14/09/2011 BBC Wales Today

Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's headlines.

A five year old is killed in an accident with a car parked on the

family's drive. His father tells us He was an individual in the true

sense of the world. I think he would have grown up to be anything

Also in the programme tonight. Queuing round the block to get a

job, as figures show unemployment is up again. It is all very well

seeing this care, but how many people will actually get a job.

Huge support from Welsh fans. The Tour of Britain peddles from

Welshpool. Some of TV's biggest shows,

Casualty and Upstairs Downstairs, Good evening. The father of a five-

year-old boy who died after an incident with a car on the driveway

of their home near Pontardawe says his death is an absolute tragedy.

Harry Patterson was flown to hospital by air ambulance yesterday

evening from his home in Alltwen, Harry Patterson was a happy five

year old boy. Yesterday evening, while at his home in Alltwen, he

was involved in an accident with a car parked on the family's drive.

It's not known yet exactly what happened, but the loss has

devastated his family. Harry was a five year old, our youngest, a real

individual in the truest sense of He would have grown up to be do

whatever he wanted. At the time he wanted to be a chef and I think he

could have done that. It happened further down this road yesterday

evening. The five year old was airlifted to hospital, but later

died. The community is in shock and his death has been described

It is very sad. I saw the boy lying on the floor. The ambulance was

working. I saw him being put on the bed and taken down the road. This

afternoon, the five year old's school described him as fun-loving,

who was very popular with the children and staff. Clutching his

son's homework, Harry's father said it summed up everything about his

little boy. It says my name is Harry, my favourite thing is

playing with my friends. He's drawn a picture of his family his brother,

most importantly on the back there's a box that says things that

concern me he's written the word nothing. He was a very happy child.

What happened was absolutely tragic. South Wales Police have removed the

silver Seat car for examination and are now appealing for witnesses.

Unemployment in Wales has risen for the second month in a row. Today's

results show its risen by 7,000 this quarter. That means the

jobless figure now stands at 122,000, with Wales having a rate

of unemployment of 8.4%. That's higher than the UK average. In the

Rhondda, people have been queuing to find work at a jobs fair from

where our business correspondent Nick Servini reports. This is what

happens when 200 jobs are advertised as being up for grabs at

an event. Welsh unemployment levels may not be the highest in the UK,

but 122,000 is still high. The jobseeker's here this morning know

they face a challenge. How many people actually get a job? It is

all very well seeing all these people, but how many will get a

job? There is not a lot of jobs but there are a lot of unemployed

people. Everyone is competing for the same job. You have to have the

better qualifications are you will not get the job. Crowds like these

that day jobs them tells its own story about how competitive things

are. It has been reflected in stories from employers who say

they're a inundated with hundreds of CVs for a handful of vacancies.

One of those employers is Clare Hall works for a local insurance

broker. She is looking to take on sales assistants. I had 200

applications will sift through which was a fantastic response. I

had strong candidates as well. this area, they currently have 574

unfilled vacancies. They will be more with other region -- other

agencies. But there are more than 7,000 people claiming jobseeker's

allowance. To give themselves any chance, it seems jobseeker's have

to be willing to travel. One of the organisers of Today's event says

that can be a major obstacle. Problems relate to getting to work

because the cost of getting to work is astronomical. That is especially

for lower-paid jobs in the service sector. You have to take into

account how much you were taking home at the end of the day.

Communities across Wales need more vacancies like these. As things

stand, the economy here is not creating them.

It is a similar picture across Wales. In Wrexham, the Caia Park

Partnership helps those looking for work. They offer courses from

carpentry to help with your job interviews. In a moment, we'll

speak to somebody who runs the training centre. But first, let's

hear from those being trained there. The building trade is now non-

existent. There is nothing I can do about it. There are hundreds of

people in the building trade too are out of work. I work in the

finance department here. Day-to-day I do things like sales and

purchases and process in coming requisitions and so on. You were

told that they would be plenty of jobs.

We can speak now to Alison Hill, who is manager of the Caia Park

Partnership, which helps people in the Wrexham area find work or

training. They are not many jobs. The quality of the jobs are not

there. Most of the jobs are part- time and low-paid. Many people go

for those jobs because -- so they are vastly oversubscribed. People

are not hearing anything back from employers and employers are saying

they are so over subscribed they cannot get back to people. This

causes a lot of distress and people lose hope. Tell us about your

scheme. How successful is it? scheme provides paid employment for

people on a full-time basis and replace them with a local employer

for three or four months. That benefit the beneficiary because

they are able to gain training and hands-on work experience. The

employer also gets a subsidised member of staff. Our first scheme

has just finished and out of the 24 came on it, nearly 50% have gone on

to employment. Another two or three people have gone on to full-time

education. House secure is that scheme? How long do you have

funding for? The scheme is currently funded by Europe and will

come to an end in June next year. We do not have more places left.

Every time we have run it, we can put eight or 10 people on it. It is

oversubscribed. We had almost 50 people applying for 12 places the

The latest unemployment figures come on the day that unions

representing thousands of public sector workers in Wales have

confirmed they'll ballot for a strike over pensions. It is thought

a coordinated day of action will be held on November 30. Dominic

MacAskill is from Unison The student who rescued a toddler from

the fountain outside Cardiff City Hall says the water should be

fenced off to prevent such The pensions were reformed in 2007.

At that time, it was projected that would save the country �65 billion

over the next five decades. Duly other thing the report identified

was that the costs of public sector pensions as a percentage of GDP had

peaked and would be coming down over the years for the foreseeable

future. It is not about affordability. This is about a

windfall tax and public sector workers. The money they will get

from our members is not to make these schemes better, it is to pay

off debts which the bank has occurred when we had the crisis.

One of the biggest issues is public support. Will you be able to rely

on support? Our campaign is about fair pensions for all. We need to

have dignity and respect in retirement. They may be a lack of

support? It does not assist in having a race to the bottom just

because the private sector is closing down pension schemes, it is

not right to undermine the sustainable pension schemes we have

in the public sector at the moment. The student who rescued a toddler

from a fountain outside Cardiff City Hall says the water should be

fenced off to prevent such accidents happening again. The two

year old is still in a stable condition in intensive care

following the accident yesterday afternoon. 21-year-old law student

Scott Taylor jumped in to rescue the child and then used First Aid

skills he learnt in the army cadets. I shouted at passers-by to call the

ambulance. At that point I jumped in and pulled the kid to the side

where myself and others started CPR. With all the families that come

here on a hot summer's day, you would expect some kind of defence

from children falling in especially little children. This is knee-high

on me and I am over six foot. Hopefully, something like this

should never happen again. Education Minister Leighton Andrews

is facing opposition from within his own party to proposed changes

to Glyndwr University in Wrexham. A group of Labour MPs and AMs are

making a joint-submission to the Higher Education Funding Council

for Wales. They say plans to merge services with Aberystwyth and

Bangor Universities could take the leadership of Glyndwr away from the

North East. An inquest jury has heard how a

steelworker, described as a hero by colleagues, died after falling into

a channel of molten slag metal that could reach temperatures of 1400

degrees centigrade. 49-year-old Kevin Downey died just hours after

the accident at the Corus steelworks in Port Talbot in 2006.

The court was told he devoted his life to the company and helped to

save men injured in the 2001 explosion. Kevin Downey had worked

at the Port Talbot steelworks for 33 years. He was described as a

font of all knowledge on blast On a night of 24th April 2006 he

was on shift in blast furnace at four, where slag is produced. It is

filtered away in large channels and temperatures inside can reach 1400

degrees centigrade. Mr Downey fell from a verandah in the blast

furnace into one of those slag runners. A colleague Paulton to

safety and said he remained calm and lucid throughout. Mr Downey

told him an increase in steam made it too hot to stay on the verandah.

He said he tried to retrace his steps and fell and tried his radio

and couldn't call for help. He said he thought he was going to die. The

father of two was rushed to Swansea's Morriston Hospital

suffering 80 percent burns, and died just hours later. The inquest

heard the slag runner was uncovered because it was being cleaned but an

increase in steam in the room hampered visibility so cleaning was

put on hold and the covers were left off. Today, the jury was told

�6 million has been spent on improving these covers. Barriers

are now put up around uncovered runners and a different process is

used for releasing the steam. Kevin Downey died a hero in many people's

eyes because he helped rescue colleagues in the devastating

explosion in 2001, where three work -- three steelworkers died. Mr

Downey attended the inquest and it emerged he was pivotal in shutting

down blast furnace 5 before pulling men to safety. The inquest into his

death continues tomorrow. Still to come: The fans out in

force as the Tour of Britain rides in to Wales, but one of our big

cycling hopes may be disappointed tonight.

Does it look familiar? As TV dramas like Upstairs downstairs set up in

new studios here we go behind the First, a row has broken out on

Anglesey as a company behind plans to build a new nuclear power

station says it may need more land for the project. Horizon Nuclear

Power says it has contacted landowners, but one local farmer is

refusing to sell. The issue may be settled by compulsory up --

compulsory purchase. The Jones family's Farm has been on

Anglesey for 300 years and this is the latest generation to take up

the business, but how much longer will they be able to work the land

here? Preparations for a replacement for the ageing Well the

nuclear power station on moving ahead. Horizon, the company behind

it, has already bought 500 acres to accommodate the plant and says it

may need more. 85 acres of the Jones's farm has been earmarked as

land they say they cannot afford to lose. They are threatening to take

65 acres of our best agricultural land together with another 20 acres,

which would mean that the 80 cows we milk would have to be disbursed,

and the land remaining would not be viable as an agricultural unit.

as a devastating effect on him. It is his home, his family home. He

knows nothing else. That is where he was brought up, and it is a

great shame that something like this has to happen. Horizons as it

needs the land for temporary use during construction and for

landscaping afterwards. Compulsory purchase is an option but the

company insists it would rather not have to apply for the powers.

are talking to a number of Londoners at the moment because we

think we need more land for use temporarily during construction --

a number of landowners. Because reporters have been -- compulsory

purchase orders have been mentioned, but that is not a road we want to

go down. We want to come to mutual agreement in terms of land use

around the edges of the site. still by no means certain that the

new will buy plant will be built. The start of the planning process

is at least 18 months off. With a green light, the developers hope

construction work could begin in 2015.

Theatr Colwyn will hold it's first performance tonight following a

major facelift. The theatre in Colwyn Bay is the oldest in Wales

and has had nearly �800,000 spent on a major front of house

redevelopment. The terrain of Wales provides a

test for some of the world's best cyclists today.

Good evening. Geraint Thomas came close, but in the end he couldn't

win the Welsh stage of the Tour of Britain. The cyclist from Cardiff

hope for a better result on the road where he used to train as a

boy, but he and many other big names in world cycling receive

fantastic support from Welsh fans as they completed the 114 mile

course. The normally peaceful grounds of

Powys Castle were transformed for the start of today's race. 96

cyclists and a huge entourages invaded Welsh port ready for stage

four of the Tour of Britain. It is quite a spectacle to see the riders

and the preparation. It is nice to see Mark Cavendish after his

exploits in the Tour de France. doubt about the centre of attention,

Geraint Thomas from Cardiff, who started the day third in the

overall standings. Coming to Wales and fishing Caerphilly, down the

road from where I grew up, it will be a great day. I trained at Brecon

all the time. I grew up on those roads as a kid so it is a special

day and hopefully we can finish it off well. Just after 10 am the

riders set off on the 114 mile journey through some of Wales's

most beautiful but most demanding terrain. From Welshpool they headed

to Newtown, Llandrindod Wells, then Brecon and Mountain Ash and the

finish in Caerphilly. Five kilometres from the end came the

test that would separate the men from the boys. Caerphilly mountain

is the steepest climb in the Tour of Britain and it was here that

Geraint Thomas chose to make a lung-bursting challenge for the

lead. The fans at the finish line only wanted to see one result, but

when it came to the sprint, the Welshman just lost out. Ironically

to 0 -- the Norwegian driver who picked him to the yellow jersey in

the Tour de France -- Norwegian rider. But his placing was good

enough to move to second in the overall standings. The amount of

Welsh fans and times I heard my name, you will never forget that. I

would like to thank everybody for coming out and showing great

support. As I said, unfortunately, I couldn't pay them back, but there

we go. Sprint king Mark Cavendish and the Welsh mountains even

tougher and was way down in the field but world cycling fans

enjoyed seeing their heroes close- up. It was fantastic. We followed

them last year at Swansea but this is even more local here. My kids

talk about Geraint Thomas in the same way they talk about famous

football and rugby players. It is fantastic for Wales. The size of

the crowd is an indication of the rise of cycling as a sport in Wales,

but so do these people will have to wait another 12 months to see if a

home rider can win the Welsh stage. In New Zealand, Wales had a good

look at their opponents for this weekend as Samoa victory macro

their opening World Cup match against Namibia. Wales know it will

be another huge physical encounter. Samoa at their destructive best,

Namibia struggling to cope with their presence as they ran in six

tries, but it didn't go all their way. They were left counting the

cost with the fly half for staff and the flanker picking up a bridge

injury. They will hope both can recover in time to face Wales in

four days. The win, having trims down to just under 20 stone for the

World Cup, scored a hat-trick which is a stern warning for Wales.

have been here long enough to know how to attract these big guys, but

saying that, a lot of the great rugby players are out there.

Hopefully they will have to keep an eye on me as well. It is a big game,

and we have to play our best rugby against these guys. Wales have been

enjoying a break between games training in Lake Taupo ahead of --

in front of plenty of support and funds are confident they can come

through the group. It will clearly be a tough game. Country mark --

Samoa have beaten us twice before. Hopefully we are confident.

victory will do. Let's get some points on the board. We are

definitely going to win. Up Wales! We are hoping to go all the way to

the World Cup final. Warren Gatland will name his side to face Samoa on

Friday with Gethin Jenkins and Stephen Jones both fit for

selection. Wales are prepared to get battered and bruised, knowing

it is a must-win game. In cricket, in the final county

champions chip much of the season Glamorgan declared 423 in response

to Kent's 237. Kent are 28 without loss with 10 wickets remaining.

Finally, two medals, one by it footballer John Charles in Italy,

have been sold for just �8,000 in Hull. The player known as the

gentle giant died in 2004. The medals were awarded to him in 1960

when he helped Juventus win the Italian league. He was born in

Swansea. He knew all about performing on the big stage, and

the BBC's new drama studios in Cardiff Bay are about to welcome

the cast and crew of some of TB's biggest shows.

It is the new home of Dr Hope, Holby General and Upstairs

downstairs. We had a preview of Wales's newest and biggest studios.

-- Dr Who. A London town house circa 1938 and

the accident and emergency department of a city hospital, both

recreated in Cardiff Bay. This is Roath Lock, the new home to some of

television's most popular shows. In one of the giant studios, there are

nine in total, you will find 165 Eaton Place, the setting for

Upstairs downstairs. These are the biggest studios the BBC owns, and

the site itself is the length of three football pitches. So there is

plenty of room for sets like these. It has taken just 14 months to turn

a brownfield site in Cardiff's Docklands to a state-of-the-art

production facility. Today the cast and crew of Casualty were shooting

on location in Cardiff Bay. The production has moved from Bristol

and this studio now houses the set for Holby General Hospital, which

has made life a lot easier for the show's producers. We would have a

scene set in reception and we would have paramedics wheeling someone

out of the ambulance or vice versa, and we would literally have to

shoot the reception part at the warehouse and then go over to the

other side of Bristol to film the exterior, and just try to pick it

up. We now have the luxury of doing it all in one, meaning our camera

shots were look smoother. But there have been challenges along the way,

not least how to overcome the noise of nearby seagulls. Not something

you would expect to hear in Edwardian London or the ambulance

bay of Holby General. We copied a trip from the Millennium Stadium

and have got a couple of female Hawkes, apparently they are fiercer

than the males, patrolling two or three times a week, and the

seagulls believe it is a predator area so they stay away. That is

just as well because in a few week's time, publican will start

filming here, and in the new year it is the term -- Turn Of Fools but

Doctor Who. -- Pobol y Cwm will start filming here. I am outside

the drama village, no sign of the targets but the weather is putting

on a fine performance. Cloud and sunshine, the wind

lighter than yesterday. Tomorrow there is more dry weather thanks to

a temporary bridge of high pressure, but make the most of it. The

weather will change again later in the week. Try this evening across

the country, then overnight there will be a few spots of rain in

north and showers in Cardigan Bay. Some clouds and clear spells, mist

patches forming and a chilly, the lowest temperatures in Mid Wales 7

Celsius, colder in the Brecon Beacons and I wouldn't rule out

ground frost. Tomorrow's chart shows high pressure over Britain

meaning dry and settled weather, but low pressure to the west of

Ireland heading our way. Tomorrow a dry and settled day, it might be a

little misty first thing and I wouldn't rule out a spot of rain in

Gwynedd but otherwise dry with plenty of crowd cloud -- cloud. Top

temperatures 16-18 Celsius with light wind and a light breeze

tomorrow in the south and south- east. In Radnorshire tomorrow, a

dry day, hopefully the sun breaking through, and temperatures in

Llandrindod should reach 17 Celsius. Looking dry tomorrow evening but

overnight and into Friday things change with the wind picking up and

rain and showers spreading across the country. Them on Friday, we

have cricket taking place in Cardiff. Cardiff may miss the worst

of the rain with just one or two showers, but at the weekend it

looks unsettled, windy and with blustery showers and sunny

intervals -- intervals, fresh to strong winds and some showers heavy

with a risk of hail and thunder, and feeling fall in the wind as

well. That is the latest forecast done in one take, and as they say

in drama, it is a rap. -- feeling it called in the wind.

The top stories: A five year old boy's father, whose son died in an

accident yesterday has said it was a tragedy. Harry was a five year

old child, my youngest child. He was a real individual in the true

sense of the word, and I think he would have grown out to be anything

you want to -- wanted to be -- grown-up. At 8pm we will have our