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Welcome to Wales Today, our top story: | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
A BBC investigation exposes how students could get tuition fees | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
paid and student loans funded by the public purse | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
Let's face it, if this is going in in one organisation, | :00:23. | :00:36. | |
it could potentially be going on elsewhere as well. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Tonight calls for a review of how the Welsh Government may have been | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
scammed, we have an exclusive report. | :00:44. | :00:59. | |
We are all potential organ donors now. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Wales becomes the first nation in the UK to introduce | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
We hear from patients waiting for the call. | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
I had 16 seizures, myheart stopped twice and I was | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
I've been on dialysis now for three years. | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
Tonight all beds here at Wales' only dedicated transplant unit are full. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
But with many others needing new organs waiting and hoping at home, | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
A U-turn tonight from health bosses in north Wales. | :01:31. | :01:40. | |
Plans to downgrade maternity services at Glan Clwyd Hospital | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Mike Phillips, Wales' most capped scrum-half announces his retirement | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
And a brief respite from the wet weather tonight | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
but further risk of flooding through tomorrow and Thursday. | :01:59. | :02:07. | |
There are calls tonight for an urgent investigation into how | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
an undercover journalist was offered a student loan using faked | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
Darren Millar, who chairs the Assembly's Public | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
Accounts Committee, says the police and Auditor General | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
should look into evidence of a scam at the Cardiff campus of the West | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
It's been uncovered as part of a BBC Wales Week | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
Tim Rogers has this exclusive report. | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
So proud is the West London Vocational Training College | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
of what it has to offer in Cardiff that the principal and owner | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
What we discovered when we went undercover is a scam | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
in which students are getting lessons in how to cheat and lie | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
This is taxi driver and student recruiter, Kazi Shajahan, advising a | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
member of our team to fake a certificate to get on to an | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
The college gets ?6,000 per student in tuition fees for a level four | :03:06. | :03:22. | |
and five HND and that is public money from Student Finance Wales, | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
One man, who asked not to be identified, who went to enrol | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
as a student says Shajahan told him it was easy money and he wouldn't | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
have to do any work. He could pay someone else to do it. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
At the beginning he said I don't have to do anything | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
because all the assignments, all the work is going to be... | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
The principle of the college is Manoj Kumar who calls himself Dr. | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
He claims to have a PhD from Cambridge University | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
but when we checked we found this was a lie. | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
In England, before private colleges are allowed | :04:02. | :04:12. | |
to access public money, they have to be inspected by regulators, | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
But the QAA doesn't have the power to inspect private colleges | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Today, Darren Millar, the chairman of the Assembly's | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Public Accounts Committee called for the system to be investigated | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
by the Auditor General and for the West London Vocational | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Training College in Cardiff to be looked at by the police. | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
We need some swift response from the Welsh Government, we need | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
the Auditor General for Wales to consider the implications of this | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
for the wider FE sector because, let's face it, if this is going on | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
in one organisation it could potentially be going on elsewhere. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
The college's owner says he denies knowing of any wrongdoing | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
in the recruitment of students to his college | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
and he says that Shajahan was never employed as a recruitment | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
director and the principal, Manoj Kumar, | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
has been removed from his position. | :05:01. | :05:10. | |
The Education Minister wasn't available for interview, | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
but this afternoon in the Assembly he was asked about this story. | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
We do not know as yet if there is any substance to these allegations. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
It is for the BBC to make those allegations, as we believe they | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
will, and then to pass them to the police as they should. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
I will say there would be no system of regulation, | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
or it would be very difficult to contrive of a system of regulation | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
that could be 100% proof against any planned or deliberate fraud. | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
Let's talk to our political editor Nick Servini. | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
We're talking about public money here. What is the Welsh Government | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
done about this? There are serious questions to answer. The first thing | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
we should say is the Welsh Government has referred the matter | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
to the police, they have suspended payments to the college. But the | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
problem here is the lack of checks and balances carried out. The | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Education Minister said it is impossible to design a system that | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
is 100% full proof. Most people would understand by that a scenario | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
whereby you've got a reasonably solid set of systems in place by | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
past by a sophisticated operation. You will have got a flavour from | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
that piece there and if you watch the programme tonight, this was | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
anything but a sophisticated operation, a pretty upfront attempt | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
to come up with false qualification documentation to tap into Welsh | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
student finance. The Welsh Government is saying, to try to head | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
off accusations that this is the tip of the iceberg this is an isolated | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
case. Compare to the England where there are 200 private colleges, | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
there are very few in Wales and as a result with a degree of confidence | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
today, Huw Lewis was saying it is difficult to see how this could be | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
replicated. Inevitably, the question will be, could this happen for | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
example, in a university departments across Wales? Officials are saying | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
then a much more safeguards in place in an institution like that that | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
would make it very difficult. But inevitably, a case like this would | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
pose many questions and would hardly inspire a lot of confidence in the | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
system. Thank you very much. And you can see more on this story | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
in Week In Week Out tonight It's been described by the | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
Health Minister as a "revolution" A new law has come into force | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
which means all of us in Wales is now considered willing to donate | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
our organs after death unless we've Wales is the only nation in the UK | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
with a so called Last year, 173 transplant operations | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
were carried out on patients from Wales but more than 200 people here | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
are on a transplant waiting list. And many more people are | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
waiting to be put on the list. 14 people died last year | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
while waiting for a suitable organ. Our health correspondent Owain | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
Clarke is at the University Hospital Thank you. The transplant unit here | :08:23. | :08:40. | |
in Cardiff is never quiet. Surgeons here performed five transplants in | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
just one night. Because organs are often in short supply the last time | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
a transplant occurred here was last Thursday. But just in case one | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
becomes available, to surgeons will be on stand-by here tonight. Will | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
this new change in the law help solve the First Minister Carwyn | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Jones described today as a chronic sort -- shortage of organs? | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
Being able to transplant organs from one person to another is one | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
of the most remarkable achievements of modern medicine. | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
Thousands are alive today who wouldn't be otherwise. | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
At Wales' biggest hospital, this teenager is getting a new | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
It is one of around 120 kidney and pancreas transplant operations | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
In a sense, the patient who end up here at the transplant unit | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
at the University Hospital of Wales are the lucky ones. | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
It means they have been found an organ. | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
It could have come from anywhere in the UK, it is suitable and | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
But at any one point, over 200 others are on waiting lists | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
There are concerns too often too many of them die | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
These are some of the engines we work on in college. | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
At 21 years old, it's no surprise that Sam wants to | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
live life at full throttle, but needing a kidney, feels | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
his illness is always holding him back. | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
When it failed in 2012, I had 16 seizures and my heart stopped twice | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
I've been on dialysis for three years. | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
The new system is only likely to result in 15 extra donors a year | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
And those won't necessarily stay in Wales. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
They could be given to recipients elsewhere in the UK. | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
So far, almost ?5 million has been spent just letting people know | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Supporters say, for someone in desperate need, just one extra | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
It is frustrating to see patients waiting for long periods of time and | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
more frustrating to see their health deteriorate during that period. | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
A number of patients, their health deteriorates so much that | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
I met Calvin Jones from Gors Las just hours after he received a new | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
You couldn't go to the bathroom, you couldn't shower yourself, | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
As soon as you went in, you couldn't do nothing. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
I came out of there this morning at half past five. There we are. | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
The new law will bring into force a so-called soft opt out system | :11:23. | :11:32. | |
which means families will always be involved in discussions after death, | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
but what they won't be able to do is refuse a donation if it is clear | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
that is what their relative would have wanted, although in reality, | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
staff are unlikely to press ahead if it causes any distress. | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
We probably have these conversation with families, | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
Specially trained nurses like Angharad Griffiths continue to lead | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
Regardless of the legislation, our role is to talk to | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
the families about the choices their loved one may have made or may | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
not have made, and to work that through with the family. | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
We never want to put anybody at risk by enforcing organ donation | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
and part of our role is to make sure it is right | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
for them and they are comfortable with that before we proceed. | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
The law sets up the basic rules around something. | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
In the end, you have to rely on those people, those highly | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
trained people who are sensitive to the difficult set of circumstances. | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
You have to allow them to make a clinical judgment. | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
The law in the end cannot sit on the shoulder of the doctor or | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
the nurse, trying to make those decisions for them. | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
Back in 2008, a task force recommended against introducing | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Back then it was argued resources would be better spent | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
on specialist staff and persuading people to opt in. | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
But it's clear that other parts of the UK will now be watching | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
In some countries, they introduced presumed consent and | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
I think it is great Wales are doing it, | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
let's see how well that impact on the numbers of donors. | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
Others argue for the law to really work, the Welsh | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
Government needs to make sure it spends enough on specialist beds. | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Here in Cardiff, they have already opened this new unit. | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
Even if the effect of the new law is just to get more of us talking about | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
organo donation and our wishes, then supporters say it will be worth it. | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
And if it means the course Sam has been so desperately waiting for cams | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
quicker, it'll be hard to argue that it hasn't been worthwhile. | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
Talking to the staff here in this unit over the past few weeks | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
they tell me there's nothing more frustrating than simply not knowing | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
what somebody wishes are when it comes to organ donation. | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Some argue if this law only has the effect of encouraging more people to | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
state clearly their wishes, then that in itself will be worth it. | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
Five years ago, Theresa and Alan Wilkin | :14:02. | :14:09. | |
She died from a brain haemorrhage at just 34. | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
The couple weren't sure about organ donation | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
but then they discovered Claire was on the organ donor register. | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
We'll be eternally grateful to Claire for making a decision for us. | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
Because if not, Alan and I are the type of people we | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
We would've been forever wondering whether we'd done the right thing, | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
It would've been with us for the rest of our lives. | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
I weren't too sure before but when Claire had done that, it was easy. | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
They're proud their daughter has saved lives. | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
This anniversary, the 5th of November, | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
The comfort that we got from the fact that we know her heart | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
You know, you can't give a greater gift than that. | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
The transplant teams can face difficulties. | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
When families don't know their loved one's wishes it's hoped this | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
new system will take some of that uncertainty away. | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
If they haven't made any decision or any discussions about organ donation | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
the presumption will be that they don't have any objection. | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
If the family truly don't want it to happen, then it is | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
our responsibility to work closely with them to find out why. | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
But at the end of the day, if it's just not what they want as a family, | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
then we can't go ahead with the donation against a family's wishes. | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
The Church in Wales is encouraging people to actively opt in, | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
rather than do nothing and it be assumed they will donate. | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
I think the idea of giving someone a precious gift is something | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
so much better than others presuming that gift can be eradicated | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
There's huge support for increasing organ donation rates | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
but opinions are still mixed about how best to achieve that. | :16:07. | :16:16. | |
Lets discuss all of this now with one of the transplant surgeons here, | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
M Stevens. Thanks for joining me. It is hard to take emotion out of this. | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
There's tried to do that. It's cost ?5 million for the change, only a | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
couple of dozen organs extract becoming available. Is it worth it? | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
Of course it's worth it, there are 7000 people waiting on the | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
transplant list in the UK. One extra donor means potentially seven organs | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
to transplant. It is clearly worth it for those patients. If you're | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
interested in cost, it is cost-effective. One successful | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
kidney transplant six -- saves ?20,000 a year. These extra organs | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
won't necessarily stay in Wales. People might be scratching their | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
heads thinking what is the benefits to a Welsh pain -- patient? The | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
allocation system isn't owing to change. We transplant kidneys and | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
pancreas here in Wales, if you need a hard transplant of a long | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
transplant you have to go to England. Do some types of organs | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
stay local? Will increase in Bass local donors and therefore local | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
transplant. It isn't the law that is important but it is putting money | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
into new staff and making sure intensive care beds are there. We | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
know in Wales there have been missed opportunities and passed to donate | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
organs because no beds were available. Are you confident that | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
cash will come? That is a chronic shortage of intensive care beds in | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
Wales and the UK. What all this process has done is given as a | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
vehicle to have extra discussions with the politicians about these | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
kind of things. That has to be positive for us. Thank you so much | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
for discussing a momentous decision tonight. Whether you agree with it | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
or not, this is certainly a significant move and I can tell you | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
politicians in Northern Ireland and Scotland will be watching what | :18:17. | :18:17. | |
happens very closely. Much more to come | :18:18. | :18:18. | |
before seven o'clock: Wales' most capped scrum-half Mike | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
Phillips announces his retirement And more heavy rain | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
in the forecast over the coming days with further risk of flooding stay | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
tuned for a full forecast. We want to bring you some breaking | :18:32. | :18:47. | |
news. Plans to temporarily remove Doctor led maternity care from a | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
hospital in North Wales appear to have been abandoned. A document to | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
be presented to the Betsi Cadwaladr health board next week recommend | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
services at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan should remain as they | :18:59. | :19:08. | |
are. Our reporter is in the last half an hour, we've had a surprise | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
announcements from the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. | :19:13. | :19:14. | |
It looks as if nothing will change at any of the U-turn -- maternity | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
units. Up until now, the health board's referred Shoen had been to | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
downgrade the unit at bank lowered. It says it has come with a new | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
recommendation, nothing is to change, things should stay as they | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
are. The helpful stress is its decision is based on patient | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
safety, is top priority throughout has been the safety of mothers and | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
babies and this new plan has the backing of medical experts. Is | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
nothing to do with the huge protest that have been across North Wales in | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
the last few months well this has been debated. That said, the new | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
plan has been welcomed by campaigners, by protesters who | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
fought against the decision. One woman was in tears on hearing the | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
news. The health board will take his new proposal to a meeting next | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
Tuesday. That is when it'll a final decision. Thank you very much for | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
that. More than half of Welsh Labour MPs | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
are expected to vote 13 of the 25 Labour MPs have told | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
BBC Wales they will join their party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
and Plaid Cymru's three MPs David Cameron's government has | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
published a motion to be voted on tomorrow | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
which says military action is needed as part of a "broader strategy" | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
to tackle militant extremists. Police searching for a woman | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
from the Brecon area say a body has A major Search | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
and Rescue operation was launched last night, after witnesses said | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
they saw the 51-year-old The Welsh Government says it's | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
suspended its badger vaccination programme due to | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
a global shortage of TB vaccines. The Government began | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
its ?4.6 million trail to immunise badgers in north Pembrokeshire | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
in 2012 in order to reduce TB Plaid Cymru said it made a | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
"complete mockery" of the trial, whilst the Conservatives have | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
called it a "fiasco". Let's get tonight's sport now, | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
here's Tomos. Wales' most capped scrum-half, | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
Mike Phillips, has announced his The 33-year-old was a key member | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
of the teams that won the Six Nations title in 2013 and the | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
two Grand Slams in 2008 and 2012. Speaking exclusively to BBC Wales, | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
he said it was a privilege to A charge down Philips! It is a site | :21:36. | :21:51. | |
we won't see again on the international stage. After 99 caps | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
for Wales and the liars, Mike Phillips says it is time to start a | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
new chapter in his life. -- the Lions. Playing for Wales has been a | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
massive part of my adult life since I was 22. When I was young that is | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
all I wanted to do. It has been a dream and I've got some very special | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
memories I will cherish for the rest of my life. Mike Phillips often | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
produced big performances, he played in every game for the Grand Slam | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
winning sides in 2008 and 2012. He was part of the team that came so | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
close to reaching the World Cup final in 2011. It all started 12 | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
years ago, the boy from West Wales crossed the line on his debut | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
against Romania. His first of nine international tries. While he | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
impressed on the field his career off it wasn't without controversy. | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
He was suspended by his country after a late-night brawl and by his | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
former club you for turning up to work drunk. Those who worked with | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
him and played against him say he is a complex character. He is ultra | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
competitive, whatever is in his way is in his way and he would do | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
anything he can to get it out of the way. He is very respectful yet the | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
perception will be isn't. You have to be very per second -- careful of | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
perception because sometimes it isn't reality. Today's announcements | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
won't be a surprise for many. He choice in the World Cup. His warm up | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
match in August was his last four Wales. He leaves the international | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
stage as one of Wales 's greatest ever scrum-half. | :23:29. | :23:29. | |
There's more from Mike Phillips on life on and off the pitch in a | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
special programme next Monday at 9.00pm here on BBC One Wales. | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
The Wales captain and Cardiff Blues flanker, Sam Warburton, will miss | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
the Christmas derbies and the next two rounds of European games. | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
He's out for at least a month with an ankle injury he suffered | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
In their Euro 2017 qualifier, Wales' women were denied victory in Israel. | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
After falling behind, Manchester City striker | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
Natasha Harding scored two second-half goals to put Wales ahead | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
All this week we're looking at the nominees for this year's BBC Cymru | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
Wales Sports Personality of the Year Award, which will be announced next | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
Tonight, it's Gareth Bale and Dan Biggar. | :24:10. | :24:18. | |
To club success you can now add national success to Gareth Bale's | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
Much to everybody's delight, the Real Madrid star shook off | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
injuries and opponents alike to help fire Wales into the Uefa finals | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
2015 has proven to be another milestone year for football | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
2015 was always going to be a tough tear for Welsh international rugby | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
but cometh the year, cometh Dan Biggar. | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
No challenge seemed to tough for Dan, Wales' Mr Reliable. | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
While others fell all around him, he remained focused and one | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
of the pivots of the Wales team that reached the last | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
eight of the Rugby World Cup and finished strongly | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
in the Six Nations, lighting up his team-mates and the nation. | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
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Time for the weather forecast now. How is it looking? | :25:54. | :26:07. | |
It is looking very quiet that all changed tomorrow. Tonight, pretty | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
cloudy across Wales. In the early hours of tomorrow morning, a mild | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
night, the temperatures should remain in double figures. Tomorrow, | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
with God as cold weather friends which is going to sink South and | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
East was. -- eastwards. There is a yellow warning before the rain with | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
the ground already saturated and the river level is pretty high we could | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
see the risk of flooding tomorrow and into Thursday. First thing | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
tomorrow, a dry start for the south and east of that friend making its | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
way in. Just hanging around into tomorrow night. Temperatures 12-13 C | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
which is mad for December. It should be around six sources. Blustery | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
winds as we go into tomorrow afternoon and that rain band | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
mingling into tomorrow night. 60 to 80 millimetres of rain. The | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
potential for problems. Temperatures, pretty mad in the | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
south, 12 Celsius. Further north end of the clearest skies, down to about | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
four. That friend waving back-up up as you go into Thursday. Thursday | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
morning, we will see Anglesey dry this pretty quickly that rain band | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
will push back up again, bringing heavy downpours. Friday is looking | :27:32. | :27:32. | |
much more promising. That's Wales Today, | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
thank you for watching. From all of us on the programme, | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
good evening. | :27:39. | :27:41. |