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Welcome to Wales Today. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:05 | |
Tonight's headlines: A major review hears continuing with ?5,000 | 0:00:05 | 0:00:09 | |
grants for Welsh students, wherever they study, | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
is not an option. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
And a ?50,000 fine for an engineering company after some | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
workers were left with permanent injuries. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
Good evening. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
The status quo is not an option. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
That's according to most of the evidence heard by a major | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
review of finance for Welsh students. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
At the moment, the Welsh Government makes grants of over ?5,000 | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
available to them, wherever they choose to study. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
The review chair says a range of suggestions for changes has been | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
heard, but there isn't an easy solution. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
These English students are leaving university with a degree and an IOU | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
totalling thousands of pounds. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
But Welsh students are better off. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:02 | |
Faced with tuition fees of ?9,000 a year, students from | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
Wales pay around ?3,800. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
The Welsh Government provides the rest, offering grants | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
of more than ?5,000. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
But it is expensive, costing ?229 million | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
last year alone. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
This is a made in Wales policy which demonstrates | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
the benefits of devolution. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
It is five years since the then education minister, | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
Leighton Andrews, announced the policy and during that time many | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
have questioned its sustainability. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
Over the past 18 months Sir Ian Diamond has been | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
listening to the arguments. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:38 | |
His interim report found most experts believe the current funding | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
arrangement has to change. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:43 | |
But there is no easy solution. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
There is a debate between those who say that the public purse | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
in Wales should not be paying for students to study outside | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
of Wales against those who say they should. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:58 | |
Our panel has received evidence on both sides of that divide and one | 0:01:58 | 0:02:02 | |
of the things which is clear in my mind and what we will be | 0:02:02 | 0:02:06 | |
debating and discussing further over the next couple of months will be | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
what our recommendations will be in that regard. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
This issue is never far from the headlines. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
Good evening. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:17 | |
It costs more than ?200 million a year. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
Tonight, questions over whether the Welsh Government's | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
policy of funding Welsh university students can continue. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
Our top story, tens of millions of pounds spent every year | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
on tuition fees for Welsh students studying over the border. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
A warning tonight our universities could fall behind. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:37 | |
Earlier this year, the Higher Education Funding Council | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
for Wales warned universities here could fall behind English | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
institutions as Welsh Government money follows students | 0:02:43 | 0:02:47 | |
across the border. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:49 | |
More recently the body which represents Welsh universities | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
said the focus should be on helping the poorest students. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:56 | |
The Welsh Government says it is investing in young people | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
and argues more money comes into Wales' higher education system | 0:02:59 | 0:03:02 | |
than goes out. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
Today the education minister said the review panel had | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
made good progress. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
Students here at Cardiff Metropolitan University are heading | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
home for Christmas. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:14 | |
They will be returning in January at the start of an | 0:03:14 | 0:03:16 | |
Assembly election year. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:18 | |
The political parties realise the issue of student finance | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
is important to voters. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:23 | |
They also recognise that any change to the status quo is | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
unlikely to be popular, even if change is necessary. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:28 | |
As they go about drafting their manifestos, they won't get any | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
help from Sir Ian Diamond because he won't be publishing his | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
recommendations until September, well after polling day. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:45 | |
A man who stabbed his girlfriend 18 times following a row over footage | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
he had of another woman in a bath has been jailed for 16 years. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:53 | |
Arnel Martinez Raymundo was convicted of attempted murder | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
and voyeurism after the attack in Cardiff in June. | 0:03:56 | 0:04:01 | |
Drivers for Arriva Trains Wales are planning to strike | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
on Monday January the 4th. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
The ASLEF union says its members are walking out in a row | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
over pay and conditions. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:11 | |
Arriva says it's disappointed that its drivers have | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
rejected its current offer and will try to minimise any | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
disruption for passengers. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
An engineering company in Merthyr Tydfil has been fined | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
?50,000 after 21 of its workers suffered permanent injury | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
from using vibrating power tools. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
Linde Heavy Truck Division pleaded guilty to failing to ensure | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
the health and safety of its workers. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
Caroline Evans has more. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:35 | |
Now closed, until 2013 this factory made trucks. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:39 | |
At its height, employing 500 people here. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:43 | |
But when employees began to report problems with their hands, | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
it emerged that the company had been breaching the law for years. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
Today it was fined ?50,000. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
It is important that the lesson is learnt not only by the company | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
but other companies doing similar work and potentially | 0:04:56 | 0:05:01 | |
exposing their employees to hand and arm vibration, | 0:05:01 | 0:05:05 | |
that they understand the seriousness of the risk. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
The employees were using vibrating hand tools like grinders and power | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
drills for as many as six hours a day. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:14 | |
The judge ruled there was no adequate risk assessment, | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
hardly any training before 2011. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:21 | |
21 employees were diagnosed with hand and arm vibration | 0:05:21 | 0:05:24 | |
syndrome, something which is preventable but permanent | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
once the damage is done. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
Across the UK, nearly two million people are at risk of it | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
and it is considered serious and disabling. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
Damage can include the inability to do fine work and cold can trigger | 0:05:36 | 0:05:40 | |
pain in the fingers. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
That is why one of its symptoms is known as vibration white finger, | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
a condition well known among miners. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
In 1997 the mining union NACODS won a landmark judgment which paved | 0:05:49 | 0:05:55 | |
the way for tens of thousands of industrial workers | 0:05:55 | 0:05:57 | |
to claim compensation. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
It was a fight which began in Merthyr, led by Bleddyn Hancock. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
He says he finds it incredible that a company in this of all towns | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
could be found wanting in this way. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
After all this time, it was nearly 20 years ago | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
now that we won that great judgment in favour of the miners who suffered | 0:06:12 | 0:06:16 | |
from this problem and we proved then that people had known | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
about the issue for decades and even then there were lots of things | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
employers could of done to safeguard their workers | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
and really in this day it's no excuse not to take those measures | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
and look after your workers. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
It's much more expensive to harm people than it is to keep them safe. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:35 | |
For the men in the Merthyr factory, the condition has meant living | 0:06:35 | 0:06:39 | |
with numbness, being unable to grip or do up shirt buttons. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:44 | |
Sentencing, the judge said this was not a case where a company had | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
put profit before safety but there had been failings over | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
many years and the consequences were serious. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:54 | |
The fine he said must be substantial enough | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
to have an effect on management. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:01 | |
The company has apologised for the breach, saying it deeply | 0:07:01 | 0:07:05 | |
regrets the situation and lessons will be learned. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:11 | |
National Museum Wales has been criticised by Assembly Members | 0:07:11 | 0:07:13 | |
for offering a generous pension and pay-off scheme for senior | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
bosses, despite being locked in a long-running pay | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
dispute with staff. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:20 | |
This year, it has been hit by strikes over ending "premium | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
payments" to weekend staff. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:24 | |
Managers said they were currently consulting on changing the pension | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
and severance schemes. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
Football and Cardiff City have lost at Birmingham City tonight. | 0:07:29 | 0:07:32 | |
A controversial penalty for the home side just before half time put them | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
1-0 up and that's the way it stayed. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
A win would have seen the Bluebirds return to the Championship | 0:07:38 | 0:07:40 | |
play-off places. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:49 | |
The weekend weather forecast now, with Sue Charles. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
Good evening. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:54 | |
It will remain unseasonably mild this weekend. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:57 | |
Turning wet and very windy for some tomorrow. | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
Brighter on Sunday but with a few showers and very blustery. | 0:07:59 | 0:08:01 | |
Strong winds overnight but remaining mild because as the chart shows | 0:08:01 | 0:08:04 | |
they are drawing up warm air from the Azores, | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
but also feeding in weather systems from the Atlantic. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
So misty and murky overnight. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
Largely cloudy with outbreaks of rain. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
Hill fog developing and remaining exceptionally mild overnight | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
at 11C to 13C. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
Rain starting to push in further west because we've got this tricky | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
weather front hovering back and forth tomorrow bringing heavy | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
rain at times before clearing away by Sunday. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
So tomorrow might start dry but overcast in the east but turning | 0:08:30 | 0:08:34 | |
wet and windy from the West and the eastern side of the UK | 0:08:34 | 0:08:37 | |
will stay drier and milder with some brightness. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:41 | |
But in the West where that front lingers, persistent rain for much | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
of the day. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
Strong southerly winds continuing to draw up the very mild air. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:50 | |
12C in north-west Scotland. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
16C in south-east England. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
Hard to appreciate the milder conditions where it is very | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
wet and windy tomorrow, especially across | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
South and West Wales. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:03 | |
In fact, the Met Office has a warning for a further 40 to 60 | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
millimetres of rain tomorrow, more possible on high ground. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
That rain will gradually move eastwards tomorrow night. | 0:09:09 | 0:09:12 | |
The cold front clearing to showers and drier spells overnight. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
So behind it the air turns fresher and not quite as mild as tonight. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:19 | |
Then it is more a case of drier and brighter spells on Sunday | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
with a few isolated showers. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
Feeling slightly fresher but staying very windy with gales | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
likely along the coast. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:30 | |
So we keep the unusually mild weather through the weekend. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
Heavy rain on Saturday. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
Brighter but still windy on Sunday but another warning for heavy rain | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
spreading eastwards on Monday. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:43 | |
The trend looks like we will keep the mild and unsettled | 0:09:43 | 0:09:46 | |
weather towards Christmas. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:49 | |
We'll be back with our next update at 5:35pm tomorrow evening. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
But that is Wales Today. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:53 | |
From all of us here, good night. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:56 |