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Welcome to a special edition of Wales Today. It's all about your | :00:04. | :00:10. | |
money, or the lack of it. We're calling it Crunch Christmas. Food | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
for thought here tonight. The rate inflation drops slightly, but what | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
you earn on average still isn't keeping pace with the cost of | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
living. Food, petrol, heating. Gas and | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
electric have gone up. On the whole, not many things are coming down, | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
unfortunately. We can control the flow of water | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
around this part of the Welsh coast, but the levers of our economy lie | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
in Westminster. So, what influence can politicians here really have? | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
We have no taxation powers, but we use the levers we already have. | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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What are those levers? Providing the money to build new schools, and | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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Good evening. Also tonight: Is this the future for television | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
here? Cardiff and Swansea are to get their own local stations, but | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
critics warn there's not enough money to make it work. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
And Chaz Davies is crowned BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
the Year. We'll bring you all the winners from one of the biggest | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
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Welcome to Ogmore Vale Bakery in Bridgend. Christmas is only two | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
weeks away and staff here have been busy baking cakes and tarts for | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
customers across the world. It's a challenging time to be in business. | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Inflation figures out this morning have fallen for a second month in a | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
row. That will be welcomed here, but it still remains well above the | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
two per cent target. What does that mean for you? Quite simply, your | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
money doesn't stretch so far. How do they work all this out? The most | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
frequently used measures of inflation are the Consumer Prices | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
Index, or CPI, which looks at the prices of everything from bread to | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
petrol, and the Retail Prices Index, or RPI, which includes your housing | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
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costs. CPI fell from 5% last month to 4.8% last month. The fall was | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
partly due to a slowdown in the rise in food and non-alcoholic | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
drink prices. But the prices of some essentials are rocketing. Your | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
electricity, gas and other fuels have gone up by more than 20% last | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
year. And wages here aren't keeping pace with the cost of living. The | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
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average weekly wage in Wales is �454. In a moment, we'll be finding | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
out about how inflation is affecting this business. Let's go | :03:04. | :03:13. | |
to Lampeter to see how finances are being squeezed. Prices are | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
disgusting. You have got to shop around. You can get some cheap | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
things. It is very expensive. left it near the coast. The price | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
of diesel, everything is dear. The further you go away from the big | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
centres of business and industry. Buying essential things in life | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
like food, petrol, heating, Gas and Electric has gone up. On the whole, | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
not many things are coming down. I think the biggest impact is the | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
fact that salaries are have frozen. These products are going to markets | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
as far afield as America. In every corner of the country, it is the | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
season for panto. It is the season for panto all | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
across the country. Our reporter Matthew Richards has been to | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
Wrexham, where they're making a drama out of the financial crisis. | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
I was just telling our friends how pool where we are. When a burglar | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
broke into our house, he left us money. | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
It's a feeling more and more of us are starting to recognise. The | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
economic slowdown has added extra resonance to Grove Park Theatre's | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
version of Jack and the Beanstalk. Andrew Maskall plays the Dame. | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
lost my job. By was a drama teacher. Eight months after that, I had to | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
sell my car because I could not afford to get it fixed. Being out | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
of work, being on the benefits and the lack of opportunities with the | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
economy, it all plays a part. So, what is inflation? Our hero | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Jack can help explain. It reflects the cost of all kinds of goods. | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
It's calculated by adding up a typical basket of products from | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
electricity charges, mortgage interest payments, electronics, | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
cars and food. Like the beanstalk, it's shot up over recent months, | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
but the rate is falling as some prices are cut or frozen. When | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Katie Cooney isn't playing the Fairy Flash, she's counting the | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
cost of Christmas for her five- year-old daughter Molly. She | :05:31. | :05:41. | |
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doesn't have a magic wand to help her, so she's... I try to work out | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
how a king get things from different shops. In terms of rent, | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
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they have gone up. It is a case of trying to make ends meet. The of | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
the attack has frozen prices. are looking at places where there | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
is a minimum costume change, we are looking at plays, even at the | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
potential of finding a royalty free place because the cost of royalty | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
is eats into the budget so much. All these factors make a difference | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
to the ultimate economic reality of running the theatre. As the curtain | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
closes, it looks as though 2012 will see an encore for our money | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
woes. But if a jacket can overcome his problem, Perhaps there is hope | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
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That is the situation there. Bacchae at the bakery, if you are | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
slightly confused looking at the products, they have moved off | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
Christmas, they are now working on Easter treats and Valentines of | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
products. We are also seeing some Chinese markings. Things may cheer | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
are exported to Japan, China and America. Let's talk to the boss of | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
the bakery. You are on the front line. What does inflation mean to | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
you. The biggest impact has certainly been in commodity prices | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
which we have seen over the last year pushing up the cost of raw | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
materials, hence pushing up the price to the end consumer. | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
Fortunately, the last month has seen a plateau in that. I can see | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
the ongoing pressures still coming through. The cost of goods will | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
continue to rise. T Pass this rising cost of your petrol and | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
chopped raw ingredients on to the customers? There is a combination. | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
Some, we have no choice, we have to. Others, we have to look at the | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
project and look to see if we can actually compromise its lightly, | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
maybe on the weight of the product, to maintain a price so that we are | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
not compromising the quality of the product. How to Welsh businesses | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
combat the effects of inflation, which they are all suffering from? | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
Given what we have just church, it illustrates that they are being | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
squeezed from both sides because prices are rising faster than they | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
can pass on. The answer is threefold. It is finding new | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
markets. It is finding ways of doing the things differently in | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
terms of making more efficiency, organising their processes. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Ultimately, it is about to innovating to create different | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
projects to the future. This firm is exporting to China and the | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
United States. That is the message to every Welsh business. It is | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
looking to new markets, markets where there are still high levels | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
of income. Those are not the markets of the UK or the European | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
Union at the moment. We are starting to build up a picture of | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
what it is like to be in business. Also to deal with the present state | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
of the economy. And what it is like to be a shop and finding that your | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
money does not stretch as far as you might hope. What are the | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
answers? When it comes to trying to do things for the Welsh economy, | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
the answers do not like close at home. The leaders of the Welsh | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
economy are run in Westminster. Here is our political editor. | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
global crisis. A storm that has caused Europe's governments to | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
grasp every economically the they have. For Wales, the economic | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
outlook is not bright. It is the First Minister war has talked about | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
not sitting back, not letting the economic tide to wash over us. But | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
when it comes to control, when it comes to turning that tide, which | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
economic patterns does his Government have to press? The Welsh | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
Government cannot very how much tax we pay. It cannot raise it or put | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
it. What about interest rates? No cloud over those either. Another | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
was, this Government cannot affect how much money it has to pump into | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
the Welsh economy. What can it do? It can give the struggling | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
businesses and those keen to expand many to spend on protecting and | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
creating jobs. The boss year says that happen now would allow his | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
business to grow in the future. Government can directly fund growth | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
in businesses and enable us to access capital investment which is | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
difficult to run -- to access at the moment, such as investing in | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
the software we create she which will directly created jobs and | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
high-value jobs queue. Government can offer lifelines. | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
There is rate relief for small businesses. But can inject the | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
money it gets into the economy by a big building projects. Labour says | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
it is doing just that, but not enough money is flowing into the | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
economy, say opposition parties. have no taxation powers, but we use | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
the levers we to have. Providing the money to build new schools, | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
build new houses, that does not just provide new spaces for new | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
students and also for people who want a roof over their heads, it | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
provides jobs in the construction industry. The UK Government says it | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
may be time to devolve more financial powers to the Assembly. | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
That would put an end to what they see as a constant plane -- blame | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
game played in Cardiff. This is a mature way to ensure the Assembly | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
in a Welsh Government that the responsibility they neat tool | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
ensure that the administration does not perpetually demand more powers | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
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and more money. The big economic levers certainly are not in Cardiff | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
Bay. But the challenge for the Welsh Government is to prove that | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
what it can do is making a difference. While steering clear of | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
bearing any blame for what it cannot. But bigger be put -- a | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
couple of those points with a Professor David Pickernell. We | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
heard a lot about what the Welsh Government should do. And what | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
Westminster should do about the wider problem. Realistically, what | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
can ministers in Cardiff Bay do? think from what we have seen | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
previously, wanting to encourage businesses to export an innovator, | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
it is things around that, it is facilitating, helping universities | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
were quite small firms, it is the sort of issues where they can prime | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
the punters and illustrate a way to go. That is what Welsh politicians | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
can do. Let's talk about what Welsh businesses can do for themselves. | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
What can they do? There again, that is looking internally within their | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
businesses to focus on where they can become more efficient, where | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
they can reorganise and Engineer what they're doing, but also | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
looking to see whether projects in other parts of the world have | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
opportunity and to scan more widely than they have had to do before. | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
This is the problem with the lack of growth in the UK and the | :13:38. | :13:48. | |
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European Union. It is looking for We're keen to hear how you're | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
coping in the run-up to Christmas. Email us at [email protected], | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
contact us on Twitter via the address on your screen or phone us | :13:56. | :14:06. | |
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on 03703 500 700. We're on Facebook The day's other news now. Councils | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
here aren't doing enough to protect your personal details from falling | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
into the wrong hands. That's the warning from the UK's information | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
watchdog. It's raised concerns after thousands of pieces of | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
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personal information were lost or To provide us with all these | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
services, councils need an awful lot of our personal information, | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
names, addresses, date of birth and more sensitive social services data. | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
That information is generally kept in council buildings. Sometimes it | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
needs to be shared. It is downloaded on to laptops or memory | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
sticks or e-mailed on to other people. But problems can arise. In | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
the most serious case, Cardiff Council wrongly sent out an e-mail | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
containing the names and addresses of over 2,000 children on a child | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
protection register. Fortunately, it was sent to the NHS which | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
destroyed the information. The council said quick action meant the | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
disclosure was contained. But the UK information watchdog is | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
concerned. Financial implications and that sort of things. There is | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
also the issue of privacy. If we're talking about sensitive records, | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
people do not want that information put out into the public domain. | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
That is likely to happen. In the last three years, council staff | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
have lost memory sticks with information or they have had them | :15:57. | :16:07. | |
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stolen. Laptops have also been stolen from council vehicles. | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
People trust their councils with the most sensitive information as | :16:13. | :16:22. | |
part of the cows as providing services. But they have a serious | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
question to ask, can the council's be trusted to hold that | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
information? With identity theft on the increase, how they take care of | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
the information is becoming increasingly important. | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
The UK Government is proposing to centralise its DVLA services in | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
Swansea as part of plans to close all regional offices across the UK, | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
including those in Bangor and Cardiff. Around 400 jobs could be | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
created in the city. But there are fears that nearly 80 jobs could | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
also be lost here. The head of the organisation in Swansea says they | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
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hope to secure as many as possible.. As we look to put more services | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
into intermediaries, centralising some of those services into Swansea | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
will lead to increased job opportunities within Wales. | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
The neo-natal unit at Singleton Hospital in Swansea has fully | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
reopened after test results found there was no further cross | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
infection of E.coli. It was closed last month following the death of | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
two babies with E.coli, one contracted the infection at the | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
hospital. Flintshire Council has voted to | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
press ahead with plans to close a specialist centre for children with | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
autism despite protests by parents. Council officials say too few | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
children use the centre at Westwood Primary School in Buckley and that | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
other facilities are available in Flint. | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
Cardiff and Swansea are among 20 places across the UK to get their | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
own TV Stations within the next two years. The UK Government says the | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
services will meet a demand for local programming. But some are | :17:52. | :18:02. | |
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warning the channels won't be It is all about mirroring the | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
American model. Cities, rather than regions, have their own television | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
stations. Cardiff and Swansea will be the first cities in Wales to get | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
their own local TV stations. The UK government is convinced there is a | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
demand for the service. These are not services that will resemble | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
those produced by the BBC, ITV or S4C. They will be on a shoestring | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
in comparison to those services. There have to be produced on far | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
smaller budgets. The BBC has agreed to put up money to start the | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
project across the UK. It is intended that advertising will keep | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
the services on the air. Some critics have claimed there is no | :18:53. | :19:03. | |
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need for more channels. This man struggles to see how the new | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
channels will be commercially viable. Everybody is using the | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
internet and people understand it. People are making films. They can | :19:14. | :19:22. | |
upload them and share them. That is what local TV has to be about. | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
and Bangor are other areas identified for future licences. The | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
first channels had due to be up and running within the next two years. | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Chaz Davies says he's shocked after winning BBC Cymru Wales Sports | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
Personality of the Year. The motorcyclist from Powys, now based | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
in California, became the first Welshman to win a world superbike | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
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class title. The winner is Chaz Davies. He might not have been the | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
best known sports personality on the list but he certainly was the | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
most popular. 24-year-old motorcycling champion Chaz Davies | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
from Presteigne in Powys was the surprise winner last night. A | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
fitting finale to a year when he won one of motorcycling's biggest | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
prizes, the World Supersport Series. He couldn't be at the event. He's | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
practising for the new season in California but he did join the | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
ceremony at the Liberty Stadium via videolink. His mother accepted the | :20:25. | :20:33. | |
award on his behalf and said she's proud he's put the sport on the map. | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
I was shocked to get a nomination in the first place. We are going up | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
to get a lot of talented sports people in Wales. To just be | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
nominated but to now when is something that I definitely did not | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
think would happen. Triathlete Helen Jenkins came second in the | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
public vote, followed by Paralympian Nathan Stephens. The | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
team of the year award went to Swansea City. Under Brendan Rogers, | :21:00. | :21:10. | |
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they became the first Welsh team to win promotion to the Premier League. | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
The play off final is something that will live with me for the rest | :21:14. | :21:24. | |
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of my days. It brought everyone together in the city. We took | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
ourselves up the M4 to Wembley. There was a lifetime achievement | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
award for Anne Ellis from Swansea in recognition of her 50 years to | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
hockey. Once a player, she stills helps out at her local club every | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
weekend. When you consider people who have received this award, they | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
were legends. I am a girl from Swansea who loved hockey. Amazing. | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
There were also two Young Sports Personality Awards. One for gymnast | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
Angel Romaeo, the other for golfer Rhys Pugh. | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
We'll be looking back at a momentous year in Welsh Sport | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
tonight at 10:35pm here on BBC One Wales. | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
The weather has thrown up a bit of everything today. Gales, heavy rain | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
and flooding in some places. And What a day! Heavy rain, sleet, | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
thunder, snow and hail the size of peas. Mark Hillman sent in this | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
picture via Twitter. The road covered in hailstones in | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
Ystradfellte making driving conditions treacherous. We've also | :22:28. | :22:37. | |
had plenty of rain. At the moment, there are 11 flood alerts in force. | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
And one flood warning on the River Dee from Llangollen to Chester. | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
Strong to severe gale force winds as well. At Mumbles Head in Swansea, | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
a gust of 81mph was recorded this afternoon. The reason for the | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
disturbed weather is low pressure. The air over us has come from | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
Greenland so it's unstable, producing towering clouds and | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
showers. Tonight, further heavy showers in the south feeding in | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
from the Bristol Channel. Snow in places, especially on higher ground. | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
The north, dry and clearer. The wind easing but still breezy on the | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
coast. Temps inland falling close to freezing with a frost and a risk | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
of ice. Now there is a snow warning in force covering most of Wales | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
tonight and tomorrow morning. It's a yellow warning, the lowest | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
grading. Widespread problems are not expected but be aware there is | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
some snow in the forecast. Tomorrow morning, northern counties should | :23:33. | :23:42. | |
start dry. Some frost and a risk of ice. Further south and west, | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
showers are likely. Some heavy and wintry. In fact some places, | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
especially the higher communities in the South Wales Valleys, could | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
have a covering of snow. A few sunny intervals tomorrow but | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
showers will become more widespread during the day. Rain, hail and | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
sleet again. Some snow in places but later in the afternoon the | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
showers mostly of rain. Temperatures on the cold side. The | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
wind not as strong as today but still breezy, especially on the | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
coast and gusty at times. Tomorrow night, more rain and heavy showers. | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
Strong to gale force winds in Pembrokeshire. The air less cold, | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
so any snow confined to the very highest ground. Thursday, a breezy | :24:16. | :24:26. | |
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day. Some sunshine and scattered showers. Becoming dry for a time | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
but we could be in for another dose of stormy weather Thursday night | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
into Friday. It all depends on an area of low pressure and which path | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
it takes. There is a risk of more heavy rain, flooding and gales but | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
it's not clear cut. So it would be worth keeping a close eye on the | :24:45. | :24:55. | |
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forecast over the next couple of days. It's time for a few more of | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
your pictures. The first by Megan Evans from Tonyrefail. The next a | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
Christmas Tree by Keira and Carwyn from Ceredigion. And finally, it | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
looks like Dyfan Morris from Llanffestiniog has made a new | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
friend. Thanks Dyfan. I hope you had a nice time at the Christmas | :25:14. | :25:24. | |
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Welcome back to Bridgend, where we've been looking at the high cost | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
of living. Some of you have got in contact with us to share your | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
experiences. John emailed us to say he and his wife get �105 a week. | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
They spend �25 on gas, �20 on electric and �20 on other bills. | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
That leaves them with �40 for shopping which includes bus fares, | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
so it works out they have �32 to live on each week. He says they | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
have to decide whether to eat or And mum of three Karen Collins got | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
in touch to tell us she's really struggling this year to pay for | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
food and heating. She says she and her family will be very cold this | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
Christmas as she can't afford to heat her home as heating oil costs | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
them more than �300 per delivery and she and her boyfriend often | :26:14. | :26:24. | |
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only eat one meal a day so they can Thank you for getting in touch with | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
your stories. Tomorrow night, our series of | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
special programmes on the economy in Wales in the run up to Crunch | :26:39. | :26:49. | |
Christmas continues. We're talking about jobs. Here's Sian Lloyd. | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
Unemployment in Wales is at its highest for almost 20 years. Today, | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
we get the figures that we give us a sense of how workers in the | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
public sector at faring. Across BBC Wales, television, radio and on | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
line, we will hear stories of those struggling to cope in the current | :27:10. | :27:18. | |
climate. You'll be asking what can be done to help fund. -- to help | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
them. That is it from us. We'll have an | :27:22. | :27:26. |