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building society. That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's headlines. A woman is arrested on | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
suspicion of attempted murder after two children are found with knife | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
wounds in Newport. When I got up and saw the | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
pandemonium, and the next thing I saw was then running out with these | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
two children. And putting them in separate ambulances. | :00:27. | :00:40. | |
As an inmate at Prescoed prison is sentenced for drug trafficking - a | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
judge says it's staggering Matthew Roberts was allowed to use a mobile | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
phone. Caring for patients with cancer - a new measure of how the | :00:47. | :00:56. | |
NHS performs will be trialled. Garry Monk will definitely have his full | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
now. He's confirmed as Swansea City's new manager. | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
He has been there a while, he knows what to do. I suppose we have to | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
give him a chance. He has kept us in the division. Good luck to him. And | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
best known for his novel The Virgin Soldier, we remember Newport writer | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Leslie Thomas, who's died at the age of 83. | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
Good evening. A woman from Newport has been arrested on suspicion of | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
the attempted murder of two children. A seven-year-old boy and a | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
16-month-old baby girl were taken to hospital with knife wounds following | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
an incident this morning. Our reporter Jordan Davies is in Newport | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
for us. Officers have been here all day | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
searching the top flop flat behind me. They've been speaking to | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
residents, taking names and addresses. So they can speak to them | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
in the future. And I've been speaking to neighbours, who have | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
told me the woman arrested is the mother of the injured children. Now | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
while all this is happening, this cordon will stay up. If nothing | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
else, to reassure people, after this terrible incident. | :02:14. | :02:14. | |
Forensics officers letting themselves in to a flat, but unsure | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
of what they may find. Their job, to try and piece together the chain of | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
events. That led to a 27-year-old woman being arrested on suspicion of | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
the attempted murder of two children. A seven-year-old boy and | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
16-month-old baby girl both suffered knife wounds in the incident. And a | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
knife was removed from the scene early on. Along with other items. I | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
went straight out of the back garden to look and there were police cars, | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
CAD, ambulances, that's all I could see -- CID. There were loads here. | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
And then those two young children being carried out. And putting | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
separate ambulances. The way they were running out with them, it was | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
frightening. They just ran out with the children wrapped up in blankets. | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
Neighbours say the woman arrested is the mother of the children. A | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
connection not confirmed by the police. One of your neighbours saw a | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
young woman? A young woman being walked along here in a dressing | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
gown, apparently her hands were behind her back. She was put into a | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
police car. The children are now being treated in the Royal Gwent, | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
where they're said to be in a stable condition. | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
This block is mainly made up of residential flats for the elderly. | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
Neighbours say the young woman and the children moved here recently. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
And the children would often be seen playing out the front. This is a | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
tragic but isolated incident and I would like to reassure residents of | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
Newport that we are not looking for anyone else in connection with this | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
case. I have put additional offices in the area to support local | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
communities and our thoughts and wishes are with the family of the | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
children at this difficult time. Officers will now continue to search | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
the flat and find out more about those involved. To determine, why | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
and how, this happened. And as we've heard, police say they | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
aren't looking for anyone else in connection with this at the moment. | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
We have had an update. The 27-year-old woman who was being | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
treated for knife wounds has now been released and Gwent police say | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
they will speak to her as soon as her health permits. | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
New ways of measuring how the NHS in Wales performs when it comes to | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
caring for patients with cancer will be trialled across the country. It | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
follows concerns that the targets used at the moment don't properly | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
reflect the clinical results for patients. But opposition parties | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
have raised questions about the Welsh Government's plans. Our health | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
correspondent Owain Clarke has more. Kath Jones was told she had breast | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
cancer in January last year. It was devastating news and like others in | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
a similar situation, she clung on she would get the best treatment as | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
quickly as possible. Actually getting myself heard, being listened | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
to and getting referred to the correct place, that is what I found | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
to be the struggle. Once I was referred, everything moved very | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
quickly and the system was there in place. I am grateful that happened | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
for me. Sadly there are people that does not happen for. She has now got | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
her life back on track but how does the NHS measure whether or not the | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
cancer care provides -- it provides is up to scratch across the board? | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
Cancer care such as that provided here in Cardiff is judged against | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
two key targets. The patient is referred to a specialist eye AGP, | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
the 95% of confirmed cases should start treatment within 62 days. That | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
target has not been met for several years. A second target involves | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
patient had had gone to hospital feeling ill but not suspected cancer | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
but have later been diagnosed with the disease. 90 ascent of those | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
patients should receive treatment within 31 days. That target was met | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
in Wales in February. But according to this specialist, those targets | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
give a skewed picture? It is overly complex and treat all patients as if | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
they are the same. We know that some patients were diagnosed with | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
emergency conditions, they need treatment within 24 hours, not 62 | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
days. In the new system, waiting time for all cancer patients in | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Wales will be measured together. It is hoped that eventually for the | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
very first time it will be possible for patients to compare typical, | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
maximum and minimum waiting times across Wales for different types of | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
cancer. But changes like this are not new. In March, the Welsh | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
Government announced new targets for the ambulance service and Accident | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
and Emergency departments. And then like now, in the Calder of Cardiff | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
Bay, opposition parties have questioned the motives of the Welsh | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
Government, arguing this is another attempt to change the goalposts | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
after a dismal record in trying to hit the traditional targets. The new | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
targets will be tested in the coming months by six of Wales' health | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
boards. And for patients, the key question is, not how good the | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
targets are but whether or not they lead to better care for so many | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
people. Checks on slogans used by political | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
parties are to be tightened after the name of the murdered soldier Lee | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
Rigby was allowed onto ballots for this month's European Elections in | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
Wales. Britain First's slogan "Remember Lee Rigby" will appear | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
where they are fielding candidates. An Electoral Commission official has | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
resigned over the matter. A 16-year-old boy from Cardiff has | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
been arrested over alleged offensive messages made on social media about | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
the death of Leeds teacher Ann Maguire. He's been bailed pending | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
psychiatric assessment. A judge has described the way | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
serving prisoners were able use mobile phones to run drug operations | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
from behind bars as staggering. Seven men were today sentenced to a | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
total of more than 30 years for their part in conspiring to traffic | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
cocaine and mephedrone into south Wales. Cemlyn Davies was in court. | :08:26. | :08:36. | |
Five men who admitted to supplying cocaine in the South Wales area | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
between October 2012 and April 2014. Today they were sentenced. The | :08:41. | :08:52. | |
Class A drug was brought from Bristol and delivered either to | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
Pugh's home address in Port Talbot or to his parents house nearby. The | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
deliveries were organised by Mathew Roberts who was an inmate first at | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
HMP Leyhill in Gloucestershire and then at Prescoed in Monmouthshire. | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
They're both open prisons. The court heard he was given a mobile phone to | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
use on temporary release but he was found to be using several handsets | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
to arrange the drug trafficking. Open prisons are already under | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
scrutiny following the escape of Michael Wheatley from a low security | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
jail in Kent. The so called skull cracker has now been found. Today's | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
case at Swansea Crown Court has raised further concerns about the | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
way open prisons are run. It is unacceptable that people in an open | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
prison are able to carry out a large drug dealing operation and the | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
government are looking into this at the moment. There has been a problem | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
with open prisons for years and there always will be problems | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
because the Ark a kind of high for a house. -- halfway house. Two other | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
men, Richard Saltmarsh and Andrew Clay, were also sentenced today for | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
conspiring to supply mephedrone, or meow meow, to be distributed in | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
south Wales. Saltmarsh was an inmate at a category b prison in | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
Warwickshire at the time and he was using three mobile phones illegally | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
to make deals with Mathew Roberts and others from behind bars. The | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
judge said the way he was able to access the phones was staggering and | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
beggars belief. Sentencing the seven men to a total of more than 30 years | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
in prison for their part in the conspiracies the judge, his honour | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
Peter Heywood said drug trafficking is a significant and acute problem | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
in south Wales. And he praised the police for bringing the gang to | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
justice. A head teacher has stepped aside | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
from his post temporarily, during an investigation by governors and | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
Swansea council. Ysgol Gyfun Bryn Tawe said that following a | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
complaint, the deputy head would be managing the school for the time | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
being. The action was taken after a film was posted on social media | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
sites by pupils from the Welsh language secondary. | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
The head of BBC Cymru Wales says he's concerned about a drop of a | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
sixth in the number of people watching S4C's evening programmes. | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
Rhodri Talfan Davies said audiences for peak-time programmes on the | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
Welsh language channel could shrink even further. S4C says focussing on | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
one performance measure created an incomplete picture and his comments | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
have been noted by supporters concerned about the independence of | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
the broadcaster. Over now to arm arts and media | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
correspondent. The BBC makes hundreds of hours of | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
programmes every year for S4C, including the soap opera Pobol y Cwm | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
and many of them appear in the evening peak-time slot. The vast | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
majority of the channel's funding comes from the BBC licence fee. ?76 | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
million this year, but the Welsh language channel is supposed to | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
remain operationally and editorially independent. So Rhodri Talfan Davies | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
calling a 17% drop in viewers tuning into that slot over the past two | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
years a real worry has exposed the sensitivities that still exist | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
between the two broadcasters. It is a concern to me if a senior BBC | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
executive is commenting on what seems like a managerial decision at | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
S4C, even if it is not an actual attempt to intervene. You have to be | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
hugely careful there is not a perception that the BBC is seeking | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
to intervene. Neither broadcaster was available to speak to me today, | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
but Ian Jones, S4C's chief executive, said in a statement that | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
he regularly discusses the falling ratings of peak-time programmes with | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
the BBC, not least because BBC programmes are often being shown at | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
that time of day. BBC Wales said it was keen to tackle this shared | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
issue. While peak-time audiences have fallen lately, S4C has been | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
investing in new ways of watching the channel. Its most recent figures | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
show programmes were accessed almost three million times on its website, | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
and some in the industry say S4C's audience is choosing to watch a lot | :12:45. | :12:56. | |
more online. Any collapse in viewing figures of course is a concern to | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
anybody but what one has to bear in mind is how these figures have been | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
got at in the first place. We have to remember that people watch | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
television not just on television any more. They watch it on their | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
laptops and iPads. It is likely to see to -- slightly disingenuous to | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
say that the figures are down when you have only looking at one source | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
of figures. But Rhodri Talfan Davies said the extent of the decline at | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
S4C was greater than the trend across the industry, so the | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
channel's shrinking audience is not down to the internet alone. | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
Still to come tonight. Campaigners fight against a ten mile path of | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
pylons to connect wind farms in Denbighshire to the national grid. | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
It's a big tourist destination and a picture postcard scene, but for the | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
past 20 years, Llyn Padarn at the foot of Snowdon has also been the | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
scene for a legal battle about pollution. But today, the legal | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
representatives on behalf of the local anglers who use the lake are | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
claiming a victory. Iolo ap Dafydd is there for us this evening. | :14:01. | :14:12. | |
Good evening. Yes, it is one of the most stunning views in Wales and | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Snowdon, by the way, is up there in the clouds. There have been claims | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
and counterclaims about elution -- pollution. Natural Resources Wales | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
would argue that it has not failed the environment, that it is looking | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
after the environment, but it will now concede to look at this | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
investigation once more and we'll do that until as far back as 2007. Dwr | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
Cymru Welsh Water says it is looking for a long-term solution to the | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
local sewage system that concedes it needs to update one of its permits. | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
The lake is quiet, only a handful of tourists enjoying the clean air and | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
only a few out on the lake before the full summer season starts. But | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
beneath these waters lies a long-standing problem. Local anglers | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
feel vindicated that the authorities will have to look again at sea which | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
pollution and a possible reduction in the rare Arctic charr fish. The | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
Welsh; should be directing people like natural resources Wales and Dwr | :15:20. | :15:31. | |
Cymru water. A lot of work has been done when -- in the recent years | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
when the spread of Al-Qaeda alarmed many in the area. -- algae. | :15:38. | :15:49. | |
We have asked Welsh Water to look in and investigate where the studies | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
are happening. It has been apparent that one of the overflows may well | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
be operating not aligned with the current conditions. Doesn't that | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
show that regulation is not working? As regular readers, you are not | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
doing your job. Obviously, the system is a complex is dumb. The | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
pipes are underground. They wrote -- a complex system. | :16:17. | :16:26. | |
This was used after heavy rainfall. Dwr Cymru Welsh Water says it has | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
invested ?2.5 million since 2009 on improving the local sewage system | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
that will need to amend the permit on this which bike. -- sewage pipe. | :16:40. | :16:49. | |
This has been designated as Wales' first inland bathing water. The | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
quality of the lake is very good. In very wet weather, we do have to | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
operate and storm water does find its way into the lake. Tough | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
assumptions could be imposed by Natural Resources Wales -- | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
sanctions. A public meeting is being held | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
tonight to hear concerns about plans to build electricity pylons across | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
parts of Conwy and Denbighshire. ScottishPower Manweb wants to supply | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
power from wind farms in the Clocaenog Forest to the National | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
Grid, via a substation near St Asaph. But residents say they want | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
the cables to be laid underground to preserve the landscape. | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
From Anglesey to Carmarthenshire, Powys to Conwy and Denbighshire | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
there are a number of recent cases where residents and electricity | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
suppliers have failed to agree over the placement of pylons. This | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
evening in Llanefydd near St Asaph four local communities will join | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
forces to oppose plans for 17 kilometres of 15 metre high wooden | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
poles carrying power from wind farms to a substation. In Cefn Meiriadog, | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
the community has already defeated plans for a crematorium on farmland | :17:52. | :18:01. | |
there. It is essential for people affected by the root of these | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
pylons. And the expectation is that we can hopefully persuade them to | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
put the cables underground. With another big development on the cards | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
they're determined to protect the landscape from even more power | :18:18. | :18:26. | |
cables. It is the possibly -- population of the UK as a whole that | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
benefits from these projects. It is the wind farm and power companies | :18:31. | :18:40. | |
that profit from them. It is more defenceless communities that pay the | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
price, at the end of the day, because we see a landscape slashed | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
across by these power lines. The energy company behind the plans has | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
set out its case in local exhibitions like this, its thought | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
to prefer running cables overground. The company says that residents have | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
until the 18th of May to have their voices heard and they will listen to | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
any concerns before submitting their final planning application later | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
this year. The communities represented at tonight's meeting | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
largely support the need for renewable energy but hope that | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
joining forces will give them a powerful argument against pylons. | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
He's been doing the job for three months already, but today Swansea | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
City confirmed that Garry Monk would be their manager on a permanent | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
basis. The club's former captain has been given a three year contract, a | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
reward for steering them clear of relegation this season. Here's our | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
sports reporter Ashleigh Crowter. His accent is more London but after | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
ten years at the club, is Swansea through and through. And after | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
captaining the club in every division and a brief spell standing | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
in as head coach, the hierarchy has now placed their trust in their | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
former central defender. Keeping Swansea in the top flight was the | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
task set for him after former manager Michael Laudrup was sacked | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
in February. After doing it with two games to spare, he was always the | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
main name in the frame to be the permanent successor. Chairman Hugh | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
Jenkins told the club 's website today that the board had unanimously | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
agreed that the timing was right for him to be offered the job on a | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
permanent basis. He said they had been impressed with his workrate and | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
commitment since taking over and how we had adapted in very difficult | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
circumstances to secure the points they needed to remain in the top | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
flight. In the last decade, Swansea have had a Rihanna of finding the | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
best writing managers. -- a real Mac. -- | :20:31. | :20:42. | |
and the decision has also been well received by the club 's supporters. | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
I thought maybe a bigger name but you have to give him a chance. He | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
has kept us in the division. Good luck to him. He is the backbone of | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
the club. He will be good. He has managed to keep Swansea, he is the | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
right man for the job. It is a big ask for him to come straight in with | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
his experience into a Premier league club but he has the backing of the | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
board, the backing of the team. As the youngest manager in the top | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
flight and the father of newborn twins, he certainly has his hands | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
full this summer. He was best known for his comic | :21:20. | :21:27. | |
novel The Virgin Soldiers, author Leslie Thomas, who was brought up in | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
Newport, has died at the age of 83. His wife Diana has paid tribute, | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
saying he had a wonderful life and died with his family around him. Our | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
reporter Natasha Livingstone looks back at his life. | :21:39. | :21:48. | |
I cannot imagine anyone writing a book that was not partially | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
autobiographical. I like writing nonfiction but I cannot separate it. | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
Leslie Thomas rose to become one of Lytton 's most popular novelists of | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
the 1970s. At the time, he was the highest-paid writer in the UK and a | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
television celebrity but before finding fame, he grew up in Newport. | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
He left Wales at the age of 12 but Wales never left him. I feel Welsh. | :22:13. | :22:25. | |
I cross that bridge and I begin talking the accent. I find my accent | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
changes in a moment. He was sent to live in a -- an orphanage in Devon | :22:30. | :22:39. | |
after his parents died. Kids used to coming to listen to the | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
stories. I thought, there is a living in this. He got his first | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
writing job on a newspaper but was soon caught up to serve in the army. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
At experience provided the inspiration for his first novel. | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
When it was sold in America, I could not believe the money. But it set me | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
up as a novelist. He went on to write a book a year for 40 years, | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
travelling the world for new stories but he always return to his memory | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
of South Wales. All of his novels featured at least one Welsh location | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
or character. He may not have been one of the greatest writers and he | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
would have been the first to admit that himself. He was a jobbing | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
writer and I think as far as his attitude to his work goes, he was a | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
great role model for any writer today. He was forced to give up his | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
writing in 2010 following a serious illness. He died yesterday at his | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
family home in Wiltshire. I look at the books on the shelf now and I | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
think, where did that come from? But God gives you this gift and anchored | :23:48. | :23:56. | |
it happens. -- thank God. Leslie Thomas, who's died at the age of 83. | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
And you can see more on the author's life in a special programme, Great | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
Welsh Writers, at 10pm tonight on BBC Two Wales. Well, quite a few | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
showers about today, so just in case you've caught out, Derek, will we | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
need to keep brollies handy over the next few days? | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
That would be a good idea, Lucy. It may be dry at the moment but there's | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
more rain on the way tomorrow followed by showers and some | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
inclement weather on the way for the weekend. This evening a few showers | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
here and there. Some dry weather as well. A few gaps in the cloud with | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
rain in mid, south and west Wales later in the night. The wind easing | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
with lowest temperatures seven to ten Celsius. Tomorrow the jet | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
stream, strong winds high in the atmosphere will be right over Wales. | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
So here's the picture for eight in the morning. A few places dry but | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
generally cloudy with outbreaks of rain. Heavy in places. The wind | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
light at this stage. A bit breezier on the coast. During the day further | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
rain at times. Heavy in places in the afternoon. Typically five to | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
10mm. More on higher ground in the south and west. However, later in | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
the afternoon the rain should ease with a largely dry evening. Top | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
temperatures around 14 Celsius and becoming breezy again. In Merionedd | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
tomorrow, cloudy with rain at times. Some of it heavy. Dry by evening | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
with a high of 13 in Corwen. Tomorrow night a few showers | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
otherwise a lot of dry weather. Breezy. Windy on the south and west | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
coast. Friday heavy, thundery showers first thing will clear | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
followed by sunny spells and scattered showers. And a blustery | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
wind will make it feel cool. On Saturday the weather looks set to | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
take a turn for the worse with an area of low pressure tracking across | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
Ireland. This will bring a spell of unpleasant weather for the time of | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
year. Heavy rain followed by showers. Gusty winds as well. Sunday | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
cool and windy. Further rain and showers. Heavy in places with a few | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
bright intervals. You may have read that there's a heatwave on the way. | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
No sign of one as far as I can see. It may become warmer and drier later | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
this month but not definite yet. In the meantime, outbreaks of rain | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
tomorrow. Sunny spells and showers on Friday. And the waterproofs will | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
come in handy over the weekend. That's all for now. We'll have an | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
update at 8pm, more news at 10.25pm. From all of us here, good evening. | :25:58. | :25:59. |