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Don't forget a first look at the papers over on the BBC News | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
Channel but now, The manager of the Gleision | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
colliery in the Swansea Valley where four miners died, has been | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
found not guilty of manslaughter. Malcolm Fyfield broke down | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
in tears after the verdicts were The mine owners, MNS Mining, | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
were cleared of corporate manslaughter charges. | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
Abigail Neal reports. Relief that it is all over for the | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
families of the former. The format. That realisation to that no one will | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
be convicted for their loss. Today they remember 39-year-old Garry | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
Jenkins, 44-year-old Philip Hill, David Powell who was 50, and | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
62-year-old Charles Breslin, all drowned in Gleision mine. A police | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
fears an office of the statement on behalf of the families outside | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
court. Today has been a difficult day for us all. As has been the last | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
two and a half years since we lost our love -- loved ones. We miss | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
Gary, Philip, Charles and David dearly. Not a day has passed without | :01:23. | :01:31. | |
wishing they were still with us. The events of September the 15th 2011 | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
will stay with us for the rest of our lives. After two hours of | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
consideration the jury found the manager of the mine was not | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
responsible for the men's deaths. Mr Fyfield wept as the verdicts were | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
delivered. The pet owners were also cleared. It's a shortly after nine | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
o'clock on the 15th of September 2011 that rescuers were called in to | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Gleision. The colliers had broken through to the old workings, the | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
survivor compared the sound that followed to that of the jet engine. | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
650,000 gallons of water then gushed through this hole into the area | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
where the men were working. It engulfed them in seconds. The power | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
and force of the flight showed by this jackknifed conveyor belt. The | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
community rallied around providing food for the rescue workers and | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
families as they face an anxious wait until the following day to | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
enter the mind. They received the grim news that all four trapped men | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
with that. We had to pump the water out and the teams had to go in | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
through slurry and silt and dig their way through to get and | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
retrieve the bodies. The colliers had been working towards an | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
abandoned part of the mind to try to improve ventilation. The men were | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
preparing to blast into the old workings here. The prosecution | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
claimed Holcombe Fifield had not properly inspected the area to make | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
sure there wasn't any water. He always maintained he had gone down | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
this road with on three separate occasions including the day before | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
and had found no evidence of the trapped body of water. Mr Fyfield | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
was down the mine with the men when it happened. One of three survivors | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
who managed to escape. He has never recovered from the event that they | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
are still suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Now | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
abandoned and overgrown, this is Gleision today. The mine's enters | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
barely visible, Op skewered by a fallen tree. Miners helmets can be | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
glimpsed between leaves. -- obscured. This trial has shed light | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
on what happened here in 2011. Three nurses from the | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board have been charged with | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
wilful neglect. They were arrested last summer | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
following allegations that patient notes were faked at the Princess | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
of Wales Hospital in Bridgend. The women, all from Bridgend, were | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
suspended, along with ten others, including one from Morriston | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
Hospital in Swansea last year. Girls as young as 11 can get | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
e-cigarettes easily from shops, friends, and parents, public health | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
officials have warned. Awareness and use of the devices | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
by girls is common in some parts Most could name five vapour | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
flavours, while some did not know e-cigarettes | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
could contain nicotine. The leader of the body that | :04:25. | :04:34. | |
represents council bosses has accused the Welsh Government | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
of ignoring their concerns over proposals to halve the number | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
of local authorities in Wales. Bob Wellington also told his annual | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
conference that local government was The Welsh Government insists that | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
a series of mergers is essential. Are there any prizes | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
in local government reorganisation? The seaside towns of Rhyl is | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
in Denbighshire which could merge with neighbouring Conwy if | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
recommendations set out in a report Would people here be sad to see | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
the back of Denbighshire? It will mean, perhaps, there would | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
be more resources to go around, I think most of the money will go to | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
Conwy and Llandudno. Down the road, the market town | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
of Abergele is part of Conwy. How do the people here feel about | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
merging with their neighbours? It's smaller and more personable | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
but you would also get better I think Conwy Council does | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
a better job than In another part of Conwy, Llandudno, | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
council leaders were gathering The Local Government Minister Lesley | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
Griffith set out a timetable for new elections | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
and insisted change is on its way despite scepticism | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
among some council leaders that What this is | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
about is ensuring we have local governments fit for the 21st | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
century, resilient local authorities The messages is, | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
wake up and smell the coffee. The council leaders say now is not | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
the time as they are being asked to deliver English style cuts with | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
Welsh Government style ambition. Local government is being squeezed | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
and have been squeezed for the last three years. There is worse coming | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
down the track. We need to have | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
a proper discussion and dialogue with the Welsh Government | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
in order to put things in place, The holidaymakers have been out | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
in balmy Llandudno this week but there is nothing to allow | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
councils to relax. The Welsh Labour Party meets this | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
weekend to try to decide The Assembly's Presiding Officer has | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
said no further action will be taken after claims Monmouth AM Nick Ramsay | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
was drunk in the Senedd chamber. A member of the public complained | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
about his demeanour and delivery Wales' women strengthened | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
their grip on second place in their World Cup qualifyingGroup with a 3-0 | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
win over Belarus this afternoon. Natasha Harding's late hat-trick | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
secured the away victory, leaving them five points | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
behind group leaders England. Four runners-ups from the seven | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
pools will go into the play-offs. Wales play England next on August | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
the 21st. Wales have made two changes for the | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
second Test against South Africa with Samson Lee replacing Adam Jones | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
in the front row and Josh Turnbull Scrum half Mike Phillips keeps | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
his place despite pressure from Scarlets number nine Gareth | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
Davies who remains on the bench. Coach Warren Gatland says the team | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
want to finish the season off with a big performance on Saturday | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
and show what they're capable of. in for a drive we are in for a dry | :07:45. | :08:08. | |
weekend thanks to high pressure. A few clouds, one of two missed | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
patches forming and a comfortable night. Then, lowers temperatures | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
10-14 degrees. Tomorrow morning will be nice and dry with any early mist | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
disappearing. Some lovely sunshine. The reason for this spell of fine | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
weather is high pressure over the Atlantic and it is going to stay | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
with us right through the weekend. Tomorrow across the UK, most of the | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
country dry. There will be some clouds around the sunny spells as | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
well and lovely sunshine on much of the coasts and stop the exception of | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
the far north of Scotland. A few spots of rain on Shetland. 23 | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
Celsius in London. In Wales, it is looking drive with patchy cloud in | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
the south. The south. Otherwise glorious sunshine with the highest | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
temperatures in the south and south-east, after 22. A little bit | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
cooler in the north and west especially on the coast with the | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
breeze off the sea. As we look forward to the weekend, Saturday is | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. It is looking quite | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
promising, tried with some clouds around with good sales of sunshine | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
as well. Again it'll be one missed in the south that even of the north | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
and west coasts where you will have a breeze, it will feel pleasant. The | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
antiques road show is visiting to be a house on Sunday in Newport. Fine | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
and warmth there. The viewer heading to the seaside on Sunday there will | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
be some strong sunshine so don't forget the sun cream. The sea | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
temperature around 16 Celsius. Some lovely weather this weekend and that | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
is more to come next week. That's all for now. We'll be back | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
tomorrow at Breakfast. | :09:50. | :09:55. |