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This is the future. Made here in south Wales. | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
Chancellor George Osborne announces a ?50 million high-tech investment, | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
setting out his economic vision for Wales and tells | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
I issue this challenge to the current Welsh | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
We have our plan for Wales, one that supports jobs | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
What is your plan for a stronger Wales? | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
George Osborne 's message is that the economy must stay centre stage | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
for Wales -- but Wales is not immune to the downturn in China and Brazil | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
and his tightening of finances must continue. | :00:48. | :01:01. | |
Taxi drivers angry about the introduction of booking app Uber | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Not everyone's happy the cheap transport revolution is coming here. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
Taxi drivers are struggling big-time to make a living so Uber coming | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
to Cardiff is even going to destroy a lot of drivers' likelihood | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
as well as their regular bread and butter. | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
It's cash only for some shoppers and businesses in Ceredigion. | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
No phone lines or internet card transactions for three weeks. | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
He founded Kwik Save supermarkets in North Wales in the 1960s, | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
tributes to Albert Gubay, the entrepreneur honoured | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
Alan Curtis is a legend in Swansea because of goals like these. | :01:37. | :01:48. | |
Now he's to continue as caretaker manager. | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
Can he keep them in the Premier League? | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
The economy in Wales is thriving, but we cannot become complacent. | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
That's the message from the Chancellor this evening. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
George Osborne was in Cardiff announcing his economic vision | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
for Wales including ?50 million for a semi-conductor research | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
centre, which will develop the technology that powers devices | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
like mobile phones and a commitment to signing a ?1.3 billion city deal | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
for economic development in South East Wales by March. | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
With the Assembly elections just around the corner, he's challenged | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
the Welsh Government to set out their stall. | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
Our economics correspondent spent the day with him. | :02:21. | :02:30. | |
George Osborne chose the sparkling lights of Cardiff Bay to set out his | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
stall. To remind him that it was a previous Conservative government | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
that transformed this Docklands into what it is now. He said his party is | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
still very much looking to the future. | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
Wales at its most innovative, the world class research which powers | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
your smartphones, tablets and washing machines. This is the | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
future. Made in Wales. The Chancellor 's vision for Wales | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
investing in home-grown high-tech like this will boost our economy but | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
we are underperforming. He is confident of his record here since | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
2010 celebs have a look a lot has been done since 2010. 70,000 jobs | :03:16. | :03:25. | |
have been created. Unemployment has fallen by 30%. At the end of 2010, | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
employment in Wales to that 1,000,320 5000. At the end of 2015, | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
it was 1,000,400 and 7000. Updated 2000. Five years ago, a were out of | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
work in Wales. At the end of last year, the number was down to 80 | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
8000. What kind of wage packet of these new jobs attract? With average | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
pay before tax at ?473 a week we're still the least well-paid part of | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
the UK. ?54 a week below the UK average. George Osborne is taking | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
the credit for more jobs and called for the Welsh government to spell | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
out its vision. We have our plan for Wales, one that supports jobs and | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
pay and rising living standards. What is your plan for a stronger | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
Wales? If after 16 years in power you still can't provide one, quite | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
simply it is time for a change. Look at jobs growth Wales, the most | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
successful job creation programme in the UK and possibly in parts of | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Europe. A very Welsh project, one that is producing enormous success | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
and thousands of apprenticeships. Look at construction growth in | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Wales. We have high construction growth than the rest of the united | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
kingdom. We are better foreign investment. The Chancellor is | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
warning the UK could be hit by an economic slowdown in China and | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Brazil, in Wales the declining steel industry is struggling to compete | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
with overseas companies. Because of the structure of the economy it is | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
true that we are more exposed than elsewhere in the country to the | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
forces going on within the global economy and we are seeing that in | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
terms of the pressures on the steel industry. We are getting progress of | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
the new repair and level on what is called anti-dumping measures. All of | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
these cheap imports coming from China and have to do is of the about | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
that. Cities in the North of England having given millions by George | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
Osborne to improve their economies like for instance through better | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
transport. The daily top business people he wants to finalise a | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
similar deal for Cardiff by March. We need some leadership and be for | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
Wales. George Osborne made it clear that he's to receive that offer. We | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
need to galvanise and make sure that we put forward a persuasive bid. | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
Should that leadership from the Welsh government or councils or the | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
private correct sector? Everyone has to get together and streamline this | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
whole thing. Investment in transport and new industry should help the | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Welsh economy. The big question is whether they can do enough quickly | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
enough. As is so done in China and other emerging economies gains pace | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
and hits home and put more pressure on Welsh traditional manufacturing. | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
Sarah, we've heard a lot today about the slowing global economy. | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
What's your assesment of the impact here in Wales? | :06:15. | :06:24. | |
Companies and jobs in Wales already. What is happening is that commodity | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
prices, raw materials, basic things that form our economy, oil, steel, | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
copper, the prices of those around the world are down compared with | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
where they were a year ago and before. We have already seen job | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
losses in the oil sector in Pembrokeshire. Partly because of | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
lower oil costs and win -- we now know the steel industry across Wales | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
is feeling the cost of so much cheap steel but talk to manufacturers, | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
people that export and this feeling that the economy around the world is | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
weakening. They're not buying so many goods, we have a strong pound | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
making them expensive, that is day to day taught in many manufacturing | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
places amongst many working people in Wales and he was recognising that | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
and he hopes at what he has outlined today will help bring new employment | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
and new vision but it's all about timing and these things, new | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
industries, new investments take a long time to gain ground and people | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
are really struggling now. Thank you. | :07:33. | :07:33. | |
Let's talk to our political editor Nick Servini. | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
The Chancellor didn t shy away from any old-fashioned political | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
attacks and he had a pretty blunt message on the city deal. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
At one level we shouldn't be surprised. This is a conservative | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
Chancellor well known for his political manoeuvring. It comes to | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
Wales before the assembly elections and is going to lay into Welsh | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
Labour but I think the extent to which she did that did raise | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
eyebrows. This was a speech heavily trailed to talk about the impact of | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
the global downturn and the British economy. At the beginning, it was | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
more about Welsh Labour bashing than geopolitics. I can't recall a senior | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
Tory Cabinet member let alone the Chancellor coming to Wales are | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
giving a speech and repeatedly trying to portray the Welsh | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
Conservative leader as a future First Minister and in a way I think | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
he has touched on the great leap that the Welsh Tories will have the | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
make in the assembly elections. To go from it all very well be a party | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
capable of knocking the labour Welsh government, it's another thing to be | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
seen as a government in waiting and for the reader to be seen as a First | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
Minister. He had a blunt message and the city deal for south-east Wales. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
He once a deal on his desk before the budget in March. Ten council | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
leaders across Wales are trying to work up a series proposals. I don't | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
think they will take too kindly to the way they were told to get a move | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
on today. Big picture, this is positive news because of the noises | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
the Treasury it is starting to feel inconceivable now that something | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
would happen with regards to the city deal. | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
A man from Cardiff has admitted causing the death of a 12-year-old | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Hamid Ali Khan, who was a pupil at Fitzalan High School, | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
died after being hit on Ninian Park Road | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
Calvin Michael Markall is due to be sentenced next Wednesday. | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
A man whose body was found near Neath has been named | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
Officers were called to Thomas Street in Briton Ferry | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
just before 10 o'clock yesterday morning after a body was found | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
Police are continuing to question a 44-year-old man on | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
A main road has been closed in Neath following the appearance | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
Police sealed off Cimla Road after the hole was discovered | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Neath Port Talbot Council says the road will remain closed | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
for the foreseeable future while it's repaired. | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
They say it'll mean cheaper taxis coming to Wales but not everyone | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
is happy at the introduction in Cardiff of the booking app Uber. | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
Taxi drivers say they're considering legal action | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
after the council granted an operator s licence. | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
The drivers say there's not enough work for everyone. | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
Uber says it'll offer a safe and affordable service. | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
It's happening on the ground around the world every day. | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
Already operating in city centres around the world, | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
the Uber taxi app has been a success, the company valued | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
at over ?31 billion after just six years in existence. | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
Its introduction to a city is often controversial. | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
London cabbies protested against it and in Paris things got | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
Now it's coming to Cardiff so what's the fuss about? | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
The basic idea behind it is a simple one. | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
Using your smartphone, it links via GPS to the nearest cab | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
and gives you an estimate of how much the fare will be. | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
The app shows you a map and it gives you information on the driver | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
With your bank details already registered to the app, | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Simply press a button when you arrive at your destination. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
Most important for passengers, it can often be cheaper | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
When the students are not here, the business is dead. | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
This man is chairman of the Cardiff Hackney Carriages | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
He is angry that the council has granted a licence, | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
especially as the city has a problem with unlicensed hire cars. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
He says they're considering a legal challenge. | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
The city council has proven to be ineffective in enforcing | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
I think we have a very strong case to stop them issuing the licence | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
Despite his opposition, Cardiff Council today issued | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
a licence to Uber and the city's cab drivers are worried there's | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
not enough business for everyone to survive. | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
There are already too many taxis in the city centre. | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
As it is, it is a big struggle for taxi drivers to make a living | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
so Uber coming to Cardiff is going to create | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
Uber drivers and their cars and subject to normal private hire | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
licensing laws and pay a percentage of their fare to Uber. | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
Cardiff will be the 16th British city to get the service. | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
It's the public that will decide whether it's successful or not. | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Pretty disastrous, that's a senior Welsh Labour MP's opinion | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
of Jeremy Corbyn's handling of his Shadow Cabinet | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
Labour front bencher and Caerphilly MP Wayne David says | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
he and his colleagues have told Mr Corbyn lessons must be learnt. | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
It comes as Cardiff MP Jo Stevens, who today joins Labour's ministerial | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
team, is calling on the party to unite. | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
Our political reporter James Williams in Westminster. | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
This isn't the first time for Wayne David to criticise | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
No. Cast your mind back to November and you may recall that he was | :13:12. | :13:25. | |
critical of Jeremy Corbyn after a string of negative headlines saying | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
he had to a heck of a lot to learn but he was offering advice and | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
learning. Fast forward two months and the MP and Labour frontbencher | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
still isn't mincing his words. Even in relative terms, it has been a | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
bruising few days for Jeremy Corbyn in Westminster. Wayne David was | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
asked whether he agreed with his Labour MPs that this had been one of | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
the worst reshuffles ever and this is what he had to say. It was very | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
badly handled indeed. Many of ours would say there was no need for it | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
at all. It was Jeremy 's position to have it but it was disastrous in | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
with the way it was handled and that is a Ledson he had to learn and a | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
point we have made. And another Welsh frontbencher calling for unity | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
in the party tonight. Yes, after we saw one Welsh Labour MP resign | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
pretty dramatically yesterday, he did it on live television, another | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
has stepped up to the front bench today as shadow presence minister. | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
She says she won't criticise the two other Labour MPs have resigned from | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
the front bench but she called on all Labour MPs to unite and get on | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
with the job as she says of challenging the Conservative | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
government. She says she's had enough of wake up in the morning and | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
seeing negative headlines about internal party wrangling. Of course, | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
in a Welsh context it is critical for the party to present a united | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
front. In the run-up to May's assembly election but that might be | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
easier said than done. Keep us posted. Thank you. | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
No phone line or internet for three weeks now in an area | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
A road crash which damaged a telegraph pole is causing serious | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
Around 40 homes and businesses in Pentrebach near Lampeter | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
One business owner says he's lost hundreds of thousands of pounds. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
This petrol station in Pentre Bach has been turning customers away | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
for weeks, not for a lack of fuel but without the internet its credit | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
Garage owner Michael Jones says his monthly turnover has been | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
We need the broadband for credit cards, post | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
Without that people have got to pay for their shopping | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
Not a lot of people carry cash with them these days. | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
A road crash damaged a telegraph pole here just five days before | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
Since then around 40 homes have been without a working | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Today, BT engineers arrived to try and fix the problem. | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
BT Openreach say the telegraph pole needs to be replaced but they can't | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
undertake the work until they have permission from the utility company | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
that runs higher voltage cables in the same facility. | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
They say they are working hard to try and fix the problem | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
While checks can be carried out, it won't be restored until the pole | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
is replaced and customers have been told that won't be until | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
So little comfort for farmer Clive Mills, who's now three weeks | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
It's a big effect, not just on us personally but on the whole area. | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
People trying to contact us for the business, they can't do it. | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
They can only do it through mobile phones, mobile phone signals in this | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
area are not particularly good at the best of times | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
And that looks set to continue into next week as customers are left | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
Alan Curtis is to continue to lead Swansea as caretaker manager but can | :17:08. | :17:19. | |
And the restoration of this ruined garden after the floods, | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
Plas Cadnant's owner vows to return it to its former glory. | :17:26. | :17:35. | |
Albert Gubay, the Welsh businessman who changed the way we shop, | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
In the 1960s, he founded Kwik Save in his home town of Rhyl. | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
It quickly expanded through North Wales | :17:45. | :17:45. | |
In later years, the billionaire became known for his huge | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
There was a time when they seemed to be everywhere. | :17:51. | :17:59. | |
The pile it high, sell it cheap philosophy | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
of Albert Gubay's Kwik Save empire seemed unstoppable. | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
In his home town of Rhyl, he had a reputation | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
In recent years, though, Albert Gubay became known | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
I'm not one of those people that takes everything out | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
I don't have difficulty in giving things away. | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
On leaving the Royal Navy after World War II, | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
I said, God, please help me to get on in this life and whatever I make | :18:26. | :18:34. | |
The first Kwik Save supermarket was in Rhyl's Queen Street. | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
And people remember the difference it made. | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
Pat Broady's husband, a builder, did work for Albert Gubay. | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
Biscuit tins, always biscuit tins, and he gets out all his ten shilling | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
notes and counts them all out and puts them back. | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
That had pound notes in it and that's the way | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
Albert Gubay sold Kwik Save in the '70s. | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
The business eventually closed but he kept on making money. | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
In 2010, he put ?600 million into a charitable trust to become | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
A year later, he was honoured by the Pope for his charity work. | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
A Rhyl journalist who interviewed him says he detected a lingering | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
He was in fact, from his very, very early life, worried | :19:25. | :19:37. | |
I know some people who won't give anything away. | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
There comes a time when you can't grab on to it so you might | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
as do some good with it, which I've always tried to do. | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
Albert Gubay's charitable trust is now worth ?1 billion. | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
It's yet to be revealed how and where the money will be spent. | :19:58. | :20:07. | |
Within the last hour, Swansea City has confirmed caretaker | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
manager Alan Curtis will remain in charge of the Premier League club | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
Swansea Chairman Huw Jenkins admitted tonight that a number | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
of managerial candidates have turned the club down. | :20:25. | :20:33. | |
He is admired, respected, a legend at the Liberty Stadium, now Alan | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
Curtis has been entrusted with the top job until the summer, tasked | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
with keeping the club in the Premier League. He's known Swansea City for | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
a long time so it is clear the players have his respect. As long as | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
he stabilises the club till the end of the season and we stay in the | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
league, it will be brilliant. Curtis is synonymous with Swansea. His | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
debut 44 years ago. What a shot and what a goal Tax Act he played during | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
three different spells at the club. He has held every footballing | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
position possible off the field. He has been a community officer, youth | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
team coach, first-team coach, assistant manager more than once, | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
caretaker manager, matched a host and caretaker manager again. It is a | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
good fit at this moment in time especially when there is nobody | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
stepping up to come and join Swansea as the manager. If the appointment | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
goes wrong, everyone will understand that Alan has been thrown in at the | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
deep end and I wouldn't be surprised that there are other measures in | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
place that if someone does become available between now and the end of | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
the season Alan Curtis will stand aside. Chairman Hugh Jenkins search | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
revenue permanent manager has delivered nothing yet and in the | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
weeks and two stacked Garry Monk, some fans have criticised the lack | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
of a succession plan. Tonight, Hugh Jenkins said finding a replacement | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
hasn't been easy and the club spoken to a lot of venture managers. Many | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
didn't want to leave their clubs, others didn't want to put their | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
reputation on the line by joining a Swansea side at the wrong end of the | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
table. In the end, the club said it felt the best position was to keep | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
things in-house by staying with Alan Curtis and they will revisit the | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
issue in the summer. Rugby - Cardiff Blues head coach | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
Danny Wilson says Matthew Morgan will play mainly at full back | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
at the region at the request The 23-year-old who'll join | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
the Blues from Bristol in the summer says he turned down offers | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
from around the world Glamorgan expect to appoint | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
a new head coach in early February with interviews to find | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
Toby Radford's successor to take Assistant coach Steve Watkin has | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
revealed he won't be applying. The owner of an historic walled | :22:48. | :23:03. | |
garden on Anglesey devastated by flooding on Boxing Day says he's | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
determined to restore it Plas Cadnant Hidden Gardens | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
in Menai Bridge were opened to the public in 2012 | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
after being rescued Originally developed in the early | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
1800s and then brought back from dereliction over the last 20 | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
years, it took just minutes for the garden at Plas | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
Cadnant to be devastated. Water from surrounding fields tore | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
through the grounds and built up behind the 200-year-old stone | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
wall before toppling it. Statuary and rare plants | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
were also washed away. I'm in another section of the garden | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
a little further down the valley and even here you get a sense | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
of the water and the amount of debris that was | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
washed down the hill. The bark has been ripped off | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
the bottom of this tree. This is where hundreds of tonnes | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
of rubble came to rest at the bottom of the hill, some 200 yards away | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
from the walled garden. Tens of thousands of pounds | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
of repairs will be covered by insurance but years of careful | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
landscaping has been wiped away. Owner Anthony Tavernor has already | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
started picking up the pieces and is determined to re-open | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
at least partially next month. We're going to restore the garden | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
back to how it was so if people can just bear with us | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
while that happens. I'm sure some of our visitors | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
wil be non-gardeners, they might be having a look | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
at the damage because it will be The garden has been a labour of love | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
for its owner, who wanted to recreate the picturesque style | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
of his Victorian predecessors. A team of staff and volunteers | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
is working round the clock to salvage as many of the original | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
materials as possible. I didn't know it was here | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
and when I first came here to see Such a wonderful secluded garden | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
and because it's not owned by a large organisation it's | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
all Anthony's vision which makes it The floodwaters may have been | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
unwelcome but they've also brought worldwide attention | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
to the Hidden Garden via support It's unlikely to stay | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
hidden for much longer. After all the rain and flooding | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
a colder snap is heading our way. Turning noticeably chillier over the | :25:15. | :25:28. | |
next few days. Bright spells and blustery showers tomorrow. Tonight | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
staying quite windy, dry and clear freight time with temperatures | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
dropping away, further showers will arrive from the West early tomorrow. | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
Lows of one to towns, colder in the countryside. This is the front that | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
pushes in from the Atlantic overnight in the showers early | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
tomorrow. Though showers could be wintry on high ground but they will | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
rattle through quickly and brisk westerly winds, showers easing | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
through the day and sunny spells developing but feeling noticeably | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
fresher in the strong winds. Eyes of four Celsius on Anglesey, nine in | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
Cardiff. Dry freight time tomorrow night and showers start pushing from | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
the West again overnight remaining windy along the coast with overnight | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
lows of two to seven Celsius. Low pressure is in charge on Saturday so | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
turning unsettled again. The front from the South West, Saturday might | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
start dry that it turns wet and windy from the South West. Shari -- | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
shall refrain, picking up to suddenly winds so not as cold as | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
tomorrow and once the front is through low pressure continues to | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
bring showers on and off through the weekend so the remaining unsettled. | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
Looking chillier on Sunday, breezy with a mix of sunny spells and | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
showers so a fresher feel on Sunday and turning increasingly cold next | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
week with the airbrushing down and the Arctic. Windy this weekend with | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
sunny spells and showers. Similar on Monday but turning colder with a | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
possibility of showers, wintry on high ground. We have had a taste of | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
snow today, this photo is on the hills outside Gwynedd. If you have | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
any photos to tell the weather story, you consent them by e-mail or | :27:15. | :27:15. | |
twitter or become a weather watcher. Tonight headlines Ash the Chancellor | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
use a visit to Cardiff to announce they've ?15 million investment in a | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
scientific research Centre in south Wales. He said he wants to sign a | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
?1.3 billion city deal for Cardiff by March. I'll have an update at | :27:38. | :27:39. | |
age. I'll have an update for you here | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
at 8pm and again after the BBC From all of us on the | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
programme, good evening. | :27:48. | :27:49. |