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blustery. Thank you very much. That is all from | :00:00. | :00:23. | |
Welcome to Wales Today our top story. | :00:24. | :00:24. | |
More spending on the NHS in the annual budget | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
but local council services lose out so less cash for our councils. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
What that could mean for services like leisure centres | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Billions of viruses in Cardiff University - | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
one of these test tubes could provide answers for HIV and cancer. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
funding fitness in communities with money made by criminals. | :00:37. | :00:53. | |
And a loss of habitat has led to the disappearance of more than half of | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
wild animals. We will be discovering how Wales is coping. | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
The number crunching is over, negotiations have ended, | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
the Welsh Government has announced its spending plans for next year. | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
It has more than ?15 billion to spend on public services - | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
?40 million less than they have this year. | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
But, the draft budget includes an extra ?425 million | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
the Welsh Government had to do a deal with the Liberal Democrats. | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
But the extra spending on health means cuts in local government | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Daniel Davies. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
So another part of the public sector will feel the pain | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
of her funding injection for the health service. | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
Health is a priority for the people of Wales, for our well-being, for | :02:04. | :02:12. | |
our economy and that is what we are looking at. | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
Here's how the picture fits together. | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
There'll be an extra ?425 million for the health service | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
over two years - ?225 million of it next year. | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
There'll be more for the economy, science | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
and transport next year too - ?14 million. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
But every other department gets a cut. | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
Education is down more than ?28 million. | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Funding for local councils will fall by more than ?192 million. | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
Another serving of austerity for local councils, | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
like Ceredigion council, which shut the building | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
that hosted this lunch club in Aberaeron in March. | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
And that's at a time when ministers say they want to protect | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
It was not just about a hot meal, it was about getting up on time, | :02:52. | :03:02. | |
getting dressed, was about getting up on time, | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
house, meeting other people, socialising. It was a relief to | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
loneliness. The Welsh government isn't just | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
short of cash. It's short of seats in the | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Assembly too - it has no majority. Fundamental differences | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
with the Conservatives and a row with Plaid Cymru mean | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
Labour has just one option Their price - a ?200 million deal | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
over two years, with more funding school children | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
from deprived families. It has always been the Welsh Liberal | :03:31. | :03:42. | |
Democrat priority to make sure that we begin to close the educational | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
funding gap that exists between England and Wales, starting with our | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
poorest pupils first. We have secured an increase in the amount of | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
money that goes to schools to educate our most venerable children. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
The deal includes completing a long-awaited link road | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
to Cardiff Bay and a pledge not to start building | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
the new M4 relief road near Newport before the next assembly election. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
It was the government's support for that motorway which drove | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
There will be an attempt to protect health spending, which is a good | :04:11. | :04:22. | |
thing, but unfortunately if you take money away from social services and | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
from other supporting budgets, the elderly will suffer and there will | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
be a merry-go-round and increased pressure will come on the health | :04:33. | :04:33. | |
service again. Few AMs would begrudge a shot | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
in the arm for the NHS. The reason the UK to wish in | :04:37. | :04:46. | |
government is having to make cuts is because of the previous UK Labour | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
government spending too much money. The debt has got to be paid off, | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
even the Labour Party know that. But with the amount of money the | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
assembly is getting, ?15 billion, the health service could be more of | :05:01. | :05:01. | |
a priority. when they hear Tory complaints | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
about cuts. He seems to ignore the fact we were | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
called upon to make cuts as well by the UK Government. I know he thinks | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
there is a magic money tree somewhere but there is not and that | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
means difficult decisions have to be taken. | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
If you were Carwyn Jones' Finance Minister, | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
You have got to spend more on hospital nurses. In Llanelli, one of | :05:25. | :05:36. | |
the Accident and Emergency Department is going so the nearest | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
one is 20 miles away. Definitely the economy because without that you | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
don't have any of this. Where would you make the cuts? Things like | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
executive salaries. Those things. Crafting a budget | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
with fewer resources. Jane Hutt has got a deal on her | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
spending plans, but when there are cuts to make, her handy-work | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
won't be to everyone's taste. So, Daniel, the budget is a big | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
political test for the government. Yes, Carwyn Jones is very keen to | :06:05. | :06:19. | |
stress that this is a two-year budget that gives the government | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
much more stability between now and the run-up to the next election in | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
2016. Stability for the government perhaps but not for local councils | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
who are saying that if things carry on like this, services will | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
disappear. Let's discuss that with the finance minister who joins me | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
this evening. Weak at the week, we hear from David Cameron criticising | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
your government's record on the NHS. Is that pressure the reason you are | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
now spending more on health? The people of Wales are going to be very | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
pleased to hear we are putting an extra ?425 million into our health | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
service. But we are doing that because we have had advice from the | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
independent foundation who said to us, if we can put this investment | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
in, we can put the health service of affordable and sustainable in Wales. | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
It does mean investment with a strong message to our health boards | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
that they have got to perform and make sure that we deliver the best | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
in terms of support for our health service. It is not just David | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
Cameron who is criticising you, we have heard from the British Medical | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
Association that the have heard from the British Medical | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
meltdown in Wales. Is the reason a lack of funding? The hospital I | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
visited today with the Health Minister, Royal Glamorgan Hospital, | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
is at the forefront of diagnostic abilities, a new CT scan, | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
radiologists telling me they are the forefront of the UK in terms of the | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
equipment they have got and also making very important decisions to | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
help keep people safe and well at home and reduce admissions. Of | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
course we have got to work on how we can improve our health service but | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
today is about investing in our health service. I will also say | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
interesting in social services. We are also investing in those services | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
which will help local government. But those social services are run by | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
local councils and you are reading their budgets to prop up the health | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
service. Can councils really cope? We have protected local government | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
over the past four years. That has changed now. If you look at the way | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
they have been cut in England, 9.5%, of those local services that mean | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
some edge to people, so we have worked with local government | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
particularly in terms of health and social care will stop we are also | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
putting money into education. We are going to put another ?44 million | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
into the pupil deprivation grant. This is going to reach those | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
children who are most disadvantaged, eligible for free | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
school meals. Teachers, head teachers and parents will be | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
delighted that because we got a budget agreement, we are going to | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
move forward and protect that funding. It is support for local | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
services. The deal has been done, the final vote on the budget will be | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
in December with plenty of scrutiny between now and then. | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
Dan, thank you, and later we'll be taking a closer look at the impact | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
today's budget announcement will have on the services | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
A health board has tonight apologised to the family | :09:41. | :10:02. | |
of a disabled man who died following a gall bladder operation. | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
Timothy Cowen was treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital last year. | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
A senior executive at Besti Cadwaladr told an inquest his case | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
was a "watershed" in the way it deals with | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
Tim Cowans had severe learning difficulties since birth but the | :10:12. | :10:24. | |
inquest heard he loved life as far as he could. He enjoyed football, | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
the cinema, theatre. The last week of his life exposed a series of | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
failings in his hospital care. He went to Wrexham Maelor Hospital for | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
a gall bladder operation on April 23, 2013. He was discharged on the | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
25th but here is noticed his health was deteriorating and he was taken | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
to Accident and Emergency a few days later. He died on May two. He could | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
not walk, talk or swallow. But the inquest was told there were | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
questions whether the hospital, whether his reading was carried out | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
safely. His condition was not properly assessed before he was | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
discharged. Giving evidence, Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board chief of | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
staff said the organisation had had some dark times. Timothy's case is a | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
watershed page, she said. After the hearing, his family said despite | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
having to fight for an enquiry into his death, they are now satisfied | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
that changes are being made. But such a change is due to the death of | :11:31. | :11:40. | |
my brother is humbling. In death, Timothy has achieved more than most | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
would consider possible in any lifetime. It is a true and lasting | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
legacy. For the family, this was always about making sure this would | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
not happen again and the training the coroner has asked the health | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
board to put in place will help. They have turned a corner but not | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
completely yet. This evening, in a statement, the Betsi Cadwaladr | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
Health Board apologised for what it said were a range of clinical | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
errors. An investigation had recommended training for staff in | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
the care of people with disabilities. The coroner said that | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
training should be made compulsory. Carmarthenshire Council's | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
chief executive Mark James part of the council's voluntary | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
redundancy scheme. Mr James was cleared of criminal | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
offences earlier this year following findings | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
by the Wales Audit Office that the authority had made | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
unlawful payments to him. The council says it's | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
considering his application. Police officers who found | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
a 93-year-old woman collapsed in her home following a burglary | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
have arrested a teenage boy. They were called to her home | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
in the Killay area of Swansea She was taken to Morriston Hospital | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
where she remains Wylfa nuclear power station | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
on Anglesey has been given a licence to continue operating | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
until the end of next year. The reactor, which opened | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
in 1971 and is Britain's oldest, was due to close today, | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
when its current licence expired. But a last minute extension | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
has been confirmed. An ?8 billion replacement | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
for Wylfa has been provisionally Could our body's immune system | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
be adapted to fight off some of the world's deadliest | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
diseases? That's what scientists at Cardiff | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
University have been working on for 10 years, and they now | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
believe they have the answer. By cloning billions of viruses, | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
they've discovered how our body reacts to the world's most complex | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
infection and that could hold the key to | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
treating HIV and even cancer. It's the size of a fridge freezer | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
you'd find in your kitchen. This is Cardiff University's | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
centre for infection and immunity. There are 19,000 tubes | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
in this freezer and each one contains 10 million | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
viruses. They hold the key to understanding | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
how killer diseases live This tube contains a disease which | :14:07. | :14:28. | |
could affect newborn babies or people with a weakened immune | :14:29. | :14:29. | |
system. This is what CMV looks like | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
up close - the green slivers are human cells | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
that have been infected. It's a complex virus that's learned | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
how to hide from our immune system. But scientists here have now worked | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
out exactly how it does that. The trick up their sleeve was to | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
clone the virus in the laboratory but allow it to attack | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
the immune system as if it were still | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
in the human body. They've effectively developed the | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
definitive version of CMV, paving the way for new ways | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
to treat it. Because of the work we have been | :14:52. | :15:01. | |
doing in Cardiff, pharmaceutical companies worldwide have been using | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
our viruses to detect infection in patients worldwide and potentially | :15:09. | :15:09. | |
save lives. By understanding how CMV and our | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
immune system interact with each other, scientists around the world | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
are now developing new treatments for a host of other diseases, based | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
on Cardiff University's research. There has been an exciting | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
development, particularly in There has been an exciting | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
United States, where they have used part of a vaccine aiming to protect | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
United States, where they have used against HIV, so understanding what | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
happens when the virus gets into cells and understanding how we can | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
induce the best possible immune response against CMV, will really | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
help the development of a vaccine against HIV. There is another | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
interest in harnessing this virus in vaccines against other diseases, for | :15:54. | :15:54. | |
example cancer. Our body's immune system can be | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
the most powerful weapon Understanding how that immune | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
response is supressed when it Research like this could influence | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
how those treatments look Much more to come before | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
seven o'clock. new research suggests the number | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
of wild animals on Earth has halved in 40 years. | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
How is the natural world doing And the last day of September, | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
a remarkable month, one of the driest on record, | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
but there's a big change on the way. Back to our main story and the | :16:27. | :16:36. | |
Welsh Government's draft budget. Earlier we heard how money for | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
councils will be reduced by just over ?192 millions - that's | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
around 4% of their budgets. It represents another big challenge | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
for local authorities already dealing with cuts | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
from previous years. Our economics correspondent | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
Sarah Dickins reports. As the Welsh government prepared to | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
deliver its spending plans for next year, in Denbighshire they were | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
still discussing this year's budget. When councils list the services | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
they want to change, it's often followed by scenes | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
like this. Its in leisure services that | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
the most difficult Cardiff Council wanted to close | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
this leisure centre in Splott and they're building a hub with | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
leisure facilities down the road. In Blaenau Gwent, they're building | :17:30. | :17:41. | |
skills for the future. 16-year-olds taking time out | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
of school for what they hope will benefit them | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
in the long term. I feel me when I am here. Hopefully | :17:48. | :17:59. | |
get an apprenticeship in the future. I have been coming here for about a | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
year and I do like carpentry and we do bricklaying, carpentry, painting | :18:05. | :18:06. | |
and decorating, plastering. Today, more cuts and more pressure | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
for councils. In the past year alone, | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
3,000 jobs have gone in local government | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
as they try to balance their books. It means all the cuts tend to fall | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
on a range of services so it is no surprises that leisure centres get | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
it, libraries are getting it, public toilets, gay centres. All the things | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
that the public really value but the things you can't protect. | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
Blaenau Gwent Council pays towards this training centre at the moment. | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
It's kept it open because its in one of Wales' most challenging | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
Long-term, in courage and people into training and employment, | :18:46. | :18:54. | |
Long-term, in courage and people are savings across the whole public | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
sector portfolio with regard to health, looking at employment | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
opportunities, saving on benefits, everything going on with welfare | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
reform, encouraging people into the workplace. | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
Individual councils will hear next week what sums they will get | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
from the Welsh Government from April and then decide | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
whether to increase council tax or for instance sell assets. | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
At the same time councils are being encouraged to merge | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
with neighbours and see if they can work more efficiently | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
The discount supermarket chain Aldi is to build a warehouse | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
on the outskirts of Cardiff, which it says will create 400 jobs. | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
On Monday, it announced a big rise in profits. | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
The supermarket has been given planning permission | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
for a distribution centre on the Capital Business Park in Wentloog. | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
Websites with Welsh domain names go live for the first time | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
The new .cymru and .wales addresses are being switched-on | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
The National Assembly, the Welsh Rugby Union and political parties | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
Money seized from criminals in the Gwent Police Force area | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
is being used to support good work in the community. | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
A mixed martial arts club is just one of those given a grant | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
by the Police and Crime Commissioner, | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
for their work in reducing anti-social behaviour. | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
In total, more than ?150,000 has been made available. | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
Jenny Rees has been finding out how it'll be spent. | :20:21. | :20:30. | |
Focus, determination and a lot of hard work. It is a tough learning | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
environment at this academy. But they are invaluable lessons for | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
young men who may otherwise have strayed down a very different path. | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
We do a lot of work with the youth offending team and we have a massive | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
success rate. 95% turnover of kids who do something with their lives. | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
The academy has been given ?5,000 by the police and crime commission in | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
Gwent, raised from the proceeds of crime. These lads will have | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
confidence. Before, a little bit insecure and felt the need to prove | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
themselves. I left school at about 14, got arrested a number of times. | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
Richard sorted me out and calmed me out and company write-down. I joined | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
the Army, I have done two tours of Afghanistan, I have won a lot of | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
titles, Welsh boxing titles, it has changed me from that troublemaker. | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
This is just one of a number of projects which has been given a | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
share of more than ?150,000, supporting groups having a positive | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
impact. There were projects out there that needed a little bit of | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
funding to help them to do a really good and important thing in their | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
communities. This year, we have developed that and I decided we | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
would take the money from money we get from criminals. Those people who | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
have been locked up and made money out of drugs or criminality, we have | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
taken the money of them and put it back into the community. Among those | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
deciding where the money was spent were members of the Blaenau Gwent | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
youth Forum. It has nearly brought me to tears and you have to decide | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
with your heart or your head. It is life changing to a lot of people and | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
you can see it changing people's lives, not just instantly but | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
further down the line as well. For the Academy, the grant means that | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
Jim gets a complete refit. For its members, it means some urge more. A | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
healthy lifestyle and, for some, their first sense of achievement. | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
The World Wildlife Fund says the number of wild animals on Earth | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
The Living Planet Index found the biggest threat to habitats | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
And while the biggest losses are in the developing world, | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
we're seeing the same patterns here in Wales. | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
Magical sights like this are what the Welsh coastline is famous for. | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
Just last weekend a superpod of up to one thousand dolphins | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
But Worldwide Marine and other animal wildlife is in steep decline. | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
The World Wildlife Fund has come up with what they call | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
Using 1970 as a baseline, they've sampled | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
day populations of animal, fish and bird species across the world. | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
species like the water vole are disappearing. | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
In rivers and freshwater ecosystems across the world animal populations | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
Human behaviour and consumption are driving this rapid decline, | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
It may be more dramatic in the developing world but we see | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
the conflict between man and nature here too. | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
This area of Cross Hands is marked for development | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
and it sits right beside a nature reserve. | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales work hard to keep | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
this grassland an open habitat for the species that depend on it. | :24:11. | :24:19. | |
This is a food plant for a butterfly. This one food source | :24:20. | :24:32. | |
alone preserves the flood relief. In Wales, because it is associated with | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
grassland, we are still a stronghold for it. We feel a responsibility to | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
protect it. Intervention can turn things | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
around. Once persecuted and on the brink | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
of extinction, feeding centres | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
like this one near Aberystwyth have helped bring back the red kite | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
across the British Isles. To start with, you would be lucky to | :24:49. | :24:58. | |
see half a dozen kites here but these days we are getting on average | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
probably about 150 kites every day. Otters too are making a comeback, | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
but as each generation expects to see less and less in the wild, the | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
challenge of conservation increases. In Football, Cardiff City still | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
without a permanent manager face Brighton | :25:13. | :25:14. | |
in the championship tonight. The end of September and we can | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
expect a change in the weather. The second driest September on | :25:20. | :25:35. | |
record according to The Met office. This is an average figure for the | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
whole country. Some places have had more rain than others. Only a few | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
millimetres in Flintshire. It is also the third joint warmest | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
September since 1910 and Wales has been the sunniest nation of the UK | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
this month. This picture taken in Llandudno. The reason for the warm | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
weather is high pressure. However, next week the jet stream is going to | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
slip further south, low pressure will bring rain and it will turn | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
cooler and windy. A big change on the way. This evening, some rain | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
around, moving eastwards. Once again, another mild night. Here is | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
the picture for eight in the morning. Most of the country dry at | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
this stage. Not dry everywhere though. In North Wales, we could see | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
a few spots of light rain and drizzle. During the day, a cold | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
front will move eastwards bringing thicker cloud, a little patchy rain | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
and a few showers. However, it should brighten up in the north and | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
west later in the afternoon. Temperatures not as high as today. | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
Tomorrow night, fine and dry. A cooler night than of late. Five | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
Celsius or lower in Snowdonia. Thursday, most places dry with a | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
mixture of sunshine and cloud. Friday, a breezy, windy day, spots | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
of drizzle. Rain will reach the north west later in the afternoon. | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
This spreading south-east to give a wet end to the day. Turning fresher | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
over the weekend. Health spending will go up by ?425 | :27:21. | :27:32. | |
million over the next two years after the Welsh government announced | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
its draft budget but there are cuts in areas like education and local | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
government. I'll have an update for you here | :27:39. | :27:39. | |
at eight o'clock and again That's Wales Today. | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
Thank you for watching. From all of us on the programme, | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
good evening. | :27:46. | :27:48. |