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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
They're top of the class, but teachers elsewhere are simply not up | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
to standard in the latest inspectors report. | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
No doubt there are people who are unsuited to teaching who would be | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
better doing other things but it is not my job to examine the | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
professionalism of each individual teacher. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
Tonight, the chief inspector of schools tells us why her report | :00:33. | :00:33. | |
makes such uncomfortable reading. Our other headlines tonight. | :00:34. | :00:50. | |
How does this place work? The answer from the politicians who are | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
employed here is, not very well. Our economy is back in business - | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
manufacturers like this are continuing to grow, but are we all | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
feeling the gains? Men at work, but why has it taken BT | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
more than a month to get customers back online. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
And Sam Warburton is on the bench as Wales start their defence of the Six | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
Nations against Italy. Good evening. The quality of | :01:15. | :01:25. | |
teaching in Wales needs to improve if education standards are to have | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
any chance of getting better. That's the message from the schools | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
watchdog Estyn in its annual report. According to inspectors, the number | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
of secondary schools that are unsatisfactory has increased from | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
one in seven to one in four. There will also be follow-up visits in | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
more than two-thirds of schools. Standards in primary schools were | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
similar to last year, with seven in ten classified as good. The Welsh | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
Government acknowledged there are issues that need to be resolved. | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Here's our education correspondent Arwyn Jones. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
BBC Three's hit programme, Young Tough Teachers, follows a group of | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
graduates working for the Teach First charity. They pick the | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
brightest students from the best universities and send them to work | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
in challenging schools. They've just started working in Wales. But | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
today's Estyn report raises concerns about our current crop of teachers. | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
The most important resource in any educational system is the quality of | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
teachers and the quality of teaching in school. Recent data showed that | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
over half our teachers qualified with a 2:1 degree or higher. So what | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
type of salary can they expect? For a newly qualified teacher, it's | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
around ?21,000, going up to ?31,000 after six years. Heads generally | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
start off at around ?70,000 a year and can earn over ?100,000. Unions | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
argue that teachers are worth every penny. What's most needed is time to | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
train and develop throughout their careers. We need to make sure that | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
access to professional development is easily and readily available, it | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
is high-quality, funded and resource. Where we have excellent | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
Cheech 's, who won numerous in Wales, need to make sure they have | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
the opportunity share best practice. At Cwm Tawe Secondary School, they | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
use data on every pupil to set very ambitious targets. As a result, they | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
believe underachievement is being tackled. It is very important to | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
challenge pupils but it is equally important to support them. Another | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
issue raised in the report is how to tackle poverty. At Mount Stuart | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
Primary School in Cardiff Bay, nine out of ten pupils don't have English | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
or Welsh as a first language. A third are from poor backgrounds. But | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
they overcome those challenges by getting parents into the school for | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
one day a week. Parents now expect to come in and they said that the | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
tables and they will do the activities. The parents are really | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
interested. Today's report caps what has been a disappointing 12 months | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
for education in Wales. GCSE results showed signs of improvement, but A | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
Levels and the PISA tests, which chart Wales' progress against other | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
countries, were a real disappointment. Policies that are | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
just beginning to bite that will make a difference, a new testing | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
regime around literacy and numerous sea, a new support network around | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
teachers and there will be more to come. But this isn't enough for the | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
opposition parties, who say the government should apologise for | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
mismanaging the education sector in Wales. Yet again, we're faced with | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
another worrying report on the state of education. The priority would | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
seem to be how to help teachers across Wales. | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
Let's pick up on that with the chief inspector of schools Ann Keane. We | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
seem to have spent years reporting on schools' poor performance and | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
poor teachers and head teachers are at the heart of our problem aren't | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
they? You said that last year. Nothing much has changed much. We | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
are not seeing the improvements we need to see in Wales if we are to | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
make our children truly competitive in terms of their results. We are | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
not seeing those improvements yet. Why? It is true that there are | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
initiatives that the Welsh government has introduced and these | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
initiatives are being rolled out currently. The literacy and numerous | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
eve framework is one of them. And the annual test. We will not see the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
benefit of those until we have another set in the summer which | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
means schools can use the outcome to look up progress. The Education | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
Minister also said that some teachers should not be in the | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
profession. Parents watching this will wonder why more is not done to | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
remove poor performing teachers and headteachers. That is a matter for | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
the schools and the school governors, not for us as an | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
inspector, to engage with that process. But it is at the heart of | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
the problem, is it not? For teaching generally is part of the problem and | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
we need to engage teachers and build capacity in the workforce in order | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
to be able to address some of the challenges we face in Wales. Do you | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
get depressed writing a report that says, could do better, year after | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
year? What raises my spirits is going to schools like Mount Stuart | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
school where they work against the odds to meet obstacles like the very | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
high rate of free school meals and indeed the fact that most of the | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
children have English as an additional language. | :06:56. | :07:05. | |
A survey by the Electoral Reform Society has found that many AMs | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
believe there should be a comprehensive review of the way the | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
National Assembly is run. In particular, they felt that full | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
Assembly sessions were not used effectively. Here's our Political | :07:15. | :07:15. | |
Editor Nick Servini. It is a wet Tuesday afternoon in | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
Cardiff Bay, the busiest day of the week at the assembly, so it is a | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
really good time to come to try to find out what our Assembly Members | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
are so unhappy about if the results of this survey are correct. | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
Just over half of the 60 Assembly Members answered questions from the | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
Electoral Reform Society. Four out of five full in full assembly | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
sessions like these was not used effectively and efficiently. Below | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
me, the first Minister is being questioned by opposition party | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
leaders and a variety of Assembly Members are given the chance to ask | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
questions as well. One of the concerns is that on occasions, the | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
members don't feel they have enough time to properly scrutinise the | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Welsh government. I am going to speak to a few of them. One of the | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
backbenchers who had the chance to question the first Minister today | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
was the Conservative, Janet Saunders. How did it go? They were | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
quite good answers for the first time in a long time. I think it is | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
disappointing at times. There is not that much time, three quarters of an | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
hour, for us to ask questions. The responses, I have had lots of | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
representation across Wales were the responses are poor. One man who has | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
experience of Westminster as a Plaid Cymru MP and Cardiff Bay as an | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
Assembly Member is Simon Thomas. I don't think the procedure is the | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
main problem, I think it is a problem of too little real energetic | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
debate, real challenge. It is a political problem, not a procedural | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
problem, and I want to see us getting the full powers and really | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
becoming, acting and talking like a parliament. Once we believe in that, | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
we will all improve. The Presiding Officer says she has brought in | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
changes to give more opportunities to backbenchers to scrutinise the | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
government. She says other attempts to improve accountability have been | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
blocked by Assembly Members. But some say there is still plenty that | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
can be done. Quite often this can feel like Groundhog Day. Ministers | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
avoid answering questions, opposition parties what often tabled | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
the same debates, week in week out. Backbenchers don't have enough time | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
to prepare. The Electoral Reform Society which put together this | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
survey says there is another answer as well as changing the procedure, | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
which is to increase the number of Assembly Members from 60 or 100. But | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
that will be a tough sell with the public. | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Two hired killers who murdered a teenage boy when they went to the | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
wrong house have launched an appeal against their sentences. 17-year-old | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Aamir Siddiqi from Cardiff was stabbed to death on his doorstep in | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
front of his parents, who were also injured in the attack. Ben Hope, who | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
is 40, and Jason Richards, who is 39, were convicted last year and | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
handed life sentences with a minimum of 40 years. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
A farmer's plan to build a 1,000-cow dairy has been put on hold after an | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
animal welfare group intervened. The World Society for the Protection of | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
Animals has been granted a High Court judicial review, where the | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
Welsh Government's decision to allow the dairy at Leighton, near | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Welshpool, will be assessed. It could be 12 months before the review | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
takes place. A fire that killed a teenage girl | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
while she was house-sitting for her grandparents may have been caused by | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
an electric heater, an inquest has heard. 18-year-old Emily Harris died | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
in the house in Aberdare last October. Investigators believe | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
clothing was left too close to the heater and may have smouldered for | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
hours. So the UK economy grew throughout | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
last year, according to the latest figures. And manufacturing and | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
tourism, both important for the Welsh economy, are doing well. Our | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
economics correspondent Sarah Dickins is at a manufacturing | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
company in Merthyr Tydfil. What is really interesting and quite | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
exciting for people that enjoy some of these numbers is, this is the | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
first time since 2007 that we have had a whole year where we have seen | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
some growth. Manufacturing, like this plant, that is very much at the | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
heart of that growth. Really interesting for Wales because we | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
have more manufacturing than the UK as an average and those sectors are | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
growing. Let's talk to the boss of this company. This welding that is | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
taking place behind this is directly for London. Is it London that is | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
fuelling your growth? There is no doubt there is some pick-up locally | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
but the excess we have tapped into London which makes the difference. | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
And how busy I knew? We are in stream the busy. The lads are | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
working overtime at the moment. And that demand is coming largely from | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
the south-east and London? The overflow, we still have our base | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
products for supermarkets and everything else locally, but in | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
general the extra work is coming from the south-east. One of the big | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
questions is whether this growth is sustainable. With this also is a | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
banking professor from Cardiff University. How much do you think | :13:01. | :13:11. | |
this growth is sustainable? This growth will continue as long as | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
employment grows because what is happening is that GDP is growing and | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
so is employment. The net effect is that we are not actually better off. | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
2013 is no better off than 2012 because GDP per person has remained | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
the same. In that, there will be pockets of excellence with some | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
genuine growth but other areas are contracting. Where does that leave | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
us in Wales? Is this good news? I am very disappointed with the growth | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
results. What we are seeing here is that we have reached capacity and | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
the government has to do allow industry to grow. There will be | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
pockets of excellence where industries are tied to the Expo | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
centre and that will be able to improve but without investment there | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
is not going to be any growth. Thank you both very much. | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
Much more to come before seven o'clock. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
Cut off since Christmas - why has it taken BT more than a month to get | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
customers back on line? And before he was Cardiff manager, | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
they used to call him the baby faced assassin. Can he execute a win at | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
his old stomping ground? The Leader of the Welsh Liberal | :14:29. | :14:38. | |
Democrats, Kirsty Williams, has defended the action taken by the | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
party following allegations about one of their Asembly Members. | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
William Powell was given a formal written warning about his behaviour | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
towards a young activist, who alleges he gave her and two other | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
women alcohol, touched her leg and put his hands round their waists in | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
2011. Mr Powell apologised unreservedly. Let's talk to Vaughan | :14:59. | :15:08. | |
Roderick. Today was the first time Kirsty Williams has spoken publicly | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
about these events. What did she have to say? This was the first time | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
Kirsty Williams had faced the press since the information about the case | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
of William Powell broke over the weekend. She answered questions, as | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
many questions as the press wanted to ask, and she said she realised | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
these accusations had to be taken seriously, they could not just be | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
ignored. Technically, we did not have to do anything at all. I can do | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
with believe that was not an appropriate way to proceed. Neither | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
did we feel it was appropriate just to have a quick tour member kind of | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
chat or a quiet word in the year of the individual. We felt it was | :15:57. | :16:05. | |
appropriate to take forward the process as we have outlined in the | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
statement and to issue that written warning. Where does that leave | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
William Powell? In one sense, it leaves him exactly where he was | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
before. He was in work in the assembly today, taking part in | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
activities in the chamber. The only thing that has happened is that this | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
has become public. But when I asked Kirsty Williams today, digits the | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
Liberal Democrats to take this matter into account, whether he | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
would stand at the next assembly elections, she refused to say one | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
way or the other. That does not strike me as being an ringing | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
endorsement of William Powell when it comes to standing in the next | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
assembly elections in two years time. | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
A man accused of stabbing a woman more than 40 times at her home in | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
Pembrokeshire has repeatedly denied murder. Joanna Hall died three weeks | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
after an incident in her Tenby home last March. 30-year-old Steven | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
Williams, who's a self confessed alcoholic, told Swansea Crown Court | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
he left the flat to buy alcohol and returned to find Ms Hall bleeding | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
from stab wounds. A petition signed by 11,000 people | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
to keep inpatient care at Cardigan Hospital has been delivered to AMs | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
in the Senedd. In December, it was announced the hospital would only | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
remain open to outpatients. Hywel Dda Health Board said inpatient beds | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
would instead be provided by nursing homes. | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
Tributes have been paid to the poet and lecturer Nigel Jenkins, who's | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
died. He's known for co-editing The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
and for his writing, inspired by Gower and Swansea. He won the Welsh | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
Book of the Year Award in 1996 and was director of Swansea University's | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
creative writing programme. It's only a few miles outside | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
Carmarthen, but the village of Llanllawddog is cut off from the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
outside world. Damage to phone lines before Christmas mean that some | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
households have not had any phone or internet services for more than a | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
month. BT says it hopes to have the problem fixed by the end of this | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
week. Abigail Neal reports. It's only a few miles outside | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
Carmarthen, but you don't get much more wild than this. And now the | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
sense of isolation is complete, with all means of communication down. | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
Jenny Hare is a writer and painter and the lack of broadband is | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
affecting her work. I sell my paintings on eBay and on the | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
Internet. Of course, you know your customers want to be in contact with | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
you. They've got questions or need to know when something's arriving | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
and I need to keep checking my listings. I can't do any of that | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
without the Internet. 26 homes across the valley were affected. | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
Some have been cut off since before Christmas. BT says initially the | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
phone cables were damaged by bad weather, then a lightning strike | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
caused further damage. Frustrated by the lack of progress, posters began | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
appearing up on phone lines and they appear to have done the trick. | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
Today, engineers were out in force replacing 1.5 kilometres of overhead | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
cable. Some customers have now been re-connected. Jenny Hare is one of | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
16 homes still cut off and she's drawing on her work as self-help | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
writer to remain calm. Well, the last book I delivered was on | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
forgiveness so I'm trying to remember what I wrote and be | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
forgiving about it. We are very, very dependent on BT, especially | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
because we haven't got a mobile signal here. BT say this is proving | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
a massive and complex job, but hope to get everyone back in touch by the | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
end of the week. Sport now, and Warren Gatland has | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
picked his first team for this year's Six Nations. Ashleigh's got | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
the details. Thanks, Jamie. Wales' head coach | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
says it was one of the hardest selections he's had to make. Regular | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
skipper Sam Warburton is only on the bench for Saturday's opener against | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
Italy, despite being passed fit. The captain's arm-band passes to Alun | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
Wyn Jones, with Rhys Priestland picked at fly-half. | :20:07. | :20:16. | |
As the Lions tour ended, so the Six Nations begins, with Alun Wyn Jones, | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
Warren Gatland's chosen man to lead his troops. Sam Warburton is fit | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
after testing his injured shoulder in full contact training but he will | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
take a back-seat against Italy on the replacements bench, having not | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
played for two months. He was desperate to be involved and we are | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
very lucky Indians of the quality we have at number seven. We just felt | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
we would give Justin the opportunity to start. It is a team full of | :20:44. | :20:55. | |
experience. Paul James plays up ruck with Gethin Jenkins being given an | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
extra week to build up his troubled me. Luke Charteris benefits from Ian | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
Evans's suspension. It is still possible that Sam Warburton could | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
start the match on Saturday. Flanker Dan Lydiate is not here after | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
dropping everything to fly to Paris where his fiancee has gone into | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
labour. The teams are hoping for good news on all fronts but nobody | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
knows when he will be back. That's the type this call was at fly half | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
way Rhys Priestland gets the nod ahead of Dan Biggar. Jamie Roberts | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
is back after missing the autumn series. And there is firepower out | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
wide with Leigh Halfpenny to get the goals. It is an important | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
opportunity for Rhys Priestland. He is one of the players the WRU still | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
want to sign on a central contract. It does worry you what is going to | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
happen in the future and I am sure it is not just me that feels like | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
that. There are things frustratingly and it is not the sort of person I | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
am. The players who have signed contracts feel the weight of their | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
shoulders. The players will be trying to put the off field and | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
syringes to one side for a few weeks now. That is easier said than done. | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
But at least they can unite around a shared goal. Being the first team to | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
win three back-to-back Six Nations titles. A win against Italy would | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
help. So the uncertainty continues for | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
many players. Tonight, the Chief Executive of the WRU, Roger Lewis, | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
is meeting Welsh MPs at Westminster to discuss the ongoing row with the | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
regions. Arriving at the meeting, Mr Lewis said he would brief MPs and | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
hoped a solution could be found. The regions have yet to sign a new | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
agreement with the WRU because of a dispute over the way the game is | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
funded. Cardiff City manager Ole Gunnar | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
Solskjaer returns to Old Trafford tonight looking for his first | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
Premier League win since taking over as manager. The Norwegian is still | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
idolised at Old Trafford, but there will be no sentiment, with Cardiff | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
rooted at the bottom of the table. While Swansea City face relegation | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
rivals Fulham. Here's Matt Murray. He enjoyed 11 seasons as a player | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
with Manchester United, nicknamed the baby face assassin. He'll be | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
showing his maturity tonight as he returns to his old club as a Premier | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
League manager. Ole Gunner Solskjaer scored the winning goal in the 1999 | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
Champions League final. But with Cardiff bottom of the table, he will | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
not be sentimental about tonight's match as he's looks for his first | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
win in the Premier League and a much needed three points. Of course the | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
fear factor is there. You are going to the biggest club in the world. I | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
have been part of many defeats at home so that is not just suddenly | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
now, that has been all over the history. I remember many bad defeats | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
when you go home and react to and that is Manchester United. They | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
always bounce back. Cardiff City have also completed the signing of | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
striker Kenwyne Jones from Stoke City, with Peter Odemwingie going to | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
the Potteries. While Swansea have new signing, striker David Ngog, | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
available after his arrival from Bolton. They've also completed on | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
Adam King from Hearts today. Tonight's match comes in a crucial | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
month of fixtures for the club, who are just above the relegation zone. | :24:08. | :24:17. | |
In this moment, we are all in there. Just six points between 11 teams. | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
And because it is direct opponent every time, or five in the next six | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
games, that means every game is a six pointer. Newport County's match | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
is postponed against Plymouth because of a waterlogged pitch, | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
while Wrexham, who are currently 13th in the Conference, take on | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
Tamworth. Staying with football, the national | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
side will play the Netherlands in a friendly in Amsterdam on June | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
fourth. Chris Coleman's team will be up against the Dutch days before | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
they start their World Cup campaign. Let's get the weather forecast with | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
Derek. Some dry weather today, but plenty | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
more rain and showers as well. The rain and showers circulating around. | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
Low pressure centred over Anglesey and Gwynedd. 10mm to 20mm of rain in | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
places falling on already saturated ground. There's more rain and | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
showers to come in the next 24 hours. A little sleet and snow as | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
well, mainly on higher ground, but nothing major. Ice the main hazard | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
by Thursday because it is going to turn colder. Tonight, more rain and | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
showers at times. Snow on the mountains. Some dry weather as well. | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
Temperatures staying above freezing with light to moderate winds. Here's | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
the picture for eight in the morning. Plenty of cloud. Further | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
rain and showers across the country. Sleet in places and snow on higher | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
ground. Feeling colder with an easterly breeze. During the day and | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
into the afternoon, most of the rain in the east, with sleet in places. A | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
little snow on the hills of Powys, the Brecon Beacons and Black | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
Mountains. However, parts of the west should become dry and a bit | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
brighter. Turning colder tomorrow with an easterly breeze. | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
Temperatures a little lower than today. In Swansea tomorrow, a few | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
showers in the morning. Becoming dry in the afternoon with a high of | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
seven in Gorseinon. In Brecknockshire, cloudy and cold with | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
outbreaks of rain. Snow on Pen y Fan. Tomorrow night, rain, sleet and | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
snow in Powys and the south will gradually clear. And with | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
temperatures falling close to freezing or below, there is a | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
warning of ice. Thursday will be a cold day but much drier. Bright in | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
places. Sunshine in parts of Gwynedd and Ceredigion. Thursday will be the | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
coldest day of the winter so far, but it's all change again on Friday. | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
Another spell of wet and windy weather on the way. Heavy rain and a | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
risk of localised flooding. The rain should clear before evening. The | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
weekend, sunshine and blustery showers. Some of the showers wintry. | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
Also high spring tides this weekend. A storm surge like we had earlier in | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
the month is not expected but flood alerts may be issued for parts of | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
the south and west coast. The headlines from the BBC. The | :27:08. | :27:20. | |
schools watchdog Estyn says the quality of teaching in Wales needs | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
to improve if education standards are to have any chance of getting | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
better. And the UK economy has grown at its fastest rate since 2007, | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
growing in every quarter of last year. | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
We'll have an update for you here at 8.00pm and after the BBC News at | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
10.00pm. That's Wales Today. Thank you for watching. From all of us on | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
the programme, good evening. | :27:43. | :27:44. |