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Welcome to Wales Today from Llandaff Cathedral. | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
The First Minister Carwyn Jones joins other political leaders | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
in tribute to the Welsh fallen of the First World War. | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
Nobody knew how many lives could be lost but we have to remember and | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
understand how it all started in order to avoid it happening again. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
This evening last minute rehearsals are taking place before tonight's | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
We'll be travelling across the country to learn how | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Wales dealt with the outbreak of war 100 years ago. | :00:44. | :01:03. | |
Also tonight - the family of pensioner, Arthur | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
Jones, who went missing six weeks ago while walking on Crete, are told | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
It is deeply upsetting and a big shock to receive some news but | :01:09. | :01:25. | |
comforting to know he was doing something he enjoyed. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
The first ever lifetime sports ban for this father of five boxers after | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
And confusion on day one of the temporary closures on this M4 | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
It's aimed at cutting congestion at Port Talbot - | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Good evening and welcome to Llandaff Cathedral. | :01:41. | :01:52. | |
Last minute rehearsals are taking place now before tonight's | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
National Service of Commemoration marking the beginning of the First | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
The declaration of war came at 11 o'clock in the evening and | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
for an hour tonight, lights will be put out in public buildings | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
By the end of the war in 1918 around 40,000 soldiers from Wales had died. | :02:09. | :02:20. | |
Inside the cathedral, a rehearsal and they they will not be a | :02:21. | :02:39. | |
celebration but commemoration. The thoughts here will turn to the Welsh | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
who marched off to war a century ago. A time to reflect on past and | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
to pray peace now. Earlier, the First Minister was in Glasgow where | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
he joined the Prince of Wales and political leaders. It is a day to | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
remember. Nobody knew what would happen and how many lives would be | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
lost and it is important that we remember those who died and | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
understand how it all started in order to avoid it happening again. | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
It is a service of thanking God that we live in a country where ever it | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
is possible to have freedom and for people to say what their -- they | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
like. There is a note of repentance because to be involved in war is | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
always to be involved in sin and therefore it is right that we should | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
repent of our part in that and also to dedicate ourselves to fight for | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
peace. Reminders of the great War and horrors all around us in cities | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
and towns and villages across Wales. War memorials stand in | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
testament to a terrible loss. Tens of thousands from Wales never came | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
home and the sacrifice is not lost on succeeding generations. We need | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
to remember things that have happened in the past. My father | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
volunteered. He was wounded, gassed and he lived until he was 57. It | :04:14. | :04:24. | |
means a lot to me. Susan has travelled from her home in Spain to | :04:25. | :04:35. | |
join the commemorations. We didn't know a lot about him. They told us | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
he had died and was buried in Belgium. 1918, he died, towards the | :04:42. | :04:51. | |
end of the war. He was 23. There was a set of brothers that we didn't | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
know about and we found out all sorts of things about the family. On | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
August 14 -- August the 4th, 1914, people lined the streets. Few would | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
imagine the slaughter that was to come. Slowly changing the faces of | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
those that went to war and they will be projected onto a wall in Bangla | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
tonight. This is one of dozens of events taking place across Wales. | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
Tonight, between ten and 11, we are all being asked to switch off our | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
lights to mark the moment war was declared. In Denbighshire, there | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
would be a torchlit walk. There will be a vigil for peace in Carmarthen. | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
Candles will light a procession through the streets of Newtown. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
There are 200 events in Wales and there are hundreds in the UK. It is | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
a time for reflection of what the loss is worth 100 years ago and | :05:58. | :06:09. | |
continue today. What they endured is also unimaginable and they are not | :06:10. | :06:20. | |
forgotten. Roger is with me now. There are 350 people coming from all | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
walks of Welsh life. The Royal family will be represented by the | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. Carwyn Jones will be here and will | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
read from a poem. The service does two things. It deals with the events | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
of 100 years ago but also deals with the here and now and there will be a | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
message of peace and goodwill for today presented by representatives | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
of the Welsh league of youth. This is one of those events that really | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
we have to look ahead to. The focus will come towards the end of the | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
service when there will be a period of silence, the cathedral will be | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
lit by a single candle and at 11 o'clock, the moment that war was | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
declared, a Bell will toll out across the city. | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
This is the first of a few events that will span over many years. | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
At the moment, exhibitions opening in village halls, museums and | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
galleries throughout Wales but it is also affecting individual farmers. | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
People are looking at their own family history and the roles that | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
they played in the First World War. Next week the focus for Wales will | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
turn to Flanders and Belgium with the new Welsh memorial that will be | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
dedicated and unveiled. I can faintly hear the musicians | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
tuning up in the cathedral behind me. Our reporters have been combing | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
the archives to find the remarkable stories of communities across Wales | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
from 100 years ago. First, back to the studio. | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
Tests are being carried out on a body found on Crete, to | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
establish if it's that of missing Denbigh pensioner, Arthur Jones. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
The 73-year-old was last seen six weeks ago, after telling relatives | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
Former soldier Arthur Jones regularly took off on energetic solo | :08:20. | :08:29. | |
He told his family in a postcard that he was off to | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
explore the hills around Chania on Crete shortly after arriving. | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
But after leaving the hotel on 19th June hadn't been seen again. | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
A man's body has been discovered under a tree near the resort. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Tests are being carried out to establish if it's that | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
The body of a man was found sitting under a tree. The theory we had was | :08:47. | :09:01. | |
that he had gone out for a walk and had suffered some medical episode | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
and might have been seeking shade. We were informed that a body has | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
been found believed to be that of my father, Arthur Jones. It is deeply | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
upsetting and a big shock to finally receive some news but comforting to | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
know that he was doing something he enjoyed. | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Arthur Jones' disappearance prompted a major social media campaign. | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
People from across the world posted pictures to highlight the search | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
and the Prime Minister was asked to do more to help. | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
A mountain rescue expert and two police missing persons | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
specialists from North Wales went to Crete to offer their expertise. | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
The global effort to find Arthur may have reached a tragic conclusion but | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
his family want to pay tribute to all those who did their bit to help. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
The father of five boxers from Risca, near Newport, has been | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
banned for life from all sport after admitting supplying steroids. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Philip Tinklin is the first person to be given | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
His 20-year-old daughter, Sophie Tinklin, | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
who's a Welsh Amateur champion boxer has been given a four year ban. | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Philip Tinklin has been involved in boxing in south-east Wales for years | :10:04. | :10:18. | |
but today he is beginning a lifetime ban from all sport for supplying | :10:19. | :10:27. | |
steroids. His daughter, Sophie, a Welsh woman's champion last year has | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
been banned for four years. Today, UK anti-doping described their | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
enterprise as a family business. The panel doesn't and out lifetime | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
sanctions for nothing and they chose to see this as a significant network | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
which is exactly how we pitched it to them and as a result, we have a | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
lifetime ban. It wasn't just a kitchen table operation, it was a | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
significant steroid network. 3000 tablets similar to this were found | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
at his house. Earlier this year he pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
Court to one count of supplying anabolic steroids. Philip Tinklin | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
drove and accompanied all five of his children to boxing competitions | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
and to training including here. He wasn't registered coach but was | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
considered so involved in there that he fell -- fell into anti-doping | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
rules. It is something against our own anti-doping policy and if that | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
is the case, the band is well-deserved. Philip Tinklin's case | :11:38. | :11:47. | |
follows the man handed to Dean, who was banned. BBC Wales has tried to | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
speak to Philip Tinklin but hasn't been able to get a response. A | :11:53. | :12:04. | |
Cottage in Powys will be knocked down. It is where April Jones was | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
murdered by Mr Bridger in 2012. They say the house has been a constant | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
reminder and the demolition would be a huge weight of the family's minds. | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
A convicted drug trafficker from Swansea, who's been on the run | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
for more than three years, will appear before an extradition court | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
in South Africa next month, after being arrested in Johannesburg. | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
Fugitive, Martin Evans, was apprehended by Interpol | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
at the weekend, in a joint operation with the National Crime Agency. | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
He ran a multi-million pound cocaine operation and an Ostrich farming | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
scam which conned Welsh investors out of nearly ?1 million. | :12:34. | :12:42. | |
The controversial twice-a-day closure of a slip road on the M4 | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
For the next eight months, Junction 41 of the westbound | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
motorway will close for two hours on weekday mornings and evenings | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
But local businesses are concerned it could harm the town's economy. | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
Traffic running smoothly around Port Talbot but it can be | :13:02. | :13:16. | |
bumper-to-bumper. A new skink started today to control the flow of | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
traffic onto the motorway but not everyone has read the signs. This is | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
the scene that will greets drivers as they try to join the M4 between | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
me hours of seven in the morning and nine and 4pm until 6pm in the | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
evening. The Welsh government road back in the face of opposition. Shop | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
owners like Steve are concerned about the impact on local | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
businesses. We have gone through the toughest recession I have ever known | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
and we could do without any hindrance at the moment. As we told | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
regularly come big green shoots are there but if you are going to stop | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
people coming to Port Talbot, these will cause us concerns. He is not | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
alone. 23,000 people signed petitions calling for a rethink of | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
the scheme and local politicians are also concerned. I understand the | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
congestion issues but I would like to see the average speed cameras put | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
in first to see if that will do the flow of traffic better in the first | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
instance. Others think the junction should be closed completely. | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
Disjunction is not able to take the capacity. It is slowing traffic down | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
and they should not have been built this way at all. The Welsh | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
government say it will decide the future at the end of the trial | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
period, a period that may take some drivers some time to get used to. | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
Europe's largest cultural festival, the National Eisteddfod, | :14:50. | :14:50. | |
It costs more than ?3 million to stage, and this year, | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
it's benefiting from an extra ?90,000, in a bid to help the event | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
Things are winding down now after a busy day. You can see a few buses | :14:59. | :15:17. | |
have pulled up to take visitors away. Thousands have spent the day | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
here making the most of the warm weather and enjoying the fierce | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
competition in the pavilion. The aim now is for Eisteddfod to develop and | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
modernise so even more people are tempted to come along and enjoy | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
everything that this travelling festival has two offer. There was a | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
warm welcome for the thousands of people who came through the | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
Eisteddfod gates to enjoy a Europe's largest cultural festival. | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
The roots go back 800 years, preserving that history and | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
tradition whilst also putting on a show for the 21st-century is a | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
delicate balancing act. Two years ago, the Welsh government set up a | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
task force to look at ways of modernising Eisteddfod. Top of the | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
recommendations was that it continues to travel throughout | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
Wales, bring economic and cultural benefits to communities across the | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
country. In 2010, the festival was worth ?7 million to the economy when | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
it was held in Ebbw Vale. A travelling Eisteddfod can present | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
challenges. Fundraising in the area is one. That hasn't been a problem | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
this year. The local organising committee were set a target of | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
?320,000. It has raised more than ?400,000. Residents gathered for the | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
launch of a book marking 70 years since Eisteddfod visited the | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
community. Here, they have done their bit to swell the coppers. It | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
is important so we pass on the traditions and the Welsh culture to | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
our children and to our children's children. We have to keep our | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
traditions going. As an ex-Welsh teacher, it is an extremely | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
important. Of the recommendations for modernising the festival include | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
appointing a new artistic director, looking at the competitions and | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
looking at a digital strategy. The Welsh government has given | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
Eisteddfod ?90,000 to help implement the changes. What did you make of | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
the recommendations? I was pleased with them. I am a little bit tired | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
of the word, modernisation. What it needs to do and what it has been | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
doing is trying to adapt the festival to cater for the needs of | :17:45. | :17:53. | |
today's customers. How well the Guto Dafydd's organisers will do that is | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
how many visit in the future. The main prize on offer today was the | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
Crown, ordered for the best poem written on free verse. | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
The winner was 24-year-old Guto Dafydd from Pwllheli in north Wales. | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
32 poets entered the competition but the judges said in the end their | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
Tomorrow we'll find out if anyone's won the Daniel Owen | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
That's it from the maes for this evening. | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
And you can keep up to date with all the events, online. | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
There's live coverage of all the action from the pavilion, | :18:32. | :18:41. | |
with English commentary, as well as results, video highlights | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
We can return now to Llandaff Cathedral and to Jamie Owen. | :18:44. | :18:55. | |
War was declared 100 years ago today. | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
Our reporters have been leafing through local papers, | :18:58. | :19:10. | |
rummaging in the archives to find out how the people in our towns | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
The everyday, the ordinary, the piece, on about to be shattered. | :19:14. | :19:39. | |
Wales was at war. Army reserves raced to the local headwaters to | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
report for duty and here in left -- in an athlete, young man like Tom | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Jeffries rushed to sign up and become soldiers, much to his mum's | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
distress. When I told her I was starting the Army, she started to | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
cry. When Mr Bell left for Plymouth, his wife was said to be so | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
distraught, she fell apart on the platform moving bystanders to tears | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
and she wasn't the only one troubled by the war. | :20:12. | :20:20. | |
In Rhondda, every pitch was closed. The miners had refused a request to | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
cut short a holiday and returned to work to supply the Navy with extra | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
coal. They said they had taken no part in encouraging war but | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
attitudes soon changed. One of the leaders signed up on August four. | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
Such was his zeal for the war that the army kept him here as a | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
recruitment sergeant. Within a month, 3000 men had signed up. The | :20:48. | :20:58. | |
entire band enlisted together. Only 24 hours earlier, thousands of | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
day-trippers were enjoying a brass band, edition here on Barry Island | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
but now guns and searchlights from this spot swept the channel looking | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
for German ships and they spotted one. The Navy gave chase. Along the | :21:11. | :21:22. | |
coast in this area, there was an order that landlord John Jones | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
should hand over his horse to the Army. He was having none of it and | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
yelled and through the papers out of the window and landed himself a | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
fine. Most were supportive of the war effort. 40 women used to make | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
clothes for injured soldiers to wear in hospital. At this hospital, the | :21:46. | :22:02. | |
Royal Gwent, Lydia Richard limited. -- Lillian Richards enlisted. Mr | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
Price went back on his word and 4000 people gathered outside a shop, some | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
of them throwing stones because he increased the price of bread. Police | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
had to be called to con the crowds. Money was an issue also. Some | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
tourists cancelled their holiday. Foreign visitors were no longer | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
welcome here. A German was arrested in his digs will stop a tent up on | :22:35. | :22:44. | |
the great hill. Armed guards had shot at a man, a spy perhaps, | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
looking at the reservoir. There was also news that Cardiff RFC had | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
cancelled all the fixtures. The national game was on hold as players | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
moved to other fields in far-away places. It will be over by | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
Christmas, some said. This had a better hunch about what lay ahead. | :23:13. | :23:22. | |
At present, nothing short of a miracle can prevent the destruction | :23:23. | :23:31. | |
of the greater part of Europe. Our reporters on how communities across | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
Wales received the news of the outbreak of the First World War 100 | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
years ago. Chris Williams has written extensively on this period. | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
Take us back to the wails of 100 years ago. What was it like? It was | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
strong and had a great deal of optimism looking to the future. A | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
co-production was at a record high and you had important Welsh | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
politicians and government. Howdy society change? Society doesn't | :24:02. | :24:12. | |
change as fast as that. What changes is Wales before the war had been a | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
liberal voting country. By the 1920s, it was voting Labour and the | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
Liberal party is a shadow of its former self. Wales on the eve of the | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
First World War was a nonconformist nation, the nonconformist churches | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
were in a strong position and a great deal of doubt about Christian | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
faith and the position of the Welsh churches as a consequence of the | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
conflict. We think of Wales as a confident country. This was a con -- | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
confident country. A Welsh Prime Minister who would win the First | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
World War. David Lloyd should -- David Lloyd ends up Prime Minister | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
of great Britain, the first Welshman to be Prime Minister. Wales plays a | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
great part in the war. The Welsh division is raised in 1915, the | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
Welsh Guards are formed and there is a sense in which way -- Wales | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
contributes to the war effort as an equal partner. How should we | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
remember this night 100 years ago? We should remember it with | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
sombreness because this was the beginning of an enormous conflict | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
that would encapsulates the entire country and change Wales forever. It | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
is a glorious evening here. Now for the weather forecast. | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
It is a dry and sunny evening across most of Wales. It is not dry | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
everywhere. There has been a few showers around. This evening, any | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
remaining showers will die away leaving a dry and clear night, a | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
fume mist patches and later on tonight, there's one or two showers | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
and family turn up in some areas. -- few mist patches. We have a pleasant | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
start for the north and east, dry and bright with some sunshine. As we | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
travel further south and west, it is more cloudy with some showers that | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
may be on the heavy side. During the day, these showers will spread | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
eastwards across the country and they could be heavy in places. The | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
showers are hit and miss with some -- hit and miss with some wet | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
patches around. Temperatures around 21 Celsius. If you are heading to | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
Eisteddfod tomorrow, showers are likely. However, it should brighten | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
up late in the afternoon. Tomorrow evening, we have a few scattered | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
showers and then rain will spread across the country overnight. It is | :27:00. | :27:08. | |
generally ten millimetres. Wednesday will start off wet but the rain will | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
clear the way eastwards. We have brighter weather following with some | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
sunshine. Thursday is more settled and most places are dry. | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
Temperatures around 18 Celsius. Changeable weather this week and | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
some rain and showers but some fine and sunny weather as well. | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
That's commemorative service begins at Llandaff Cathedral and you can | :27:32. | :27:43. | |
watch it and listen on TV and radio. Good night. | :27:44. | :27:45. |