04/03/2014 BBC Wales Today

Good evening. More than 200 jobs are set to be lost in a double jobs

blow. 123 posts are expected to go from the Orb Electrical Steelworks

in Newport. The company blames falling demand for the type of steel

products they make. In Cardiff, 105 jobs could be lost at the Department

for Work and Pensions. Caroline Evans reports. It is a new -- new

board 's oldest and biggest employers but this afternoon the

steelworkers here were told around a quarter of the workforce must go.

Nothing is definitely happened yet but I was meant to go to a meeting,

and I will see what happens. All the contractors will have to go before

the bodies on floor. The company has a long history here and it makes

electrical steel for the energy industry. It blames reduced demand

for products saying that in Europe it is 20% lower than in 2008. At the

same time, imports into Europe from other countries have grown. But

energy prices are also being held up as responsible, and the union here

is calling on the UK government to step in. The UK government need to

start acting in the interest of the steel industry. What do you need

them to do? They have do look at what they can do the companies in

producing cheaper prices for us to survive. The local MP agrees. The

government has done a bit, but more help in terms of energy costs,

because steel producers in the UK are paying 38% more for their

electricity than France, and 57% more in Germany, so it's a big extra

cost that the industry in the UK is paying that other competitors are

not. Councillor Alan Morris told me his father used to work here. He

said the company had been a mainstay of Newport and this is a bitter

blow. Once again it's one step forward, two steps back. We here we

are coming out of the recession but what we see and what we here are two

different things. I feel sorry for our youngsters. Their future is not

as bright as my future was. Just a few years ago there were five or six

steelworks in this very area. Everybody in their area, their

families to work here. There was more bad Jews -- man -- bad news on

jobs. The Department of work and pensions in Cardiff said more jobs

would go, and the Cardiff office will close. There is at least no

talk of closure back in Newport. The company said its decision today

should help secure future production here.

A woman in her 30s has been rescued after falling around 100 metres on

Snowdon. Llanberis Mountain Rescue said it took about five and a half

hours to airlift the woman, who's from the London area, to Ysbyty

Gwynedd. She is believed to have suffered pelvic injuries.

Two dogs have been destroyed after the death of a six-day-old baby girl

from Carmarthenshire last month. Eliza-Mae Mullane, from Pontyberem,

died at her home in New Road. Dyfed Powys police has confirmed two

family dogs, an Alaskan Malamute and a Collie-cross, have been put down.

Forensic tests of the family home have been completed and the

investigation has been passed to the coroner. The number of people coming

to live in Wales from outside the UK has increased by 82% in ten years.

Oxford University analysed population data between 2001 and

2011. It shows that around 5% of the population living here are

foreign-born, although this is a far smaller proportion than in England,

Scotland and Northern Ireland. Merthyr Tydfil saw the second

largest increase in its migrant population in the UK with many of

the people coming from Poland. It is a nice town here. What about

the people and the community? It's all right. It's not bad. I don't

have a problem with people. It's always been a multicultural society,

hasn't it? The Polish people I know are nice. It's all right for them to

have somewhere to go but they are taking our jobs and homes. Next

year, fans from across the world will be visiting Wales and England

for the Rugby World Cup. The Millennium Stadium is hosting eight

matches, but there are fears that some supporters could be forced to

pay over the odds for tickets. A Welsh MP has called for legislation

to limit the re-selling of tickets by touts or on websites. Sachin

Krishnan reports. Wales rugby fans will go into the

World Cup next year optimistic their side can do well, and many will want

to attend the match is being staged across England as well as at the

millennium Stadium. -- that are being staged. In the past, this was

the only way of getting hold of tickets for solar games, touts

selling them on the street corner. Now the marketplace has moved online

with websites specialising in reselling. Legislation before the

Olympics cracks down on profits made from the games, and Nick Smith wants

the 2015 World Cup. Unfortunately, all too often, the true fans don't

stand a chance. Touts have evoked -- evolve from blokes in sheepskins

jackets outside stadiums, now they are a sophisticated group,

harvesting thousands of tickets just seconds after they go on sale. The

law is limited in preventing tickets from being sold at a higher price,

and just a quick search online and you can see just how much resellers

can command. Next year's World Cup match between Wales and England see

prices ranging from ?75 up to ?315 for adults. But on one of the bigger

websites, the same tickets this afternoon were on resale from ?545,

to more than ?2000. The company told me that few of those high-priced

tickets are sold, but limiting prices is not a solution. The

problem with price caps is that people will revert to using the

black market, selling these tickets outside the stadiums and on

classified adverts where no customer protection exists. We exist to

provide that customer protection. What we have found is that when you

make things more difficult for people to resell on the secure

marketplaces, they revert to using the un-secure places like stadiums

and car parks. But one former manager says the World Cup should be

a reselling and tout free event. We get visitors from all around the

world to England and Wales, and when they get here, and are faced with

the situation where they are asked to pay ridiculous prices. It's not

right in principle. A lack of parliamentary time means Nick

Smith's bill has little chance of becoming law but he hopes by raising

the issue that changes will be made so fans are not priced out of the

World Cup. Football, and Swansea City skipper

Ashley Williams is fit to captain Wales against Iceland, at the

Cardiff City Stadium tomorrow after recovering from a stomach bug that's

hit the Swansea squad. Gareth Bale will also play, but midfielder Joe

Ledley is missing with a hip problem.

In other football news, Newport County drew 0-0 with Fleetwood Town

in their League Two match at Rodney Parade tonight. Let's get the

weather forecast for Wales. Here's Sue Charles.

Good evening. We are into March and meteorological spring, the weather

feels more like spring. Tomorrow is mostly dry with some bright spells.

Tonight is largely dry, clearing skies overnight allowing frost to

form inland. Icy stretches and temperatures hovering around

freezing along the marches, so a cold start and a few early mist and

fog patches. Some sunshine developing further east, but across

the UK, North West and South East split. A friend brings patchy rain

across Northern Ireland and Scotland, but high pressure in the

south-east allows largely fine unsettled weather -- a friend

brings. Milder conditions at 13 Celsius in London. The cloud will

push on across Wales through the afternoon, and it could be thick

enough to produce the odd spot of drizzle. Otherwise, dry and slightly

milder with top temperatures between eight and 10 Celsius. Late Wednesday

into Thursday, the frontal wave in the North West could bring thick

clouds, but high-pressure builds further south, trying to keep things

more settled, so Thursdays cloudier, and there is some light rain,

especially in the north and west. A bit drier with some brightness

further east, and the winds pick up lightly but draw in warmer

south-westerly air and temperatures are back in double figures, between

ten and 13 Celsius. On Friday, the low pressure system could bring some

rain later on, especially further west, but as it clears north,

high-pressure dominates from the south-east and it looks like this

whirl will go through, and keep it fine unsettled. The rest of the

week, often cloudy, from brightness, light rain on Thursday

and Friday and it looks like the more springlike weather should last

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