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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story - | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
Police name the mother, her daughter and her baby killed in a | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
house fire in Cwmbran. A man is held on suspicicon of murder. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
Our other headlines tonight - The re-mark results in English | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
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papers are out - upgrades for thousands of GCSE students. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
Our other headlines tonight - The re-marked results in English | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
papers are out - upgrades for thousands of GCSE students. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Three-year-old Meg Burgess died when a wall collapsed on her - the | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
builder denies manslaughter. The MP for Newport West, Paul Flynn, | :00:48. | :00:57. | |
is suspended from the House of Commons.. There are brave soldier | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
lions being led by ministerial donkey's. I must order the members | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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to withdraw immediately from the Have you had any problems with | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
decimalisation so far? Slightly. What in particular? I don't like | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
the idea at all. Decimalisation, a drought and | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
devolution - its the 1970s! 50 Good evening. Three generations of | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
one family - a baby, her mother and her grandmother - have died in a | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
fire at a house at Cwmbran. Kim Buckley, her daughter, Kayleigh, | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
and six-month-old Kimberley were all found dead at the two-storey | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
property in the early hours of this morning. A 27-year-old man from the | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
Manchester area has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Our | :01:53. | :02:02. | |
reporter, Jordan Davies, is in Cwmbran tonight. Jordan. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Jamie, there is still a heavy police presence here as officers | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
tried to unfold how this tragedy happened, one that has shaken this | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
very tight-knit community. A grandmother, mother and her young | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
baby, killed in a fierce blaze that took 30 firemen to put out. Kim | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
Buckley, 46, her daughter, Kayleigh, 17, and Kimberley, just six months. | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
She had only been allowed home from hospital yesterday after being born | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
prematurely. Her twin sister died soon after birth. Two neighbours | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
tried to enter through a window in an attempt to rescue the family but | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
were beaten back by the intensity of the flames, and the house was | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
well alight when crews arrived this morning. During the blaze, the | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
bodies were found. Approximately 30 firefighters attended the scene, | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
arriving very quickly to a developed fire. The firefighters | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
worked extremely hard to extinguish the fire and locate the person | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
strapped inside. Police have arrested a 27-year-old | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
man from the Manchester area on suspicion of murder. He is | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
currently being held in custody while forensics officers and fire | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
investigators examine the scene for clues. So I know from personal | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
experience that the residents in the Syria are very close-knit and | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
support each other, and that was never more echoed just prior to the | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
fire service coming to the scene when we were aware that local | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
neighbourhood -- neighbours tried Valiant and bravely to enter the | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
house to save the lives of the Berkeley family. Neighbours have | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
been gathering at the police cordon all day, leaving flowers and | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
tributes. Everybody is shocked, everybody's talking it, I am | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
bumping into people on the way down, and everybody seems to... It has | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
spread so fast about what has happened in the area. It is never a | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
good thing when anybody loses their life but it is poignant when it is | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
a young baby. Kelly Buckley had been a pupil at nearby fair water | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
comprehensive. She is on the remembered. It was a tragedy today, | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
not just for pupils and staff but the community, even people who | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
don't know how well have been traumatised by it and offered | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
counselling. The police will continue their investigations now | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
into this tragic incident. It will take this close-knit community a | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
long time to come to terms with the loss of three generations of the | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
same family. Jordan, you have spent the day in | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
the community, and another development tonight. | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
Yes. Gwent Police have voluntarily referred this case to the | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Independent Police Complaints Commission, because the force says | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
it is aware that officers have been to this address on previous | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
occasions. This doesn't mean the IPCC are investigating this, it has | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
only been referred to the IPCC postop police are still questioning | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
the 27-year-old man on suspicion of murder. No doubt the flowers and | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
tributes will continue into this evening, but it will take this | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
community a long time to come to terms with the scale of this | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
tragedy. Some of the pupils who sat the | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
English language GCSE exam should know tonight whether their grades | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
have improved. The vast majority of the 34,000 pupils won't find out | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
until tomorrow. The paper was re- graded after the Welsh Education | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
Minister Leighton Andrews said grade boundaries had been set in a | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
way that was unfair to candidates. So let's take a look at the new | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
results. Just over 2,000 pupils have had their grades increased. | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
1,200 have improved their mark from a D to C, and almost 600 have gone | :05:35. | :05:43. | |
from a C grade to B. This is when the controversy | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
started so. On GCSE results day in August, heads and peoples across | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
the country were disappointed that candidates expected to get C grades | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
received D. The Education Minister, Leighton Andrews, decided use | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
ministerial powers to force the WJEC to reach grade, saying the | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
results were unjustifiable and almost certainly unfair due to a | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
change in the marking a third between January and June. The | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
results in the top grades were down nearly four per cent from 61.3 per | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
cent in 2011-57.4 per cent this year. 34,000 Welsh pupils took the | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
joke -- WJEC's English language exam but any a small proportion | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
will C grades improve, and none will go down. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
Those children who will be regraded will only receive the grade they | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
would have got last year if they sat the exams in similar | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
circumstances. There has been too much pressure to tighten things up, | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
and all that rhetoric, which has been misplaced. What we will see | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
his youngsters rewarded far hard work and given a fair grade. | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
that Flint High School, the regrading would affect their | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
students, who sat the AQA board's exam, which has not been ordered to | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
be regraded. Teachers say that is unfair on students. Lots of | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
disappointment. Students have been coming back to school asking if | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
they can resit, what can be Dylan - - done about it, and a lot can't go | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
on to the next course either because they need a secret. We | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
don't feel as if we can trust them. We don't know what they see is any | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
more, but we are moving to WJEC exams. Tonight could be another | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
sleepless night forced -- Mac for pupils. | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
Let's get more on this from our political editor, Betsan Powys. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
Thank you, Jamie. A happy ending at least for some 2000 Welsh pupils, | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
but what of those who hits -- sit exams in Wales in future? Education | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Minister, Leighton Andrews, is with me. Happy news for some 2000 Welsh | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
pupils now, but in future, is it bad news for Welsh peoples whose | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
grades will be regarded as not quite up to English standards? | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
I don't think that. There are calls in England for regrading as well. | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
When we published a report we said we thought they should be regrading | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
in England, and there we see Conservative councils in England, | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
like Kent and Suffolk, calling for regrading there. That's what should | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
happen, they should be fairness for students in England. We have | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
delivered fairness in Wales. Haven't you just created another | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
unfairness? The same paper in England and Wales, the same answers, | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
different grades. What we have done is provided the | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
grades that young people should have got on the basis of prior | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
attainment and comparison with previous cohorts. We said they | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
should be regrading in England, but that of course is a matter for | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
Ofqual and Michael Gove. We cannot change that but we know people are | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
lining up to consider court action to try to ensure regrading in | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
England. The opposition parties here have united to point out that | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
by improving these grades today, you are simply proving the | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
regulation was not good enough in the summer, and you are the | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
regulator. I don't think they understand either have the | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
regulatory process works or the greys and -- grading process. | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
you could have stopped it. I don't think so. These exams are graded on | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
a three country basis with a consensus on the way they operate. | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
If you look at the detail of the report, it is clear why we could | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
not actually have. The reality is, our regulatory system has worked | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
and has delivered their grades for students, and that is because we | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
have a system allowing the Minister to intervene in extreme | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
circumstances, and these were very exceptional circumstances. Briefly, | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Michael Gove talked yesterday in England about a new qualification, | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
the English Baccalaureate. You tweeted this morning that this is | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
like the back of a fag packet. Does that prove you have already decided | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
it won't work in Wales? We already have a Welsh Baccalaureate. We have | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
a proper qualifications review underway, taking evidence from | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
across Wales and beyond our borders, talking to university admissions | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
chiefs as well. We will do the right thing for Wales on the basis | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
of evidence. Thank you. The story ends today, but is it over? I doubt | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
The mother of Aamir Siddiqi, the 17-year-old from Cardiff who was | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
stabbed to death at home wept as she paid tribute to her "beautiful | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
son. In a taped interview played to Swansea Crown Court, Parveen Ahmad | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
described him as "an extraordinary person," and said that after having | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
three girls, he was a "gift." Jason Richards, on the left, and Ben Hope, | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
deny murder and attempted murder, and the trial continues. | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
Hundreds of people have gathered in Flint this evening to protest about | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
the proposed closure of the town's community hospital. The Betsi | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
Cadwaladr University Health Board is holding public consultations | :10:56. | :11:04. | |
about the changes to health services in North Wales. | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
The mother of a three-year-old girl killed when a garden wall collapsed | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
on her has been describing the moment it fell. Meg Burgess from | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
Meliden near Prestatyn died in July 2008. The builder who designed the | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
wall denies manslaughter by gross negligence. Matthew Richards | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
reports. Lindsay Burgess, arriving at court | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
with her husband, Peter, had taken her daughter, Meg, and baby boy, | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
Wilson, to the shops on a July morning in 2008. On their return, | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
they passed Nightingale Cottage, where extensive construction work | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
was being done. A 23-metre-long, 1.5-metre-high concrete wall | :11:37. | :11:47. | |
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collapsed just as Meg passed beneath it. Linsey Burgess | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
described returning from the shops would make walking behind her. She | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
said she turned around to look at her daughter, and she looked up at | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
her and then the wall came down in one go and engulfed her. Despite | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
her frantic attempts, Megs suffered fatal injuries. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
The builder whose company, Parcol Develpments, carried out the work | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
and designed the wall was George Collier, wearing the purple tie. | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
The jury heard that he had 30 years of experience in the construction | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
industry as a groundworker and plant operator. But in desgining | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
the wall, he hadn't consulted a structural engineer. He also | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
operated an excavator, moving tonnes of earth close to the wall. | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
The prosecution say he gambled with the safety of passers-by, and the | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
retaining wall he designed was not properly secured two foundations by | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
metal rods. Those foundations went deep enough and the more to use was | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
not deep enough to support the wall. George collier denies manslaughter | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
through gross negligence, and the trial continues. You're watching | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
Wales Today from the BBC. Much more to come before 7:00pm - | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
Hundreds of new jobs could be at risk in Llandeilo and Cross Hands | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
in a row over supermarket development. | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
And why the Ospreys are taking thousands of primary school pupils | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
under their wing. The Labour MP for Newport West, | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Paul Flynn, has been ordered out of the House of Commons after accusing | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
government ministers of lying over the war in Afghanistan. Our | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
parliamentary correspondent, David Cornock, is at Westminster. David, | :13:07. | :13:16. | |
what happened? Jamie, Paul Flynn has been an | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
outspoken opponent of the war in Afghanistan since the very | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
beginning, and that opposition to it has hardened in recent weeks, | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
months and days as more and more British servicemen have died in | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
that conflict. Today, the Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, came to | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
the Commons to update MPs on the situation. Paul Flynn left the | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
minister in no doubt about his views. | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
Isn't this very similar to the end of the First World War, when it was | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
said that politicians lied and soldiers died, and the reality was, | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
as it is now, that our brave soldier Lions are being led by | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
ministerial donkey's? Order, can I just... Noted what he said, but can | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
I ask the Member for Newport West to make it clear that he is not | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
suggesting a minister it is lying to the House of Commons. It would | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
be helpful to make that clear. is precisely what I am saying. I | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
believe we have had lies from the minister and our soldiers are being | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
let down. Any regrets from Paul Flynn, what | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
happens next? Jamie, I spoke to Paul Flynn after | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
he was kicked out of the chamber. He says, no regrets whatsoever. It | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
wasn't planned or carefully contrived as a publicity stunt to | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
get his point across. His anger just boiled over in there. He will | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
have to pay a price, and that is not only been ordered head of the | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Commons today but been suspended for five sitting days, five days | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
without pay, when MPs return from the break there are about to embark | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
on for party conferences. Thank you. | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
The Welsh Government is delaying and jeopardising the creation of | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
more than 600 jobs - that's what the leader of Carmarthenshire | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
Council claims tonight. Two supermarket proposals have both | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
been called in for review by inspectors despite being | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
overwhelmingly supported by councillors. Here's our business | :15:10. | :15:20. | |
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correspondent, Nick Servini. At a time when jobs are at a | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
premium, new developments are under the spotlight more than ever. In | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
Carmarthenshire, two proposals, won here for a Sainsbury's, and one for | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
another Sainsbury's, as well as housing, a new medical centre and a | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
care home on this land in nearby Cross Hands, are at the centre of a | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
row. Carmarthenshire Council says they are worth around �60 million | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
and will create around 600 jobs, with temporary construction work on | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
top. But the Welsh Government has decided to review the approval | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
given to the schemes by the council. The final decision isn't expected | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
for around a year. I want to see these kind of jobs | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
cumin pretty quickly. Not 18 months, two years down the line. We need | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
the Investment now, the construction industry is crying out | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
for jobs, so we can get is going and I am committed as | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
administration to doing so. Welsh Government says it is unable | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
to comment on planning matters. Officials will now look at the | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
impact of existing retailers. Some businesses here have been against | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
the proposed new supermarket on the edge of the town, including one | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
local brewer, Simon Buckley. We are not talking about hundreds of jobs, | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
let's be realistic. Sainsbury's are saying, we will bring a number of | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
jobs to be areas. As has been proven from developments elsewhere, | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
they bring a certain number of jobs and within a short period of time, | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
those jobs are whittled back down to mostly part-time or casual | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
labour. Sainsbury's says it wants to bring | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
investment into the towns and its consultations with the local people | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
have been overwhelmingly positive. Reform of the planning process is | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
higher up the political agenda at the moment. Here, you get a very | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
good example of the kinds of pressures on the ground to push | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
through anything involved with job- creation quickly. Before the | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
recession, any delays were accepted as part of the planning process. | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
Now it is a sign of the times that they are considered unacceptable by | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
many people. Primary school pupils in Bridgend, | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
Swansea and Neath Port Talbot will have a new subject on the timetable | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
this year. Local rugby region, the Ospreys, have designed an | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
educational programme which aims to help children to improve their | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
maths and language skills, while also make them fans for life. Our | :17:44. | :17:54. | |
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sports reporter, Ashleigh Crowter, went along for a lesson. | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
It's a place more used to rousing team talks and primary school | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
lessons, but this year, the Ospreys dressing room will become a | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
classroom for 3000 pupils from 60 local schools. What happens on | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
match day is the subject of the final lesson of the Ospreys schools | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
programme, developed by the region in partnership with two local | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
companies and three local authorities. Pupils from this | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
primary school in Neath were the first to try it out, with famous | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
classroom assistants on hand to help. I thought the lesson was | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
really good for teaching kids, not to waste energy and things. Some of | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
the goals were think it is good, but is not my kind of thing. The | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
boys like it and enjoy it. I am a sporty person and enjoy playing | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
rugby and love the Ospreys, and seeing their shirts and everything. | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
It makes it interesting and adds value to the school experience, | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
which is what children want and require, really. It can only be | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
great for us as a club and a region. At this age, girls tend to | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
outperform boys. Learning through rugby can help raise boys' | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
achievement. Here, for example, grasping the Rugby scoring system | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
will help with maths. For them to come into school and talk of it, | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
and say yes, I have to do this and to the skills and read the | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
programmes, and to the training plans... I think it is vitally | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
important for boys if they want to create another Welsh hero in the | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
future. Schools are right at the heart of Welsh rugby's efforts to | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
engage with local communities. Today 1000 pupils from the rumba | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
watch the Cardiff Blues Train. -- from the Rhondda. This will help | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
grow support, but it could also be a legacy in the impression it gives | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
to our children. Some cycling news. 18-year-old | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
Elinor Barker, from Cardiff, has won the gold medal in the junior | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
time trial at the World Road Championships in Holland. She's the | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
first British rider to win gold in the event since former Olympic | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
champion, Nicole Cooke, in 2001. Wales Today is 50 years old, and | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
all this week we're bringing you a series of special reports looking | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
back on five decades of news broadcasting in Wales. Tonight it's | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
the 1970s, when we got to grips with decimalisation, enjoyed one of | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
the hottest summers on record and delighted in the glory years of | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
Welsh rugby. But as Carwyn Jones now reports, the decade got off to | :20:13. | :20:23. | |
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a fiery start. One of our most historic landmarks, | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
burning beyond repair. 1970 was the year the Britannia Bridge went up | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
in flames. The fire was started by five teenage boys, and effectively | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
set -- severed Anglesey's only rail link with the mainland. A bridge | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
standing 420 years was virtually destroyed in one night. 1970 also | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
proved a memorable year for these pupils at a primary school in | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
Cardiff. They saved up biscuit money to buy an ambulance, and to | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
their charitable work attracted a special visitor. Today, Mother | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
Teresa thanked them. This is the first group I have met where | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
children are as small as they are with such a big heart and such a | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
deep love. These children had saved their money in 1971 -- if they had, | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
they would have to do mental arithmetic. It was the year of | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
decimalisation. Have you had any problems with decimalisation so | :21:24. | :21:32. | |
far? Slightly, yes. What in particular? Well, I just don't like | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
the idea at all. By the 1970s, most homes had a television set, but the | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
techniques of broadcasting daily news in Wales was still proving a | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
challenge. We were using film, complex sound systems, and | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
initially were in black and white, and when I was in North Wales we | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
have to flip a coin to decide whether to filmed in black and | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
white and bring it back to bangle for transmission from there, or if | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
it was a huge, in Fort -- important event, raced down to Cardiff with | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
it, because we could process colour in North Wales. But colour was | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
becoming the norm when it came to filming sporting events, and what | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
better to a gate and the Seventies to enjoy our Welsh rugby squad at | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
the height of its powers? -- decade than the Seventies. It was | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
undoubtedly the golden period. We have a good side now, but that | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
Bunche was unbelievable, a bunch of legends. That's what they became. | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
As a rugby team basked in sunshine, so did the rest of us, at least we | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
did in 1976. It became known as the long, hot summer, and so changed | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
the life of one young Wales Today the world. I was eight years old at | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
a time, growing up in Paris. We had soaring temperatures, lots of | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
sunshine, a big drought of course, water was turned off up to 17 hours | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
a day, and I became fascinated by the weather as a young boy, and | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
knew then that I wanted to be weather man when I left school. | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
1976 was also the birth of punk. And in Wales, the arrival of the | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
sex Pistols in Caerphilly promote protests from Church goers. -- Sex | :23:16. | :23:26. | |
Pistols. But the economy was also in flux. Steelworks were closed, | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
and by the end of the decade, plants in defied -- Deeside will | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
also close gates, leaving men without work. I remember watching | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
thousands of people coming out of the gates of Shotton at the end of | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
the last shift, and it suddenly occurred to me, my goodness, this | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
is not just a handful of people out of work, but thousands in one fell | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
swoop. It was dramatic. As the decade due to a close, Wales went | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
to the polls. In a referendum on St David's Day, 1979, voters rejected | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
devolution by an overwhelming majority of four: 1. Plans for an | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
elected Welsh Assembly would have to wait. That same year, a new | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
Prime Minister entered Downing Street, heralding a new era of | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
politics and a decade of sweeping change. In tomorrow night | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
Tomorrow night, it's the 1980s, when we took to the streets to | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
celebrate the wedding of Charles and Diana, and watched as Britain | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
went to war with Argentina. It was also the decade of the miners' | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
strike, while in Merthyr Tyfil, a new mode of transport came off the | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
production line. Those stories and more tomorrow night at 6:30pm. | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
Back to tonight - no chance The summer of '76 was the hottest | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
for over 300 years. And it was followed by a very wet autumn. So | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
far, this September has been drier than average, but there is rain on | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
the way. Some lovely sunshine today but showers as well. Heavy in the | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
north this afternoon, with hail in Llandudno. Tonight a few more | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
showers, mainly in parts of Powys and the north. Otherwise a dry, | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
clear night. The wind easing and chilly. Temperatures on the north | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
and west coast not falling too low with a breeze off the sea, but | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
colder inland. Locally down to three Celsius in some rural spots, | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
with a ground frost. Tomorrow's chart shows high pressure near | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
Cornwall. This low will bring rain to Ireland, while this low near the | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
Azores is Tropical Storm Nadine. Here in Wales, not a bad start | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
tomorrow. One or two showers in the north, otherwise much of the | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
country dry. Some places bright and sunny. Feeling cool, but the wind | :25:30. | :25:40. | |
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lighter than today. So plenty of dry weather tomorrow. Some sunshine, | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
but not dry everywhere. Cloud will increase during the afternoon with | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
a few showers. Top temperatures 13- 15 Celsius with a west to north- | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
westerly breeze. In the Vale of Clwyd tomorrow, I wouldn't rule out | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
a shower, but most of the day dry. Some sunshine - temperatures in | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
Ruthin rising to 14 Celsius. Tomorrow night, a few showers and | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
some rain in the north. Dry in Monmouthshire. On Thursday, the | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
north and parts of Mid Wales can expect rain. Further south, mostly | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
dry. On Friday, the rain will spread south, followed by dry and | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
brighter weather. Some sunshine to end the day in the north. As for | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
the weekend, it should start dry and bright, but the signs are that | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
it won't last. Low pressure heading our way, bringing a spell of wet | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
and windy weather. Mind you, things are not set in stone, so it would | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
be worth keeping an eye on the forecast over the next few days. | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
Now, we've had more dry than wet weather so far this September, but | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
next week looks much more unsettled, with showers or longer spells of | :26:52. | :27:01. | |
Tonight's headlines from the BBC: two police officers have been | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
killed in Greater Manchester after responding what turned out to be a | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
bonus 9 -- bogus 999 call. They were attacked with a gun and | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
grenade shortly after Dale Cregan, already a wanted man, handed | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
himself in to police. Three generations of one family, a | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
baby, her mother and grandmother, have died in a fire at as in | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
Cwmbran. Kim Buckley, her teenage daughter, Katie, and six but Matt - | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
- month-old Kimberley were banned this morning. The 27-year-old man | :27:33. | :27:40. |