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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story. | :00:06. | :00:12. | |
It's the largest drift mine in the country - 200 jobs under threat as | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
the owners of Unity Mine file for administration. | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
There is some uncertainty to say the least. Everybody is devastated. | :00:19. | :00:33. | |
Our other headlines tonight. 84 people in court charged in | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
connection with an investigation into staging car crashes for cash. | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
Our economy will be the weakest in the UK for ten years - a stark | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
warning tonight. A step closer to tackling arthritis | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
with a little help from technology used in Hollywood films. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
And making the headlines for all the wrong reasons - fans demand to know | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
the inside story at Cardiff City Football Club. | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
Good evening. It's the largest drift mine left in Wales. Tonight, as many | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
as 200 jobs are under threat as the owners file for administration. The | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
future of the Unity Mine near Neath has been uncertain in recent months | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
after workers were told there weren't enough shifts for everyone. | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
Now the firm says it's in discussion about what happens next - a | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
situation that's been described by the local MP as deeply worrying. Our | :01:31. | :01:43. | |
reporter Cemlyn Davies is there. This is a community bracing itself | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
for more bad news. People are still reeling after hundreds of jobs were | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
lost when a nearby mine closed earlier this year. Today's | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
announcement will not have come as a massive shock. They have been | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
concerns for several weeks. Questions were first raised about | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
the future of Unity Mine in August when it emerged over half of the 220 | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
people who work year were in danger of losing their jobs. The company | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
said a fall in the price of coal meant they had to cut back and they | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
would only be enough work for 66 people. A deal was struck as the | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
workers agreed to share shifts to prevent redundancies. Discussions | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
have been ongoing between union officials and company directors will | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
stop another meeting took place today. The company released a short | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
statement saying the group of companies have been forced into the | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
process of filing for administration while discussions continue about the | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
future direction of the mine. The company says the workforce will be | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
maintained until further notice but some workers have already left in | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
anticipation of job losses. There is some uncertainty to say the least. | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
Everybody is devastated. Today's news is another blow for an area | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
that has already suffered its fair share of job losses. Production has | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
come to an end at a nearby drift mine. This area has been devastated | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
in recent years by job losses and these jobs are very well paid for | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
the area. They are vital jobs will stop management are in urgent | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
discussions. There are a number of planning and licensing problems to | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
resolve. The local councillor knows many of the men who work at the | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
mine. He is worried how they will cope if their jobs are taken from | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
them. It is very difficult to find work in the valleys. Everything | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
seems to stop on the M4 corridor. If we can't stave this mine, that will | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
make around 700 jobs lost in the last few years. You just can't | :04:01. | :04:12. | |
replace those. Unity Mine is Wales's largest drift mine and | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
tonight its future and that of its workforce is in real doubt. | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
We understand the company will be meeting with apprentices working at | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
the mine tomorrow morning and they will be a meeting with the whole | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
workforce on Monday. Thanks, Cemlyn. Let's have a word | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
with our business correspondent Brian Meechan. It can't be | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
underestimated to our past in Wales but what about the future for coal | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
in Wales? If we look at Britain as an economic powerhouse, it was in a | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
large part fuelled by Walsh call. In the 1920s, around a quarter of a | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
million people were employed in call and it was about the communities | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
that grew up around that. In the 1970s and 1980s, we saw pit closures | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
but even then we saw collieries which emerged from the strike in | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
1984. But even those closed their doors. So where are we now? Coal | :05:12. | :05:22. | |
prices have been falling of late and it is very expensive to get out of | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
the ground. In comparison to the global market where we can get | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
energy, there is cheaper and more efficient and more environmentally | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
friendly ways. People find it more difficult to make the case for coal. | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
We note that these 200 workers are employed here. They will remain | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
employed while the administrators do their business and see what can come | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
up of this business, potentially. But from an industry that once | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
employed 250,000 men, there are now a little over 1000 working in coal | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
mining in Wales. 84 people have appeared in court in | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
Cwmbran as part of a so-called crash for cash investigation. It's alleged | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
car crashes were staged deliberately to defraud insurance companies. The | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
hearing is one of the largest seen in Wales. Our reporter Jordan Davies | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
was in court. The first defendant to arrive for | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
one of the largest court hearings ever held in Wales. One of 86 people | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
charged in connection with one of the largest motor insurers scams in | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
Britain. This reconstruction shows the kind of thing they have | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
allegedly taken part in. Crash for cash, with people deliberately cause | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
collisions to claim money from insurers companies. Across the UK, | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
this type of crime is said to be worth nearly £400 million annually, | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
with one in seven personal injury claims linked to suspected scams. | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
The defendants appeared in groups of four and five, some dressed casually | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
in shorts and T-shirt, in shirt and tie. All had the charges put to them | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
before speaking to confirm their name and address will stop Gwent | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
Police save the defendants allegedly operated from a garage on this | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
industrial estate. Officers say they have been investigating the case for | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
over two years. Only 82 defendants appeared in court today, some | :07:24. | :07:34. | |
related. Cwmbran Magistrates' Court opened especially for this hearing. | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
All 86 people are now due to appear at Newport Crown Court at the | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
beginning of next month. Gas and electricity prices for | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
thousands of customers in Wales are set to rise next month. The energy | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
company SSE said the average increase for Swalec customers in the | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
south will go up by 9%. Manweb customers in north Wales will see an | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
8.7% increase. The company has blamed a jump in wholesale costs. | :08:00. | :08:21. | |
Hundreds of jobs will be cut at Carmarthenshire Council because of | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
the Welsh Government's draft budget. That's the warning from its leader, | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
Kevin Madge. Savings of £30 million have to be made and offers of | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
redundancy or early retirement have been offered to staff. The Welsh | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Government said it had cushioned the impact of UK Government cuts in the | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
past three years. Detectives investigating historical | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
sex abuse at children's homes in north Wales have arrested an | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
eleventh person. The man, who's 52 and from Mold, has been arrested as | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
part of Operation Pallial on suspicion of child cruelty and | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
indecent assault against four boys and one girl in the 1980s. | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
While the UK might be seeing something of an upturn, the future | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
for Wales is looking gloomy when it comes to jobs and prosperity. That's | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
the warning tonight from an influential research company. Our | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
economics correspondent Sarah Dickins has more. | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
It is hoped these teenagers in Merthyr Tydfil will be part of the | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
solution to an economic weakness that has played all of Wales for | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
decades. The message from this report is that the economy is | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
recovering and will continue to do so, but that the UK is an | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
increasingly divided nation. The bad news for Wales, according to the | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
report, is that we are forecast to be the least well off writing to | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
2020. It is our communities that will suffer in terms of employment | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
and what we produce. This new college hopes to challenge that. The | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
balloons are wrapped, launching the college Merthyr Tydfil will stop | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
alongside A-levels, students can take courses directly relating to | :09:50. | :09:59. | |
skilled jobs. Employment levels are expected to fall this year and grow | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
in 2014. These teenagers are taking courses are unlikely to exist in | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
school sixth forms. I can do at electronics here which I could not | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
do at my old school. I want to join the Computerworld when I am told | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
that so it will give me an insight into how computers operate. We are | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
doing things that you would do in university. It is furthering our | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
skills. We certainly have some vibrant employers. There are two | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
things you can do if you want to improve your economy. Depress your | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
wage rates but we do not want to do that, or we say, at the countries | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
have improved their skills, we are doing that in Wales. Also providing | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
learners with first-class facilities. Some Welsh employers are | :10:54. | :11:10. | |
already gaining. Our own general orders have picked up considerably. | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
We have got to keep knocking doors from the south-east of the country, | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
London in particular, we get a tremendous amount of orders. We find | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
it quite difficult to fulfil all the orders. It is a chicken and egg | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
situation. If you don't have the skills, you can't attract the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
industry, but if you don't have the industry, you tend not to train | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
people for it. It is the wealthier areas of the UK that are expected to | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
see the greatest growth in fortune. The challenge is for Wales to catch | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
up. Richard Holt wrote the report. He's | :11:47. | :11:59. | |
in Westminster. What are the solutions? It comes down to skills | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
and education and one of the people said, at the same time as providing | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
better skills, we also need to be bringing jobs to the people. That is | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
both in manufacturing, I think Welsh manufacturing is going to grow | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
faster than UK manufacturing, but also in service industries | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
generally. Why is Wales behind other areas of the UK? In a sense it is | :12:27. | :12:34. | |
because it is the easy option for companies to invest in the | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
south-east of England, places that are already prosperous. Wales does | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
badly in the same way that Northern Ireland and the north-east of | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
England do badly. How is the Welsh economy fare income paid to the UK | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
economy as a whole? It probably did a little bit better last year. The | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
problem is that the rest of the economy is accelerating rather | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
faster than the Welsh economy. Places like the south-east of | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
England, around Cambridge and London itself, will continue to pull ahead. | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
But the picture for Wales is pretty gloomy in your report. It is not | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
completely gloomy. It says the Welsh economy will grow around 2.5% every | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
year, which is pretty good by historic standards. And if we could | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
do one thing to improve our economy, what would it be? The answer is that | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
you always need to do two or three what would it be? The answer is that | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
things together. You need to invest in skills, ring new companies in, | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
strengthen the companies you already have, improve infrastructure. There | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
is never one thing. Much more to come before seven | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
o'clock. Aaron Ramsey is passed fit for | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
tomorrow's World Cup qualifier and will captain Wales in Ashley | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
Williams' absence. And an Edwardian education - a | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
teacher's journal lifts the lid on school life a century ago. | :14:02. | :14:11. | |
It's the technology usually associated with Hollywood | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
blockbusters, but a team of researchers from Cardiff University | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
is using virtual reality to help them understand arthritis. Their new | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
rehabilitation suite is the first of its kind in the UK. Steffan | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
Messenger reports. It is not your average laboratory. | :14:25. | :14:41. | |
At Cardiff University's new virtual reality suite, they are turning | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
cinematography interscience. Using special sensors and cameras, they | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
can monitor the way patients's joints are working and see where | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
things could be going on. They are focusing on knee injuries, improving | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
the way they move to postpone further damage. It is an excellent | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
tool and has helped to move our research forward fast. Having this | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
tool helps us make the next step and bring it more to clinical practice. | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
Similar equipment has been used by movie directors for years. The hope | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
is that this pioneering piece of cake, the first of its kind to be | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
installed in the UK, will help develop new ways of easing the pain | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
and disability caused by arthritis. That is welcome news for Liz Evans | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
from Newport to badly damaged her knee in a skiing accident. I was | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
made very aware by the rehab team that I was going to be burnable to | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
getting osteoarthritis in years to come. I don't want that to hit me. I | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
want to do anything I can to get the researchers to find out more about | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
the causes and ways of postponing the onset of arthritis. | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
One in six in the UK suffer with arthritis and that affects the young | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
as well as the old. By putting in funds to work like this, we will | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
become nearer to finding a cure. Motion capture technology used in | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
films and TV dramas may have inspired the development of this | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
equipment but Liz and others like will hope it can lead to real life | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
results. Candidates have been deterred from | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
applying for the vacant Chief Constable job at Gwent Police | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
because of the actions of its Police and Crime Commissioner, according to | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
a senior MP. Carmel Napier left the force in June after an order from | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
Commissioner Ian Johnston to retire or be removed. The Caerphilly MP | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
Wayne David said, while he fully supports the choice of Jeff Farrar | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
for the job, he's disappointed only one person applied. Mr Johnston said | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
it would be inappropriate to comment until the appointment has been | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
considered by the Gwent Police and Crime Panel. | :17:08. | :17:19. | |
The PCC have had enormous power to hire and fire at will. What worries | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
me particularly is that one of the main reasons there is one applicant | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
for the job in Gwent Police was because of what has happened in the | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
recent past. I think many senior police officers around the country | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
saw what happened with Carmel Napier and thought, we are not going to end | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
up in that situation, we are not prepared to do that. | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
Cardiff Airport has announced the return of flights to ski | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
destinations. The airline Flybe will operate direct services to four | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
airports in France and Switzerland from December. | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
The leader of Plaid Cymru, Leanne Wood, will be hoping to build on the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
party's recent by-election victory on Anglesey when she addresses the | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
annual conference tomorrow. Our political editor Nick Servini is in | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
Aberystwyth, where the conference is being held. | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
Parties always say they are in good spirits when they gather for their | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
annual conference and it certainly will be the case in Aberystwyth over | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
the next two days after a conference if by-election victory on Anglesey | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
in the summer. The question is, was that a solid victory in eight Plaid | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
Cymru heartland or is there something more substantial going on? | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
What Leanne Wood needs to which you tomorrow is to get eight sense of | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
momentum building within the party. There is an interesting dynamic this | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
week because this is the last of the annual Plaid Cymru conferences | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
before the Scottish independence referendum next September. This | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
question is whether the party can take advantage of that in anyway, | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
shape or form. Can it become a party which people vote for not | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
necessarily because they believe in independence but because they | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
believe the SNP is a credible alternative government? That is | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
clearly what it has got to try and cash in on. | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
Cardiff City supporters are demanding answers from the club as | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
fears grow over the future of manager Malky Mackay. Some fans are | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
meeting tonight to discuss whether to hold a protest over how the club | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
has handled the suspension of former head of recruitment Iain Moody. | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
Yesterday it emerged owner Vincent Tan had replaced him with an unknown | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
23-year-old who was formerly on work experience. Here's our sports | :19:42. | :19:53. | |
reporter Ashleigh Crowter. The fans of Cardiff city are | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
wondering why nothing ever seems to be straightforward at their club. | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Their impressive start in the Premier League is now being | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
overshadowed why the decision to remove Malky Mackay's right-hand | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
man, head of recruitment year and moody, and replace him with a | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
23-year-old with experienced student. The newspapers dissected | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
the whole affair in great detail. They filled their pages with | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
speculation about whether Malky Mackay had been fatally undermined. | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
The sun even dedicated its front page to it. Many fans were already | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
ensure about Vincent Tan's motives. This supporters group who marched | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
against his decision to change the kit from blue to read are meeting | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
again tonight to plan another protest. It is a fertile subject for | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
this blogger, then James. He thinks the Iain Moody affair has damaged | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
the reputation of Vincent Tan in even the most pragmatic supporters | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
will stop I think it has galvanised the fans. Even those who accepted | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
the red cape were happy the football was being left alone but now they | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
feel Vincent Tan is meddling with the football side of things. The | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
fans are not happy. The Supporters' Trust have also asked for public | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
clarification but the club has not made any official comment. Chief | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
Executive Simon Lim is understood to be in Malaysia. The club are | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
preparing to host tomorrow's World Cup qualifier between Wales and | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
Macedonia and there was sympathy today from one under pressure | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
manager to another. Malky Mackay, look at his record, a cup final, | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
play-off semifinals, and league winners, and they are doing well in | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
the league, so if Malky Mackay is in trouble, I feel sorry for the rest | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
of us. Aaron Ramsey will captain a depleted Wales team tomorrow night | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
even though he has not trained this week. Chris Coleman's injury | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
problems seem to be getting worse will stop he has 15 absentees. | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
A teacher's journal dating back to 1907 has revealed just what it was | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
like to be at school in Edwardian Wales. The writings, discovered by | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
chance in a cupboard, describe a time when girls were expected to do | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
laundry lessons and PE involved a military style drill. Carwyn Jones | :22:19. | :22:27. | |
has more. For more than a century they had | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
been gathering dust at the back of a store cupboard at this school in | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
Cardiff. Two books, a diary and a lesson guide, written in 1907 by a | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
young teacher at the school. Her name was Jenny Edwards and we know | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
practically nothing about her but what we do know thanks to her | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
writings is that Edward in education in South Wales was a very strict | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
affair. They would only answer when the teacher asked them. There was no | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
opportunity for them to turn to their partner to share ideas. Any | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
interruption to the lesson was severely dealt with. Talking across | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
the teacher, for example, led to two strokes on the hand with a cane. She | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
also wrote about a PE lesson at the school which sounds more like an | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
army drill. Teachers gave arm, trunk and foot | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
exercises. Children marched in single file and double file along | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
the hall. Boys and girls were taught | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
incompletely separate wings of the school and that was reflected in the | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
lesson plans too. In the afternoons, boys were given serious academic | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
subjects to study while the girls were given cookery, needlecraft and | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
laundry lessons. Times have changed but the pupils at the school today | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
seem to be relieved they are not learning under such script | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
supervision. Going to the headmaster would be very bad. You would have to | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
hold your right hand out. Slap, slap, slap. These unassuming | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
journals do lift the lid on school life in the 1900 or stop they will | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
now be transferred to an archive so that future generations can learn | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
what education was really like. Derek's diary and his weather | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
forecast now. Lots of blue sky in the south today, | :24:22. | :24:32. | |
but chilly. A north wind has brought a drop in temperature. Only 13 | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
Celsius in Usk, compared to 20 on Tuesday. In the wind it felt more | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
like minus eight on the summit of Snowdon. More dry and cool weather | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
to come tomorrow. Also a few spots of light rain and a cool wind. | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
Tonight will be dry. Clear this evening but, after midnight, cloud | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
will spread from the northeast. Enough breeze to stop the | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
temperature from falling too low, but I wouldn't rule out a ground | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
frost in some of the valleys in the Cambrian Mountains. Tomorrow's chart | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
shows high pressure to the north of Scotland. Low pressure over France | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
and that means winds for Britain. Here's the picture for 8am in the | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
morning. Much of the country dry. Bright in places but some cloud | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
around as well, along with a cool breeze. Much brighter in the west. | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
Sunshine in Aberystwyth, Carmarthen and Haverfordwest. During the day a | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
band of thicker cloud will spread from the northeast with a few spots | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
of light rain in the afternoon. The odd light shower but otherwise dry. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
The best of the sunshine in the southwest. Temperatures higher than | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
today. 11 to 15 Celsius with a breeze making it feel cool. In | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
Pembrokeshire tomorrow, dry with a good deal of sunshine. Windy on the | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
Preselis with a high of 14 Celsius in Narberth. In Monmouthshire | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
tomorrow, more cloud than sunshine. The odd light shower but most of the | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
day dry. 14 Celsius in Chepstow with a breeze. Tomorrow night will be | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
dry. Plenty of cloud. Clearer in the west but temperatures not falling | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
too low. Saturday will be cloudy, cool and breezy. Spots of light rain | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
and drizzle in the north and east and Powys. Elsewhere, dry. Bright in | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
parts of the south and west with a little sunshine. On Sunday, the wind | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
lighter, but there is a risk of some rain, at least for a time. Our | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
picture tonight is from Annie Riggs. Plumstone Rock in the Preselis. | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Thanks, Annie. More sunshine in Pembrokeshire tomorrow. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
The main news from the BBC. Millions of households face high | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
fuel costs - the energy company SSE, which owns Swalec in Wales, pushes | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
up its prices by more than 8%. With winter on the way, other energy | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
companies are likely to raise their prices, leaving some customers | :26:55. | :27:03. | |
struggling. More than 200 jobs are under threat | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
at Wales's largest drift mine as the owners file for administration. The | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
future of the Unity Mine has been uncertain after workers were told | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
they were not enough shifts for everyone. | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
I am deeply worried because this is a vital mine. 250 jobs, potentially | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
more in the future. There are urgent discussions taking place and I am | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
assisting every way I can. We'll have an update for you here at | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
8.00pm and I'll be back after the BBC News at 10.00pm. That's Wales | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
Today. Thank you for watching. Good evening. | :27:37. | :27:39. |