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Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's headlines: Slowing down motorists | :00:03. | :00:11. | |
to save lives. A call for more 20 mile-per-hour zones. I think it is | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
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a good idea. Children safety is a Also tonight: The Welsh language | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
festival that's attracted some of our biggest rugby stars. The Welsh | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Government is criticised for giving �20,000 to help a Labour-run | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
council secure it. Would the same kind of response to be given to a | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Conservative or Liberal Democrat council? Not many of us think that | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
would be the case. In the driving seat - David | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Phillips is one of a growing number of people here who are now working | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
for themselves. 40 metres under the ground in east London, the sight of | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
Europe's biggest construction project and I have come to meet the | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
man in charge, before much apprentice from Cwmbran. -- A | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
former apprentice. And Wales have been hit by a late | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
injury for tonight's game with Austria. Aaron Ramsey has been | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
ruled out. Good evening. More 20 mile-per-hour | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
zones could save lives on our roads. That's the message from a group of | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Assembly Members tonight. They say lowering the speed limit will | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
protect pedestrians, particularly children, in towns and villages. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
The latest figures show that 82 children were killed or seriously | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
injured on Welsh roads in 2011. That's 15% more than the year | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
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before. Brian Meechan reports. This area of Port Talbot already | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
has a 20 mile an hour speed restriction across the whole estate. | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
There has been a reduction of almost 50% of road traffic | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
accidents in the last three years. As the head teacher of this school | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
says, it can save lives. Pupils, we try to educate them about road | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
safety, but without thinking they do sometimes run out behind a car. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
If you were doing a significant speed, you will not stop in time. | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
The statistics say a difference between the accident at 30 miles an | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
hour and 20 miles an hour can be significant. Parents also support | :02:35. | :02:44. | |
it. They come out and ran across the road. I think it is a good idea. | :02:44. | :02:53. | |
Children's safety is a priority. I agree. A child has a 90% chance of | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
surviving being hit by a car at 20 miles an hour but only 40% at 30 | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
miles an hour. This is a 20 mile and our CERN we are driving in. | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
That is why the Assembly Member wants to see more sense restricting | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
speeds to 20 miles an hour especially outside of schools. | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
Wrexham have a clear programme in place. All of the areas outside of | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
their schools will be 20 MAR an hour Sones. Contrast that for | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
example with Caribbean -- 20 miles an hour areas. -- contrast that | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
with other areas... Some areas have gone further. There are warnings | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
that we should not take the speed limits too far. It may take too | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
many resources to police it. Speed cameras and the police at the | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
moment are struggling to enforce the 30 Mar Lour areas so trying to | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
when forced a new 20 miles an hour area might prove difficult. | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
Association of Chief Police officers is also against | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
introducing a blanket 20 miles an hour limit because it would be | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
difficult to enforce. Politicians and parents will continue to ask | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
for a change if it could save children's lives. | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
Swansea Council has been accused of acting unlawfully by the Wales | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
Audit Office after it transferred �20 million from a pension fund to | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
a bank account. The authority moved the money when it changed bank | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
accounts last March. It was done without the knowledge of the | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
pension trustees or the council's chief financial officer. The | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
council says it wasn't illegal and it acted in good faith. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Up to 80 jobs are under threat at a car parts factory in Colwyn Bay. | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
It's been confirmed tonight that the parent company of Quinton | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Hazell at Mochdre has gone into administration. Union officials say | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
they'll be meeting the administrators in the hope of | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
keeping the business as a going concern. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Last week it was in danger of losing its grant. Now the Welsh | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
Government has stepped in to save the Welsh language Tafwyl Festival. | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Cardiff Council had said it couldn't afford to give 20,000 to | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
the festival as it faced major budget cuts. But opposition parties | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
say the move creates a dangerous precedent. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
8000 people visited the Tafwyl Festival last year. A week-long | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
event to celebrate the Welsh language. On Sunday, a public | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
meeting was held after its future was put in doubt. When Cardiff | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
council proposed cutting a grant by �20,000. The Welsh Government will | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
now make up the shortfall leading to accusations that a Welsh Labour | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
government is saving the skin of a Labour council. Would the same kind | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
of response be given to pro- Conservative, Plaid Cymru or | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
Liberal Democrat council? Not many of us think that would be the case. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
What the government have done is undermined the city council in | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
making sure they should be looking after the Welsh language agenda and | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
not taking a rash decision to take away fund and 100%. This is another | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
organisation facing 100% reduction in funding from Cardiff council. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
They provide creative programmes for people with learning | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
disabilities. We are desperate for the money. Without it, we could | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
fail. We could fail because we are an organisation which can snow went | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
away. We work with the most vulnerable citizens -- we turn that | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
no one away. Protests have already taken place to try to save a riding | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
school that was facing closure. What hope of the Welsh Government | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
stepping in to support other threatened organisation and events? | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
Not at all. I want all councils to understand responsibility in | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
respect to the Welsh language. We were already investing in this | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
event which has a national focus. The questions being asked by | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
opposition parties tonight is why Tafwyl Festival has been given | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
preferential treatment. Is it because they last Labour government | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
wants to give a helping hand to a Labour council? -- because a Welsh | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
Labour government. Live now to our political editor | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
Betsan Powys. How has the Government responded to the | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
criticism about this decision today? I think it is fair to say | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
the minister and the government are taken aback at the farce that has | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
been created by this particular decision. What they have done it is | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
not just spend a bit of money and the minister was saying, I Wish You | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
made fast as when I spent �5 million on something. It is not the | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
amount but the principle. The other parties have been saying that it is | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
a Labour-run council in Cardiff, even before it has finally voted on | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
some tough spending decisions, the Labour Government's steps in to | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
plug the gap. They have invited the other parties to chomp at the bit | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
and list festivals and libraries and swimming pools in their own | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
patch that would be sorely missed by the community and they would | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
argue is unique. The minister says he has weighed up the evidence here | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
and the value of this festival to the Welsh language, he is the | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
minister responsible for the language, and he has come to the | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
conclusion he should spend the money. No precedent created. This | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
minister has certainly created waves once again. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
There's been an increase in the number of people working for | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
themselves in Wales. In the year to last summer, 4,000 more people here | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
became self-employed and make up 13% of the workforce. Anglesey has | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
seen the largest increase, in fact, the fourth largest in the UK. | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
Here's our economic correspondent Sarah Dickins. | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Self-employed people are most likely to be taxi drivers, followed | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
by builders trades and carpenters. The new self-employed are also most | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
likely to be men and over 50. David Phillips of Nantygo is typical of | :09:06. | :09:16. | |
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that picture. I'd taken profits of around �150 a week. The turnover is | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
about 250 something like that. It varies from week to week. I do most | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
of my work in the evenings. Dave is one of 177,000 self employed people | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
in Wales, up 4,000 compared with at the start of the economic crisis. | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Angelsey is a particular hotspot where there's been a 41% increase | :09:36. | :09:46. | |
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to more than 13,500 people. Unemployment here is around 16%, | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
twice the Welsh approach. Many are surprised it is not higher after | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
five years of economic crisis. One reason it seems is the substantial | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
increase in the number of people working for themselves. Maybe some | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
people are struggling to find work and are setting up themselves. The | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
older age groups, 50 plus, self- employment is increasing for them. | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
And more than half the increase in self-employment was people working | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
more than 30 hours a week. I am doing about 65 hours a week to make | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
a living. Do you want to work that many hours? No. I would like to do | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
40 hours a week. But I have no choice. In Nantyglo, Dave, like one | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
in ten of the self-employed workforce ,would like to have more | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
work. He has to wait for the wider economy to pick up before that | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
becomes a reality. Still to come tonight: Wrexham's | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
markets were once busy and bustling. But now stallholders are warning | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
they could become a thing of the past. | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
And it could be quite a night for fans at the Liberty Stadium with | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
the prospect of two of Wales star players, Craig Bellamy and | :10:56. | :11:06. | |
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Christian Bale, on the pitch The Health Minister Lesley | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
Griffiths says she'll study a report into failings at a hospital | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
in Staffordshire to see if it has any lessons for Welsh hospitals. A | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
public inquiry found years of abuse and neglect at Stafford Hospital | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
led to the deaths of hundreds of patients. In the wake of the | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
findings, the Cynon Valley MP Ann Clwyd has been appointed to review | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
NHS complaints procedures. Last December she announced she was | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
starting a campaign for more compassion in nursing after saying | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
her husband had died like a battery hen in hospital. I spoke to Ann | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Clywd earlier and began by asking her whether the same problems exist | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
here as those in England. The Prime Minister has asked me to help | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
review the complaints system as far as NHS patients are concerned. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
will not have particular responsibilities over Wales, but do | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
you believe Wales has similar problems to those highlighted in | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
the inquiry? I am a constituency MP and I know what people have been | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
saying. They complain about Accident and Emergency and long | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
waits and sometimes being sent home. They also right about the quality | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
of care and patients who are not able to reach out to get food and | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
drink. I have had about 1400 letters from all over England and | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland. People have had the | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
experiences of the NHS. You claim to have had first-hand experience | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
of an uncaring NHS. Do you believe people have lost faith? That was my | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
experience, trying to make somebody listen to me at a time when it was | :12:39. | :12:49. | |
essential they did. And also seeing very few nurses around, stopping a | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
nurse and asking a question right, why it isn't my husband in | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
intensive care and being brushed aside and told there were lots of | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
people worse off than he was. The next day, he died. Other people | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
with similar experiences. We need to look at the system of complaints. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Who is accountable, what the procedures are, and if there are | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
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whistleblowers, the whistleblowers are protected. | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Wrexham is a historic market town. But without urgent improvements to | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
its three indoor markets, they could become a thing of the past. | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
The warning from some stallholders comes as councillors consider a | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
range of options to entice vendors and visitors to return. | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
From clothing to jewellery, books, music, furniture and food, | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
Wrexham's long had it covered. Since 1848 when the butchers' | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
market began, the general and people's market have also opened. | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
But in the past six years, the number of stalls has dropped from | :13:43. | :13:53. | |
almost 100 to 78. The council are coming the council are trying to | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
stop businesses stalling. A council report considered closing, merging | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
and moving the markets but the reccommendation is to improve the | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
look and layout and increase awareness. But in these days of | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
internet shopping and out-of-town superstores, is there still a | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
market for markets? One experienced trader says there is. Markets can | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
offer specialisation. There is a fabulous book shop in the other | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
market and that sort of thing, at the big multiples do not carry the | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
range. We can do what they do not do and give it to the public at the | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
price they want in the place they want. I thought I'd set out my | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
stall in the town centre to see if shoppers agree. I walk stroll | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
through now and again but there is not anything that appeals. They | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
used to be a first class market town. Those years have gone. Shabab | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Anwar's family have run stalls at the general market since 1969. He | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
thinks traders need to up their game too. Traders need to look at | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
themselves first before they complain to anyone else. You need | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
to think on your feet and do some research, what can you do to | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
improve your and service? Before you start saying things are bad and | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
blaming the council. The decline in business is affecting most towns. | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
But Wrexham Council hopes its intervention will stop retailers | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
shutting up shop for good. He started out as an apprentice at | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
a car-parts factory in Cwmbran. Now he's in charge of Europe's biggest | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
civil-engineering project. Terry Morgan is the chairman of Crossrail | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
which is London's new east-west rail link. His budget is �15 | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
billion. That's about the same as the Welsh Government spends every | :15:35. | :15:43. | |
year. Our business correspondent Nick Servini has been to meet him. | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
I am at the top of what has been described lost one of the biggest | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
hauls in London, this is one of the sites in east London forming part | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
of the CrossRail project. I am just about to go down to meet the man in | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
charge. 45 metres below the surface, from here, you get a sense of the | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
scale of the project. This is one of 40 sites in London. CrossRail is | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
an East-West connection due to open in five years. Two tunnels will | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
take passengers below central London. Passengers from South Wales | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
arriving at Paddington will see journey times transformed. From | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
there, it will take nine minutes to get to the financial area of the | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
City or 16 minutes to get to Canary Wharf. In all, 13 miles of tunnels | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
are being built. This is the main shaft of the site I visited. Full | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
bigging is yet to begin. The Earth is taken from here and by barge to | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
the Thames estuary to build a nature reserve. 64-year-old Terry | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
Morgan has spent a lifetime in engineering but jobs don't come | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
much bigger than running CrossRail. How does an apprentice from a | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
factory in Cwmbran end up running Europe's biggest engineering | :17:03. | :17:12. | |
project? Lucky. I think... I enjoy engineering. I come here and I can | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
learn things. I will never be an expert on how to construct a | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
project like this in terms of the technical detail. I can understand | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
it but I think the whole question about enjoying different | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
experiences, I have done most forms of transport now. I think this is | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
phenomenal. This is the business end of the operation, inside one of | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
the tunnel boring machines. For the next three months, this will travel | :17:38. | :17:46. | |
at 100 metres a week in the westerly direction of Canary Wharf. | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
I am 100 metres in one of the tunnels now and it is quite warm. | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
Directly above me is a river which is an offshoot of the Thames river. | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
I and 10 metres from the cutting face. I can see the electric motors | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
powering the machinery. It is a vast infrastructure project but | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
will any of the benefits be felt in Wales? This is yet more investment | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
for London. Looking at what has been happening over the past few | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
years, the Olympics and now CrossRail and commitments for big | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
capital programmes, electrification on the Great Western, they are all | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
examples of investment in infrastructure. By doing that, we | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
create a growth agenda and jobs. Even though a lot of it is in the | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
south-east, what are you saying, it is spread? Without doubt. That | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
sales pitch to the rest of the UK is a big part of his job. 500 tons | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
of the steel used in the shaft came from a company in Neath. Terry | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
Morgan insists there are more contracts like that up for grabs | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
for Welsh firms. Wales manager Chris Coleman says he | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
has his strongest squad ever to play against Austria in their | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
friendly tonight. Coleman has the option to have Gareth Bale and | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
Craig Bellamy starting a game together for the first time since | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
he took charge. Claire Summers reports. | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
Never has so friendly had such rich pickings and for the first time | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
during his reign Chris Coleman has a squad just missing a few long- | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
term injuries. The prospect of that and play in Bale and Bellamy | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
together for the first time since he took over his one he is | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
relishing. Bale and Bellamy in the same team, you always have a chance | :19:32. | :19:42. | |
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to create problems. Such an offensive threat. Wales rely | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
heavily on Gareth Bale, but Tottenham Hotspur do as well now. | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
In terms of the quality we have got, looking at those available for this | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
game, it is the strongest squad we have had. The Gareth Bale factor is | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
one the opposition is fully aware of. He is in sensational form and | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
the Austrian manager says he is well aware of the threat he poses. | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
TRANSLATION: It is probably the key kapok of Wales especially in the | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
offence. -- the key player of Wales. We have to work together and try to | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
stop him. For the man who knows what it is like to win at the | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Liberty stadium, tonight will be a special moment as he captains his | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
country on home turf. With the club game so strong, he believes the | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
national side can only benefit. Cardiff are top of the league and | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
Swansea are having a really good year and in the Cup final. All | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
things going forward and looking well, hopefully the national team | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
can mirror fit and we have got to do well. We have got to defeat fans | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
something to cheer. Both teams are flying the flag, Cardiff and | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
Swansea, and as Wales we need to do that too. It has been a rocky 12 | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
months for Chris Coleman with just one victory in six. He is hoping he | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
will get the ball rolling tonight as they prepare for Scotland and | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
Croatia next month. Live to the Liberty Stadium now. | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
Rob Phillips is commentating for BBC Radio Wales tonight and we can | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
speak to him now. Aaron Ramsey has been ruled out. It seems it never | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
quite works that far and the Wales manager. I understand Aaron Ramsey | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
went for a scan yesterday and it is not too serious. Had it been a | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
qualifier, Aaron Ramsey may well have been playing tonight. But I | :21:37. | :21:45. | |
know he has gone back to his club Arsenal. Just a slight calf tissue | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
injury but they do not want him going back to Arsenal with any | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
serious problems. But a very exciting prospect for welsh fans to | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
see Bale and Bellamy played together. Absolutely. Gareth Bale | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
is the hottest young property in British football. He is being | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
ranked up with the best because of his form with Tottenham. He scored | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
every goal that Wales scored in 2012. He is very important. Craig | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Bellamy looks refreshed and he is back on the international scene and | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
any Cardiff City fan will tell you he is playing really well in the | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
championship. If he can transfers that prompted the international | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
scene, Chris Coleman will be happy. He seems delighted with the squad. | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
He is. He is very excited. It is rare he gets the likes of Bale and | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Bellamy together. The first time they will have played together | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
since Gary Speed's last game against Norway. That was a 4-1 win. | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
Chris Coleman will hope for something similar tonight but it | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
will be very tough. Austria are a tough nut to crack but the Welsh | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
fans will turn up tonight full of expectancy. Fingers crossed. Enjoy | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
the match. The game is live on Radio Wales | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
from 7pm. And you can watch the highlights over on BBC Two Wales at | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
11.20pm. It looks like another cold night in Swansea. Lovely sunshine | :23:13. | :23:23. | |
It has been a long winter and it is not over yet. It felt cold in the | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
winds today. Gusts of up to 63 now sought an hour at Aberporth in | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
Ceredigion. It has not been dry everywhere today. There have been | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
showers. The winds will ease tonight with icy patches. Showers | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
are extending today from Aberdaron into South Ceredigion, | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Cornwall. This is known as the | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
Pembrokeshire Dangler in the weather world. It is quite common | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
and forms when the winds are from the north. This evening, further | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
showers for the south-west. Elsewhere, dry and clear. Overnight, | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
a few showers turning up. Temperatures inland falling below | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
freezing. There is a warning of icy patches. Tomorrow's chart shows a | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
front over Ireland moving slowly towards us. Tomorrow morning, a | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
cold start and it could be icy in places. A few showers likely in | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
parts of the North. Otherwise, most of the country dry and bright for a | :24:27. | :24:36. | |
time with weak and hazy sunshine. During the day, cloud will increase | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
and thicken and that will eventually bring rain and sleet and | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
snow in the afternoon. We could see a few centimetres on some of the | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
hills and mountains. Temperatures, up to six degrees. Winds much | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
lighter than today. Outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow tomorrow | :24:56. | :25:04. | |
evening. Turning lighter overnight. Friday, showers will gradually die | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
away. Quite windy again on the west coast. Saturday, mostly dry and | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
settled. Sunday into Monday, not so clear cut. There is a risk of heavy | :25:16. | :25:23. | |
rain and more snow. Not 100% sure how much snow at the moment. Stay | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
tuned for up its. Our picture tonight is cheap braving the cold. | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
Thank you for all of your photographs. Stay warm and keep the | :25:34. | :25:43. | |
woolly coats handy. Louise. Not Louise! You can call me what every | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
you like! Hundreds of patients suffered and | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
many may have died as a result of years of neglect at Stafford | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
Hospital. An inquiry into what went wrong there says there has to be | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
fundamental change from top to bottom in the NHS. | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
In the wake of the findings, and Ackroyd has been appointed to | :26:06. | :26:10. |