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California at the of 85. That is all from us. There is a | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
first Good evening. | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
Coastal communities in Wales are being warned they could face being | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
abandoned in future. Some councils say rising sea levels mean they're | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
too expensive to defend long term. The Minister for Natural Resources, | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Alun Davies says retreating is not part of his approach. But some | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
councils say plans are already in place. Tim Rogers reports. | :00:40. | :00:56. | |
While we storms rage, the question facing many communities is how are | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
we going to defend them in future? As the cost goes up, the reality for | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
small towns is they will have to abandon. Plans adopted widely by the | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
council are those of managed retreat. The manager of the main | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
tourist attraction, the fair born railway says the future looks | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
bleak. Any policy that declares there is a cut-off point is | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
inevitably going to make house values in the area drop. Who would | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
buy a place in an area that won't be there in 20 years time? There are 50 | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
communities that have been earmarked for some kind of retreat from the | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
sea. The leader of the council in Gwynedd says there is not the money | :01:41. | :01:54. | |
to defend every community. The plan is trying to sustain the plan in the | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
long-term, but we will have to look at the future of that community. As | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
the weather deteriorates, short-term plans have been adopted. The | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
Minister for Natural Resources, Aled Davies, suggests there is a | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
difference of opinion between the government and local authorities. | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Managed retreat is not part of our policy. We are looking at managing | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
defences. You cannot do everything everywhere and you cannot fund | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
everything everywhere. The expert advice is that sea levels will | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
continue to rise and doing nothing is not an option. But as the weather | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
continues to confound predictions, the question of how will vulnerable | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
communities be defended in the future will become more urgent. | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
More on that story in Week In Week Out tonight after this bulletin. | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
And there are more bad weather warnings tonight - more snow and | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
rain are expected to fall across Wales in the next few hours. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Conditions on some roads have been described as treacherous and | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
flooding has hit some communities. In the hills, snow closed some | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
roads. These pictures show conditions near Aberystwyth where a | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
lorry jackknifed locking the road. The knock on effect of flooding in | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
England added to local disruption on trains. Some services were | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
cancelled. No football today at Wrexham, but they were out | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
inspecting the pitch, or what could be seen of it. Newport County also | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
have their sixth home match in succession called off. You OK? This | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
weather has been full of surprises and in Monmouth, one of our viewers | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
found this seal by the rowing club. While people pondered how it came to | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
be there, the council has been dealing with the floodwaters near | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
the leisure centre and Monmouth comprehension school. Tomorrow we | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
are only allowing the older students into school. Wherever possible we | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
are clearing gullies. Levels are so high now, it is difficult for the | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
water to get away. In the next 24 hours we are due for more heavy | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
rain, coastal gales and snow. We are told to be ready for disruption to | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
transport and possibly power supplies. | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
And Derek will have a full forecast in a few minutes. | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
Now the rest of the day's news. A vote to ban the smacking of children | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
could be held before the next Assembly elections after Welsh | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
Government ministers promised the issue would be considered as part of | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
future legislation. The pledge came after at least two Labour AMs | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
threatened to rebel and vote for a Plaid Cymru amendment in favour of a | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
ban. The family of a man who's death is | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
thought to be linked to the online drinking game NekNominate say | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
they're heartbroken. Stephen Brookes from Cardiff died on Sunday. South | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
Wales Police are still investigating a possible link between the game and | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
his death. There hasn't been too much to cheer | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
about for Welsh schools recently with the latest Chief Inspector's | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
reports and PISA's international rankings. But Ceredigion can allow | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
itself a pat on the back .The school's inspectorate Estyn says | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
it's the only council to be worthy of its highest rating. Here's our | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
education correspondent, Arwyn Jones. The last council to be | :05:25. | :05:36. | |
inspected so they the best till last. What is Ceredigion's secret? | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
This set of figures holds part of the secret, and they have a tracking | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
system so they know what is going on in schools. Pupils sit tests by the | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
council every year and then the results are pored over so the | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
council can address any problems. When we look at individual schools, | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
we can look at individual pupils and asked that progress. Then we can see | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
what has gone wrong in relation to the data. Other councils have been | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
along to see if they can use this tracking system and it is here in | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
the county's schools where they are seeing the results. The gap between | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
boys and girls is narrowing, attendance levels is among the best | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
in Wales and high standards means Ceredigion is in the highest | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
authority across the board. But while Ceredigion has excelled, other | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
councils don't do so well. A few are good, most are average and six are | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
in special Moses because of poor standards. The Welsh government has | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
put some education services in the hands of education consortia, the | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
idea being that larger organisations can offer more support. If we don't | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
have that local contact between the improvement team and the local | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
schemes so they know each other well and can work together well, you will | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
not get that improvement the Minister looking for. Other councils | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
are told to follow Ceredigion's lead. With the challenges facing our | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
schools, maybe this county holds the solution. | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
Football, and Cardiff City could only manage a 0-0 draw with Aston | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
Villa tonight. Both sides had chances with Cardiff's goal keeper | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
David Marshall making a great save late in the second half. The | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
Bluebirds were without Craig Bellamy - he's serving a three-match ban | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
after accepting a Football Association's violent conduct charge | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
following an incident at the Liberty stadium last Saturday. Both Newport | :07:31. | :07:41. | |
and Wrexham's games were called off. If you don't like the sound of more | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
bad weather, look away now. More severe weather on the way in | :07:44. | :07:53. | |
the next 24 hours. More snow for some of us, heavy rain and severe | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
gales. We have to be prepared tomorrow for more travel disruption | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
and flooding. Met Office warnings are in force, including an amber | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
wind warning for severe gales for the north and west of the country. | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
Damaging gusts tomorrow up to 60 to 80 mph, possibly 90 mph on exposed | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
coasts and hills and that is strong enough to bring down trees and | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
damaged power lines as well. More showers will spread across the | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
country overnight. They will be wintry in nature, rail, hailstones | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
and sleet and snow for some. With temperatures close to freezing, | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
watch out for icy patches. Tomorrow morning, we have another deep area | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
of low pressure, tracking across Ireland towards Scotland. The next | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
Atlantic storm. Tomorrow morning it may start dry but it won't last and | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
rain will spread across the whole country. Snow for a time in mid | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
Wales and the North. Wind increasing as well. Across the rest of the UK, | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
heavy rain and gales will move north eastwards and in Scotland, blizzards | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
on the mountains. Rain eventually clearing to showers in the south | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
later on. Storm force around the Irish Sea. At 3pm in Wales tomorrow | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
we're looking at showers. The wind is a big feature, even severe gales, | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
storm force winds in the north-west and around Cardigan Bay. Could cause | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
some damage. Severe gales in the north tomorrow evening will these, | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
turning dry as well but a few wintry showers overnight. Into Thursday, | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
less windy and brighter. There will be some sunshine but further | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
showers, wintry on higher ground. Friday may start dry but more rain | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
will spread up from the south. No end in sight as yet. | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
Stay tuned to lose all day tomorrow, we will keep you updated on the | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
severe weather disruption on TV, radio and online. Thank you for | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
watching. Good | :10:02. | :10:02. |