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Hello. Good evening. The son of one of the four men who died when a mine | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
was flooded in the Swansea valley, told the court he knew there was no | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
chance of them surviving. Andrew Gyles was working when the disaster | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
happened at the Gleision colliery, more than two years ago. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
The 15th of September, 2011. Rescuers work frantically at the | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Gleision mine hoping to save the lives of four men trapped under the | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
ground. But the efforts were in vain. David Powell, Garry Jenkins, | :00:56. | :01:04. | |
Phillip Hill and Charles Wes Lynne, drowned after the water poured into | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
the area where they were working. 275 metres into the mountain. In | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
courts this morning, Mr Powell's son, recalled what happened on the | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
day his father and three other colleagues all died. Giving evidence | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
via a videolink, Andrew Gyles told the jury he was working on the | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
surface, when a miner, Nigel Evans came running from the mine, shouting | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
for him to call the police and the mine rescue. He was asked how long | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
the telephone call lasted. He said he could not speak for long, that he | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
knew his father was down there. He was in shock. The court Howard how | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
Mr Gyles and Mr Evans went into the mine from the main entrance. Asked | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
what he saw, Mr Gyles told the jury, that the water level was so much, | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
that he knew straight away there was no chance for the boys. Mr Gyles | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
said returning to the surface, he found that Malcolm Falfield had | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
managed to escape. He was like a ghost, white as anything. He had | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
another collier's lamp with him. This map shows the size and the | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
complexity of the colliery. This is where the men entered. At the bottom | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
is what is called H 1, or heading 1. This is where Garry Jenkins' body | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
was later found. The other three miners as well as Malcolm Fyfie, ld | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
was also working. This is where the breach was with the water. Enough to | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool. They had not been able to get far | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
enough to see the water but Mr Gyles said he called hear it, like a | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
waterfall, he said. Malcolm Fyfield sat in court confirming that he told | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
the police that the mine manager was a tidy guy he got on well with. He | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
denies four counts of manslaughter, through negligence and there is a | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
denial of corporate manslaughter. The trial is to continue next week. | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
A coroner has said that smoke from a fireworks display was not to blame | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
for a major crash on the M5 that killed seven people, including a | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
couple from Newport. Anthony and Pamela Adams were among those who | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
died in the pile-up. It happened next to a fireworks display at a | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
Rugby Club. There was also thick fog in the area. | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Every day it is still a mountain to climb. A struggle to get through. | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
You feel you have lost part of your identity. That is my mum and dad. | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
That is not easy. The coroner's recommendations are a | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
positive step forward. A big positive step forward. That is what | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
we were looking for. Moving on, ensuring that this does not happen | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
to anybody else. Two police officers have been | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
convicted of theft in an undercover sting by their even force. Detective | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
sergeant Stephen Phillips stole ?250 from a house in neath. And Detective | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Constable Jason Evans took two writing pens. The police sources say | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
that the operation was carried out amid concerns about alleged | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
misconduct. They will be sentenced next month. Wales' biggest bus | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
operator is in talks to close a depot and cut the fleet by 10% after | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
a reduction in funding from the Welsh Government. Stagecoach says | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
that the depot, that employs 77 staff could close in July. Some | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
routes to be scrapped and others less frequent with Monmouthshire and | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
Gwent worst-hit. The Welsh Government are disappointed, saying | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
that they will work with the industry to deliver a sustainable | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
bus industry. It costs the taxpayer more than ?3 million but was closed | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
four years within opening. Tonight, the awedors say that the Canolfan | :05:17. | :05:27. | |
Cywain in Bala did not receive the right advice. | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
The Cywain Centre was designed to offer exhibitions on rural life and | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
a culture park and cafe but it struggled to match the numbers | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
predicted to come through the doors. Having used up ?3.4 million of | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
public money, the Cywain Centre closed less than three-and-a-half | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
years after it opened. It was said that the auditors failed to assess | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
the risks on a project such as this. The Wales audit office says that the | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
recommendations echo those that were give no-one the past. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
The areas where we make the recommendations are around sharing | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
of information on the risks that projects face and secondly, that the | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
funders have a continued responsibility to ensure the best | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
possible outcome for the public purse when a project gets into | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
financial difficulty. The Welsh Government says it has | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
made improvements to the monitoring of projects after earlier criticisms | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
from the Wales auditor office and that the investment has made a | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
difference here. But some argue that the Cywain Centre is not just the | :06:39. | :06:48. | |
only example of wasted money. This economic separation of money | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
should be different from some of these projects. | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
There are political decisions to be made, not economic decisions, that | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
is why we end up with white elephants, across the length and the | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
breadth of Wales. Heart surgeon at the University | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Hospital in Wales, Cardiff, has been short-listed for the prestigious | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
Asian Woman of Achievement Award. Past winners include the actress, | :07:28. | :07:40. | |
Meera Syal and Shami Chakrabarti -- Chakrabarti. | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
The blue birds, fighting relegation say that they have proof that | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
Crystal Palace obtained their teem sheet the day before the game. The | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
club denies the claims. Gary Monk has played down reports of a | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
training ground bust-up among the players before the defeat to | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
Chelsea. Morning says that nobody has been disciplined and insists | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
that the matter is closed. We have been hoping for decent weather over | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
the Easter break but are we in luck? You are for the first half the | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
weekend. But by the time we get to Sunday it will be wet and windy. A | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
case of how much rain we get. So through tonight. We have had a lot | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
of cloud. It clears from the north. The temperatures dipping away under | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
the clear skies. Colder than last night. The temperatures about two | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
Celsius. After a chilly start, the sunshine gets to work and it starts | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
to feel warmer. High pressure in charge across the United Kingdom. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
All of us enjoying dry and sunny conditions for Good Friday. Windy | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
along the east coast but for the majority, warm in the sunshine with | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
highs of 14 Celsius. In Wales for Good Friday it is looking glorious. | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
Lots of sunshine, light winds and highs of 14 Celsius. Some cloud but | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
not enough to spoil anything. Tomorrow night, well, underneath the | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
clear skies, the temperatures dip away. If you are planning on going | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
camping, do bear it in mind. The temperatures getting down to one | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Celsius. Saturday morning, more dry and | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
southerny weather to look forward to but by the afternoon clouding over | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
from the east. All associated with the deep area of low pressure, | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
making its way | :09:29. | :09:30. |