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Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's top story: | :00:03. | :00:06. | |
The worst storm of winter wreaks widespread disruption. Roads closed | :00:06. | :00:13. | |
and damaged power cables send people fleeing their homes. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
Somebody not on the door and said we had better get out because next | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
door looks like it is on fire. Tonight, 10 flood alerts are in | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
force. Bond with more rain on the way, the Environment Agency is | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
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Our other headlines tonight: Who wants to lead Plaid Cymru? The | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
four candidates stake their claim as nominations open. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Karen Arthur is one of the patients with faulty breast implants. The | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
clinic tell her she'll have to pay to have them removed. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
And after this first away victory in the Premier League, Swansea | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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start the new year on the right Good evening. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Winds of almost 100mph and heavy rain have caused disruption across | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
the country as people headed back to work after the Christmas | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
holidays. Fallen trees led to road closures up and down Wales, while | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
some train services were severely disrupted. There's a warning that | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
heavy rainfall forecast for tomorrow might could lead to | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
further flooding. Let's join our correspondent Colette Hume in the | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
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Neath Valley tonight. Behind me is the meeting point of the two rivers. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
Bill Elliott today, the water and they went across the aqueduct at | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
around four ft higher than usually. Fortunately, it did not break. The | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Environment Agency is warning that with heavy rain tomorrow, they | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
could be a risk of flooding. The weather today has brought parts of | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
wares on was to a standstill. Rivers nearly overflowing after the | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
worst storm of the winter so far hit the country. Torrential | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
downpours have left the ground saturated and water levels rising. | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
The River Conwy's spilling onto the road. One flood warning is still in | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
place for the Lower Dee Valley, along with numerous flood alerts. | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
There is no clear break in the weather. But the next few days, we | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
are not going to get fairly frosty evenings. We will have a lot more | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
wet weather. As people returned to work after | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
the holidays, there was disruption on the roads and rails. This | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
waterfall near Rhondda gushing its excess water right onto the nearby | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
railway line. Services had to be halted for hours. | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
But it wasn't just the rain. Stormforce winds have swept the | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
country. No walkers were braving the gales on this Carmarthenshire | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
beach. And in Bala, the winds were strong | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
enough to lift this trampoline onto a car. At their worst, they reached | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
93mph in Gwynedd overnight. Gusts that were simply too strong | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
for the power cables on this street in Dolgellau. 12 people had to be | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
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evacuated from their homes after an electric box short-circuited. | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
5:30am, there was a bigger bang. Then there was smoke and sparks. | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
The street was alight. Somebody knocked on the door and told us to | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
get out because next door and looked like it was on fire. When we | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
got out, we saw that the electrical was sparking. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
Tonight, the Environment Agency is warning more heavy rain and strong | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
winds are forecast for tomorrow, which could lead to further | :03:52. | :04:01. | |
flooding. Phil Pickersgill is from | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
Environment Agency Wales. Good evening. But let's just talk | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
through the flood alerts. How many of enforced tonight? At the moment, | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
we have got 10 flood alerts in place and one flood warning. This | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
has come down from 29 flood alerts in total that we had earlier today. | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
The -- the river has peaked at around 11am. We have been | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
monitoring the situation ever since. Some good news that we have gone | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
down to 10, but the Environment Agency is warning that there is | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
more rain on the way tomorrow. Where are you most concerned about? | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Tomorrow, we have got a frontal system coming in tomorrow afternoon | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
which will extend through till Thursday morning. We have been | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
advised that the main areas will be made and the North Wales. People in | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
those areas, be vigilant tomorrow. What should people do if we go from | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
a flood alert to a flood warning and a live near an area at risk? | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
The Environment Agency issued warnings. One of those is a flood | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
warning. On the issue a flood warning, it means that somebody | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
will be flooded. If you are on our flood warning service and you get | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
that warning, please be prepared. Make sure your Obama bulls are | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
upstairs, your pressures of possessions are put away with you. | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
-- valuables. Keep an ear out for the year local radio for the latest | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
news. But take those things that mean a lot, if you get a flood | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
warning, just take those things to higher ground. Absolutely. The | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
anything I would say is that you can ring hour direct line and you | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
will get the latest information. have more rain coming tomorrow. | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
People are being told that if they get a flood warning, to take it | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
very seriously. If you live in a flood risk area, look after your | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
possessions. You do not want to be mopping up those things so precious | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
to you. Nominations have opened to become | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
the new leader of Plaid Cymru to succeed Ieuan Wyn Jones. So far, | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
four Assembly Members have declared their intention to stand. The | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
winner will be announced in March, a week before the party's spring | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
conference. Whoever wins faces an uphill struggle, following | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
disappointing results at last year's Assembly election. Here's | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
our political reporter Aled ap Dafydd. | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Plaid Cymru kick off the new political year with a fixture they | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
don't play very often. It's the game of picking a new leader. Ieuan | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Wyn Jones has held that position for over a decade, but after a | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
disappointing showing at May's Assembly election, he's about to | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
stand down. There are four Assembly Members | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
currently in the race to succeed him. Elin Jones is the member for | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
Ceredigion and former Agriculture Minister. She's the bookies' | :07:00. | :07:10. | |
favourite to win. I want us to focus on the future and to ensure | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
that as a party, that we are opening up our doors for every | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
person to feel that if they are ambitious, then they cannot share | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
that ambition with Plaid Cymru. If they have never voted Plaid Cymru | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
in the past, they can vote in the future. | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas represents Dwyfor Meirionydd and has vast | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
political experience as a Member of Parliament, House of Lords and as | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
the Assembly's Presiding Officer until May of last year. He's | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
waiting to be nominated formally by his local branch before commenting. | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
Simon Thomas is also a former MP and was a Welsh Government advisor | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
prior to winning a seat representing Mid and West Wales. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
think we need to ensure that the next leader is somebody who can | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
work with a wide range of opinions and bring people together. There | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
are different signs of leadership. You can read from the front or you | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
can Leeds in a different way. That is the style of leadership I am | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
putting forward. South Wales Central AM Leanne Wood | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
is the latest to join the contest. She's a staunch republican from the | :08:18. | :08:27. | |
left wing of the party. We need to turn around the Welsh economy and | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
put the economy at the forefront of our political agenda. I think that | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
we have been less than clear as a party as to what we mean by | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
independents, what we wanted for and how we would get there. I think | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
now is Ieuan Wyn Jones' successor will | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
begin a period of renewal for the party, armed with the findings of | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
an internal review after falling to third place in the Assembly | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
election. What I am seeing is a party and a membership quite | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
excited about the future, seeing an opportunity to set the direction | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
for the years ahead and provide that leadership. I think this is a | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
really exciting time. The phones at Plaid HQ have been | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
hot over the Christmas period. A membership drive has seen an | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
increase of 10% and every new member has a vote in the upcoming | :09:16. | :09:26. | |
election. Leadership contest have many of the elements you often see | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
in a football match. Often a few own goals along the way. We will | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
find out what will become the new leader on March 15th. | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
Our political editor Betsan Powys joins us from the Senedd. Paul is | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
the front-runner? There is a favourite, an early favourite, that | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
is Elin Jones. The hot favourite it would be Leanne Wood, the favourite | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
amongst those who want to see an experienced pair of hands at the | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
helm would be Lord Dafydd Elis- Thomas. But it is not just about | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
deciding on your favourite, you have to have a first and second | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
preference. That sort of process and it is a difficult game to | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
predict who will win. Is a change of personality really going to | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
change the party's fortune at the polls? I think what you saw this | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
morning was Plaid Cymru trying to tell you that alone, no, they are | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
aware that by involving a team of party workers and supporters to | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
decide on tactics that it is much more fundamental than that. They | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
have some big decisions to make about party policy and the economy. | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
What could Plaid Cymru do? And on independence, a key battleground, | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
no doubt is they take on independence. Does the party | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
supported? What we did look like? What we did cause to happen? Those | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
are the sort of debate he would year of the coming weeks. | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
Incidentally, that is not just Plaid Cymru who have had a busy | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
start to the year. The Welsh Liberal Democrats have appointed a | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
new chief executive. Their former chief executive has gone off to | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
work in Downing Street. Their new chief executive is the former head | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
of communications. No doubt, the other parties are already promising | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
that they have a busy few weeks and next week, they will be kicking off | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
with some ideas. The families of two women killed in | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
a car crash on New Year's Day have paid tribute to them. Sasha Jarvis, | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
who was 19 and from Llanberis, and 21-year-old Sian Gwenllian Lloyd | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
Davies who lived near Bangor, were killed when their car hit a wall in | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
Llanrug. Their families said Sasha was, funloving and warm, and Sian | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
was delighted by her sister's engagement announcement only the | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
day before. Two wards at Wrexham Maelor | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
Hospital are still closed after an outbreak of Norovirus at Christmas. | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Seven patients are thought to currently have the winter vomiting | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
bug. A ward at Mold Community Hospital in Flintshire has also | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
been shut after patients showed symptoms of Norovirus. | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
A mother from Pontypridd, one of thousands of women fitted with | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
breast implants that used unauthorised silicone, has been | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
speaking of her desperation to get them removed. Karen Arthur says | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
she's had medical advice to get the implants, which have now ruptured, | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
taken out. But the private clinic where she had the original surgery | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
want to charge for the operation, which she says she can't afford. | :12:30. | :12:40. | |
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Karen Arthur and her son enjoy the last days of the school holiday, | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
but she is in considerable pain. Over the past year she has | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
developed lumps under her arms, an ultrasound showing her implants had | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
ruptured. My surgeon said they should come out and be replaced. I | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
spoke to the clinic manager who said, not into the pay �2,600, so | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
we are back where we started. No one is prepared to take the fault. | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
The breast implants in question were made by French company PIP, | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
which has since gone into administration. The French | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
government has recommended they be removed as a preventative measure, | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
at the state will foot the bill, but today, the BBC has learned that | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
the UK government is not preparing to change its advice to women. It | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
has found no evidence to routinely remove the implants. I am prepared | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
to take this all the way. I will not sit back and wait for someone | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
to say it is the NHS's fault. In my eyes, I paid them the money and | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
they should replace it so where am taking legal action. Her solicitor | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
represents a hundreds of women across the UK suing over the | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
implants. It has been a real roller-coaster ride for our clients. | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
It began just before Christmas with cancer alerts and we have been | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
clear there is no cancer riskier. We have always said the problem is | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
the industrial grade so good -- silicone which is itself an | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
irritant. The PIP insurers wont indemnify them. The clinics gave | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
clear guarantees or induced the clients to purchase the implants, | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
and now they have gone wrong, we said that pulls under the contract | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
they have to honour. But taking cases through the courts will take | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
time. For Karen Arthur, any delay only adds to the uncertainty and | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
confusion she feels. You are watching Wales Today from | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
the BBC. Much more to come before 7pm including giving hope to | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
couples wanting a baby, the welsh scientists at the cutting edge of | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
IVF. And after putting 3 past Reading, | :14:38. | :14:47. | |
Cardiff City step up their promotion chase in the Championship. | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
First, stop pouring Welsh Government money into Cardiff and | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
spend it instead in the South Wales valleys, that is the call tonight | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
from a leading charity. The Bevan Foundation says thanks to | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
investment, Merthyr Tydfil has achieved an economic miracle in the | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
last 10 years, with unemployment now at a level similar to Cardiff. | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
The charity says it's a model for what could be achieved across the | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
valleys. Caroline Evans reports on how the town is faring in the | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
downturn. Have you got any fans? Feathered | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
once? Times may be hard but here in the centre of Merthyr, this fancy | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
dress and cosmetics company is doing very well. Capitalising on | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
what they will tell you here is the town's new-found confidence, they | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
have gone from market stall to shop. We started the business of with �80, | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
that was nearly 80 -- nearly eight years ago. Just one member of staff | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
at the time and now eight years on we are turning over half-a-million | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
Pounds this year, and we employ it 14 people now., and in the shopping | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
centre, there is not a single shop vacant. The manager says there are | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
more -- more than �60 million is currently being invested in the | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
town, and that, in turn, is attracting interest from private | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
investors. There is an air of optimism about the future. | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
Currently we are going through difficult times just like everybody | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
else, but definitely, a man's businesses there is a hope for the | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
future and plans to regenerate the town. There are discussions about | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
improving the facilities and the range of shops in the town, and the | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
hope is that Merthyr Tydfil will become the regional capital and the | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
heads of the valleys in future. Investments have bought a leisure | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
park, cinema and restaurants are springing up, and the Bevan | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
Foundation says this is evidence of how investing in the valleys is the | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
best way forward. If you look around Cardiff you can see lots of | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
examples of fairly large amounts of public money going into | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
developments such as Cardiff Bay, many facilities, the development of | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
the town centre and so on and so forth, and although there has been | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
some money going into the heads of the Valley's area, there has been | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
nothing like the same amount or the same intensity of effort gone in. | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
We think it is time now to switch the focus a little bit. And the | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
figures do look promising. The latest show unemployment in the | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
town is up 18 per cent. The unemployment rate has fallen, and | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
at 12.32 -- 12.3 per cent, is hovering at the same levels as | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
Cardiff, where it is 9.8 per cent. Huw Lewis is the minister | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
responsible for regeneration. He told me he agrees that investment | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
like the �3 million which has gone into this chapel conversion in | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
Bargoed is great value for money. But he says it is a mistake to | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
think about choosing between Cardiff and the valleys. I don't | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
think we should get into this argument about valleys this has | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
Cardiff, and so on. I think we have to get to a point where we realise | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
and accept that the valleys and Cardiff are joined together. Their | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
futures are linked, and we have to think about that region has been a | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
whole if we are to get a good outcome tomorrow investment in the | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
communities. There was government has committed �114 million over 15 | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
years to regeneration and the heads of the valleys -- the Welsh | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
Government. If the strategy pays up -- pays off, by 2020 that money | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
should have attracted a further �360 million from the private | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
sector, and ministers hope that the valleys will no longer be a poor | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
relation but a thriving regional centre once again. Back in Merthyr, | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
they are confident that they are already on the road to greater | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
prosperity. They are just beginning what they say here is a watershed | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
moment in the town's regeneration, restoring the historic town hall. | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
The court, Council, nightclub and finely derelict, it reflects the | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
fortunes of the town itself. After a �6 million facelift it will | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
become a centre for cultural and creative industries. | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
Fertility scientists at Cardiff University say they may have found | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
a way of selecting the embryos most likely to result in pregnancy. The | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
technique developed in mice looks at tiny movements inside the cells. | :19:18. | :19:28. | |
They hope patients from Wales could be part of clinical trials. | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
Fertility science as a fast- changing and highly competitive | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
field. Teams around the world are all trying to improve the success | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
rate of treatments like IVF, and the team here in Cardiff think they | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
have found a way of selecting the best entry of three years. I am | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
pleased to say I am joined by a professor from the University. What | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
we are looking for in mouse embryos? We are looking at the | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
early events of fertilisation, when the sperm fertilises the egg. With | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
the team from Oxford and Cambridge we have found pulses in the | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
cytoplasm when the sperm fertilises the egg. So we are looking at a | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
mouse embryo on the screen, but you can see similar movements in human | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
ones as well. Yes, we have detected these movements in the human egg | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
when it is fertilised or artificially stimulated, so we can | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
see this movement pattern in mice also occurs in human. In mice, this | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
correlates with which is the best embryo, so we think we can use this | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
technique to predict the best embryo in human IVF. The next step | :20:29. | :20:37. | |
will be to try it with humans. What are your thoughts on how this could | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
help patients who you see? This is a major discovery in that it will | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
enable us to choose the best embryo and implanted back into the woman | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
and maximise the chances of getting pregnant, and that would enable us | :20:50. | :20:58. | |
to avoid multiple pregnancy. has avoiding twins and triplets | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
important? Multiple pregnancy is problematic in that pre-term | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
deliveries are danger, and therefore babies are born at 30, 28 | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
weeks, and may be admitted to intensive care units and Arabic | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
train on NHS resources, so the sooner we can get more information | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
through collaboration with the IBS unit that -- unit at the University | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
of Wales, the better -- IVF unit. That means that was patients could | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
be part of a clinical trial. If they get funding the team hope they | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
can move to that stage within 18 months-two years. | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
In football, our top 3 clubs have made the perfect start to the new | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
year. Cardiff and Wrexham were in free-scoring form as they stepped | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
up their chase for promotion while Swansea collected their first away | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
win in the Premier League at Aston Villa, as Ashleigh Crowter now | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
reports. They arrived at Villa Park with the | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
worst away record in the top four divisions, still looking for the | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
first win on the road in the Premier League. But with the new | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
year came the result, and Swansea grabbed the first game of 2012 by | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
the scruff of the neck, Nathan Dyer capitalising early on a defensive | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
mistake. And the result was put beyond doubt just after half-time, | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Wayne Routledge providing the inspiration, and eventually the | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
finish, to wrap up a 2-0 wins. was just the experience, we have | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
had some difficult games away from home, I feel, against all the big | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
clubs, and we have gone to other grounds and been in front and | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
thrown away the lead, so today was always going to be, we were 2-0 up | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
again, and we can learn from the lessons. They are very honest group | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
of players, this group. Swansea are now 11th and the Premier League, | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
having just passed the halfway mark of the campaign. The gap between | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
them and the bottom three is now eight points. Elsewhere, Cardiff | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
City are right on the tails of the Championship leaders after a | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
comprehensive 3-1 victory over Reading. The Bluebirds it will | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
damage in the first half, scoring three times before the break, and | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
are now third, just two points of the top. It has been a tough | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
weekend, we have had duffed -- two tough games, and to come as a bit | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
with six points is very pleasing. Today was always going to be tough | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
and we have a team in form on fire who have won five of the last six. | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
So we knew it would be a tough one if we didn't start well, but we did | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
start well and they thought they were fantastic. Wrexham's red-hot | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
form continues. The leaders consolidated their position with a | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
win over Telford, and tonight, Newport County who are hovering | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
above the relegation zone, face Bath City. | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
Boxing, and Nathan Cleverly will defend his WBO world light- | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
heavyweight title against the American Tommy Karpency in Cardiff | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
next month. Cleverly's promoter Frank Warren says he made offers to | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
WBC Champion Bernard Hopkins and also to be be a champion burbot | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
shaman off. If he wins, Cleverly is looking for a fight against one or | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
the other title holders. The weather is our top story | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
tonight, let's see if the worst is I think the worst is over, but | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
there is a sting in the tail. The north and west is at risk of severe | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
gales for some time this evening. The height of today's storm saw the | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
wind reaching force 11 on the Llyn peninsula with a gust of 93 mph | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
recorded at Aberdaron, 71 mph at Mumbles Head in Swansea. Maggie | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
Thomas from Porthcawl cent in this picture of a huge wave crashing | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
over the harbour wall, while Steve Porter took this one, massive waves | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
crashing on Bardsley -- Bardsey Island. River levels are smaller -- | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
falling but some remain swollen. There is one of flood warning in | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
force in the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Chester and seven | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
alerts. The reason for this weather is a deep area of low pressure | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
which is now moving towards Scandinavia. So for this evening, | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
very windy, still, especially on Irish Sea coasts, blustery showers | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
as well and hailstorms in places, snow on the mountains, less windy | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
and clearer after midnight. The lowest temperatures 2-6 Celsius, so | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
no frost. Tomorrow morning, then, a better start compared to today. Not | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
as windy and drier too bar a few showers, for example England have. | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
Temperatures well above freezing at 8 am but it will feel cold with a | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
strong westerly wind blowing. You may see a glimpse or two of | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
sunshine tomorrow but make the most of it because the weather will go | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
downhill during the afternoon. More rain spilling in, turning pretty | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
wet, I think, in North West and Mid Wales. Highest temperatures around | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
nine Celsius, 40 it Fahrenheit, and windy, the wind, if anything, | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
increasing during the afternoon, forecast gusts of over 56 mph by | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
the evening. Tomorrow night looks wet and windy, strong to severe | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
gale force winds, and heavy rain, another 40-50 mm, 2 inches expected | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
on high ground in Mid Wales and Snowdonia, and given the ground is | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
already saturated, that brings a risk of more flooding. Beyond that, | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Thursday drier and brighter, some welcome sunshine, a few showers, | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
strong to gale force winds slowly easing. Beyond that, Friday less | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
windy after a dry and cold start, turning milder with a little rain. | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
Still no sign of really cold weather and significant snow this | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
winter so far. It has been driven by a strong jet stream bringing | :26:33. | :26:42. | |
abounds of heavy rain and gales in Tonight's main story from the BBC, | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
which contains flash photography. Two men, Gary Dobson and David | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
Norris have been found guilty of the murder of Stephen Lawrence 18 | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
years ago. Today the Lawrence family led by his mother called the | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
original police investigation a miserable failure. Despite these | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
verdicts, today is not a cause for celebration. How can I celebrate | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
when my son lies buried? Had the police done their job properly, I | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
would have spent the last 18 years grieving for my son rather than | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
Get his killers to court. Tonight's other headlines, heavy rain | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
forecast for tomorrow might lead to further flooding, the Environment | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
Agency has warned tonight. Winds of over 100 mph and heavy rain caused | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
disruption across Wales. We will have an update for you here | :27:32. | :27:37. |