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Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's headlines: It affects thousands of | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
people on benefits here - tonight the leader of the Labour party, Ed | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
Miliband, says if he was in charge he would scrap the so-called bedroom | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
tax. I think it'll make a difference to | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
tens of thousands of families in Wales. I think it's causing hardship | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
and misery and it's not even working. | :00:27. | :00:42. | |
Also tonight: Michael Pearce appears at Cardiff Crown court charged with | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
the murder of six-week-old Alfie Sullock. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
A U-turn by UKIP - they say they've changed their policy on abolishing | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
the National Assembly. The manager described it as a | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
fantastic win - Swansea City celebrate their first win on the | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
continent for more than 30 years. And good evening from the home of | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
cricket. I'm live at Lords where tomorrow at this famous ground | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Glamorgan will try and win their first bit of silverware in almost a | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
decade. Good evening. Labour has tonight | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
confirmed it would scrap the UK Government's housing benefit | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
changes. The Westminster coalition says it's made the system more fair | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
but there's been a fierce row over what critics call the bedroom tax. | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
Councils say 35,000 homes here have been affected. On the eve of his | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
party's conference in Brighton, Ed Miliband has told us Labour would | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
overturn the changes if it wins the next general election. Daniel Davies | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
reports. It is a squeeze for Alicia. The | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
21-year-old mother from two from Cardiff is on a waiting list for | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
each new home. I have been waiting since she was born and they keep on | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
saying it will be six or seven years to wait. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
I thought when the bedroom tax came out that everything would be OK and | :02:10. | :02:19. | |
we can move out quicker but it is still the same. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
What she calls the bedroom tax, the UK government calls the under | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
occupancy charge. In April, tenants with more room than they needed got | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
a benefit cut. It was opposed to help them free up space for people | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
like Alicia. With so many people in overcrowded housing waiting for a | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
new home, the government said it can't afford to pay benefit for | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
people with spare dreams but critics say it forces able to move out or | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
lose out. Many of the people who rely on | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
social housing are disabled. Two thirds are disabled people. There | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
isn't anywhere for them to move to. I think the bedroom tax is not | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
working and it should be scrapped. The TUC says people are struggling | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
because of the housing benefit changes. | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
Its survey nine local authorities and found 35% of council tenants | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
affected had fallen behind with rent. XM and Anglesey were worst | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
affected, with 44% of people hit by the changes pushed into arrears. We | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
have seen an increase in arrears. We are worried about the | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
sustainability. People who find many in the short-term art may be in | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
trouble. She said houses available for rent | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
are like gold dust and there is no money to build more. These benefit | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
changes were meant to ease that problem and Labour has made no | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
secret of the fact it thinks the policy has failed and now it has | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
confirmed it will be. -- it will policy has failed and now it has | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
scrap it. And Daniel's here in the studio with me now. Now we know what | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
a Labour government would do. What does the current government think | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
about Ed Miliband's announcement? does the current government think | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
It has maintained that the policy is there so it means that people in | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
social housing now face the same rules as anyone who has got a | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
private-sector landlord. Tonight the Conservatives have hit back at | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
Labour, saying they were never graced the half £1 billion they say | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
will be needed to introduce the policy Ed Miliband is talking about | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
without putting more pressure on already stretched public finances? | :04:33. | :04:41. | |
And how would Labour pay for this? Ed Miliband says he will close | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
loopholes in the boardroom. One is a scheme that would allow employees to | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
exchange some of their rights in return for shares. In the interview | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
that we played a section of their goes on to say this is part of an | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
effort to combat the cost of living crisis and that really is the big | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
picture for the general election campaign that is coming up. Even if | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
the economy improves, will people feel it? That is the question Labour | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
is trying to answer with this policy. | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a six-week-old | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
baby boy. Alfie Sullock, from the Fairwater area of Cardiff, died in | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
hospital last month after police were called to a property in Nelson | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
near Caerphilly. Jenny Rees was in court. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
32-year-old Michael Pearce was originally arrested and appeared in | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
magistrates court charged with assault on the 19th of August - | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
that's after police were called to his home in Nelson, near Caerphilly | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
last month. Yesterday that charge was changed to murder. This is | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
six-week-old baby Alfie Sullock. He lived with his mother, Donna, in the | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
six-week-old baby Alfie Sullock. He Fairwater area of Cardiff. That | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
night he was taken to Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr after police | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
received reports that a baby had stopped breathing at Pearce's home | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
received reports that a baby had in Nelson. Alfie was later | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
transferred to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, where | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
he died four days later. Today's hearing lasted only half an | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
hour. Michael Pearce, wearing a dark suit, spoke only to confirm his name | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
and was remanded in custody until his next court appearance in | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
November. Jenny Rees, BBC Wales Today, Cardiff Crown Court. | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
Detectives are still waiting to question the estranged husband of a | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
woman who was killed in a shooting in Newport last month. Caroline | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
Parry, who was 46, died after the incident in sea breeze Avenue on | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
eighth August. Christopher Parry was found with gunshot wounds to his | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
face and a shotgun was found at the scene. He has remained in hospital | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
since. The UKIP leader Nigel Farage has | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
told BBC Wales his party has changed its policy on abolishing the | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
National Assembly and should "jolly well get on with the fact that the | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
UK is changing". He also thinks his party could top the polls in Wales | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
next May at the European elections. From the UKIP conference in | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Westminster, here's our political reporter Carl Roberts. | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
It is a party that now claims it is part of the political mainstream but | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
It is a party that now claims it is in Wales, officials say UKIP | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
membership has doubled this year. Brian Morris is one of those new | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
party members. He defected from the Conservatives took months ago and is | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
in London for his first UKIP conference. | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
I looked at the policies and I am delighted with the policies. I have | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
been looking at it for some time I was very unhappy the Conservative | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
policies in numerous areas. This is the 20th anniversary conference of | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
UKIP. It's Anglesey by-election result has | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
raised party hopes. In Wales, UKIP will look to celebrate their 21st | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
birthday by holding onto their seat in the European elections. Party | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
leader Nigel Farage says that they will have a seat in the Assembly | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
after the next elections in three years time. In an interview with | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
politics Wales, he also confirmed years time. In an interview with | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
that his party no longer supported abolishing the Assembly. | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
Europe is changing so we need to abolishing the Assembly. | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
jolly well get on and accept the fact that the whole United Kingdom | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
is changing. We are moving towards a more federal model but that doesn't | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
is changing. We are moving towards a mean we can't move towards more | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
devolution. We still accept it. The current Welsh UKIP NEP strongly | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
disagrees with the change of policy but he does step down in May and his | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
successor is yet to be chosen. No mention on the devolution in the | :08:39. | :08:47. | |
conference. The party aims to come top of the polls across the UK, | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
including here in Wales. Brian thinks his leader's speech can help | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
achieve that. It was a brilliant speech. He | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
covered a lot of ground and was there to interviews and he really | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
covered a lot of ground and was did do that so he succeeded. -- to | :09:03. | :09:11. | |
end themes. Topping the polls here in Wales | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
would certainly contribute to achieving the end UKIP goal. | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
Staff at Rhondda Cynon Taf council have been warned to expect job | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
losses and service closures, as the local authority tries to balance its | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
budget. It plans to save £56 million over four years. The leader of the | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
council, Anthony Christopher, says "unprecedented and difficult" | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
decisions will have to be taken and that all services are under review. | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
S4C is looking at the possibility of moving the channels headquarters | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
outside Cardiff for the first time. The broadcaster is considering | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
relocating to Carmarthen or Gwynedd. It's part of a study which will | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
examine the potential economic and linguistic benefits to the | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
communities around any new site. Remaining in Cardiff is also an | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
option and any decision is likely to be made next year. | :09:56. | :10:05. | |
This is certainly not an exercise in job cutting, it is an exercise in | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
looking at the activities of S4C and whether there can be benefit in | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
terms of cultural, social and linguist Dick benefits generated by | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
locating some of those or all of linguist Dick benefits generated by | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
those activities outside of Cardiff. Still to come in the programme: | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
After publishing dozens of books during his career writer and poet | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
Dannie Abse, turning 90 this weekend, says his latest may be his | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
last. I fit it would be a good idea if I | :10:34. | :10:48. | |
confront my own old age in which, as I say in some of the poems, it is | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
where all the pavements slope uphill. | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
It's an extremely rare genetic condition that affects around 200 | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
people worldwide. Pitt Hopkins Syndrome prevents some children from | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
being able to walk or talk and delays development. Three-year-old | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
Izzy Groves from Denbigh is one of those with the condition. Now her | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
parents are hoping to help others who are seeking a diagnosis. Elen | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
Wyn has the story. Playing happily at home but Izzy | :11:22. | :11:35. | |
Groves has Pitt Hopkins Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. There were no | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
problems until she was nine months old when she had an equal leg | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
lengths. She was struggling to sit up. Then | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
we went for an x-ray which proved She was struggling to sit up. Then | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
she didn't have an equal leg lengths but the paediatrician thought she | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
had an usual facial features which we didn't see as a family and we | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
thought she was just quite beautiful. She has that of speech | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
and potential for seizures. Those symptoms she doesn't have the moment | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
but we need to be aware of for future. She had an intellectual | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
disability and physical disabilities so we had to do quite rigorous | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
physical programmes with her every day. | :12:18. | :12:26. | |
At this special school, they are helping Izzy Groves manage her | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
condition but little research has been done into Pitt Hopkins | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
Syndrome. We have obviously looked at the | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
condition on the Internet and read about other children who have | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
diagnosis of Pitt Hopkins Syndrome. Izzy is doing really well, walking | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
independently around the classroom and becoming a lot more independent | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
with regards to eating. That is what we are focusing on. | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
Izzy's parents have a motto, never say never. The inverse their | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
daughter in various activities. It is thought that a lot of children | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
may be living with a diagnosis of global develop mental delay that do | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
have Pitt Hopkins Syndrome. That is why we are trying to raise awareness | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
of children with the condition. I can't say there is acceptance but I | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
have to believe this was meant to happen. The reason why it has | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
happened I don't really know but we will get through it together. | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
The family don't know what the future holds but they will carry on | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
raising awareness of this very rare condition. | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
Let's move on to sport. They've been one of Europe's best | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
football sides over the past decade but last night Valencia became the | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
latest side to be swept aside by Swansea City. Manager Michael | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
Laudrup hailed the 3-0 victory in Spain as a fantastic win. It's the | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
first time the Swans have won on the continent in 31 years. Cemlyn Davies | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
reports. Swansea City fans had been warned of | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
dizzying heights at the Mestalla stadium and as their side scored a | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
third goal against the home side they could celebrate being at the | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
top of Group A. Valencia are European veterans - they won this | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
competition nine years ago but they were made to look average by a | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
Swansea side enjoying their first season in Europe for 22 years. Goals | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
from Bony, Michu and De Guzman gave Michael Laudrup's side a | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
comprehensive scoreline. I have to say we dominated the game | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
from first to last minute. We scored three goals but before we scored the | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
second, I think we had three or four huge chances to score a goal. So it | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
could have been even more. So I am, of course, I am very pleased. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
The players were also clearly delighted. Jordi Amat posted this | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
picture online. As the traveling Jack army enjoyed another famous | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
victory one fan in particular was disappointed not to be with them. | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
Nigel Gigg wasn't able to make the trip because his father isn't well | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
but his wife and daughter were at the match. | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
I have been to Valencia to see football before and it is a | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
beautiful city and a lovely place to watch football so I was gutted not | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
to go. The way the game went made it all the worse, I'm afraid. | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
Nigel will be hoping to be part of Swansea's next European adventure. | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
But now the Swans turn their attention back to the Premier League | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
and Sunday's game away to Crystal Palace. | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
Now it's a big weekend for Glamorgan. They're at Lords for | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
their first final in 13 years. Claire Summers is there for us | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
tonight. Claire. Good evening. Welcome to the home of | :15:57. | :16:04. | |
cricket. Let me tell you, if you don't own your cricket, let me give | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
you some geography. Just over there is Abbey Road, where the Beatles | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
recorded that famous album. Over there is Baker Street, the home of | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
Sherlock Holmes. Glamorgan are hoping to win a final at Lord's | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
tomorrow for the first time. When you arrive here, the first thing | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
that takes your breath away if the grand old pavilion, where the | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
players will leave tomorrow afternoon. Glamorgan will be in the | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
away dressing room after the toss but that bodes well because there | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
will be a Welsh attendant looking after them. You might have noticed | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
that I am walking slightly uphill. Cricket fans will know that the | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
that I am walking slightly uphill. surface here isn't flat. There is | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
basically an eight foot drop so from one boundary over their right to the | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
other side is an eight foot slope. Who will fare better with that | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
tomorrow? Glamorgan are the clear underdogs but they are not worried | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
about that a bit. Here's our sports reporter Ashleigh Crowter. | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
It is the sort of moment that only comes around once in a career, the | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
chance to win silverware at the famous cricket ground. The Morgan | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
took time taking in the grandeur of the site this afternoon. Simon Jones | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
has played there for England but never in a county final. He is | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
timing after the game and it is a perfect way to finish. It is a | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
perfect stage as a county with the dead to to get to the Lord's final | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
is an achievement and we have to go there and play the brand of cricket | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
we have been playing which is positive and with confidence. | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
The last trophy came nine years ago. They clinched the old Sunday league | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
title at Colwyn Bay in 2004 and the captain is now one of the coaches. | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
It has been a long time in coming and we believe there will be a lot | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
of support at Lord's for us tomorrow. We understand the | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
responsibility that is on our shoulders, that we go and try and | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
put a show on four people. The past decade has not been an easy | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
time for a Glamorgan supporter. Every season the same story. Could | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
do better. A lot better, in fact. Now, at the end of the term as | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
coach, they seem to have turned the corner. They have the price people | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
all the way to the final and plans another shock tomorrow. | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
We are massive underdogs. They have got seven or eight international | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
players and we do have a couple so I think it will help. | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
The pristine pitch had been lovingly prepared by a Welsh man. Adrian | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
Morgan is the assistant head groundsman at Lord's. | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
I have to be impartial and offer the same advice to players but inside | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
there is only one team I want to win. | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
Old Father Time, who surveys the ground, has seen a few things over | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
the years but never a good Morgan victory at the final so tomorrow may | :19:26. | :19:35. | |
be the day at last. Great players have walked down the steps. | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
The armed those doors is probably the most famous room in the home of | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
cricket. The Long room at Lord's. I went there today and caught up with | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
a former Glamorgan legend, Hugh Morris. He has been running the game | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
in England and Wales but is set to go back to Glamorgan next year. I | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
asked him how he felt Glamorgan would fair tomorrow. | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
I think the performance against Hampshire in the semifinal was | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
fantastic. Hatcher have been the most successful one day team in the | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
country for the last couple of years so to beat them down in Southampton | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
so convincingly, I think the Morgan should take a lot of confidence from | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
that. Talking about Glamorgan winning | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
silverware. Do you know it is almost 20 years that Glamorgan won in | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
Canterbury? You were camped in -- captain. | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
In my cricket career, that was one of my most memorable days. We hadn't | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
won a trophy in 24 years and it was extra special because it was the | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
first time that he was captain won a trophy for a long time but it was | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
safe's last game. -- this's last game. It was very memorable. | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
As you leave your post here, taking up a new chapter at Glamorgan, one | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
of your first duties is to appoint a new coach and you have strong | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
candidates? Yes. We are expecting candidates. | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
Applications will close in the coming weeks and we will interview | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
around October and hope to appoint the best person thereafter. | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
Glamorgan is the only county never to have one in a final at Lord's. | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
About time that changed? It is. It is great that the weather is set | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
fair so it is a major part of the cricketing calendar so it is a | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
special occasion. It certainly will be special and we | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
are all looking forward to it. All eyes on tomorrow but Glamorgan have | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
had to play today in the county championship. They have been in | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
action at Chelmsford and their much away to Essex ended in a draw fair. | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
We will be live here tomorrow, bringing you all the drama from | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
Lord's as Glamorgan go for glory, hoping to bring back silverware to | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
Wales. My commentary on BBC radio Wales. The Morgan the only county | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
Wales. My commentary on BBC radio said never to have won a final at | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
Lord's. Fingers crossed that history will be changed and rewritten | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
tomorrow afternoon. Back to you. Rugby and the first Welsh derby of | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
the season takes place this evening. The Dragons entertain the Scarlets | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
at Rodney Parade, with Lions Toby Falateu and Jonathan Davies starting | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
for the first time this season. at Rodney Parade, with Lions Toby | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
Falateu and The match will be live on Scrum V on BBC Two Wales this | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
evening. Elsewhere Cardiff Blues welcome Italian side Zebre to the | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
Arms Park. He's published dozens of books from | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
plays to poetry, much of them alongside a career in medicine. This | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
weekend Dannie Abse celebrates his 90th birthday and says his latest | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
collection of poems could be the last time he puts pen to paper. He's | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
been speaking to our arts and media correspondent Huw Thomas. | :23:04. | :23:13. | |
Lately, going in and out of the house we once shared, I sometimes | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
think the dead have many house we once shared, I sometimes | :23:17. | :23:26. | |
A milestone birthday for the most revered writer in Wales. After | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
publishing books for decades, he says the next election could be his | :23:30. | :23:39. | |
last. -- selection. I think it may be my final book. | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
There may be a final selected for collected book but this is, you | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
know, it takes me four or five years to write a book and it may well be | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
my last book. Later, an easy in the velvet dark, | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
we peered through the oblong window... He has always been a | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
popular poet, writing approachable verse. | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
Splitting his time between Wales and London, he also had a career as a | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
doctor. In his 90th year, a chance to reflect on life, love and his | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
advancing years. There is more focused on old age because I'm old. | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
And I've always felt that one should confront difficulties in 1's life. A | :24:25. | :24:37. | |
last book doesn't mean an end. Ahead of this weekend's birthday | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
celebrations, a hint at the secret to a long and healthy life. | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
I once had a motto years ago for myself, be visited, expect nothing | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
and endure. I have been visited. I have expected a lot, actually. But I | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
have endured. Dannie Abse speaking to Huw Thomas. | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
Time for the weekend weather forecast, and Derek I understand | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
it's going to be pretty good? Note Stormy weather heading our way, | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
which you can get this time of year. I can promise some dry, bright | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
weather this weekend but it's not all plain sailing. There is some low | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
cloud, mist and drizzle on the way as well. The best of the sunshine in | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
the north-east and the Marches. Also becoming warmer and humid. Dry this | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
evening with a few cloud breaks and then after midnight it will start to | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
moisten-up with light rain and drizzle. Not a cold night. Lowest | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
temperatures eight Celsius in Denbighshire, 13 on the | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
Carmarthenshire coast. Tomorrow's chart shows high pressure over | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
France. This warm front will bring warmer, humid and moist air from the | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
Tropics. So here's the picture for 8:00am. Not very inspiring. The | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
north-east mostly dry but for most of us a dull and damp start to the | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
day. Some patchy light rain and drizzle. Low cloud, mist and hill | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
fog as well. During the day, some improvement. The south and west will | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
stay cloudy with spots of drizzle and mist. Elsewhere becoming dry and | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
brighter. Some sunshine in the north-east and the Marches. And | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
where the sun shines it will feel warm with the temperature rising to | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
19 or 20 Celsius. Cooler where it stays grey and misty. If you're | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
heading to Lords for the showdown between Glamorgan and | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
Nottinghamshire. Dry with a light breeze. Tomorrow night low cloud | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
will become fairly extensive with mist, hill and coastal fog. Spots of | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
drizzle and a very mild, muggy night. Sunday a grey and misty | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
start. A few spots of light rain and drizzle in the west and south-west. | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
Otherwise becoming dry and brightening up with some hazy | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
sunshine in the afternoon. Feeling humid too with mainly light winds. | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
The highest temperatures in the north-east. Rising into the low 20s. | :26:44. | :26:57. | |
Good for September. It's the autumn equinox on Sunday but we haven't | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
seen the last of summer yet. Next week, plenty of dry weather thanks | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
to high pressure. Some lovely sunshine and above average | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
temperatures. sunshine | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
The main news again from the BBC. The UKIP leader has found himself | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
overshadowed by one of his MEPs who referred to a group of women there | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
as sluts. Godfrey Bloom said he was joking when he used the term but the | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
party has suspended him. And the leader of the Labour Party said if | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
he was in charge, he would scrap the so-called bedroom tax. | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
The UK government said housing benefit changes had made the system | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
fairer. And that is Wales Today. We'll have a quick update at 8:00pm, | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
more news at 10:25pm. For now though, from all of us on the | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
programme, | :27:46. | :27:46. |