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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story: The number of patients | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
waiting longer than nine months for hospital treatment has more than | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
doubled in six months. Shirley Witman's husband was in and | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
out of hospital towards the end of his life - could easing the burden | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
on A help bring down waiting lists? | :00:20. | :00:34. | |
Our other headlines tonight: A woman missing for 30 years - police search | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
the garden of the house she once lived in. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
The right to buy your council house - should we look again at the policy | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
of the 1980s? Wales football manager Chris Coleman | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
signs a new contract. And the world's best rally drivers | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
head for North and Mid Wales as the World Rally Championship enters its | :01:00. | :01:00. | |
final stage. Good evening. The number of patients | :01:01. | :01:12. | |
waiting longer than nine months for hospital treatment has more than | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
doubled in six months. In September, more than 11,000 people were waiting | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
longer than that, up from almost 5,500 in March. Patients waiting | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
between 26 and 36 weeks reached an all-time high of almost 37,000. | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
Here's our health correspondent Owain Clarke. | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
This was a good and when the sun is shining, people are less likely to | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
suffer from accidents and birds of winter. This eases the pressure on | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
the NHS blood as the temperature rose, so did the number of patients | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
waiting too long for hospital treatment. Robert has been waiting | :01:59. | :02:09. | |
six months for a new me and his hospital have put a halt on | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
non-emergency surgery. It impairs my mobility and my whole | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
way of life. It is not getting any better and I am stuck using a | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
walking stick. I'm worried about it. What do the latest figures tell | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
us? Between March and the end of | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
September, the number of patients waiting over nine months grew by | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
over 6000. Welsh government target say nobody should wait that long. | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
The NHS was nowhere near its target of treating 95% of patients within | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
26 weeks. The stats also show with the performance is worth and batted | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
in Cardiff and two other health board areas. But there has been some | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
progress. At the end of the summer, the number of patients waiting | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
longest reduced by 11%. The Welsh government says that proves NHS | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
recovery plans are working but according to the Conservatives, it | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
is a fiasco. That is unacceptable to see that | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
trend is increasing and for those people to have to wait that long for | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
treatment and the government has to take action to ensure this isn't an | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
increasing trend. A health minister wasn't available | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
today but Welsh government has blamed waiting list on the knock-on | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
effect of last winter's weather, which led to an unprecedented surge | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
in emergency care demand. It argues this year the NHS is better prepared | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
but with waiting lifts having grown, the critics say there are | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
ominous signs with winter on its way. | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Almost half of people taken to our hospitals are emergency admissions | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
which, as we've just heard, can put huge strain on limited resources. A | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
team at Swansea University is currently looking at whether a | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
system which identifies potential patients can ease the burden on A | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
Sachin Krishnan has been given exclusive access to the research. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
Being rushed into hospital in the middle of the night, and often | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
frightening experience for patients and their families and also a | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
financial burden on the health service, with the average cost of a | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
weekly hospital bed estimated at ?2000. Here they are assessing the | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
value of a computer programme which identified attentional emergency | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
patients. The idea is those patients can be targeted earlier. | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
We are looking at whether it is acceptable to patients, whether they | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
like it and whether there is a shin of their health is improved. | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
Surely's husband was regularly taken to hospital before his death earlier | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
this year. She told me how difficult the time was not I worked in a | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
hospital -- how difficult the time was. | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
People get hooked up and they are making noises and you don't know | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
what they mean. It can be very frightening. I think I would like | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
people to avoid it. Patients and doctors at 32 this is -- 32 | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
practices are taking part in the study but is there a danger the | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
workload will be moved onto the likes of GPs? | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
I understand that by getting actual GP feedback with regard to the fact | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
we haven't been able to do this because the resources haven't been | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
in place, it might actually give a case for actual evidence base for | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
future care and planning for increased resources within the | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
community. There are no quick answers to the | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
issues affecting the health service but this research is backed by many. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Around three quarters of ?1 million. The final report will be published | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
in two and a half years time. The Health Minister, Mark Drakeford, | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
faces a legal challenge over his decision to green-light changes to | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
the way urgent care is delivered at Llanelli's Prince Philip Hospital. | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
Campaigners say changing the A department into a nurse-led unit | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
supported by GPs, could put patients in danger. The Welsh Government says | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
it's aware of the proposed judicial review. | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Welsh Water will introduce a below inflation price rise for its | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
customers next April, for the fifth year running. The company has also | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
announced half year profits of ?32 million. It says as it doesn't have | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
shareholders, the money will be pumped back into the business. | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
We are using that money for a large number of schemes, for example | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
across North Wales we have been building new order treatment works | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
and putting processes in place that will provide the highest quality | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
water for the next 20 years to come. Police investigating the | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
disappearance of a Cardiff woman, who was last seen more than 30 years | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
ago, have searched her former home and workplace. Susanne | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
Llewellyn-Jones, has not been seen since going to catch a train in | :07:18. | :07:27. | |
1980. Nick Palit reports. At the house she lived in more than 30 | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
years ago specialist forensic teams have been carrying out a detailed | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
search of the back garden. Using ground penetrating radar | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
equipment - crime scene investigators are trying to | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
establish if anything's under the lawn of this surburban Cardiff home. | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
The current owners of the house in the Llandaff area of Cardiff have | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
only recently moved in but back in 1980 Susanne Llewellyn Jones lived | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
here with her husband. She was last seen on April 14th 1980 when her | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
husband drove her from their home here on Llantrisant Road to | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
Cardiff's Central Railway Station. Police say her disappearance was | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
completely out of character. Detective Chief Inspector Ceri | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
Hughes, from the Specialist Crime Investigations Team, says, "All | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
outstanding missing person cases remain open, and are revisited | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
periodically in case new evidence comes to light. At the time of her | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
disappearance Susanne Llewellyn Jones was 34 years old. Police have | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
issued an age-progression photograph of what she may look like now, more | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
than three decades on. As part of this re-investigation a specialist | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
unit has also been searching the nearby Churchill's Hotel where she | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
had worked. Marc Adams-Jones managed the hotel at the time and remembers | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Susanne well. People would say, she's disappeared. | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
It is an argument, it is a family disagreement. She will come back. | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
Obviously, she hasn't and 33 years later, she is still not there. I | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
would like to think that she is somewhere and has started up a new | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
life, she is in Spain or somewhere. People have got different opinions. | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
A 68-year-old man from the Vale of Glamorgan was interviewed last week | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
in connection with her disappearance, and Police are | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
appealing for anyone with any information to contact them. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
It was one of the policies that came to define the Thatcher era in the | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
eighties but the Welsh Conservatives think it's time to revive it. The | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
right to buy for council and social housing tenants has waned in | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
popularity since its heyday but reforming the scheme forms part of | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
the Tories' vision for Welsh housing. Our political reporter | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
James Williams went to the party's policy launch. | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
After coming to power, housing was one of Thatcher's first reforms. Her | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
aim was to create a nation of homeowners and right to buy when | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
some way to achieving that, with people jumping at the opportunity to | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
buy council homes. Didn't have that money to buy a house, really. | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
We had some money saved to do the house out but we didn't have the | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
money to buy a house. People weren't earning much then. But it is not as | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
popular as it once was. Launching a new housing policy today | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
in Caerphilly, the Welsh Conservatives say they want to | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
rejuvenate the scheme because the number of homes bought under the | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
policy has fallen from more than 11,000 in 1988 to a little over 400 | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
last year. The Tories hope they can help some of the 84% of Welsh adults | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
who want to be homeowners. People can once again by their own | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
home and right to buy but unlike in the past, for each home sold, a new | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
home would have to be dealt. The family already in the house will | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
continue to live in the house but another family can be housed | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
elsewhere. Buying proposals are so included in the proposal. | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
Labour says the plans lack detail but the attacks extend beyond the | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
Assembly. We welcome their ambitions for | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
housing in terms of increasing the number of housing, social housing | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
and reducing the number of empty homes. We do have a problem with it | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
in that the nanny the policies that are being run from Westminster, the | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Conservative party in Westminster is actually undermining their ambitions | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
in Wales. Despite lattices, the Welsh are answering previous claims | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
that they aren't offering answers to some of the biggest problems in | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
Wales. This is the latest policy document | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
in a series this year alone to show that the Tories can be a credible | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
party in government ahead of the next elections in 2016. | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
The Anglican and Catholic churches in Wales are calling for faith | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
schools to be given the same level of protection as Welsh-language | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
schools in the current round of council cutbacks. Some local | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
authorities are considering whether to withdraw funding for free | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
transport for faith schools. Church leaders say, the decisions will | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
threaten the viability of many of those schools. Here's our political | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
editor Nick Servini. Home time to start in informal than | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
700 pupils at this comp offensive in Swansea. No decision has been made | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
here but informal talks on the issue of free transport are being held. In | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
the neighbouring authority, the head of the Catholic school in Port | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
Talbot and a mother of two to pupils Tammy the council has already | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
decided to withdraw free travel and it is due to kick in next year. | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
There are people who could afford to pay for their own transport to faith | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
education and some who could make the contribution. | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
There are some who couldn't afford it at all. We have been told that if | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
you want to send your child to a faith school, you may have to pick | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
up the cost in Neath Port Talbot, we will have to pick up the cost of | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
transport whereas if a child attends a Welsh medium school, a comp | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
offensive, they actually get free transport. | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
It seems very unfair. Councils have a legal duty to provide free | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
transport to Welsh language schools but not faith once. | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
Church leaders want parity. Transport is essential to the | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
sustaining of education in those schools. If that line of support is | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
cut, a number of schools will have to look at their future. | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
There are around 250 faith schools in Wales and to varying degrees the | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
decision has already been made to cut funding in Flintshire and | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
Wrexham while Conway is about to go to consultation. Bridgend Council is | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
also due to start a public consultation next month. | :13:49. | :14:01. | |
We have to save millions of pounds as a result of coalition cats and it | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
is impossible to save ?36 million from our budget without having an | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
impact like this. Church leaders don't want this to be | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
seen as a faith against language row but it is likely that is how it will | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
be portrayed by many campaigners when consultations get underway in | :14:20. | :14:30. | |
areas like this. It is the main reason why school pupils in Wales | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
travel out of their catchment area. In the past, councils have been able | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
to fund both but it is a sign of the times of how difficult it is for | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
local authorities in the current climate. | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
Much more to come before 7:00pm. The world's best rally drivers are | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
in North Wales as the World Rally Championship enters its final stage. | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
And Wales football manager Chris Coleman signs a new contract taking | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
him up to Euro 2016. They're in charge of the police were | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
you live - Police and Crime Commissioners have been in the job | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
for a year. They're supposed to make the police more accountable and | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
ultimately, reduce crime but a survey for the BBC out today shows | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
over a third of us don't know we have one and more than half say | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
they've had no or little effect. Jordan Davies reports. | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
They run your force and for the last year they decided what kind of crime | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
needs to be tackled. They want to make the police more accountable but | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
that got off to a shaky start when less than 15% of Welsh voters turned | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
out. They were soon ramblings that an independent candidate didn't get | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
on with his chief constable and that new up publicly when he issued her | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
with an ultimatum -leaf or I will force you to go. The fallout was | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
felt across the policing landscape. If we had a different candidate | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
after the election and they failed to do something about what I | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
inherited, this would have failed in their duties. It was something that | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
had to be done and I did it. In North Wales, the independent | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
policing crime Commissioner has been cleared over accusations he lied | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
about his home address when nominated for the post. | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
In South Wales, this former MP has drawn up a 15 point plan for his | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
fourth and in Dyfed Powys, the Tory police and crime Commissioner has | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
introduced a new mantra: When we are in, we are open. | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
We have done pretty well at this and we have managed to accommodate 20% | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
cuts and crime is still falling. That may not always be the case. | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
Newport has its fair share of crime and a poll today suggested a third | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
of people didn't know they had a police and crime Commissioner. | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
I don't know what he does. I couldn't say who he is or what he | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
has done. I don't know what they are. It might | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
be a bit unfair to expect our police and crime Commissioner is to have | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
made a dramatic effect, have they made any at all? | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
In South Wales, crime is down by over 3% and in went, 5%. In | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
Liverpool is, crime is down 9% and in North Wales, 14%. That is on the | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
back of falling crime generally which has been going down for | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
decades. Despite the profile of peace and | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
crime Commissioner is, there has not been much progress on raising the | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
profile of raising the governance of policing. | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
In Wales, police and crime Commissioner 's have been more | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
visible and now they are exercising their considerable power. | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
The world's best rally drivers take to the streets and forests of North | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
and Mid Wales for the next four days as the World Rally Championship | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
enters its final stage. Matthew Richards is at the start line for | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
us. Thanks. I am at the start of this | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
global event which draws competitors and fans from around the world. This | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
year is the first time the rally will be held exclusively in North | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
and mid Wales. Its headquarters in Cardiff. The 2013 Wales Rally GB | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
also features debuts for an ex Formula one driver and a gold | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
medal-winning Olympian. The countdown is over and for the | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
next few days the peace and quiet of our countryside and coastline will | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
be shattered by high performance cars and their fearless occupants. | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
Among them Elfyn Evans who's father Gwyndaf is a former British Rally | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
winner. The move to North Wales means this really is his neck of the | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
woods. It is nice to see the stages in | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
North Wales. We have seen most of them by now and they are looking in | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
fantastic condition. Poland's Robert Koobitza has | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
switched Formula one for Rallying after a serious accident and the | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
biggest job swap has to be for Amy Williams who won gold for Team GB in | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
the skeleton bobsled in 2010. She's now a co-driver for TV pundit Tony | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
Jardine. How does the adrenaline rush compare? | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
It is very different. Into gallant and I had the scheme around -- in | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
skeleton. Here there is obviously the team, me and Tony together. We | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
both trust each other and that has been a great different experience. | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
Rally HQ is on Deeside. The biggest names in motorsport have set up shop | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
here. These young engineers are enjoying a personal tour. The | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
company I'm working with here we are delighted to be inviting to the | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
region and it showcases the small and medium enterprises as well. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
It is great to be here alongside universities and representatives | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
from the education side to show what we can do. | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
Back on the tracks, the teams begin their campaign on a night-time stage | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
at Clocaenog Forest near Ruthin. This one is quite muddy but it is | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
most of the time like that and we have to adapt. | :20:33. | :20:41. | |
It's billed as the rally of legends, this weekend some new ones could be | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
created. It is exciting stuff and I'm joined | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
by the man in charge. Why this move to North Wales was Mac --? | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
The evidence is here this evening. The cooperation we have had from the | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
local council has been fantastic and now you can see the population of | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
North Wales turning out to make this a fantastic finale. And for the | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
drivers, you have been able to reintroduce some classic stages. | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
We always say that the best stages in the world for rally driving are | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
in Wales and in North Wales we got stages that we haven't been able to | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
use for many years. The names just roll off. They are | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
classic stages and the drivers this evening are quite young and probably | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
haven't ever experienced these stages before so hopefully a very | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
fresh challenge. Rally driving has a dedicated following but there are | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
perhaps people who don't realise how big a deal this is. | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
It is enormous. We are taking over running an event | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
over half of Wales. The geography is stunning and we have 3500 marshals | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
helping us run the event and about 70,000 or 80,000 people will be | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
watching. We have 450 media from across the world and 160 rally | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
cars. It is massive. We had better let you get on with it. | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
Thank you very much. Football and after weeks of | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
uncertainty, Chris Coleman has signed a new deal with Wales and | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
will remain in charge of the national side for the Euro 2016 | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
qualifying campaign. He's believed to have signed a two-year deal. | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
Let's talk to our Football Correspondent, Rob Phillips. | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
What took him so long? A good question. | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
This is Welsh football so we should expect nothing else but there | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
appears to have been hesitancy on both sides in the last few months | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
and with that the fiasco when the manager lost his passport before | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
going to Macedonia. Then he appeared to be on trial in the last two days | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
with a good draw in Belgium after a win against Macedonia at home. It | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
will be confirmed tomorrow, the day before Wales play Finland. It is | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
clear that Chris Coleman does have the overwhelming backing of the | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
Wales squad. Tactically, he wants to put his | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
stamp on things and get us playing the way he wants, which is what you | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
need in a manager. We are all looking forward to working under him | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
for hopefully the long-term future and Saturday is a good chance for us | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
to go out there and show that. How will this go down with the fans? | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
I think there will be a mixed reaction and there are a number of | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
key issues for him to face. He will have to face the doubters who want | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
to change. He will have to find a replacement for John Hartson, who | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
quit about a week ago. That comes through, winning the fans over comes | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
through results and getting Wales to the 2016 campaign finals. | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
Rugby and having played just ten times for the Blues, Cory Allen will | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
win his first cap for Wales against Argentina on Saturday. Dan Biggar is | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
picked at fly half. Scarlet Rhodri Jones replaces Adam | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
Jones. Gethin Jenkins will win his 100th cap, becoming only the fourth | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
Welsh player to reach the milestone. Debutant Cory Allen says he can't | :24:19. | :24:19. | |
wait to make his first start. Am still a little bit nervous, if | :24:20. | :24:33. | |
I'm honest. Constant butterfly. I can't stop thinking about walking | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
out that tunnel it is so exciting. We feel it is a chance for him to | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
develop and we have a number of trials in Wales so for as it is a | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
chance to get some strength in depth there. Let's see what the weather | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
has in store. Benaz has the forecast. | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
We have had some showers but equally some sunshine. They can't knight | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
this evening and winds should become lighter and it will be cloudier. We | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
have a few showers dotted around. Clearer skies inland and more cloud | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
in the north and west. The temperatures will do away and clear | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
skies. A touch of Frost possible. A ridge of high pressure building, | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
keeping things quiet through tomorrow and Saturday and we will | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
gradually start to see a breakdown in that Saturday night into Sunday. | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
First thing tomorrow morning, there will be some brightness with the | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
best of the sunshine across the south-east. We will see this kind | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
over and when we have this cloud, it will produce some rain or drizzle. | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
The best of the brightness in the south-east with highs of 10 | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
Celsius. Through tomorrow night, it will start to cloud over for | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
everybody and we will start to see some mist and fog forming, | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
especially across the border. We have some light winds with | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
temperatures around eight Celsius but getting down to three Celsius. | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
First thing on Saturday morning, it is a cloudy start with mist and | :26:09. | :26:17. | |
fog. We have had breaks of brain. -- outbreaks of rain. Temperatures | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
remain between nine and 11 Celsius but it will get colder through next | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
week. On Sunday it will start off dry and as we go through the day, we | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
will see a cold front coming southward and a band of more | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
persistent rain but those winds remain light through the weekend. | :26:38. | :26:47. | |
Some pressure -- some indication that we are in for a cold snap next | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
week and a risk of wintry showers but hopefully it will be confined to | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
higher ground. Get ready for that next week. | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
Britain has sent its biggest aircraft carrier to help in the | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
relief effort in the Philippines. She will join the US aircraft | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
carrier the US George Washington which has arrived with 5000 sailors | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
on board and will be a floating base. The number of patients in | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
Wales waiting longer than nine months for hospital treatment has | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
more than doubled in six months to more than 11,000. | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
The weight did improve slightly between August and September with | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
patients waiting between 26 and 36 weeks reaching an all-time high. | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
I'll have an update for you here at 8:00pm and after the BBC News at | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
Ten. That's Wales Today. Thank you for watching. Good evening. | :27:42. | :27:44. |