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Failing to bring in more factories like this. Nearly 200 foreign-owned | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
firms closed in the last 10 years. At an report on the Welsh | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
government record on inward investment. There's not a dedicated | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
body to sell Wales to the world. Inward investment has fallen off a | :00:26. | :00:36. | |
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Thousands of horses abandoned across the country. Why we are all | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
paying the cost. A fly in Stade for the charity which cares for. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
Servicemen, now with a new name. It has many happy returns to Wrexham, | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
as new documents show the football club could be much older than | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
anyone thought. And he's back - Alun Wyn Jones | :01:06. | :01:15. | |
returns, one of three changes to face England for the Triple Crown. | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
We are failing to attract foreign companies and their jobs - that is | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
the blunt message from MPs from the Welsh Affairs Committee. They have | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
urged the Welsh government to consider re-using the brand of the | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
Welsh Development Agency more than five years after it was abolished. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
This is the second report in a month to seriously criticise our | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
record of attracting foreign firms. Easy come, easy go - that was being | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
-- the description of inward investment of Wales in today's | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
report. Large companies have all gone. | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
There was a golden period, but the cross-party group of MPs was told | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
that Wales was seen as a one-trick pony. When other places were found | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
with cheaper labour, the country suffered. In 1992, there were more | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
than 17,000 workers -- 70,000 workers in foreign-owned factories | :02:14. | :02:24. | |
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in Wales. Between 1998 and 2000 Na, For the benefit of the economy, the | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
MPs say the Welsh Government should are urgently consider how to make | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
sure -- made use of the brand of the WDA. They should develop a | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
dedicated trade organisation. We do not have a body that is saying to | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
investors, come to Wales, it is a great place to set up your business. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
We do not have that and we should have that. That is the main point | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
within the committee's report. It is not hard to find Business people | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
who still praise the WDA, but bring me back is another matter. -- but | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
bringing it back. There was a time when it did everything for | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
everybody. It dealt with land reclamation, inward investment. | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
Time has moved on, and we now need a trade body. It is a case of | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
promoting Wales at the highest level. The report was critical of | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
the decision by Edwina Hart not to appear in front of the committee. | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
Of the main issues in the report, the Welsh government says it has | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
developed a more flexible model. It is not simply a throwback to the | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
WDA, which it says has run its course. Despite so many closures, | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
there are still many foreign-owned firms still operating successfully | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
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in Wales. Take this car park form, -- car parts firm, an Italian firm, | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
which employs 70 people. I asked the plan director why it had | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
survived when others had gone. People who work here are | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
tremendously committed. It also needed a break commitment from | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
people after their major fire in 2008. It would have been easy to | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
stop production after that. The combination of the response that | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
the sovereign people and is planned, together worth the commitment to | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
Wales, we got through it. This report has listed some of the | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
strong points in Wales. A committed workforce. Successful companies, | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
like this one, in the automotive sector. The MPs were told, however, | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
that there is no one effectively giving that message out to the rest | :04:48. | :04:58. | |
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Let us get more on this. This report attacks the Welsh business | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
minister for failing to appear on it. Is this a clash of | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
personalities? Is there something more radically? A bit of both. When | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
the chair of the select committee wrote to Edwina Harte, asking her | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
for evidence, her response was very blunt. Just one sentence. I shall | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
not be attending. It seemed the committee today did not one to | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
mince its own words end the criticism of her. It accused her of | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
ignoring them, showing disrespect and discourtesy to Parliament. It | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
is a pretty substantial accusation to make against anybody, let alone | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
a government minister. David Davies stuck to his guns today. I think it | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
is discourteous. A Minister has said, and fairly returns, that she | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
cannot be bothered to turn up to give evidence to a committee that | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
is looking into a committee that affect her portfolio. That is my | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
personal review -- view and it seems to be reflected by other | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
members of the committee. David Davies was talking about other | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
members of the committee. I was talking to a Labour member of the | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
committee, then I'm Davies said, perhaps the language used was to | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
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hysterical. -- Geraint Davies. What will she have made of it? I do not | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
think she will lose much sleep. She's pretty competent. She was not | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
in any rush to download the contents on to her computer, she | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
said. She said that the relationship between her department | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
and the UK government was a good one. This is a story we first | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
brought to a few weeks ago. Abandon horses. Tonight, warning | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
that the dumping of horses is putting lives at risk and costing | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
councils hundreds of thousands of pounds. A BBC Wales investigation | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
has revealed that horse related calls to the police in South Wales | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
alone has seen a staggering rise of almost 2000 per cent and the last | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
month. -- in the last month. Last month, more than 40 horses were | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
abandoned here. That is where unscrupulous owners dump their | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
livestock on and that -- other people's land, allowing them to | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
feed for free. It seems this was not an isolated incident. Many | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
wonder loose, getting onto Road, wrecking gardens and causing mayhem. | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
Does this weekend, 37 were rounded up by police near Bridgend. At a | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
nearby school, they have had to spend �50,000 a new fencing to try | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
to keep them out. The horses find their way into school grounds, | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
causing thousands of pounds' worth of damage. The mix of wild animals | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
and young children can spell danger. We have horse owners who are | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
irresponsibly driving down the road and cherry-picking Widdecombe drop- | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
off and depositing their horses in fields, often late at night night, | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
late at night, -- often late at night, and the wake up and there is | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
a new problem in the community. South Wales police say it seems to | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
be getting worse. We could expect 25 incidence per month last year. | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
They were predominantly have been of an animal welfare nature. Last | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
month, there were 497 incidence. The fear, if it goes unchecked, | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
there will be a fatality? Absolutely. They get on the roads | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
and they have been involved in some quite serious road traffic | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
accidents. One was on the road recently, and its spine was split. | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
We have been so lucky there have been no fatalities in human life. | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
Have you got a passport? A passport, no. I can get one for it. Cardiff | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
Council was the first one in Wales to employee a horse warden. It is | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
her job to round up stray horses. That can lead to confrontation. No, | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
it is my horse! At the end of the day, I cannot fight them. Again, at | :09:36. | :09:45. | |
the issue is with the police. The do not respond. -- the they do not | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
respond. Redwings Horse Sanctuary recently took 1022 animals that had | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
been dumped and land -- on land near Cardiff airport. One solution | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
would be to have been put down. It is very difficult for me as a vet | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
to say that. All horses over six months old are supposed to have a | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
passport. Since 2009, the should also be microchips. -- they should | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
also have microchips. Some owners are floating he's read the -- these | :10:20. | :10:30. | |
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regulations. -- someone as a floating these regulations. There | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
is more on that this week. The jury in the trial of a man accused of | :10:36. | :10:46. | |
:10:46. | :10:47. | ||
raping and murdering 90 year-old Nikitta Grender has been sent home. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
The accused denies the charges. Her body was discovered in a burnt-out | :10:52. | :11:01. | |
flat last year. She was two weeks ago -- away from giving birth to | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
higher unborn child. They say that they will try to relocate staff to | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
other shop still stop the fashion chain, which was part of that | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
peacocks group, was bought by a private equity firm. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
People living in three remote villages near Lampeter say they | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
could be left even more isolated by the decision to end a regular bus | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
services. From next week's, -- from next week, | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Arriva buses will no longer pass through the villages of Cribyn, | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
Pencarreg and Cwmann. People living there have said they will have to | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
book buses in future. The bus services stopping. Another name is | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
added to a petition opposing the change to Arriva's bus service near | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
Lampeter. The decided to turn down a subsidy from the local authority | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
and operate the route on a commercial basis. For many living | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
in the area, that will mean swapping buzzes like this one for | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
ones like this. I am concerned because myself and resident Samaria | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
are bus users. I come in five days per week and two or three times, | :12:17. | :12:25. | |
depending on my shift. I cannot always guarantee that we can book a | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
bus in advance. Cribyn is one of three villages that will be | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
affected. From Sunday, it will no longer be on the main bus route | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
between Carmarthen and Aberystwyth. Those people unable to catch the | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
few remaining buses that will pass through the village, will need to | :12:43. | :12:53. | |
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become boss. -- will need to book a bus. They can take the not only to | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Lampeter but also to the surrounding areas. They currently | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
do not have bus services. Not everyone is convinced. That is the | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
solution there, you can book a bus. We will see how it works! I don't | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
think they can ever cope with a number of people that need it. A | :13:21. | :13:31. | |
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There will also be changes to the timetable and the advice to | :13:36. | :13:46. | |
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passengers is to check bus times Much more to come including, Elin | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
Jones is back, one of three changes to the Welsh team are to face | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
England for the Triple Crown. -- Alun Wyn Jones. Exactly how old is | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
First, a charity that has been helping former soldiers who have | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
lost their sight for nearly a hundred years has changed its name. | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
St Dunstan's, which has a centre in Llandudno, says it has had to | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
rethink its brand because not enough people know who it is or | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
what it does. Flying into Llandudno to roll-out a | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
new flag, and more importantly a brand new name. Blind Veterans UK. | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
It is the new title for St Dunstan's, a charity started merely | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
a hundred years ago, teaching returning soldiers had to cope | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
without their sight. In its early years it counted the Queen Mother | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
are amongst its supporters. Its fundraisers or popular, like this | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
swimming gala at Barry Knap in 1926, but things have changed. It was the | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
help for heroes of its day. A huge charity, very rich, and in the | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
Sixties Seventies and Eighties we didn't do any fund-raising, so a | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
large part of the population don't know who St Dunstan's is. We feel | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
with the name Blind Veterans UK that it is very clear. Bill | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
Stephenson is a former Royal Engineer who is now blind. Until | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
recently he had never heard of St Dunstan's or its six centres across | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
the UK. Now he is staying in Llandudno for a week relearning had | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
to chop vegetables and getting a few tricks to make tea without any | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
spills. Pick the cattle up and start to pour, feel for the edge of | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
the Cup and Paul. -- pour the tea. You can say you are giving up, it | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
is no good, but then, after you have been here and you find they | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
can show you how to do things, then you think, there is a way. | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
charity now hopes the new name will help tens of thousands of ex- | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
servicemen and women like Bill realise help is out there. | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Good evening. Time for tonight's sport, and captain Sam Warburton | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
will return to lead Wales's bid for the Triple Crown at Twickenham this | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
weekend. He is one of three changes for Saturday's Six Nations clash | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
against England. Scarlets a kicker no wins will start an international | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
for the first time, -- Ken Owens, and lock Alun Wyn Jones returns to | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
beef up the pack. He hasn't played for Wales since | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
the worst -- World Cup, but Alun Wyn Jones's performances in New | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
Zealand was so good that coach Warren Gatland has decided to throw | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
him into the fray despite a knee playing one and a half Games in | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
three months. It has been a really tough decision leaving Ryan Jones | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
out. He has done well in the first couple of Games. Alan Wyn Jones | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
likes to take the pressure on his shoulders, and we expect a player | :16:52. | :17:00. | |
of his experience, a good performance at him. Wales changes | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
are all in the forwards. Ryan Jones is on the bench with regular | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
captain Sam Warburton definitely fit and raring to go. In the front | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
row, Scarlets hooker Ken Owens will start an international for the | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
first time after both Huw Bennett and Matthew Rees were ruled out | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
through injury. This time last year I was watching the game at my local | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
rugby club at home. I had had a neck operation and had to be back | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
for the Scarlets at some point this year to get a couple of Games, and | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
to go to the World Cup and start the Six Nations is huge. The Back's | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
selection is a more straightforward affair, a clean bill of health | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
meaning Warren Gatland can -- Warren Gatland can pick the same | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
three-quarter line for the third game in succession. They have | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
scored six tries between them and hope for more of the same in | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
Twickenham with victory against England will win the Triple Crown. | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Wales prop Gethin Jenkins also confirmed today that he will play | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
crap -- club rugby in France next season. He is leaving the Blues in | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
the summer having signed a two-year contract with Toulon. It is a | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
growing trend in Welsh rugby. Mark Phillips, James Hook and Gay Byrne | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
have moved across the Channel and will be joined next season by three | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
more players already snapped up by French clubs. Jenkins had already | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
been in negotiations with the Blues, who said they would no longer pay | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
players when they were away on international duty. It got to the | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
stage where I was only being offered 60 per cent of the money I | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
was already on, so that had a big impact on my leaving, obviously. | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
Things sometimes have to change, and the offer in France to play | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
rugby, I am getting on a bit at 31, so it was too good to turn down. | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
Former Wales lock Gareth Llewellyn was one of the first Welshmen to | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
play in France. When we spoke earlier I asked him why so many | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
players are now choosing to leave Wales. Clearly we have financial | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
issues in Welsh rugby at the moment. Are decisions are driven by lack of | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
finance. We have a �3.5 million budget next year for regional | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
squads, which is �1 million behind England, and any number of millions | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
behind the French clubs. Money is clearly tight in the regions. Can | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
this trend be stopped? The only way you can stop the trend is by | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
financing the regions, how that happens, it will have to come from | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
the Welsh Rugby Union, whether they can afford it we don't know, and if | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
they do, it will be some kind of power concession by the regions to | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
the union as to the control over how money is spent. How likely do | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
you think that is? I am not sure what the exact financial situation | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
is of the Union, but the unions and regions are all intertwined than | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
the money comes from the WRU to the regions, and it is in the region's | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
interests to be successful, so it is something they will have to sit | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
down and thrash out over a table, I guess, but what the exact finances | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
are, I don't know. If this carries on, what will our regional teams | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
look like in two or three seasons? We will certainly have less of the | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
Welsh players playing, and the overseas stars we are used to | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
seeing. We will be able to afford some but not as many as at the | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
moment. It could well mean that more Welsh players playing, which | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
would be a good thing, but it might not make us as competitive in the | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
likes of Europe. Does this also have a knock-on effect on the | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
success of the Wales national team, do you think? It will certainly | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
make it more difficult for the national team to get together if a | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
lot of our boys are playing in England or France. It will make the | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
out of season rugby window, like the Australian international last | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
year, almost impossible if most of the team are playing outside Wales, | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
because of will be effectively playing and a side of guys based in | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
Wales. It will make life more difficult, yes. Thank you. | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
On to football, and there is confusion over the role of Wales | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
coach Raymond Verheijen for the Gary Speed Memorial match next week. | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
The FAW insists the Dutchman will be in charge alongside Osian | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Roberts for the game against Costa Rica, but Verheijen said on Twitter | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
at this is a surprise to him and said the FAW has not told him. | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
Cardiff City have put an extra 1500 tickets on sale for their Carling | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
Cup final clash against Liverpool on Sunday. Fans were lining up from | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
the early hours of this morning to ensure a seat. The club's initial | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
allocation was just over 30,000 tickets. | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
There is Conference report tonight. Newport County travel to Tamworth, | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
while Wrexham player-manager Andy Morrell says he is confident his | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
team can keep up pressure on confident -- Conference leaders | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
Fleetwood. The Dragons travel to Kidderminster this evening. They | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
are second. Now to some rather more historic | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
news for Wrexham fans. Just as they were looking ahead to the club's | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
140 of anniversary next year, evidence has come to light | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
suggesting it may already be 150 years old. The Wrexham Supporters' | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Trust has uncovered references from local newspapers indicating the | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
club was founded in 1864, not 1873, making it one of the oldest clubs | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
in Britain. Like many of a certain age, Wrexham | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
Football Club may have shaved a few years officer put it -- official | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
birthdate, which could mean the difference between being the oldest | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
league club in Wales and the third oldest in the world behind Notts | :22:38. | :22:47. | |
County and Stoke City. October 1864. "I shall expect a good many down to | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
the field on Saturday ." Club historian and share of the | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
supporters' trust Pete Jones has been trying to confirm his long- | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
held belief that Wrexham might be longer in the tooth than first | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
thought. It is only with the transfer of local newspaper | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
archives to the internet that his search was simplified. A guy came | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
to Wrexham from Yorkshire, where football was well established, in | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
Sheffield, and introduced football to Wrexham. We have a date now of | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
1864, which seems to be now the most accurate date we have come up | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
with. That means the club was already 63 by the time these | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
pictures were filmed at the Racecourse in 1927. | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
Until recently the received wisdom had it that the club was far -- | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
formed here in September 1873 by a group of cricketers looking for | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
something to do when summer was over. Although the location and | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
most of the facts haven't changed, one important thing has, at the | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
date of that crucial meeting. The club badge says it is 139 years old, | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
but fans have long argued it was founded the year earlier meaning it | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
is currently 140. The newspaper articles indicate it is just two | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
years short of 150. Wrexham Museum of host an exhibition charting the | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
club's history through the ages later this year. Staff say the new | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
discovery proves there is no substitute for good historical | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
detective work. Going in there, having a look and finding out more | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
rather than just taking it at red, you know, people pass on these | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
facts from one magazine to the next, going back to the original sources | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
and checking, and not taking anything for granted. Wrexham may | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
have gained a few years but it is still alive and kicking. | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
It wouldn't be the first time someone has pretended to be younger | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
than they are! Which leads us on to Working with you puts years on me! | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
It has been mild in Wrexham this week but there is rain on the way, | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
and tomorrow the weather is set to go downhill with a spell of wet and | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
windy weather. Thursday will be dry and some of this will enjoy a taste | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
of Spring, temperatures in Rossett in Flintshire rising as high as 15 | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
Celsius, 11 Celsius nearer the mark in Rhossili on Gower. Tomorrow | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
spots of light rain and drizzle in Mid Wales and the North, otherwise | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
dry, breezy, with temperatures everywhere well above freezing. | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
Here is the picture for 8 am, the South and East and parts of Powys | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
including the north-east and Wrexham will start off dry, but it | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
won't last. In the north and west it will soon turn wet, the rain | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
accompanied by fresh to strong winds with temperatures in Cardigan | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
around 9 Celsius. During the day, the rain will spill across the rest | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
of the country, heaviest on the hills and mountains, with | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
widespread hill fog so poor visibility. Temperatures above | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
average and windy, the south- westerly wind fresh to strong, up | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
to gale force on some coasts and hills, gusts 45-50 mph. In Bridgend | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
County tomorrow, turning wet and windy, temperatures in Blaengarw 10 | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
Celsius, 50 Fahrenheit. Tomorrow night the wind and rain will ease | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
off but still some drizzle, plenty of low cloud, mist and hill fog as | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
well. Thursday drier and mild with lighter winds, much of the air | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
moist with low cloud, mist and drizzle. The south and west coasts | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
staying grey and murky, temperatures at Oxwich around 11 | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
Celsius, but inland it will dry out and in parts of the north and east | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
it will feel like spring. Temperatures in Prestatyn rising to | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
15 Celsius, not far off 60 Fahrenheit. Friday, cloudy and damp, | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
at the moment, the weekend will become dry and settled for while | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
thanks to high pressure. The temperatures drop back closer to | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
the seasonal average. Our picture tonight is from Spencer Davis, | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
taken in the Brecon Beacons. If you are going Warken -- walking | :26:49. | :26:58. | |
tomorrow you will need waterproofs. The top stories: The Greek Prime | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
Minister says the agreement of a second big bail-out of the Eurozone | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
is an historic opportunity for his country -- from the Eurozone. The | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
package, with 130 billion euros, depends on Chris making painful | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
spending cuts in response -- to stave off bankruptcy -- Greece. The | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
Welsh Affairs Committee have which the Welsh Government to consider | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
re-using the brand of the Welsh Development Agency more than five | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
years after it was abolished. They say we are failing to attract | :27:30. | :27:34. |