today. 122,000 people | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
are out of work here, that is 8.4% of the work force. The UK figure | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
also rose in the three months to June to just under 2.5 million. | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
Hundreds of parents and pupils have stepped up their fight against | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
school closures. Flintshire council today voted to delay a consultation | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
on plans that could have seen some schools closed. | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
And just a reminder, if you have got a story you think we should be | :27:20. | :27:26. |