09/04/2014 BBC Wales Today

happened at Government House in Wellington. That is all from us.

Good evening. The former head of BT in Wales has told this programme the

take up of super fast broadband is too slow here because the Welsh

Government isn't doing enough to promote it. The ?400 million

project, half of which is public money, AMs to make high speed

internet available in almost every corner of the country. -- AMs. This

exclusive report by our Political Editor, Nick Servini.

It is the result of the biggest deal in its kind signed by BT in the UK.

Wales has low levels of superfast broadband access. The man who used

to run BT in Wales at Devizes Ofcom now and believed the benefits could

be felled quicker. At Devizes Ofcom now and believe the benefits could

be made quicker. Commuters will see quicker broadband speeds as a result

of replacing the quicker wire with fibre cables. ?200 million worth of

public money is being spent rolling it out to communities like this

where it is not profitable enough for commercial companies to do it on

their own. Would you use it? I would, yes. I am always on my phone

and have to use 3G. Everybody needs broadband speeds. If you can't go on

the computer, you can't find anything out now. Do you think you

should be promoted more? Definitely. It aims to bring most of us access

to superfast broadband by 2016. Of that, ?300,000 has been spent on

marketing. Take-up in the area stands at 19%. When you look at the

intervention areas, you will find take-up is higher than in the Prix

early commercial centres. Where Welsh government has been in charge,

there has been a higher level of take-up. Whether they take advantage

of it is another matter. The company in charge of bringing in

a new form of disability benefit has apologised to people who've had to

wait for their assessments. MPs say people with cancer and other serious

conditions are having to wait too long to be assessed for the Personal

Independence Payment. It has been a tough few years for

Jane. Diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2011, she has suffered side-effects

from the chemotherapy meaning she can't go back to her old job. She

used to receive Disability Living Allowance that has been waiting

months to be assessed by the benefit replacing. You are fighting to keep

yourself healthy and fit so you can cope and manage the next lot of

treatment. You are also trying to manage the worry that you have about

keeping a roof over your head. The payment is worth between 21 and ?138

a week. 140,000 adults in Wales are being moved onto it by 2017. Under

the new system, there are more face-to-face assessments and

everybody's situation is being assessed. People are complaining

that they are waiting too long to get an assessment. There are big

problems. It is leaving vulnerable people, cancer sufferers without any

financial support and it is a huge drain on the taxpayer because it is

not being run efficiently. The minister responsible said he was

responding to the concerns. There will be people who benefit from

benefit and those that will not. What they need his decisions and we

need to communicate with these people much better. We are

introducing a text system so they will be better informed. The system

is run by the private company, Capita. I would like to apologise to

each and every of them. Those are taking longer than we envisaged. We

are doubling our health professional workforce. We have twice as many

health professionals and are taking these assessments. Jamie still

waiting for her chance to prove she needs this benefit. The government

says and on that has had to wait will have payments backdated.

A jury's heard how one of Britain's most promising sailors was urged to

go faster before their speedboat crashed leaving a schoolgirl brain

damaged. Cardiff Crown Court heard how Nia Jones on the left

accelerated but then collided with another boat after dark. She and

Eleni Morus have admitted piloting the boats without navigation lights.

But they deny speeding and not keeping a proper lookout in Cardiff

Bay in October 2010. An inquest has opened into the death

of a teenager after what his family has claimed was years of bullying.

15-year-old Simon Brooks who was from Tonyrefail died four days after

a suspected overdose having left a message alleging he was bullied. The

inquest was adjourned until July. The jury in the trial of former

Shadow Welsh Secretary Nigel Evans has retired to consider its verdict.

56-year-old Mr Evans, from Swansea, denies nine charges including rape

and sexual assault against seven young men.

The Welsh Rugby Union says it's board has agreed to increase the

amount of funding for regional rugby, the Principality Premiership

and the community game. The WRU says it's still negotiating the details

of a new agreement with the regions, but the second-tier Premiership and

the grassroots game will both receive increases of several hundred

thousand pounds in July. Football, and Wales' women have

drawn 1-1 with the Ukraine in Llanelli this evening. Wales'

Natasha Harding scored the equaliser in their 2015 Women's World Cup

qualifier. Cricket, and Glamorgan are

celebrating their first win in their first match of the season, beating

Surrey by ten wickets at the Oval. They bowled out the home side for

just 82, with Graham Wagg taking six wickets. Openers Gareth Rees and

Will Bragg then eased Glamorgan to victory with an unbroken stand of

157. Let's get the weather forecast, and

will we see more sunshine tomorrow Derek?

I think I can promise you some sunshine tomorrow. It is not

completely dry and there is still some chilly nights and ground

frost. Dry for most of us tonight. One or two fog patches forming and

it is chilly inland. Tomorrow, the chart shows a cold front which will

move south eastwards during the day. Tomorrow morning, the odd spot of

drizzle. It is a dry storeroom and it will brighten up. For the rest of

the UK, we have this cold front producing splashes of rain. It will

move further south, eventually reaching the north-west of Wales.

Behind that, some sunshine and showers. To the south, one to the

south, one or two showers with a high of seven Celsius in London.

There is some dry weather and sunshine. There is one or two

showers in the South. Here comes the rain spreading into the north and

north-west eventually reaching the coast. The rain will spread south

east during the evening, eventually clearing overnight. Into Friday, it

will turn into a nice day. Sunny spells for all of us. Just the odd

isolated shower. Friday night, cold with a widespread ground frost. For

the weekend, plenty more dry weather. It is looking dry for

Sunday. And that is Wales Today. We'll be

back from around 6.25 in the morning with updates into Breakfast. For now

though from all of us here, good night.