06/06/2014 BBC Wales Today

Veterans from Wales have been in France to mark the 70th

After meeting those who served, First Minister Carwyn Jones said we

Leaders, veterans and citizens from across the globe, he had to remember

the price we paid in a country we liberated.

The First Minister was at a ceremony to honour the 3935 British soldiers

killed jawing the Normandy campaign. It is very impressive. Afterwards, a

chance to catch up with one of the Welsh veterans. It great honour to

be here representing Wales, and an even greater honour to be in the

company of such great men who, here 70 years ago, on the beaches, very

difficult now for us to imagine what it must've been like for them. But

for them to come back is exceptionally emotional. And it has

been a remarkable event. The veterans heroes here. Everyone wants

to stop, chat, and have an autograph. 19 the -- 90 old Gordon

was a dispatch rider. He was given a special celebrity treatment.

I can't get over it. It's fantastic! People want to take photographs.

It's embarrassing. We were just ordinary lads when we came in 1944.

We had to get on with the job. People say, were you scared? Of

course we were scared. Anyone who wasn't scared was an idiot. Some of

us survived, thank God we are still here today. Sword Beach on D-Day

took international centre stage this afternoon. Everyone who was anyone

was here. There were 18 heads of state and 7,000 people watching for

the biggest D-Day, narration the world has ever seen. -- D-Day, Ray.

We caught up with Gordon. The last time to show his family where he

fought. It is a good way to show them where I served. I have some way

to go yet. I remember it all. Away from centre stage, there are dozens

of smaller ceremonies and parades happening across Normandy.

88-year-old Eddie Linton lost 90 comrades when his frigate was hit by

a U-boat. Like the 1,000 other veterans today, it is their bravery

and sacrifice he will never forget. The Normandy veterans Association is

disbanding and this'll be the last major commemoration. Today we are

able to say that the world was here, paying homage to the men who

fought our freedom. -- fought for our freedom.

The former Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain, has announced this

evening that he's standing down at the next general election.

Mr Hain, who's the MP for Neath, said it had been a privilege to

serve his constituency for nearly a quarter of a century,

I've been in politics for nearly 50 years. All my life, really. I'm not

going to go away. I'm going to fight for Neath. I will live here, and I

want to fight for Labour and the support Ed Miliband. And I can do

that in all sorts of different ways. It's been a tough decision because I

am very close to Neath. I am very privileged to have represented this

constituency and done all I've done in government as well and I will

fight for Labour in the future. Our Political Editor Nick

Servini is with me. So tell us about this decision.

A surprise? It was a surprise. He was due to

stand for election at the general election next year in Neath, and we

were filming with him this week to mark 15 years since the start of

devolution, and there was no indication that this is what he was

planning. The big question is what will he do in the future? As that

interview indicates, he certainly wants to remain in politics. I

thought his statement earlier was interesting because he said it was

time to find new ways to represent the new progressive politics to

which he and Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, are committed. The fact he

has consulted so closely with Ed Miliband would suggest that an

opportunity and a future career opportunity in the House of Lords

would be a possibility. We specifically asked him about that

tonight but he is refusing to speculate on that. He has been a big

hit in Welsh politics for decades. Very high profile. Many people

became aware of him as a prominent anti-apartheid campaigner. And in

those protests against high-profile rugby and cricket tours to South

Africa in the apartheid era, he is from South Africa originally. He has

been the MP for Neath for 23 years, Welsh Secretary in the 1997

referendum campaign, he has been Work and Pensions minister, and

probably outside of Wales 's most prominent role was as Northern

Ireland Secretary in the period of 2005-2007, which coincided with a

historic decommissioning process by the IRA. Thank you.

Six men have been charged with a total of 27 serious sexual

assault charges in an investigation into historical abuse in

They?re due to appear before magistrates next week.

The offences are alleged to have taken place

against two boys under 16, between 1981 and 1986, in Wrexham.

The aircraft manufacturer, Airbus, has admitted it failed to ensure the

health and safety of its employees at its factory in Broughton.

The charge followed the death in 2011 of Donald Williams

An earlier inquest heard he'd been crushed by a tractor at the end

The company will be sentenced next month.

The head teacher and another member of staff at a Swansea secondary

school have resigned after what appeared to be a sex tape

Graham Daniels was suspended from Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bryn Tawe,

along with another member of staff, after a complaint about the video.

The school says the resignations are not necessarily linked to

Cricket and a great wind for Glamorgan in the T20 Blast.

They beat Somerset to wind by seven runs.

It's their third wind on the bounce in the competition.

The defending Commonwealth Champion Dai Greene

will lead Wales' athletics team at the Games in Glasgow next month.

The 400m hurdler from Llanelli, who took gold in Delhi, is one of 27

The London 2012 medallist Aled Davies will head a six-strong

Well, some heavy rain forecast for tomorrow.

Derek has all the details in the weekend forecast.

The humidity is rising and trouble is brewing with some heavy rain and

But it's not going to be a total wash-out this weekend, I can

Dry for most of us tonight, although I wouldn't rule out

You may see a few flashes of lightning.

Tomorrow, we have a Met Office warning in force which covers most

of Wales, apart from the south-west and Pembrokeshire.

It might start off dry in the North, but thundery rain will spread

Could be some torrential rain in places, too.

Across the rest of the UK, thundery rain will spread northwards

during today, torrential rain in places with a risk of hail

and gusty winds, flash flooding a possibility but not everywhere.

The far north of Scotland is staying fine and dry.

And drier, brighter weather will spread from the south-west

across the southern half of the UK during the afternoon.

A high of 22 Celsius in London will feel quite muggy.

Tomorrow afternoon in Wales at 3pm, the worst

There will be a few showers dotted around.

But more in the way of dry weather, some sunshine as well,

Some sunshine tomorrow evening, just one or two showers.

And after midnight a few more showers

You may catch a heavy shower but, on the whole, plenty of dry

weather, there will be sunny spells and it will feel pleasantly warm.

So, heavy rain and thunderstorms clearing tomorrow.

Sunday the best day of the weekend, and it's looking

Next week on Wales Today, we'll be asking has devolution improved

To mark the National Assembly's 15th birthday, every day next week we'll

look at whether delivered a stronger economy,

That is Wales Today. We are back at 6:50am tomorrow, but from all of us

here, goodbye.