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Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's top stories. From transport to | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
public toilets. If older people are failed by basic services, public | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
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Karla Jones's mother found out she'd died on Facebook, before | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
police had contacted her. Now she makes an official complaint. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
This wasteland could be the future of Swansea University. How a state- | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
of-the-art science campus could add billions to the local economy. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
It's not horse play. Riders wearing helmet cams to get drivers to slow | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
down, and prevent accidents like this. | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
Serving time and serving food. Cardiff Prison's restaurant opens | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
for business. But the Ministry of Justice denies inmates are having | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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an easy time. Before I aim to prison, I led an easy life, but | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
here, you have to work for it -- before I came to prison. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
And the 1990s, a decade of Cool Cymru, when music put us firmly on | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
the map. We look back at 50 years of Wales Today. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Older people in Wales are being failed by basic public services, | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
which are undermining their safety and independence. That is according | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
to the Older People's Commissioner, Sarah Rochira. She says small | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
changes to services could make a big difference to their lives and | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
will force public bodies to act if necessary. Jenny Rees reports. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
It is nearly a year since 70-year- old David Pritchard had his left | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
leg amputated, because of complications linked to diabetes. | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
But he spent several weeks in hospital unnecessarily, simply | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
because the changes he needed to his home in Monmouth hadn't been | :01:55. | :02:04. | |
carried out by the relevant authorities. I said, my house is | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
not safe for me to go home, there is no access to the first floor. | :02:12. | :02:21. | |
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Then they contacted her and by goodness, they supplied everything | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
you can see now. From that day, I have not looked back. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
The charity Care and Repair Wales stepped in and provided David and | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
Marlene with a ramp into the house, plus a stairlift and tweaks to his | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
furniture, to allow him retain his independence and stay at home. | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
you think of the cost of for example a hip replacement been | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
around �28,000 and the cost of an adaptation that might prevent a | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
fall been �150, it shows why it makes sound economic sense to keep | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
people safely at home to prevent them having accidents, and by | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
operating in this way, for every �1 we spend on small but essential | :03:02. | :03:11. | |
adaptations, we sat -- we save seven pound 54 the NHS. -- seven | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
pound 50. Today, the Older People's | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Commissioner has a stark warning that local authorities must stop | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
failing older people and get the basics right. A we as a local | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
authority are working with one hand behind our backs because of the | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
financial up restrictions we have on us. But that is not an excuse | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
for poor service, all services should be of a high standard. | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
The Commissioner has now published her upcoming programme of work, to | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
push for change. This includes plans to produce a range of | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
materials that enable older people to be aware of their rights. | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
Challenge negative stereotypes of old age by highlighting positive | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
news stories. Work to challenge the fact that the Carers' Allowance | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
stops at 60. They are small differences, but for | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
the likes of David and Marlene, getting the small things right can | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
have a huge liberating effect. And I will talk to the Older | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
People's Commissioner in a few minutes. | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
And ambitious project that could transform the future of Wales. That | :04:12. | :04:22. | |
is how a new campus has been described. They hope to transform | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
Swansea University into a leading industry research and development | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
and create thousands of jobs. This is the future for Swansea | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
University after securing �90 million of government funding today, | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
the science and innovation campus is a step closer. Its aim is to be | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
a research Hogg to solve some off Wales's economic problems. We are | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
an ambitious university but we have to be, Wales has to work very hard | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
to catch up with some of the more prosperous areas of Europe and this | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
is a key role for the university. Universities around the world are | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
at the centre of the development of modern economies. The site youth -- | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
the site earmarked for development is a donation from BP and it is | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
their partnership between private business and academia that is at | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
heart of a partnership that could see thousands of new jobs and | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
transform the region economically. It is expected to boost the economy | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
by �3 billion over 10 years, creating 10,000 jobs during the | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
construction phase and 5,000 when it up and running. There is no | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
reason we cannot create a situation we universities in Wales have | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
blustered -- have businesses clustered around them like | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Cambridge and the American universities, let's be ambitious | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
and believe in ourselves and make sure we get more investments like | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
the campus that is going to be set up here in the east of Swansea. | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
Companies like love are being invited to include the bribe -- to | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
get involved in the project, but other local companies are already | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
on board. Tata Steel and the University have developed a | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
successful engineering doctorate scheme for mutual benefit and the | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
scheme has generated highly-skilled experts whose talent is helping to | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
maintain the competitiveness of the steel industry in Wales. | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
education is now a global game and today, Swansea University signed a | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
deal they hope will promote them to the Premier League of international | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
universities -- higher education. The first phase of the campus will | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
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be opened in September 2015. Police Police have been given more | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
time to question a man after the death of three generations of the | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
same family in a house fire in Cwmbran on Tuesday. 46-year-old Kim | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
Buckley, her 17-year-old daughter Kayleigh, and six-month-old | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
Kimberley died in the blaze. The family are devastated beyond belief | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
that three people so special have had their lives The 27-year-old man, | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
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from the Manchester area, is being held on suspicion of murder. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
No charges are being brought against a footballer who was | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
arrested after an abusive message was sent to Olympic diver Tom Daley. | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Port Talbot Town FC suspended midfielder Daniel Thomas last month, | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
after a homophobic message was sent to Daley's Twitter page. The | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
Director of Public Prosecutions said while it may be offensive, it | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
was not considered a criminal offence. | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
What important information should be kept private and what should be | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
available to all of us? Welsh Government has been accused of | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
"double standards" over its decision not to publish the | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
assessment of risks facing the organisation. But it has asked | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
other public bodies to publish theirs. A Freedom of Information | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
request by BBC Wales to see its corporate risk register has been | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
turned down, saying it would cause substantial harm. Here's our | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
political correspondent Aled ap Dafydd. | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
How safe is our health service? The risk registers give us some idea, | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
at they tell us what each local health board leaves are the hazards | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
facing staff and patients. The Health Minister is on the record | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
saying they should all be freely available. So health boards, and | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
when I looked into it, some put them on their website, but not all | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
of them. I would want all of them to put them on their websites. | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
it does not seem like her boss shares the same view when it comes | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
to releasing the Welsh government's corporate risk register. The BBC | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
asked to see it but our request was turned down. It was the First | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Minister, who rarely intervenes on such matters, who made the final | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
call. The Welsh government states that publishing its risk register | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
could prejudice and distort public debate about important issues which | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
could have an impact on the conduct of public affairs. It is double | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
standards. The government needs to reconsider its position, it is | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
important people have access to the sort of information and if they are | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
trying to force health boards to publish, they should do it | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
themselves. Or though the government admits there is public | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
interest in us knowing the risks in its ability to deliver on its | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
objectives, it also says Barber sing it as such information would | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
pose substantial harm -- publishing such information. Bay or where | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
there is a public interest and that is important to acknowledge this, | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
but they need to think through the implications of what it says when a | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
government is asking other people to publish things they will not | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
publish themselves. It is over 10 years since Carwyn Jones was | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
appointed Minister for the government, he says -- he said its | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
government would meet the requirements for freedom of | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
legislation. -- Freedom of Information legislation. In the | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
meantime, the BBC is appealing against the decision not to publish | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
the risk register. Police have confirmed tonight that | :10:06. | :10:16. | |
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a fire at a crisp factory is being treated as arson. At its height, 50 | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
firefighters battled to keep the flames away from drums of cooking | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
oil, stored in buildings on the Penyfan industrial estate. Company | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
bosses say they are making arrangements for the 115 staff. | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
A all 20 people got out of the building safely and fire crews have | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
prevented the fire spreading to the adjacent buildings and getting any | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
worse. A mother who discovered her daughter had died via Facebook, | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
before police had contacted her, has made an official complaint. | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Cheryl Jones, from Tredegar, saw a post on the social networking site | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
informing her of her daughter's death in July. 30-year-old Karla | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
James died at her home just before 7:20pm, but police didn't tell her | :10:51. | :11:01. | |
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mother until after 11:30pm that night. | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
Five Cheryl Jones says no mother should have to go through what she | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
has been through in the last few weeks. Too upset to speak herself, | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
nevertheless, she wants people to know her story. He it was in July | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
that her daughter Karla, an aspiring model, died. A terrible | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
shock for her family, but the pain was made worse by the way they | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
found out, when in relation told them it was on Facebook. She was | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
pronounced dead at about 8:17pm that evening. Racist it did not | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
find out -- my sister did not find out until maybe 11:40pm that night. | :11:45. | :11:53. | |
But it had been on Facebook and everybody knew her. Gwent police | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
say they are investigating but because the investigation is | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
currently ongoing, at they are not able to give further details. | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
Nothing will bring her daughter back, but Ed Balls -- but Cheryl | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Jones says answers would bring her some peace. | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
Still to come tonight. Doing porridge - customers' verdict on | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
the food at Cardiff Prison's new restaurant. And work for the | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
present service so I have come down today as a test and I thought it | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
was excellent. -- I work for the prison service. | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Doesn't he look young?! We reach the 1990s, the decade Derek joined | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
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us, as we look back at 50 years of Let's return to our top story and | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
the claim that older people are being failed by a basic public | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
services. That claim comes from the older people's commissioner, who | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
joins me now. We spoke here on Wales Today three months ago when | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
you first took up your post. You told me then you wanted to find out | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
what was worrying older people most and it's some very basic things. | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
have been travelling across Wales talking to older people asking | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
about the issues that mattered to them. They've been clear and | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
consistent. They say whilst we have some wonderful for public service | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
staff, they are not getting the basic information and that little | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
bit of help they need to stay safe and independent. It is the small | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
things, isn't it? It is but those are not the small things to older | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
people. I met a 50 year-old lady, just like myself, who was being put | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
to bed by her carers at 9 o'clock. She asked, why cannot tie go to bed | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
when I want to? That's not a small thing that lady. That's a small | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
example of what older people are telling me. You've also spoke about | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
delays in older people have in hand rails fitted, things like that. | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
Does this all boil down to money? We know that services are stretched | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
financially. Sky don't think it does boil down to money actually. | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
It boils down to three things. We are not very good at listening to | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
old people and asking them about what we can do to help them stay | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
independent. We are not good at building on the good practice we've | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
got all ready and that is why it is a postcode lottery. We simply don't | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
understand what the basics mean to older people. Putting a hand rail | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
in for a person costs may be �250. If that person falls, it might cost | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
�50,000. I don't see how it costs some once more to go to bed at 11 | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
o'clock and 9 o'clock. He said you are going to be writing to local | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
authorities. What are you going to say? I've learned that my own work | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
programme today. I have been getting on and taking action. Last | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
week for example a published guidance in relation to independent | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
advocacy for people who have been discharged from hospital into care | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
home settings. I said that a local authorities and have said that next | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
year and will make a mandatory and they will have to prove to me that | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
they are complying. Am laying out my challenge to local authorities. | :15:14. | :15:21. | |
You need to step up. You do have legal powers, are you prepared to | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
use them? I do prepare -- I do have bigger powers and I am prepared to | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
use them. I know we can improve services. To give you an example in | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
relation to advocacy that I referred to, if local authorities | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
cannot evidence to me that they are complying with that, I can refer | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
them to the High Court and I can ask the High Court judge to require | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
them to comply. I'd rather not have to do it but if that is the only | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
way that we can make sure that getting a good service doesn't | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
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depend on where you live, then yes, I will do that. | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
Some horse riders in the Conwy Valley have started wearing helmet | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
cameras to improve safety on rural roads. They say the cameras help | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
gather evidence if there's an accident, and have already helped | :16:09. | :16:19. | |
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persuade drivers to slow down. A tractor passing a horse and this | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
is an example of how things can go wrong. The driver wasn't speeding | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
and simply drove past. The rattling of the tractor spoke to the animals | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
and one rider ended up on the ground with bruised ribs. The | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
incident was filmed on this helmet camera. Karen has been riding for | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
15 years. She bought the camera when the roads started getting more | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
dangerous. I have been passed so so closely that my horse has come into | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
contact with people's wing mirrors. It has happened on two occasions. | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
One chap was on his mobile phone when he came into contact with me. | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
My leg and then the back of a horse were touched. I've had abuse | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
shouted at me. I've been told I shouldn't be on the road if they | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
cannot control my horse. She's not the only horse rider in the area | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
who's using a camera. If she was involved in an accident, she could | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
handle recording over as evidence. She has already seen drivers spot | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
the camera and slowdown. It would be wonderful to have a police | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
officer on every single caller but let's be realistic. We have a huge | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
net -- road network. The only logical and reasonable way that we | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
can ensure the safety of those uses is through education. That is | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
something that police and organisations like the British | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
Horse Society have already started doing. At the moment, Karen and her | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
colleagues hope that Helmut cameras will give them extra security out | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
on the roads. A new restaurant in the grounds of | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
Cardiff prison has officially opened its doors to the public. | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
Starting off as a project at a prison in Surrey, the Clink is run | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
by a charity and staffed by more than 30 prisoners, nearing the end | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
of their sentences. Hywel Griffith went to sample the menu. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
Meet the chefs serving a long stretch. This restaurant offers | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
fresh crab ravioli and goat's cheese hearts. -- cards. This is | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
the first time I've had a proper job so it's a good experience. | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
does it differ do their life you had before you came into prison? | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
Very different. Before I came into prison, I need an easy laugh. In | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
here, you have to work for it. food in a restaurant is a world | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
away from what the inmates eat themselves. They are paid �12 a | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
week but the restaurant denies they are been to speak -- exploited. All | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
of the prisoners are category D, the lowest risk. Most of the months | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
of finishing their sentence. The Ministry of Justice insists they | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
are not being given an easy time or an unfair advantage when it comes | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
to competing for work on the outside. Prisoners are sure to be | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
punished. We are not in the business of running a luxurious | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
regime. Prison isn't just about permission. It is also about public | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
protection and rehabilitation. it is to survive, the restaurant | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
will need to be more than just a novelty. First diners today seemed | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
impressed with the quality of the third. I had the rabbit. It's | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
absolutely delicious. The atmosphere here is lovely. That | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
much more relaxed than I thought it would be. The decor is fantastic. | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
work for the Prison Service so I came down today as a test and I | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
thought it was excellent, absolutely superb. I chose the beef | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
cheeks which I was expecting to be quite tender. They are in a red | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
wine sauce which is very rich but it's a nice. The Ministry of | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
Justice already has plans to open two restaurants a year across the | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
UK, meaning fine dining behind bars could be making its way to a prison | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
near. -- near you. Now, all this week | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
we've been bringing you special reports marking 50 years of Wales | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
Today. Tonight we've reached the 1990s. We voted for devolution, | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
counted the cost of an environmental disaster and mourned | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
the death of a princess. Carwyn Jones reports on the stories that | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
made the headlines. In that television news, pictures are | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
everything. These images provided a striking start to a new decade. On | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
the morning of 26th February 1990, a combination of gale-force winds | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
and high tides broke down the sea defences and Conwy. Just a few | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
minutes ago, this water was only a few inches deep. It is rising one | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
for it every 15 minutes. It was almost a third world calamity but | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
was breaking about us. I looked up and I saw the RAF rescue helicopter | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
winch and people from their homes on the street just beyond me. The | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
inshore lifeboat was a little bit further up, sailing down the street, | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
pulling people on board. It was a major national of an international | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
story. It has still not been forgotten. In the early 90s, an | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
altogether different storm was buffeting the South Wales valleys. | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
The wind of change which split communities apart. The programme of | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
widespread pit closures which began in the late 80s was gathering pace | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
and a way of life was disappearing with it. 300 miners as they | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
finished their final shot. They come up not just leaving behind | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
them the cold they were excavating but leaving the industry. If you | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
cast your mind back, whole communities were involved in that | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
industry. They were either miners or engineers, or they work in the | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
canteen. Or they just saw the flurry of cars as people moved on | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
the shift. At the same time, neutrons were being created. One of | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
the things that we really noticed was the arrival of Japanese | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
employers, Japanese companies. Ironically, in a decor would also, | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
there were as many Japanese companies as they had been | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
collieries when I started. As the pit heads began to disappear from | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
our skyline, and you icon of industry came into view. The second | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
Severn Bridge was opened to traffic in 1996 but the biggest story of | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
that year took place on the Pembrokeshire coastline. At first | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
light, the Sea Empress was listing badly with many tugs coming to her | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
aid. The Liberian-registered tanker had been on her way to the Texaco | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
oil refinery at Milford Haven. It is the worst oil spill off the west | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
Wales coast. And it occurred in such an environmentally sensitive | :22:58. | :23:08. | |
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area. 31st August 1997, the single event that defined the decade. Our | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
hearts missed a beat. Good evening. Wales is in mourning this evening | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
for Diana, Princess of Wales, who has died in hospital after a car | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
crash in Paris. When she died, the reaction was quite simply | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
extraordinary. To see grown men crying when they were watching the | :23:32. | :23:41. | |
funeral on a big screen was quite sobering. I can see those images in | :23:42. | :23:51. | |
my mind now. September 19th, 1997, in the early hours, history was | :23:51. | :24:00. | |
made. Good morning. And it is a very good morning in Wales. It the | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
devolution referendum was the closest of races but the yes vote | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
one. Two years later, the National Assembly for Wales was officially | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
opened by the Queen and as the decade drew to a close, wheels -- | :24:13. | :24:20. | |
Wales seemed to lose confidence. Wales had become trendy, music had | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
a new set of stars and so did meteorology. A there is in use for | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
it -- a new face today. Thank you very much, Jane. In October 1999, a | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
global audience fixed its eyes on Cardiff as it hosted the Rugby | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
World Cup at the newly built Millennium Stadium. As a new | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
century dawned, it seemed Wales had come of age. | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
Tomorrow night in the final part of the series, we will be looking back | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
on that the 21st century. Derek, we saw you a little longer -- younger! | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
I was a little nervous at the time and because I was sat down in those | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
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days, I couldn't wait my arms and Sometimes predicting the weather | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
can be straightforward which makes my job easier but it is not always | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
the case. At the moment, Saturday looks fine and dry but Sunday is a | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
bit more complicated with the risk of wet and windy weather. It all | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
depends on an area of low pressure and the path it takes. Todd called | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
Storm Nadine near the Azores is not heading our way but we need to keep | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
our eyes on the first development. -- tropical storm the Dean. Some | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
dry weather tonight but also a few showers. Heavier rain is expected | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
to reach northern counties during the early hours. Those temperatures, | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
9-14 Celsius. Here is the picture for 8 o'clock that morning. Cloudy | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
in the north but it should be dry. Further south, a band of rain it | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
will live through mid-Wales. A few showers possible in the south-west. | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
Further east, plenty of dry weather. Even made few glimpses of sunshine. | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
The rain will spread its way south- eastwards, breaking up so some | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
places seeing very little. Brighter weather following with the odd | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
shower and sunshine. Temperatures on a cold side with a light to | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
moderate breeze. Who are few splashes of rain in the West | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
tomorrow. It to one-eyed, dry, apart from the odd shower. That | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
cloud clears so a cold night with a ground frost in the countryside. | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
That means a cold start on Saturday but a nice day, dry with plenty of | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
hazy sunshine and light winds. Sunday May start dry, bright in the | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
north but wind and rain may spinner from the south. The Met Office has | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
issued a warning for heavy rain in seven counties but things could | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
change so stay tuned. September has been drier than average so far but | :27:04. | :27:14. | |
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Net Week -- next week could be very It is coming up to 7 o'clock. The | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
headlines: greater Manchester police have appealed to local | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
criminal families to end their feuding, saying enough is enough. | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Detectives have until tomorrow morning to question Dale Cregan | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
about the murders of Constable's Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes. | :27:34. | :27:39. |