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Good evening. There are warnings tonight about the dangers of | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
fast-moving spring tides after a 68-year-old woman died during a | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
mother's day walk in Carmarthenshire. Susan Hackett was | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
taking the dogs for a walk with her daughter on Cefn Sidan beach | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
yesterday when they got into difficulty. Lifeboat teams dealt | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
with two other rescues over the weekend. Abigail Neal reports. | :00:40. | :00:49. | |
The women had headed out along the beach towards Burry Port, walking | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
the eight dogs. By late afternoon, the Mother's Day treat turned to | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
panic when they were stranded on a sandbank as the tide came in. The | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
RNLI called by someone on the beach resort they were in trouble. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Rescuers arrived within minutes and spotted the daughter first, already | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
submerged in the water. She was hypothermic and frightened. She was | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
concerned about mother. Obviously, we had no news other than when she | :01:17. | :01:26. | |
was located, it was deemed better that the sea rescue recover the lady | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
from the water. This area of coastline is known as particularly | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
treacherous. Once a person gets cut off by the | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
tide, the force of water coming through the Channel is so strong | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
that would be no possibility of trying to swim for sure. Emma | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
Hackett survived but her 68-year-old mother could not be saved. Five of | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
the dogs also drowned. Tonight, rescue teams are warning people to | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
check tide times before heading out. It is a lovely coastline but it also | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
present danger. People need to be aware of the tide times. Leave | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
enough time to get back. Ultimately, if you feel that you are in danger, | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
call 909 and get the Coast Guard. -- 999. The warning signs are there for | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
walkers who come to enjoy the beauty of this wide-open space. It has been | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
worse since the last arms. I said to the wife, I think the sand is | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
flatter. The tide was a long way out yesterday and eye could see how it | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
can catch people out. You have to worry about the tide because it can | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
come in unexpectedly. But it goes out so far that you would not think | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
it would have been that quick. Obviously, it is dangerous. This | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
stretch of coastline has been notorious as powerful and able to | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
claim lives. Police have stopped and checked | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
vehicles after reports of a girl screaming in the back of a car in | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Cardigan. They've received reports of an altercation between the girl | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
who's between eight and twelve years old with shoulder length brown hair | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
and a man in his mid forties to fifties with greyish hair. Officers | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
have been searching for a silver, saloon type vehicle that was outside | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
Cardigan Secondary School at around nine o'clock this morning. The BBC | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
understands there have been no reports of missing children. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
A mine manager facing four counts of manslaughter through gross | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
negligence failed to comply with safety regulations, a jury has | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
heard. The prosecution says Malcolm Fyfield took "staggering risks" at | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
the Gleision Mine in the Swansea valley, which flooded after a wall | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
was breached in 2011. He denies the charges. A simple but catastrophic | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
mistake that should never have been made. That is how the prosecution | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
described what happened here on the day that four colliers lost their | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
lives. Gary Jenkins, Philip Hill, David Powell and Charles Breslin all | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
drowned after 650,000 talons of water poured into the mind where | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
they were working. The men were trying to break through to eat | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
disused part of the mine. The jury heard that Malcolm Fyfield had been | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
repeatedly warned about the presence of water in that area. But according | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
to the prosecution, he decided to go his own way, thinking that he could | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
breach the old workings without causing danger to anyone. | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
The jury heard that he told police that he had gone into the old | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Central workings the day before the disaster, and found that there was | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
no standing water there. It is the prosecution's case that he had | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
misjudged where the water was. The jury was shown these regulations, | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
which clearly states that it is the mine manager's duty to prevent any | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
inrush. Mr Fyfield should have notified the inspector of his | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
intention to break through to the old workings even if he did not | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
think there was water there. The prosecution say that he fails to | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
comply with that regulation. Concluding his statement, Greg | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
Taylor QC said: This afternoon, the first witness | :05:18. | :05:35. | |
was called and under cross-examination Simon Cooke from | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
the call authority confirmed Mr Fyfield was a meticulous mine | :05:39. | :05:48. | |
manager, who always submitted his plans on time. Malcolm Fyfield | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
denies four counts of manslaughter and the mine operators have pleaded | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
not guilty to charges of corporate manslaughter. The trial continues. | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Plans to give the Welsh Government responsibility for raising some of | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
the money it spends is clearing an important parliamentary hurdle | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
tonight. MPs have been debating the Wales Bill, which could lead to the | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Welsh Government being able to vary income tax rates. After today's | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
general debate, the details of the proposed new law will be scrutinised | :06:12. | :06:20. | |
by MPs. Businesses in Wales could see their | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
rates fall after the Economy Minister Edwina Hart announced a ?15 | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
million funding package. The Wales Retail Relief Scheme could provide a | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
discount of ?1,000 for retailers, and food and drink premises with a | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
rateable value of less than ?50,000. Fishermen will be able to claim some | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
of the cost of replacing equipment damaged during the high tides and | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
storms this winter. The Minister for Natural Resources and Food says | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
they'll be able to claim 80% of the cost of replacing pots to catch | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
shellfish, or twenty percent of their value if the equipment can be | :06:53. | :07:03. | |
repaired. Tougher controls could be brought in | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
for tattoo parlours, as well as clinics offering cosmetic piercing | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
under draft public health laws. Businesses would be required to meet | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
minimum hygiene and infection control standards and be listed in a | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
new register. Tattooing done properly is an | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
extensive procedure. The artwork and think it's expensive and it takes | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
time. That is why I | :07:25. | :10:00. |