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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The Welsh NHS and Labour's management of it provokes a furious | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
row. First Minister Carwyn Jones criticises the Labour MP Ann Clwyd | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
over her attacks on the health service. She has produced nothing | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
but anonymous comments. We don't know where they are from. We don't | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
know whether they are correct or not. They can't be investigated. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
As the spotlight falls again on Labour and its management of the | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
NHS, a damning new report says the health watchdog isn't up to the job. | :00:32. | :00:45. | |
Our other headlines tonight. Paying for railway electrification - | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
the head on collision between Wales and Westminster on who's picking up | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
the bill. A massive increase in dog attacks | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
over the last ten years. Six months before their referendum, | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
I've been to Scotland to find out why independence is on the agenda | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
there but not here. And back at work - Newport's former | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Rowecord steel site lands 120 new jobs. | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
Good evening. The Welsh NHS and Labour's management of it provoked a | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
furious row today. The First Minister unleashed a scathing attack | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
on an MP from his own party after her criticisms of the state of the | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
health service. Carwyn Jones said Ann Clwyd, the MP for the Cynon | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
Valley, had produced no evidence and no facts. Tonight, Ms Clwyd said she | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
would rather the Assembly concentrate on resolving the | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
problems in the NHS than attacking her personally. James Williams | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
reports. She is on a mission to improve the | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
NHS. It all started after she raised concerns about the treatment her | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
late husband received in the University Hospital of Wales in | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
Cardiff where she says he was treated like a battery hen. There | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
are increasing complaints about nurses who failed to show care and | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
compassion. It led her to carry out a review of NHS complaints in | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
England on David Cameron's request but she found hundreds of families | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
from Wales also got in touch. She has spoken about her concerns both | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
publicly and privately to Welsh Labour colleagues in private -- | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
Cardiff Bay. She says she expressed them in a letter to Carwyn Jones but | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
that they remain unanswered. Yesterday she took to an article in | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
The Times newspaper and said the Welsh NHS is facing a crisis. She | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
said the waiting times RA warning sign of the problems within the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
Welsh NHS. It was a question put to the first Minister this afternoon. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
Why will you not agree to meet with myself, meet with Ann Clwyd and | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
actually get to the bottom of the serious concerns which you clearly | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
dismiss, which is based on evidence and fact. You are in denial and it | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
is the patients and clinicians of Wales that are suffering. Ann Clwyd | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
has produced no evidence and no facts. I have asked her, the | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
Minister for health has asked her. She has provided nothing but | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
anonymous comments. We don't know whether they are correct, they can't | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
be investigated. We have asked her to produce the evidence to back up | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
her claims. I have done it to in prison and in writing, she has not | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
done it. Bush on the matter, his criticism turned personal. I am | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
afraid she has based her allegations on the way her husband was treated. | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
She has refused for the report to be made public. It is important for | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
people who make a judgement on what happened for that to be made public | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
but that is a matter for others. Damning stuff from the Welsh Labour | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
leader, what comfortable batting away Conservative criticism than | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
more from his own side. James is at the Senedd. What has Ann | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
Clwyd had to say in response? We have received a statement from Ann | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
Clwyd in which she says she has given considerable information to | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
the first Minister and the Health Minister, that she has met with both | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
of them, Carwyn Jones and Mark Drakeford, and that she has given a | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
summary of the responses she received to the enquiry into the | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
English NHS and into the Welsh NHS. She says, I am upset by the | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
irrelevant and casual reference to my husband's case in political and | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
professional circles. My complaint is still underway and has not yet | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
been resolved. She says, my husband's case on its own is far | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
less important than the hundreds of letters she has received. She says | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
she would rather the assembly concentrate on solving the current | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
crisis in the NHS than attacking her. Explosive stuff from Ann Clwyd | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
in response. To attack so strongly and boys separately and personally a | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
colleague in the Welsh Labour Party, a stall ward of Welsh Labour, has | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
raised more than a few eyebrows in Cardiff Bay. One of the criticisms | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
has been about the health watchdog and you have found out that they are | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
about to be criticised by the assembly. The health watchdog is the | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
body tasked with ensuring the safety and quality of the NHS. The Health | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
and Social Care Committee has undertaken a review of its work and | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
a report is going to be released on Friday and ended the committee says | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
it did not receive the it wanted to hear and that it has undermined its | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
ability to establish itself as an authoritative regulator. Damning | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
stuff to come on Friday following today's events. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
In the last four days, South Wales Fire Service say they've dealt with | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
115 fires and all but three were arson. They say lives are being put | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
at risk and resources wasted. The latest fire, which stretched six | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
miles near Merthyr Tydfil, has now burnt out. More than 20 firefighters | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
dealing with that fire had to withdraw to safety because of the | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
risk to their lives. Caroline Evans reports. | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
Six miles wide, this fire was so fierce, fire crews had to retreat | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
last night, fearing for their safety and leaving the fire to burn itself | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
out. Today, we went back with them to see the damage ourselves. You can | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
see the extent of the fire and the area it covered is quite large. One | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
of the biggest problems we had was access to the area. While our | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
resources are here, they can't be elsewhere. Over the weekend, fire | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
crews were called to 69 grass fires across South Wales which was started | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
deliberately. 38 of those were on Sunday alone and yesterday they were | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
another 32. Fanned by the wind, the fire spread quickly. Further down | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
the mountain, these houses were under a cloud of smoke as the -- | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
flames at away at the hillside behind. It could have come down, | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
burnt the field, coming to the back of the garden. It could have been | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
worse than what it was. Every year we get a fire down by there. | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
Shockingly, the majority of these fires could be avoided. This month | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
alone, they have been 211 deliberate fires in the South Wales area. Mid | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
and West Wales say they have tackled 66 fires. And 11 have been started | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
deliberately in North Wales. Starting again at this time of year | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
is the early spring period when the conditions are wet and a foot, you | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
have got dead vegetation dry on the surface, combining that with holiday | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
periods, the Easter break period, when you have got youngsters who | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
have more free time. Every year, firefighters go into schools to tell | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
children about the risks and costs of setting fires. This year's | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
campaign is due to start next week in south Wales but with 78% all | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
fires in south Wales started the literally, there is a long way to go | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
to stamp out the problem. -- deliberately. | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
Who should pay for upgrading the railway in the South Wales valleys? | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
The First Minister Carwyn Jones today repeated his claim that it's | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
the UK government's responsibility. But Conservative opposition | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
politicians say a deal was agreed over a year ago to pay for it with | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
the money the Welsh government gives to train operators. So who's right | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
and what do commuters make of it? Paul Heaney has been to Rhumney to | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
find out. Ethnic railways. We are told it will | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
mean better services across the south Wales valleys by 2024. -- | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
electric railways. I know we need these investments in Wales. It is | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
this government which is putting their money into the electrification | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
of the railway line up to Swansea and the Valley Lines. That was then | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
but now the UK government is saying Wales should pay the electrification | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
bill. The response from the Secretary of State was bordering on | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
the hysterical. Opposition politicians insist a deal was done | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
between the two governments over who pays what over a year ago. The first | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
Minister has been less than economical with the truth today. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
They need to sit down and realise what their responsibilities are and | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
consult with the UK government and move forward for the benefit of the | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
people of Wales. It is people who get on and off the train at stations | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
like this one that are likely to be the biggest beneficiaries of | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
electrification. That is because their journey time will come down by | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
around 15 minutes. What do they make of the latest political row about | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
who pays for the upgrade of these lines and replacing these trains? | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
Around 150 people work at this medical supplies facility. Some | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
workers commute year by train and say Petrovic is needed as soon as | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
possible. Their journeys would be quicker, more reliable. I can't | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
afford to be late. It is a very long commute from Swansea. I think they | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
should be some medium where they agreed to pay half and half and get | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
it done. I think they should stop arguing about it and get it sorted. | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
Around 190,000 journeys start or end here every year. Electrification | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
could greatly benefit passengers here but who should pay for those | :11:23. | :11:31. | |
benefits is still up for debate. Plans to shut Junction 41 of the M4 | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
at Port Talbot in a trial to see if it improves traffic flow have been | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
confirmed. The closure will start this summer. It's predicted it'll | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
increase the capacity of the M4 by 11% westbound and 2% eastbound. | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
Dog attacks have increased in Wales by 80% over the last ten years. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Research by BBC Wales also suggests growing concern about unregulated | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
breeding and the online trade in fashionable breeds like huskies. Tim | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
Rogers reports. It's another day in Morriston | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
Hospital A The head of the department here, lead consultant | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
Andy MacNabb, says that he's regularly treating two to three dog | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
bites a week. Very severe dog bites may require many hours in hospital. | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
Across Wales there were 407 emergency admissions last year - an | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
80% increase compared with the figures ten years ago. There are | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
some nine million dogs in the UK, and rescue centres in Wales say they | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
are inundated with abandoned or unwanted dogs. They blame | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
irresponsibly breeders selling fashionable status dogs on the | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
internet. Week In Week Out wanted to find out how easy it was to get hold | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
of dogs like huskies and what appear to be pit bull types. We phoned 20 | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
people who were advertising powerful and fashionable status dogs like | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
huskies and some that had the appearance of pitbulls because we | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
wanted to know what questions they would ask us as potential buyers. | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
None of them asked if we had children and when our researcher | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
pointed out she lived in a small flat with no garden and a newborn | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
baby, only six expressed concern about the accomodation and just | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
three said they wouldn't sell her the dog because of her | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
circumstances. Worryingly, four were happy to sell what could potentially | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
be classed as illegal pit bull types as defined by the Dangerous Dogs | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
Act. One person who fell foul of that law is Andrew Roberts from | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
Bridgend. He bought what he thought was a Staffordshire bull terrier | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
crossed with a labrador. But his dog has been seized under the Dangerous | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
Dogs Act as an illegal pit bull type. If he'd advertised him as a | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
pit bull then I wouldn't have bought him, I wouldn't have gone down to | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
see him. There wouldn't be an issue. I wouldn't have gone down. But I | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
thought, what is the problem between a staff and a lab then because they | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
are both fantastic with children. Last year, Wales was set to bring in | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
new rules that would look at better control for all breeds of dogs. But | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
plans were shelved in favour of working with Westminster on a law | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
for England and Wales. I'm concerned about the impact it will have on the | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
community. Where are the real teeth in this legislation? The teeth in | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
the legislation are the regulations that we are currently working on. | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
That law was passed last week. Alun Davies says he will now consider if | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
further legislation is needed in Wales. | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
Much more on that story on Week In Week Out this evening at 10.35pm | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
here on BBC One Wales. Much more to come before seven | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
o'clock. Back in business - a corner of | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
Newport that is now Saudi Arabia's - the former Rowecord steel site lands | :14:46. | :14:46. | |
120 new jobs. It's exactly six months until | :14:47. | :14:55. | |
Scotland votes on whether to break away from the UK. But why is | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
independence on the agenda there, when it's barely on the radar here | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
in Wales? I've been to Motherwell, a very Welsh sort of Scottish town, to | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
find out. It is tower blocks rather than | :15:07. | :15:32. | |
terraced houses that dominate Motherwell's skyline. If you had to | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
choose one town in Scotland that shared so much with Wales, it would | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
be displaced. Coal and steel was once the only game in town. This is | :15:43. | :15:51. | |
like Ebbw Vale with skyscrapers. There is not much left of this, is | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
there? British Steel leaves the community and the British is pulled | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
out of Motherwell, isn't it? It change the landscape and it changed | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
the political landscape in a way. In the last 20 years, people of | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
Motherwell don't consider themselves British any more, they consider | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
themselves Scottish. That is a profound change. Two countries, a | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
shared industrial past, but only Scotland pondering independence. Why | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
isn't Wales? I think there is a number of reasons for that. One of | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
the reasons is the survival of a number of the institutions that have | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
been around for a long time. The skeleton of an independent country. | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
The economic possibilities seem greater in Scotland. And the | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
politics, frankly. The SNP has spent a long time constructing itself as a | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
clear alternative to the Labour Party and this was very much part of | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
Alex Salmond's plan. It was about showing competence first and then | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
taking the Scottish people towards independence. But don't think that | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
everyone here wants independence. This is a bastion of unionism to. | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
What happens the day after the referendum and it is a Yes vote? | :17:18. | :17:26. | |
If, God forbid, it does happen, I wouldn't be in this country. You | :17:27. | :17:36. | |
would leave Scotland? Yes. What is it you dislike so much about | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
nationalism and the SNP? We have got to stand united. You divide the | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
countries and we become nothing. We have got to remain united. | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
Communities are divided on how to vote and so our families. Jennifer | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
is part of Scotland's future, part of a BBC group of teenagers called | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
Generation 2014. I think it will surprise a lot of families in Wales | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
that you have the responsibility at the age of 16 for deciding the | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
future of your country. Have you had a job yet? I have not had a job. You | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
have never paid tax. It is a huge responsibility. It is. I have got to | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
think what I will be like in future because I will have a job in future | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
and I will pay taxes. At the moment it is not affecting me but possibly | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
it is a different influence. In five years time, I am going to have to | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
pay tax. Our decision could potentially influence how that | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
works. Families are the same the world over but there is something | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
different about Scotland can pay to Wales. It is this, this country has | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
oil and a great potential and wealth of that. That has been an important | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
part of the economic argument for independence. But there is more than | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
that. There is a sense of confidence here, a sense of swagger. There is | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
no sense of deference to the English neighbours. Whatever Scotland | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
decides, nothing will ever be quite the same again. England, Scotland or | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
Wales. We will be back in Motherwell very soon. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
If Scotland does vote Yes, what will it mean for Wales? Our political | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
editor Nick Servini joined the crowds at Saturday's Six Nations | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
match between Scotland and Wales to find out. | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
This is a special fixture. One that has delivered some dazzling rugby | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
and sensational tries in its time. It would be a miracle if he could. | :19:51. | :20:03. | |
He may well get there. But on the streets of Cardiff it is | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
a special occasion too. A chance to meet friends old and new and more | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
often than not Cherie joke at the expense of our mutual neighbour. | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
Wales and Scotland have very little to do with each other. This is the | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
only time of the year with the relationship is that it is most | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
visible and celebrated and it is a great example of the social union | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
that Alex Salmond says will not disappear even if Scotland vote yes | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
in the referendum. But there will be plenty more that would change. For a | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
start, we would lose the so-called Celtic voice in Westminster. The | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
passion a chance for the non-English interest. And the former first | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
Minister Rhodri Morgan fears politicians in that parliament will | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
start -- Taras with the same rush as the Scots as trouble. An English | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
backlash, that is the main danger. You could say, Wales will be | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
rewarded for not having caused this instability in the British | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
constitutional settlement. But the alternative view to that is, it will | :21:11. | :21:20. | |
be a curse on all you can -- Celts. Whether it is a curse or a blessing | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
depends on the reaction from England. Will they drum up a better | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
financial summer -- settlement for Wales if Scotland go their own way? | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
There is an idea that evolution here goes hand-in-hand with Scotland. | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
Whatever happens, Wales will be riding on the code hills of Scotland | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
in politics but I can't see any scenario where Wales does not emerge | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
with more powers. Yards away is a great Welsh landmark, Cardiff | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
Castle, developed by a great Welsh -- Scott. If Wales was really able | :21:57. | :22:12. | |
to get its messaging out about how it sees the future, there is an | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
opportunity perhaps to say, here is what we would do, here is our | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
position, and therefore some of those companies trying to make | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
investment decisions for the long-term, if there is uncertainty | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
in Scotland, perhaps there is an opportunity. There is no doubt that | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
our old acquaintances the Scots will be back here in two years but by | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
then they may have chosen to walk away from the union. If that | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
happens, it will not just be Scotland that changes for ever, | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
Wales could do. It's a huge boost for the Newport | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
economy. A Saudi Arabian company is opening a steelworks on the former | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
Rowecord site in Newport, creating 120 jobs with the prospect of more | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
to come. Its products will be exported across the globe. Here's | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
our business correspondent Brian Meechan. | :23:05. | :23:13. | |
Back to work. The former Rowecord site collapsed almost a year ago. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
The company had built the roof for the Olympic aquatic Centre in | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
London. Some former employees have been taken on by AIC. There is a big | :23:25. | :23:34. | |
skill set in the Newport area so hopefully we will see some of the | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
old talent back. The chief executive says there is an upturn in the | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
market and are bidding for various construction jobs including | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
stadiums. The decision of a global company to choose Newport as it is | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
only based in Europe is a significant investment. We have a | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
very strong balance sheet so we were able to fund this. But it is a vote | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
of confidence in the skill levels. I think it is a really important | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
statement for Wales. We often hear about the skills shortages in Wales | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
but in this case a highly skilled workforce was what attracted the | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
company. AIC also intends to exported products made here so there | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
is still a place for top of the range of manufacturing in the global | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
market. It says markets abroad are potentially developing and we in | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
Wales manufacture great things. What we need are more companies with | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
insight and some finance behind them. Newport has had bad news | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
recently with jobs at risk at this bakery. More than 120 jobs could go | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
at a steelworks in Newport. AIC believes it can offer job | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
opportunities. While most businesses have suffered during this long and | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
deep economic downturn, the steel industry in particular has faced a | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
tough time. This news today is not just a glimmer of hope for this city | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
but also for the industry as a whole. | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
Well, it's been feeling spring-like, but the weather's about to change. | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
Here's Sue with the forecast. We've had a relatively mild start to | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
the month. This time last year, we were in the middle of the coldest | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
march for 50 years. Snow in the Brecon Beacons and across much of | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
North Wales. It will turn a bit colder by the end of the week. | :25:31. | :25:39. | |
Tomorrow's the last of the mostly mild and breezy days. This evening, | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
generally dry with variable cloud and some clear spells. Remaining | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
windy with gales possible along the coast and on high ground. A mild | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
night though. A fairly mild start tomorrow and largely dry. 14 Celsius | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
in Flintshire and Wrexham. Late Wednesday and into Thursday, a | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
developing area of low pressure in the Atlantic begins to spread across | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
the UK, bringing the first significant rain for a couple of | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
weeks and stronger winds. Thursday might start dry but that band of | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
heavy rain will push southwards through the day. Winds could reach | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
gale force along the coast. The rain eventually clearing later in the | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
day. And it's a cold front pushing through on Thursday so a colder air | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
mass following behind it for the end of the week. A much fresher feel | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
Friday with brisk winds, often cloudy with sunny spells and | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
scattered showers. Temperatures back in single figures for most of Wales. | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
Then we're in for a chilly weekend with sunny spells and showers. Those | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
showers could turn wintry on Saturday with snow in the mountains. | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
Probably more settled on Sunday with the return of overnight frosts. | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
It's coming up to seven o'clock. Tonight's headlines from the BBC. | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
Russia's president Vladimir Putin has dismissed criticism from the | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
West and formally taken Crimea from Ukraine and into the Russian | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
Federation. And the Welsh NHS and Labour's | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
management of it provoked a furious row today. The First Minister | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
unleashed a scathing attack on an MP from his own party after her | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
criticisms of the state of the health service. Carwyn Jones said | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
Ann Clwyd, the MP for the Cynon Valley, had produced no evidence and | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
no facts. Tonight, Ms Clwyd said she would rather the Assembly | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
concentrate on resolving the problems in the NHS than attacking | :27:28. | :27:29. | |
her personally. We'll have an update for you here at | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
8.00pm and again after the BBC news at 10.00pm. That's Wales Today. | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
Thank you for watching. From all of us on the programme, good evening. | :27:40. | :27:56. | |
with loads of running, swimming and cycling events. | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
You don't need hi-tech equipment to get involved - | :28:01. | :28:03. |