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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top Jail for the mother who left her | :00:04. | :00:14. | |
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baby home alone every day for a Our other headlines tonight: | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
How not to sack somebody - a finance director who lost his job | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
at a charity wins his case for Another health authority proposes | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
changes to the services it offers - this family tells us why they're | :00:37. | :00:46. | |
A wet summer means we could all be And five days after A-level results, | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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every single Welsh University still Good evening. A woman from Brecon | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
has been jailed for 15 months for leaving her baby daughter home | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
alone every day for a week while she went out partying. Neighbours | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
raised the alarm when they heard the 15 month old's cries. Our | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
reporter Jordan Davies is outside Merthyr Crown Court. Jordan, what | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
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Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard how a 20 wheel -- a 20-year-old | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
woman who can't be named for legal reasons spent the week partying | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
with friends last Christmas and only made four fleeting visits home | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
to make her daughter breakfast cereal and microwave meals. She | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
then went back to her friend's flat to continue partying. The alarm was | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
raised when the neighbours heard screams from the girl. They called | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
the police and when officers arrived, they said it was dark, | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
cold and in a mess. The prosecutor said that the house was filled with | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
rubbish, had dirty clothes, empty wine bottles, beer cans and dirty | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
nappies are strewn over the floor. The girls had been -- the girl had | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
been on their own for 24 hours. One of the officers went into the | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
bedroom and found the girl subdued in her crib. There was no heating | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
and she was part be covered by a blanket. When a doctor examined the | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
girl, he said she was bleeding because her nappy rash was so | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
severe. What was said in court? | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
Defending her, the lawyer said that the mother hopes to rebuild her | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
relationship with her little girl very cloak -- very slowly when she | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
leaves prison. The judge said, he may have gone back to the house on | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
occasion but you neglected her for a very long time. The woman | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
admitted neglect and broke down in tears when she was jailed for 15 | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
months. Des Mannion is from the NSPCC. Is this a one-off? | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
Whichever way you look at it, this was a terrible case involving a | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
parent who left a vulnerable child alone, and fed, a low without water, | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
repeatedly. It is a rare case. These criminal prosecutions are | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
rare but they are not unique. There have been similar prosecutions in | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
South Wales and I am aware of them this year and across the UK. While | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
prosecutions for neglect are rare, they are not unique. It broadens | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
out. It needs to be broadened out into the whole context of children | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
experiencing neglect and trying to promote an understanding of that. | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
By the sound of it, it was the neighbours who saved the day here. | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Presumably, it is so easy for family, neighbours and friends to | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
look in the other direction and ignore what is in front of them. | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
It is easy, I guess, for people to do that but it is equally important | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
that everybody in the community takes responsibility to protect | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
children and in this case, it would appear that the community and | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
neighbours did decide to intervene. Where were the caring services, the | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
social worker, how first sitter, in all of this? -- the health visitor. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
At this point in time, we don't know. One would hope that a serious | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
case review, a multi- agency review, will be taken and that would enable | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
us to arrive at an understanding and a fuel over involvement on | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
behalf of statutory agencies and what action they in fact took. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
"A textbook example of how not to dismiss somebody" - that's how a | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
judge at an employment tribunal today described the way the finance | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
director of a defunct race relations charity was dismissed. | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Saquib Zia was accused of gross misconduct and sacked in February | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
after a Welsh government audit report warned of "significant and | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
fundamental failures" at the All Wales Ethnic Minority Association, | :04:43. | :04:53. | |
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Saquib Zia claimed he had been unfairly dismissed from his �50,000 | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
a year job as the finance director of AWEMA. Today a judge | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
overwhelmingly backed his case. He said this was a textbook example of | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
how not to dismiss members of staff and that it was astonishing how | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
bosses had ignored processes and the whole process had been wholly | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
defective. He awarded Saquib Zia over �4,000 in compensation. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
And I knew from the outset that I wouldn't be able to cover my cost | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
with pursuing this tribunal but the idea was to distil my credibility | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
and I believe I have done that. Earlier this year, the charity was | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
wound-up after a report found serious financial failings. It was | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
on the basis of those feelings that Saquib Zia and the chief executive | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
of the Swansea-based charity, Naz Malik, seen here, were sacked by | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
the charity's trustees. Naz Malik admitted using the funds from the | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
charity to pay off his personal debts, claiming it was an advance | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
on his expenses. The Wales Audit Office are in the process of | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
carrying out an investigation into the relationship between AWEMA and | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
the Welsh government, due to report in the autumn. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
A man has been arrested after an incident in Llandudno that left two | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
people critically injured. Police were called to a property at Ffordd | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
Dulyn at midday today following reports of an assault. A man and | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
woman have been taken to hospital, both are said to be in a critical | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
condition. An investigation is now underway. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
A support group for parents with babies needing intensive hospital | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
care say they'll campaign against plans to move it from north Wales | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
to England. The Betsi Cadwaladr health board has started a ten week | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
consultation on widespread changes to the service it provides. | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
Included is a plan to switch long term intensive care for babies from | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Glan Clwyd Hospital at Bodelwyddan and the Maelor in Wrexham to a | :06:45. | :06:55. | |
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hospital near Liverpool. Roger Pinney reports. More on that later | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
in the programme. We may all have to pay more for the | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
food we buy - that's the warning from farmers tonight. Welsh farmers | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
are facing a difficult year ahead trying to cope with the | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
consequences of the wet summer. The farmers union NFU Cymru says the | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
unseasonal weather has devastated crops and led to an increase in the | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
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cost of producing food. Cemlyn By now, they should be a reasonable | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
size like that one but unfortunately, that year -- this | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
year, that is an exception to the rule. It's been a rotten few months | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
for Teifi Davies who grows and sells vegetables on his farm in | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
South Ceredigion. Normally this field would yield 30,000 tonnes of | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
potatoes. With much of it now hidden under a blanket of weeds, | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
Teifi says he'll be lucky to get a third of that from this year's crop. | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
A lot of the spectators will be hand sorted because the they are | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
misshapen and the sizes involved. The rotten ones will have to be | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
picked out. It is a bit of a disaster, really. I should be lucky | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
if I may break even with my potato crop this year. | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
Crop farmers aren't the only ones who've been affected by the | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
unseasonal weather. Alan James keeps sheep in the Aberystwyth area. | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
Some of his land was affected by June's floods. He says it's been | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
difficult to fatten up the lambs ready to be sold. | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
We have sold some but we sell them later. Yes, you sell them two kilos | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
less, when the price is around �4 a kilo, that is �8 less for a lamb. | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Of course things have been very different in other countries. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Severe drought in parts of the United States have seen the price | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
of corn rise sharply. That's pushing up the cost of animal feed | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
for some farmers here and with others facing poor harvests, | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
farmers unions are warning of a knock on effect on consumers. | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
We produce food for the sake of feeding the consumer in the | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
population. If at the end of the day, we can't do that because it | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
costs too much or there is insufficient crop, it will impact | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
on what the consumer pays for their food. The sun was shining on west | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Wales today, allowing Teifi an opportunity to assess the damage to | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
his crop and salvage what he could. As the scale of the loss becomes | :09:16. | :09:25. | |
clearer it seems the rest of us Much more to come before 7:00pm. | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Swansea's doubters are silenced after that 5-0 win at Queens Park | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
Rangers. And some of the world's top | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
Paralympic athletes head here for camp before the deep end of London | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
Five days after pupils across the country received their A-level | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
results, every Welsh university has some places available through | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
clearing. The number of applicants to Welsh Universities was down | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
nearly 3% from last year, and this is the first year that universities | :09:58. | :10:06. | |
are allowed to charge up to �9,000 for tuition fees. Our Education | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
Correspondent Gwenfair Griffith is here. | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
What is going on here? Clearing is an ever changing picture with | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
students securing places by the hour. But unusually, each | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
university in Wales has places left to fill and maybe more | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
significantly universities like Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth and | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
Bangor. Cardiff University has about 50 places left, and Swansea | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
University has about 250 free spaces in courses including history, | :10:30. | :10:40. | |
English, law, business and economics. These universities say | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
they want to fill those places with high achieving spaces. Why is this | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
happening? There could be a number of reasons. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
We can't ignore the fact that universities can now charge up to | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
�9,000 tuition fees - up from around �3,500 until last year. | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
We've seen a significant drop in university applications - nearly 3 | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
% less here in Wales. But that could be because there are fewer | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
school leavers here. Another factor is the change in English | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
Universities' entry system. For the first time this year, they're | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
allowed to accept as many as they like of the highest achieving | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
students - students who've achieved at least two As and a B - its | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
something the sector acknowledges could affect the quality of | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
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students who come to study here in Wales. All of which means what? | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
Financially, failing to fill places could have far-reaching effects on | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
universities' budgets. Students are now potentially worth �9,000 each | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
to a university's yearly budget. For example, if Swansea University | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
still has 250 places left to fill, that could amount to up to two and | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
a quarter million pounds a year - that's dependent on the individual | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
course's costs. But the clearing process isn't over yet and the | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
picture of what's happening across the border is far from clear yet so | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
we'll have to wait and see what the picture will be for Welsh | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
universities at the start of the autumn term. | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
Later this week it will be GCSE students getting their results. The | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
exams are right at the heart of our education system but do they need | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
changing? Over the next three days on Wales Today, we're taking an in- | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
depth look at the GCSE. Tonight we begin by asking what it's future is | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
as the Welsh Government undertakes a review of the entire exam system. | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
Here's our political editor, Betsan Powys. | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
Class, let us start with some revision. The GCSE, the General | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
Certificate of Secondary Education Kabul was introduced in Wales, | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
England and Northern Ireland in the late 1980s. The first exam was in | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
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1988. It replaced the O-level. To the questions. | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
Do we stick with GCSEs or do we scrap them? Do we revive the old O- | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
levels or introduce a brand new distinctively Welsh qualification? | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
In the process of answering those questions is a review board | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
appointed by the Welsh government. Huw Evans was chairing the board. | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
He sat his exams in 1967. I believe from the evidence we have | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
looked at so far, GCSEs are a very, very strong and that you'd | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
qualification and that has come through very strongly. I am very | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
aware of the fact that they have been whispers and leaks from | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
England that potentially, GCSEs could be changing and changing | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
significantly. We have certainly not identified that kind of | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
groundswell within Wales. However, that doesn't mean to say that GCSEs | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
can't be improved. And also, that they can't be modified. | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
International evidence suggests what pupils are up losing ground, | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
falling behind in tests for reading, maths and science. Its critics say | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
the Welsh government should concentrate on raising standards, | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
Renate -- rather than blaming the qualifications themselves. | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
We have concerns that we have changed for the sake of change. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
There Welsh government need to be clear about what we want to achieve | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
from this review under way at the moment. We have already seen the | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
Welsh Baccalaureate, several higher education institutions in England | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
don't count that as a meaningful qualification. | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
In June, the man in charge of education in England, Michael Gove, | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
announced plans to scrap GCSEs. He said they had been in expensive | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
mistake, replacing exams with coursework had dragged standards | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
down. Bringing back O-level exams would set a gold standard in | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
England. So, more questions. Should Wales go down a different path to | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
the rest of the UK? Should qualifications in Wales diverge | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
from those in England? If they do, how can we be sure they are | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
nationally and internationally respected? And their faced her O- | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
levels in 1983. A people will worry about parental | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
response and what institutions outside Wales will think of | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
different qualifications but what has been instructive as this review | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
has gone on is how relaxed higher education institutions in | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
particular are about the variety of qualifications they consider when | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
accepting students into their institutions. | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
The review board report back in November and then it'll be all eyes | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
on the answers the world government provides. And to be entirely fair | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
and open, Betsan Powys sat her O Tomorrow night we'll meet a married | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
couple with a unique perspective on the exam system - they're head | :15:53. | :16:03. | |
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teachers on either side of the border. As I mentioned earlier, a | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
support group for parents with babies needing intensive hospital | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
care say they will campaign against plans to move services from North | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
Wales to England. A year ago, John and Nicola didn't | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
even know Glan Clwyd Hospital's special baby-care unit existed, | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
despite having three other children. Then Molly came along with | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
complications. She was born prematurely. It was a stressful | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
time. The nurses and staff were really | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
reassuring. We would go to the specialist baby unit and there was | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
a board full of pictures and stuff of babies who had been born there | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
and how they had come on so that was nice to see that everybody has | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
been wonderful there. Doctors and nurses. | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
They have become passionate advocates for the unit and now they | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
have heard that in future, babies needing long-term incentive care | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
will be moved to Liverpool. -- intensive care. | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
We wouldn't have been able to travel far with having other | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
children as well and you don't need. Why mend something if it is not | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
broken? It doesn't fit well with me. They have got a duty and the | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
directives of the Welsh Assembly Government mean that they'd have to | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
provide that level of care so anything else would be a cop out | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
and to move it to England is a bit more of a cop-out, isn't it? | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
But it isn't just neonatal. The changes proposed by the University | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
Health Board affect a whole range of services and in the main, they | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
are locally-based services, the stuff people like to have on their | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
doorsteps such as community or hospitals, minor injury units. They | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
have already been protest meetings. This consultation will be pretty | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
bruising process. The health board needs to save | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
money but argues that changes will improve patient care. Doing nothing | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
is not an option, it is claimed. We will have services spread too | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
thinly and they are unsafe. Unsafe services are no good for anyone. If | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
we don't change services, we would be sleepwalking into disaster, | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
really. Campaigners like the Hewitt will | :18:18. | :18:27. | |
take some convincing. They will make a fight of it, they say. Now | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
stars of the cricketing world are taking part in a 160 mile bike ride | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
in memory of former Glamorgan player Tom Maynard. Ashes winner | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
Andrew Flintoff is among those joining Tom's Father, Matthew on | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
the journey from Cardiff to London. They set off from the Swalec | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
Stadium this morning and will arrive at the Oval tomorrow, | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
shortly before a tribute match in memory of Tom. Matt Murray reports. | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
Members from the cricketing community gathered early this | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
morning at the Swalec Stadium. Many there to support Tom's father | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
Matthew on this bike ride from Cardiff to London and also to | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
remember a friend and sporting colleague. | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
I met Tom through Matthew, his father. I played with him with | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
England. He then moved to Surrey, where I live now. I would pop into | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
the Oval and see him about the place. Everyone will be talking | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
about Tom over the next few days and the impact his life had on | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
everyone. Tom Maynard was found dead on a railway track at | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
Wimbeldon Underground station in June. He was seen as rising star of | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
the game. He started his career at Glamorgan while his father was | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
still coach and later joined Surrey. Speaking just last week, Matthew | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Maynard explained how a trust has been set up in his son's name and | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
memory and will help aspiring and disadvantaged cricketers. | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
Reading the letters that have come through, people have said how much | :19:49. | :19:59. | |
Tom had helped their child. It kind of made us think, I guess. It is | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
something we believe he would want us to do. | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
This bike ride from the Swalec stadium to Surrey's home ground the | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
Oval is the first fundraising event for the trust. The cyclists left | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
Wales this morning, crossing the old Severn Bridge, and will | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
complete just under 100 miles to finish in Newbury tonight. Tomorrow | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
a further 60 miles, arriving at the Oval in London for a tribute match | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
between Surrey and Glamorgan. It has given everybody some focus, | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
training and logistics. Matt's daughter has helped out with the | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
website and the Low goes. This bike ride will now lead the | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
way for many more events in Tom's memory which will benefit | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
youngsters for years to come. Football and it was a dream start | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
to life as Swansea City manager for Michael Laudrup. The 5-0 win at | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
Queens Park Rangers did much to silence doubters who expect the | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
Swans to struggle this season following the departures of manager | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
Brendan Rodgers and Joe Allen to History was and on Swansea City's | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
side going into their season opener at QPR. These ones haven't won at | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
Loftus Road in 19 attempt and they hadn't won on the opening day since | :21:09. | :21:19. | |
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All that was forgotten in the space of 19 memorable minutes. New | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
manager Michael Laudrup and his new signings, especially the double | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
goalscorer, making an immediate impact. | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
It is just the thing we needed to start like that. The confidence. He | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
could already see the players in the last third of the game and | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
their confidence is very important because I think everybody, me and | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
the players inclusive, every player manager and club, when you start a | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
new season, they are all a little doubtful. Where are we? That goes | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
for all teams. The first couple of teams are very important. | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
The scoring was rounded off by Scott Sinclair, after his refusal | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
to sign a new contract. In the meantime, the Swans have made a �5 | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
million bid for Celtic's midfielder. The weekend kicked off with a late | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
show from Cardiff City, Mike Hudson leaving it until extra time to see | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
off Huddersfield. A trip to Brighton tomorrow for the Bluebird. | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
They were brave -- they were brave and they kept going. They kept | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
looking for that space and eventually, it came. Overall, we | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
have got the win. We are now looking to go towards Brighton. It | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
will be a tough game. No mistake about that. It was last year. | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
And Newport County's impressive start to the season continues. They | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
made it three wins against three against Lincoln. Wrexham are the | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
13th after their draw. There just nine days to go until | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
the Paralympics in London. Many of the Welsh competitors in the Great | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
Britain team are currently in training camps ahead of the start | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
of competition. And hundreds of athletes and officials from across | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
the globe are here in Wales putting the finishing touches to their | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
preparations as Sachin Krishnan The Paralympics have grown into a | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
truly global sporting event and following the success of the | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
Olympics, this year's Games in London are set to be the biggest | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
yet. It's meant hundreds of athletes and officials basing | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
themselves here in recent weeks. And aside from traditionally strong | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
teams such as Australia, Wales is playing hosts to countries such as | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
the Solomon Islands. A nation of just 700,000 people, shot putter | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
Helen Tasaunga is their only competitor. Her team have been | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
preparing for the games at Cardiff Metropolitan University. | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
It is a big difference here. Back home, we don't have facilities. | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
Sometimes we struggle to look for equipment and we are lucky if we | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
have one. Here, it is a bonus for us to go me here. The party from | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
the Soloman Islands are among 600 competitors and officials from | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
around the world who have based themselves across South Wales ahead | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
Among them are swimmers from Mexico and New Zealand who today held | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
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training sessions for young Over the last six years, we have | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
gone out and invited the Paralympic nations to come to Wales. We have | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
world-class facilities to offer countries. What we would like to | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
get from this opportunity is not just for countries to see Wales as | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
a one-stop shop before London but consider Wales as a permanent | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
training base where they can come back before events such as the | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. One official told me that the | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
welcome he's received in Wales could mean return trips in future. | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
Since we have seen what the facilities and hospitality are like | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
and the weather, I think it is a good thing for us and it is a | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
learning curve for Fiji Paralympic as a whole. | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
So aside from the 38 Welsh competitors aiming for medals in | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
the Paralympic GB Team, Wales will have played a major part in the | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
success of many more at the London Games. Let's see what the weather | :25:07. | :25:15. | |
has in store for the start of the There is no escaping the showers | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
tomorrow. Heavy thundery showers heading our way. Perceiving is a | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
fine end to the day with the double sunshine in the further east of the | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
country. Parts of Anglesey as well. More cloud for Cardigan Bay and | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
Pembrokeshire, making its way inland in the overnight period and | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
a few coastal showers with mist and fog patches. Overnight temperatures | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
it remaining in double figures. Tomorrow, this weather front | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
bringing rain with it. Some heavy showers possible but there will be | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
some bright nurse in between as well. First thing tomorrow, at 8am, | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
some brightness for parts of Powys but head for the West in two parts | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
of Anglesey and the peninsula, we will see showers from the word go | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
and also a long Cardigan Bay and Pembrokeshire. Through the morning, | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
the showers will make their way further inland and as they do, they | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
will intensify further. Heavy downpours possible along parts of | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
Pembrokeshire and Cardigan Bay. For entry downpours could be mixed with | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
Hale as well but brightness in between and feeling a little bit | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
fresher than today. Into tomorrow, the showers will start to ease off | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
and die away. In the overnight period, just a few showers but for | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
the majority of the script will be dry and cloudy with some mist | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
forming overnight. 16 Celsius the maximum. Breezy conditions into | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
Wednesday. Wednesday another day of sunshine and showers. They | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
shouldn't be as heavy as Tuesday. Highs of only 19 Celsius third -- | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
so it will feel much cooler. By Thursday, fewer showers. Longer | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
spells of rain by Friday and that set the scene for the weekend with | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
heavy downpours heading our way. Today's beautiful picture is of the | :27:00. | :27:10. | |
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The headlines once again: The businessman who run the high | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
profile Polly Peck empire in the 1980s and early 90s has been found | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
guilty of theft. The jury at the Old Bailey has | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
reached the verdicts on three counts of stealing millions from | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
his own companies and has yet to make up its mind on a further nine | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
counts. We will -- | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
We'll have an update for you here at 8:00pm and I'll be back after | :27:31. | :27:36. |