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Campaigners say prices are rising three times faster than wages. That | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
is all from Welcome to Wales Today. Our top | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
story: Mobbed by the fans - Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is the new man in | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
charge at Cardiff City. He says he'll be the one picking the | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
players and dismissed suggestions that the owner would meddle in the | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
team's affairs. What assurances did you require to | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
take the job? I had a chat with Mehmet Dalman, met | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
the owner and they have convinced me they want me to be in charge of the | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
football, to take the club forward. Shoring-up defences - high tides and | :00:28. | :00:50. | |
gale force winds are expected and more than 20 flood warnings are in | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
place. Police in Newport are looking for | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
the teenager Nida Ul-Naseer who hasn't been seen since Sunday. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
The stem-cell research carried out by scientists here - now hopes it | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
could lead to new treatments for heart failure. And restrictions on | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
workers from Bulgaria and Romania are lifted - so what's the impact of | :01:11. | :01:20. | |
immigration on public services here? Good evening. | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
Cardiff City Football Club has a new man at the helm. The former Norway | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
and Manchester United striker Ole Gunner Solskjaer replaces Malky | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Mackay, who was sacked after an ongoing dispute with the owner | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Vincent Tan. Claire Summers has been watching the day's developments and | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
she's live at the football ground for us tonight. Claire? | :01:36. | :01:45. | |
Good evening. Cardiff city football club has been in the spotlight for | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
the wrong reasons of late and today an apology for all the agony the | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
fans have been put through. But tonight Cardiff City have their man. | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
The club's chairman said today there was only one name in his mind to | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
replace Malky Mackay and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has agreed a 12-month | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
rolling contract with the Bluebirds. Today he met the players in training | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
before coming here to speak to hold his first press conference. He said | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
the job is a dream come true and stressed he'd be the one picking the | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
players. As a player, he knew all about | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
pressure and today, Ole Gunner Solskjaer looked as composed as | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
ever, travelling in style. He delivered a polished informants as | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
the new Cardiff city manager. Sat next to the chairman who was | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
instrumental in signing his services, he said he was the right | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
man for Cardiff city. I have always dreamt about being a | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
manager in the Premier League. I always said I think I will and now I | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
think it is my chance and challenge. It is up to me to prove I'm up to | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
the level. Who is the man now in charge? He was | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
born in Norway in 1973 and after playing for a number of clubs, he | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
joined Manchester United in 1996 and finished that season as their top | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
league scorer. In 1999 he scored the winning goal in the champions | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
league. He retired from the game in 2007 and became United's reserve | :03:22. | :03:31. | |
team manager. He tasted success, leading a Norwegian side to their | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
first leg with Mark league title. He admitted he had run the move past | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
Sir Alex Ferguson and said reports his boss told him to turn the offer | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
down were nonsense. I have had good contact with the | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
gaffer. He has wished me all the best, given me some good advice, as | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
he always does to you when you work for him, if you are asking for | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
advice. Back in Norway, the move is big | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
news. Journalists have flown out to be in the story back home and many | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
are staying on to see the manager take charge of his first game. They | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
say he is definitely his own man and won't be intimidated by an owner who | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
wants to be involved in team affairs. | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
He is a strong guy and he has his own opinion and he is not moving | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
back. He won't do like the owner says. I think he will handle it but | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
it is a big challenge to the relationship with the owner. | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
With all that has happened, fans are keen for stability. They are hoping | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
the club and its owner will continue to build edges with supporters. | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
Cam hoping the club will have learned lessons from Malky Mackay | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
and will understand they need a proper, adult relationship between | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
the manager and the principal shareholder and the fans are brought | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
into the equation as well, with structured engagement, so they know | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
what we believe and feel. Working together, we can make this club what | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
we wanted to be-a proper premiership team. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
As the new manager left the ground this afternoon, he was mobbed by | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
fans. He knows his task will be focused on survival but the | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
Norwegian will be given Michigan funds to spend on signings. It is a | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
New Year and there is a new face at Cardiff city, determined to preserve | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
their Premier League status. Well, it seems the man pulling the | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
strings behind the scenes is the Chairman Memett Dalman. He's been | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
instrumental in bringing Solskjaer here. Our football correspondent Rob | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
Phillips caught up with him today and asked what assurances the new | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
manager had sought over the role of club owner Vincent Tan. | :05:54. | :06:03. | |
At the end of the day, there isn't that much of an insurance you can | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
give. Is a chemistry issue and we can talk about what happened in the | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
past some other time but it takes, you know, an integrated platform to | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
make a club work. It is difficult to fix it. Vincent Tan played an | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
instrumental role in bringing Ole Gunner Solskjaer on board. He | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
supported me through that period. When I asked him to fight out he did | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
not without his help, I couldn't have done it. I apologise for the | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
noise and agony we have put the funds through. I sincerely apologise | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
for that. I hope you will forgive us for that and put some trust in us to | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
build his club to what I think it can be built into. I think this club | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
has huge potential but it has to start on the pitch. | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
Have you told Ole Gunner Solskjaer that he needs to stay up this | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
season? He knows that. | :07:05. | :07:14. | |
Plenty more football chat. Radio Wales the place for plenty more | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
football chat. Rob will be in the chair talking all things Cardiff | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
City from 7:00pm tonight. Solskjaer's first game in charge | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
will be against Newcastle in the FA Cup on Saturday. His first home game | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
is a week Saturday against West Ham. He will be hoping for a good start | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
to the New Year. Communities along the Welsh coast | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
are being told this evening to prepare for flooding as strong | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
winds, high tides and large waves are forecast tomorrow. It's a | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
combination that could raise sea levels by more than a metre and risk | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
topping coastal defences. The severe flood warning has been issued for | :07:46. | :07:55. | |
Yarmouth? Barmouth on the Gwynedd Coast in the last half-hour. | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
The wooden flood boards in Pendine's sea wall have already taken a | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
battering in the last few days, so this afternoon the council came out | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
to make sure they were strengthened for the next 24 hours. They know it | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
will be bad, but no-one knows how bad. | :08:13. | :08:13. | |
Anybody's guess. They're talking about a surge of nine metres tonight | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
overnight followed by a similar sort of time on the morning, all | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
depending on the wind depends on how much water will be coming over. | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
High tide this morning saw the River Towy in Carmarthen burst its banks, | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
but with the winds picking up it is tomorrow morning's high tide just | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
after 7:00am that is predicted to push river levels the farthest. The | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
council called an emergency meeting this afternoon to prepare for the | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
worst. The start to 2014 follows a far wetter December than normal, | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
with parts of Wales experiencing much more rainfall than usual. | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
Natural Resources Wales say this latest threat extends along the | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
entire Welsh coastline, and could prove the highest tide Wales has | :08:57. | :09:06. | |
experienced since 1997. The high tide and the storm surge | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
will affect the coastline along the whole of Wales but we are concerned | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
from areas from Kendal Bay down think the estuary, which were | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
affected a few weeks ago. We are also worried about Carmarthen Bay, | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
Haverfordwest and areas of Newport. Authorities are warning people to | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
stay away from the coast as the west prepares for gale force winds of up | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
to 80 miles per hour. The storm producing surges at a period of | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
already high tides which could result in treacherous conditions. | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
Councils know this will be the biggest test they have faced for | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
some time. A bit more detail on that severe | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
flood warning just issued for Barmouth is for high tide tomorrow | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
morning at 9am. A large storm surge likely to cause widespread property | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
flooding, according to Natural Resources Wales. The tide Neville is | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
expected to be four metres higher than normal. | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Police have stepped up their search for a missing 18-year-old woman in | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Newport. Nida Ul-Naseer hasn't been seen or contacted any friends or | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
family since the 28th December. Kate Morgan is in our newsroom this | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
evening. Kate, there's growing concern isn't there. | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
That's right. And police and the family of Nida Ul-Naseer faith they | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
are increasingly worried for her welfare. The 18-year-old took out | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
the pins from their home in Newport on Saturday at around age PM. She | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
hasn't been seen since. She is five foot three, described as slim as | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
what -- and was wearing a black T-shirt and jeans. Police say they | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
are concerned about her welfare because without her medication, she | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
will become anaemic. The concern is best sums up by a sign on the front | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
of their home. Today police increased their surge | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
in Newport. At the moment it is focusing around | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
the area of the home, which is in the Docklands area of Newport. This | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
is a large-scale operation with around 40 officers with sniffer | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
dogs. Us today police searched the open spaces surrounding the home. | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
Today they have knocked door-to-door to try and get more information as | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
well as looking on an industrial estate nearby. At the moment there | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
is no evidence to suggest the 18-year-old was taken. These want | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
more information so if anyone knows anything, they want them to get in | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
touch. Getting on the property ladder isn't | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
easy but from today, new financial help is being made available for | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
those looking to buy new-build homes in Wales. In many cases though a | :12:01. | :12:18. | |
hefty deposit is needed to get you on the ladder. Now anyone looking to | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
buy a newly built house can get financial support from the Welsh | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
Government and its Help to Buy Wales scheme. Lee Harris is looking for | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
his first home but was unaware of the offer available... | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
I have just come down. There is quite a lot of new-build houses | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
being built here and I thought I would have a look. I didn't know | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
much about it but I will look into it when I get back. If I can get | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
help, I will look up how to take up the offer. | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
This is how the scheme will work. Someone who wants to buy a new build | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
property, up to the value of ?300,000, will need to have a 5% | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
deposit. They can then apply for a loan of up to 20% of the value of | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
the house. After that they need to get a mortgage to cover the | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
remaining balance. Then there's the UK government's mortgage guarantee | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
scheme - also called Help to Buy - where you can buy a home - new or | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
old - again with just a 5% deposit. We have balanced our scheme here in | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
Wales, looking at the market conditions. We think there are | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
enough checks to make sure that people can afford to get into the | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
market. That is why the scheme is being welcomed by many. | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
The ?170 million project should make banks and building societies more | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
willing to lend. Over time that should boost demand for new build | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
properties and kick start more construction projects. Around 100 | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
homes have been bought on this development in Newport but there are | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
now plans for 4,000 so people can benefit from the scheme. But some | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
parts of Wales will miss out - the largest house builder here Persimmon | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
says it won't develop in the south Wales valleys because of low selling | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
prices. Help to buy the have an impact on | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
what we do in the South Wales valleys but it doesn't change the | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
dynamic and it is still not viable to develop in the valleys. For a | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
variety of reasons. It is a step in the right direction and it is good | :14:15. | :14:15. | |
news. Good news for some - but there are | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
concerns that it could lead to inflated house prices and another | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
unsustainable bubble in the housing market. For buyers, it is a step | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
closer to getting on the property ladder. | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
A group of scientists in Wales are on the brink of being able to | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
regenerate damaged heart tissue. Through experimenting with stem | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
cells at their labs in Cardiff and Swansea universities, the company | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
behind the research hopes to develop new treatments for heart failure | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
over the next few years. One of those involved in the project is | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
former first minister Rhodri Morgan the chance to take a closer look at | :14:46. | :14:59. | |
research work that could help millions of people with heart | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
conditions. This former first Minister is among them. | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
Welcome to Wales Today. The first Minister Rhodri Morgan has undergone | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
an operation on his heart... On the 8th of July 2007, just weeks | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
after a gruelling Assembly election campaign, Rhodri Morgan suffered a | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
heart attack. In your heart of hearts, you know | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
this is that big heart attack. It is scary. Probably worse for the family | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
than yourself. What they are all going through. On top of that there | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
was the political scenario-what will happen if he pops his clogs when | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
this coalition agreement has been signed? The cardiologist said to me, | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
take a complete rest while you get over this. You haven't got anything | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
big on your plate, have you? I said I've got to form a government! | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
Rhodri Morgan made a full recovery and the attack left no permanent | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
damage to his heart. The experience has led him to join the board of a | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
new research team, trying to help find a cure for heart failure. In | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
their labs in Cardiff and Swansea, they are experimenting with stem | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
cells, trying to regenerate damaged heart tissue. | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
We have identified a potent type of stem cell, which is hard specific. | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
What our therapy does is produce more of those so you can have a | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
large number to regenerate the part of the damaged heart. | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
If we can bring this off, it will represent the potential for a cure | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
for people with heart disease. That is a potential advantage but the | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
fact it would have a Welsh label on it would be tremendous for Wales. | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
The initial clinical trials have been successful and they hope to | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
produce treatments over the next five years - good news for an | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
estimated 30 million people suffering from heart failure | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
worldwide. You're watching Wales Today. Stay | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
with us - plenty still ahead. This is coming our way - gale force | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
winds combined with high tides could cause misery for people living on | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
the coast. Benhaz will be here with the forecast. | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
The Welsh Rugby Union is to present the four regions with a new legal | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
contract to govern how the professional game in Wales is run. | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
The regions refused to renew the current deal on New Year's Eve, | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
plunging the sport into crisis. The WRU board has been meeting today for | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
the first time in 2014. Gareth Lewis reports. | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
The union will present the regions with a copy of the proposed new | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
agreement on Monday. The regions will then have a fair and reasonable | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
amount of time to examine it. The hope is for a solution before the | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
end of the month. J's meeting is the latest milestone. On New Year's Eve, | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
the regions turned down an agreement. They want a new European | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
cup, worth an extra ?1 million each to them. They have given the WRU and | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
end of month deadline. I think it's important that we | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
continue under the offices of the washroom union and the proposal we | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
have put forward with the English, they proposed some time ago now. It | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
ensures we play rugby with the Irish and Scottish in a new European | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
competition. It also ensures the funding we receive is higher. | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
Central contracts for star players or setting up brand-new teams are | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
options open to the union but the recent regional solidarity could be | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
tested by an option under consideration. A new deal Casino | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
money given to teams who produce more Wales players and less to those | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
who use fewer. At the moment roughly ?6 million is clicked equally | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
between the regions for international player release. The | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
last time Wales played against Australia in the autumn, the ospreys | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
and Scarlets provided seven each, blues five and the dragon is one of | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
the 23 man squad. Add equal split of money has been a bugbear for some of | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
the regions. Could a cash reward for their efforts was the national side | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
cause one or more to break ranks? The Millennium Stadium is a reminder | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
of previous club versus union bar. The after-effects of this one could | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
be just as long-lasting and as a solution can be found. | :19:33. | :19:42. | |
It's been a day since Romanians and Bulgarians have had the right to | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
work freely in Wales. The fear that thousands were about to flood our | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
borders appears to have been unfounded. But what impact could any | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
rise in the number of migrants have on our schools, hospitals and local | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
services? Jordan Davies has been looking at how we currently cope | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
with migrants - and what impact more may have? | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
Dancing at a primary school and a starring role for Damian from | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
Poland. A quarter of this school don't speak first language English. | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
There are 18 languages spoken in this hall. | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
Jacob came to Newport from Poland a year ago. | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
If I don't know any science, they would help me with science. | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
He is one of 31,000 children in Wales who get help from counsel | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
provided assistance to improve their language skills and demand for their | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
services is expected to grow. There is a growing need. We have a | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
range of people coming from different backgrounds so the service | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
is looking to support those learners as the need increases. | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
At ask market, local is the name of the game. What about Romanian | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
produce? Our people from both countries have the right to live and | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
work here. What do the locals think? | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
If they have jobs to come through I've not got an objection to that | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
but if they are coming over to use our social services, I think that is | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
a very bad idea. EU migrants have to wait three | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
months before they can claim out of work benefits but that doesn't go | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
far enough for one Welsh MP. Houses have to be built, roads have | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
to be built and workplaces and so. I think unfortunately, we live in a | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
small country and we are full at the moment. There is no more room for | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
large numbers of extra people to come in. | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
But how many EU migrants do we have you? Census figures shows Wales has | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
an average of 2% of the UK share with EU migrants making up less than | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
1% of the people living in Torfaen and Neath Port Talbot. The highest | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
is in Cardiff and Wrexham at around 3.5%. Of the 150,000 Romanians and | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
Bulgarians already living in the UK, 4000 work in the NHS. How could more | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
migrants effects the health service in Wales? | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
A lot of the overseas immigration that has come in in the professional | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
sense has been in effect to the NHS. We have relied on overseas trained | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
doctors and nurses. We had recruitment campaigns in Europe and | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
the Philippines. What of housing in Wales? Recent | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
research suggests migrants are less likely to work with Mac live in | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
social housing than people in Britain. The biggest impact is in | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
the private rental sector in inner-city or urban areas. Yet | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
everyone's talents are celebrated, no matter how diverse. Nobody truly | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
knows how many Romanians or Gary and is -- or Bulgarians may choose to | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
come to Wales or if they do, whether they will stay. | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
Campaigners for a new memorial to all those from Wales who took part | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
in the First World War say they're on target for its official unveiling | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
later this year. That event near Flanders will be one of many on the | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
Western Front in Belgium and France - as well as here in Wales - to mark | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
the centenary of the start of the conflict. Here's Roger Pinney. | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
The red Dragon looks at proudly at the Mets would. This is the place | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
they called death Valley. In July 1916, at the height of the Battle of | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
the Somme, the Welsh division fought here and the losses were | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
unthinkable- 4000 men were killed or we did not the slaughter was to burn | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
a place into his three but that was just one battle in a war that was to | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
last for years. Four years which changed Wales culturally, socially | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
but in a material way as well. Look at the names on war memorials in | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
every city, town and village in Wales. These images only hint at the | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
horror. This year 's commemorations here in Wales but also on the | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
battlefields in France and Belgium will aim to do more. Organisers want | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
to honour those who took part and educate today's generation. In | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
Flanders, remembrance is a daily act to those who have no known grave. | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
Not far away a new Welsh memorial is being erected. The war cemeteries | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
stand testament to Welsh casualties in the battle of Passchendaele. | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
Across Wales, thousands have contributed to the memorial appeal | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
and hundreds are expected to attend its official unveiling. | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
Every generation, the nations who took part in the battles worldwide, | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
each has a fitting memorial and gathering place in Flanders, except | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
the Welsh. This is going to be rectified. | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
In Flanders and on the Somme there will be official events through the | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
year but many will make private pilgrimages. For some it will be | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
remembrance of a family member that others will go simply as interested | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
jurists. All will be moved by the sacrifice. People are braced for | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
more bad weather. Behnaz is here with the details. | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
We are in wild weather tonight and tomorrow. There is one severe flood | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
warnings in place at the moment. 34 flood warnings across the rest of | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
way. If that wasn't enough, we have a yellow warning for the wind. | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
Through this evening we have the brains spilling eastwards. It | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
doesn't need much because the ground is already pretty saturated. It will | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
tear through towards midnight and behind it showers followed. | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
Temperatures getting down to five Celsius and the winds pick up into | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
the overnight period. All associated with this low pressure, bringing | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
strong winds. Here is tomorrow morning. The strong south westerly | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
winds with gusts of 70-80 mph. And we have high tides so there is the | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
potential of coastal flooding. This is the time of high water tomorrow. | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
Eight 50 6am in Aberystwyth. -- 8:50 in Aberystwyth. If you are | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
concerned, call the flood line. Tomorrow evening the flood will have | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
cleared and the strong winds will ease into the early hour period. | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
Those shadows could be wintry on high ground. Temperatures getting | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
down to three Celsius so a touch cold than tonight. Saturday morning | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
we get a brief rape from the wind. It will brighten up. Make the most | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
of it if you have to head out and about us by the time we reach | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
Sunday, or in the way of strong winds and wet conditions heading our | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
way. Severe gales for Sunday and a lot of rain. By Sunday, there is | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
certainly the risk of some localised flooding. Over the next few days | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
we've got more gales, further heavy rain and flooding is likely. Pack to | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
you. Some more details for the flood | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
warnings for high tide tomorrow. One severe flood warning in place for | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
Barmouth on the Gwynedd Coast. 37 flood warnings almost all along the | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
coast, with Ely test -- the latest issued for Penarth, one bridge, | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
Barry and Aberthaw. More on our website. We will be back at 6am in | :27:54. | :28:01. | |
breakfast. And I'll be back after the BBC News at 10:00pm. That's | :28:02. | :28:03. | |
Wales Today. From all | :28:04. | :28:04. |