04/04/2014 BBC Wales Today

Welcome to Wales Today. Six-day-old Eliza May Mullane was killed by the

family's pet dog. Tonight her parents say they hope her death will

raise awareness of the potential dangers.

It was European money to help revitalise parts of Pembrokeshire -

but the scheme has been suspended amid allegations of fraud.

Five-year-old Karolina Golabek was killed by an electronic gate - two

companies admit breaching safety laws.

It's centuries old and one of only 20 remaining - an original copy of

the Bible in Welsh returns to the birthplace of its translator.

In tonight's sport: He's the favourite to win tomorrow's Grand

National - Pembrokeshire trainer Rebecca Curtis says Teaforthree

already knows he's a star. He kind of knows he's a bit famous

now. He used to be very quiet but he's definitely a bit cocky now and

knows he's pretty good. Good evening. The parents of a baby

girl who was killed by a pet dog say they hope awareness will be raised

about the potential dangers of having dogs around young children.

An inquest heard how six-day-old Eliza-Mae Mullane suffered a serious

head injury when she was bitten at her home in Pontyberem. The coroner

today ruled her death in February was accidental. Cemlyn Davies was at

the inquest. A dearly loved daughter who will

always be in our hearts. That is how Eliza-Mae Mullane's parents

described their baby girl following her tragic death. Today Sharon and

Patrick arrived at Llanelli town Hall for their six-day old's

inquest. The hearing lasted a few minutes and the mother of Eliza-Mae

Mullane wept as details of that February morning were read out. The

inquest heard how Sharon John had been feeding Eliza-Mae Mullane when

a taxi pulled up outside their home to take her son to school. She put

Eliza-Mae Mullane to sleep in her cot and closed the living room door.

When she returned to the lounge a short while later, Sharon John found

one of the family dogs had forced its way into the room and Eliza-Mae

Mullane was on the floor having suffered a serious head injury. The

inquest heard the dog had pulled her from the cost would like bed and

bitten her. She was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in

Cardiff where she was pronounced dead from compression of the skull.

Initially, the investigation was focused on an Alaskan like this one

but a collie cross was also seized. The inquest didn't hear which dog

was responsible but neither had shown any sign of aggression. They

have both been put down. The coroner said there was no way her mother

could have foreseen what happened. In a statement the father of

Eliza-Mae Mullane said: To raise his a dog behaviourist who

advises parents on how to keep children safe -- Teresa is a dog

behaviourist. It is important they understand dog

behaviour and understand some of the subtle signs that dogs are giving

that say they are not comfortable around the baby.

Eliza-Mae Mullane was less than a week old when she was taken from her

parents. Now they are hoping her death can help ensure no other

family suffers in the same way. European funding paid to

Pembrokeshire council to help revitalise two of its towns - has

been suspended tonight. It comes after the scheme was linked to a

police investigation into allegations of fraud. Our business

correspondent Brian Meechan is outside the council's headquarters

for us. Brian, what more can you tell us?

Well, allegations of fraud, a police investigation and accusations that a

council has lost its grip of its business grants. Temperature council

has rarely been out of the news and tonight more damaging questions for

the council to answer about the local authority. European grants

have been available to help develop buildings like these in Pembroke

Dock and Pembroke. A local financial adviser says they have had a huge

impact on the town. A knot of these properties were in disrepair and as

you can see from around you, a lot of properties have had a massive

face uplift and the town is starting to look up. But concerns have grown

about the grant made available for this building. It is owned by the

property developer. The fund can only be used for businesses, not

residential properties. So it can be spent on the office on the ground

floor but not the flats above. The police has said it is investigating

an allegation of fraud. The Welsh government said as a precautionary

measure, the grants have been suspended while a review takes

place. The opposition on the council argues something has gone badly

wrong with the monitoring of grants. Towns like Pembroke Dock need inward

investment to rebuild them and get them back to being a vibrant town

centre environment. It is a great scheme but it has been bungled. The

police will look unto it but in the meantime, it misses out on the money

it needs. We have seen documents that show a

?71,000 grant was given for the building under investigation. We can

also reveal that up until March, Mr McCusker received payment of a

further ?1.4 million from the council in grants. These payments

are not under suspicion. We did ask Mr McCusker for an interview but he

said it would be inappropriate at this time. The council said they

wouldn't make a comment but they confirmed irregularities had been

reported to the police. It will be discussed at the Council on Monday

but until then it leaves businesses with a question about these grants

and what it means to these businesses.

The Welsh Ambulance service has seen an increased number of calls this

week after record levels of air pollution. The trust has seen a 10%

increase in calls relating to breathing problems and chest pains,

compared with the previous four weeks.

The brother of Daniel Morgan - the private investigator found dead

outside a London pub in 1987 - has said the Metropolitan Police should

not be involved in any new inquiry. Alastair Morgan's comments come

after the Met indicated the investigation could be reopened. A

review has found that the death of a man who was killed by a mental

health patient at this hostel in Cardiff could have been prevented.

Nathaniel John killed Stephen Rees three years ago, and was convicted

of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Health

care Inspectorate Wales says there were missed opportunities to give

his attacker medical help. Two companies have pleaded guilty to

breaching safety laws over the death of five-year-old Karolina Golabek

who was crushed by an electric gate in Bridgend. She became trapped as

it closed on her back in July 2010. Nicola Smith has been following the

story. Nicky, what exactly happened? It happened outside a block of flats

in a pretty quiet residential area not far from where Karolina Golabek

lived. She was playing outside but a metal automatic electric gate had

been installed over the entrance to the car park on the block of flats

and somehow she became trapped when the gate closed. A neighbour saw

what happened and used his key fob to release the gate but she had

suffered severe internal injuries and died in the hospital with her

parents by her side. The inquest recorded a verdict of accidental

death contributed to by an unsafe gate. What happened then?

Two companies appeared before a judge at Cardiff Crown Court.

John Glenn installation services and trim author -- Tim Mack -- and

Tremorfa services. The leader of the Welsh Liberal

Democrats has stressed how vital it is to Wales that the UK remains in

the European Union. Kirsty Williams was speaking ahead of the party's

annual conference in Newport this weekend. With European elections

next month, the party wants to highlight how important staying in

the EU is for Welsh jobs. Let's be clear, in Wales one in ten

Welsh jobs are directly linked to trading with our European partners

so I think people want to hear the arguments about why Wales and the UK

should be a part of Europe and Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats are

the only party willing to take on the challenge with UKIP and have the

debate. Well, our Political Correspondent

Tomos Livingstone is in Newport. Tomos, a pro-European message from

Kirsty Williams there, but is it really a vote-winner for the party?

They have got a problem in that when Kirsty Williams's boss Nick Clegg

appeared on television to debate with Nigel forage, most opinion

polls thought Nigel Farage won the debate. It is going to be very

difficult for them to do anything about the fact they don't have any

European candidates. The activists are fired up because they are

hearing Nick Clegg and Kirsty Williams making the case for Europe,

saying it is good for Wales. Despite the opinion polls, it is showing the

party is willing to scrap and that is good for morale.

And Nick Clegg is at the conference tomorrow.

What are delegates hoping to hear from him?

The political conferences are taking place with the backdrop of the silk

mission report, the enquiry into Welsh devolution. We heard Ed

Miliband last week said that he had used these recommendations as part

of the Labour manifesto so I are on Nick Clegg to see which parts of

this report he will favour when he puts together the party manifesto.

We are looking at the European elections next month but we are in a

bidding war, looking to the general election next year. Keep us up to

date over the weekend. Still to come before 7:00pm: A look

at the favourite for tomorrow's Grand National.

And he's fought his personal battles - now Enzo Maccrenelli weighs in,

ready to step back in the ring. Some victims of bullying could be

failed by an "overcomplicated" system. That's the view of the

Children's Commissioner for Wales. Yesterday, the mother of 15-year-old

Simon Brooks, who died following an overdose, said he was being bullied

at his school near Llantrisant. His death has focussed attention on what

more can be done to help children. Dr Emily Lovegrove is the British

Psychological Society's spokesperson on bullying. I spoke to her earlier

and started by asking whether the fact that each school must have a

policy to prevent bullying is enough.

No. I don't feel that is enough. It can be interpreted in different

ways. In all countries, what we do is we concentrate on academic

achievements as some kind of measure of a school's success and I think as

a society we should make the point that actually, it is children's

social and emotional welfare that should be at the forefront. How good

bullying be better dealt with by schools? Is it a question of better

training? We don't have proper courses in teacher at training

colleges and yet I go around lots of schools and so many teachers say to

me that most of their time is taken up outside of lessons with problems

to do with bullying. Do you think that teachers should be better

trained? We know that budgets are tight but do you think many should

be available to train teachers to deal with bullying? I do because I

think their social and emotional well-being has to come up at the top

of the list of what to do with them and teachers can't teach that unless

we train them properly and put our money where our mouth is. How hard

is it to identify how badly a child is affected by bullying? It is very

often very difficult and as in cases like this, sometimes it is too late.

Children react in a variety of ways and we can't just say there is a

list of things and if your children do this, you know they are being

bullied. Maybe any kind of behaviour and they are often adapt at covering

up because they don't want to look stupid and they don't want to look

weak. Dr Emily Lovegrove speaking to me a little earlier.

Campaigners who lost their battle to save Flint Community Hospital from

closure have welcomed plans to provide beds in the town for

terminally ill patients. Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board says it is

considering a number of suggestions from local people as part of its

reorganisation of medical services. They fought with passion and

conviction to save their local hospital but in August last year the

people of Flint saw it close. They haven't been silenced though and

have called for a rethink on the closure of beds and the transfer of

facilities like the minor injuries unit to other health centres. After

discussions with the health board progress has been made on beds for

some patients. Palliative care for terminally ill people could be

provided at nursing homes or other locations in Flint. The board's vice

chairman says is about thinking differently.

It is about exploring what other partners have got a role to play in

developing this agenda because it is not just about the health board. It

could be working with third sector and social care partners and working

with the townspeople to come up with a new way of doing things.

The hospital will be replaced by a five million pound health centre

next year. It will only be run during office hours but discussions

are underway to decide what other services it could offer. Local

campaigners say there's a need for more round the clock care, but the

provision of beds for terminally ill patients locally is a step in the

right direction. We want to be involved in palliative

beds as well as other beds. We want to take away the need for people to

spend time at a hospital for away and spend time closer to home.

The health board and campaigners are rebuilding their relationship after

a period where clashes were commonplace but there's still a long

way to go before Flint gets what it sees as a suitable replacement for

its hospital. Students at Aberystwyth University

have won their fight to save a halls of residence which was threatened

with closure. There have been several protests over the future of

Pantycelyn but it's now going to be converted into a centre for Welsh

speakers and learners. A Welsh-trained horse hasn't won the

Grand National in more than a 100 years - could that all change

tomorrow? Claire has tonight's sport.

Good evening. The most famous steeple chase in the world takes

place tomorrow afternoon and a horse based here in Wales is the

favourite. Teaforthree is trained by Rebecca Curtis in Pembrokeshire. The

34-year-old says you need a lot of luck but the Grand National is the

race every trainer wants to win. I've been to meet them both.

As morning runs go, it doesn't get much better than the Pembrokeshire

coastline as a backdrop. Rebecca Curtis believes a happy environment

means a happy horse and the setting is a world away from the nervous

excitement of entry. At 34, Robert Kerr has enjoyed a swift rise to

becoming one of the country's top trainers. Her stables are home to

the Grand National favourite. The ten-year-old has been under her care

for four years. She says he is the force of a lifetime. He is a lovely

horse, always very laid-back and easy to do. He knows he is famous

now. He used to be quiet to ride. I used to write him everyday myself

but he is definitely more cocky now and knows he is pretty good. Just

experience this for a few moments. There is no doubt T for three --

Teaforthree is special. We will favour as -- the world-famous was

raised means the horse needs the ability to conquer 30 of the

toughest fences. He finished third last year. It has been 100 years

since a horse that trained in Wales won the Grand National. The question

is whether Teaforthree, or Tom, as he is known here, can win the race.

There is a team spirit at the stables where Rebecca grew up. Her

dad runs the family dairy farm and her sons are often playing around

the stables. It is serious business training horses and she is in no

doubt what winning the most famous steeplechase in the world would love

for yard. It would be fantastic. It is one of the races that everybody

wants to win. Everyone wants to win it because it is so hard to win,

even with Teaforthree giving in as favourite, you need so much luck.

The good luck messages have been pouring in and the team's dedication

is clear to see-he is part of the family. We have got very close to

him because we have had him a good few years now. Although I know he is

safe going off because he is brilliant at jumping, you still feel

a little bit... You just hope he comes back safe. Teaforthree is so

loved in these parts, they have already erected a statue of him.

What will happen if he comes back champion tomorrow afternoon? Such a

lovely horse. Teaforthree remains the favourite but there's plenty of

other Welsh interest. Vale of Glamorgan trainers Evan Williams and

Tim Vaughan both have horses in the field.

other Welsh interest. Vale of Glamorgan trainers Dai Walters'

horse Mountainous runs alongside Monbeg Dude, who's part owned by

former Welsh outside-half Nicky Robinson and trained by Michael

Scudamore. Good luck to all of them.

Swansea boxer Enzo Maccarinelli is hoping to complete a remarkable

comeback this weekend. Many advised him to quit the sport after a string

of defeats and a ban for failing a drugs test but tomorrow he'll try to

make history as he fights the WBA light-heavyweight champion Jurgen

Braehmer. From Rostock in Germany, Gareth Rhys Owen reports.

Enzo Maccrenelli steps onto the scales and onto the plate as he gets

ready to make Welsh boxing history. Enzo Maccrenelli Ex-mack No Welshman

has ever been crowned to wait Welsh champion. He is ready to go to to

toe with Jurgen Braehmer in the German's backyard.

It is a tough opportunity but I'm going to give it everything I've

got. I was world champion once and I long for the time to be called it

again. Not many visiting fighters win on points in Germany so here is

an Saturday evening Enzo Maccrenelli and his team will have to give it

the hard way. He was supposed to retire four years ago. Everyone

called for him to retire, saying he was finished. I probably said it

myself that he is here and he keeps proving people wrong.

At 33 it is make or break. His legacy will be defined on the other

side of the old Iron Curtain. More on the build up to the fight on

Sport Wales tonight at 8:00pm over on BBC Two Wales.

The Wales international Aaron Ramsey is back in the Arsenal squad for the

first time this year. He's been injured since Boxing Day, but could

now play against Everton on Sunday. Meanwhile, the stakes are high for

both our Premier League clubs this weekend.

first time this year. He's been injured since Third-from-bottom

Cardiff face fifth-from-bottom Crystal Palace, in a fixture that

will have a huge bearing on the relegation battle. Swansea City will

make their position all but safe, if they can win at Hull. Wales have

boosted their chances of reaching the Women's World Cup by thrashing

Turkey 5-1 in this afternoon's qualifier. Captain Jess Fishlock

scored a first-half hat trick, helping Wales up to second place in

the group six table, three points behind England who are unbeaten.

Wales play third-placed Ukraine in Llanelli on Wednesday.

Now, it's a work that transformed Wales - Bishop William Morgan's

translation of the Bible into Welsh in the 16th century. Few copies

remain and today one of them was taken to his birthplace - a remote

cottage in the hills above Betws-y-Coed where it's going on

permanent display. Here's Roger Pinney.

The words are straight out of the 16th century but they have resonance

today, but here in a short ceremony in the grounds of where Bishop

William Morgan was one. It is a cottage in the hills which can lay

claim to be the birthplace of modern Wales. The translation was

commissioned by Elizabeth the first, an attempt to wean the country of

the Latin of Catholicism towards her own Protestant faith. The

translation had a cultural affect for the first time Welsh speakers

could read the Bible in their own luggage and cemented Welsh in the

official life of Wales. -- their own language. It is a beautiful thing

beyond its cultural significance. To think that 1000 were printed. One of

them was sent to every parish church in Wales, 800 of them. Only 20

remain. So rare it is little wonder the National trust, which looks

after the cottage, should celebrate acquisition. The work of William

Morgan West by a 21st-century Welsh bishop. If you were a Welsh speaker

in Wales in the 16th century, you would have been hearing it in Latin.

It was crucial to have the scripted bread and proclaimed in your own

language. We wouldn't be speaking Welsh here in the way that we do if

it wasn't for what happened here. It was part of an international

scholarship, the Renaissance and the Reformation. It was these people

determined that the Welsh language wouldn't be just the language of the

ordinary people of Wales but should be an international luggage of

scholarship. If Welsh language Bible for the

common people of Wales, fitting it can be seen back where the story of

William Morgan began. A weather forecaster can only back

one horse. And it is the horse I got in the office sweepstake!

The chance of an odd rainbow tomorrow as we have rain in the

forecast. Some clear Atlantic air and less elution as well. A fine end

to the day-to-day with sunshine for most of us. Starting to cloud over

tonight with the next weather system bringing in rain. Spreading to most

areas by Dawn but patchy in nature, and pictures getting down to about

six Celsius. This were different is responsible with another following

on behind on Sunday. We are in for a soggy weekend. Blustery tomorrow

morning with rain coming in from the south-west. We might see some

brightness on higher ground. That is where we could see the old rainbow

with highs of 15 Celsius. Tomorrow the rain will continue but overnight

we will see the next weather system making its way in from the West.

Low-level cloud and coastal fog possible that an aside, a mild night

with temperatures in double figures. Sunday morning is wet from the word

go and we have blustery sick? Conditions. -- history conditions. I

am hopeful that we might start to see some brightness for parts of

Pembrokeshire and Cardigan Bay. That weather system will bring in more

rain through Monday. Tuesday onwards sees a ridge of high pressure

building with more settled conditions into Wednesday. Monday,

more rain in the forecast, Tuesday the risk of the odd shower.

Wednesday could be a fine day, looking dry thanks to high pressure.

The main news again from BBC: A key rail link for the south west of

England has re-opened after the track was washed away by the storms

in February. 300 staff have worked around the

clock to get it open in time for Easter.

The coroner at the inquest of six-day-old Eliza-Mae Mullane who

was killed by a pet dog at her home in Pontyberem says her death was

accidental. And that is Wales Today. There'll be

an update at 8:00pm. More news at 10:25pm. For now though, from all of

us on the programme, have a good weekend.